Students for Fair Wages

Students for Fair Wages

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Students for Fair Wages works within the campus and surrounding community on socioeconomic issues and We first started by looking into issues of wage theft.

Students For Fair Wages began in the Fall 2013 class of Dr. Tom Marvin- Organizing for Social Action. We had the opportunity to meet and work with Fran Quiqley- clinical lawyer at the IU McKinney School of Law's Health and Human Rights Clinic; Nancy Holle- president of the Community Faith and Labor Coalition; and Kim Bobo, executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice and author of “Wage Theft i

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Scrap the cap!

The COVID pandemic exposed just how unequal our country is. To reduce inequality, we should so that the wealthiest pay into Social Security at the same rate as the rest of us — and use the money to !

02/21/2021

Fight for $15

FACT CHECK: Business CAN afford a $15 minimum wage. They just need to fix their priorities -- starting with their insanely high CEO pay. SOURCE: Investor's Business Daily https://bit.ly/3duEalx

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Working class unites across India/250-million-strong strike! 12/05/2020

GENERAL STRIKE IN INDIA --The labor federations’ joint platform put forth demands for a minimum income, food for poor families, a guaranteed number of workdays, higher wages, pensions for everyone, and the end of forced early retirements. It called for the government to stop privatizations and also withdraw all “anti-farmer laws and anti-worker labor codes.”

Working class unites across India/250-million-strong strike! For the second time this year, a class-wide mobilization in an “All-India strike” brought out 250 million workers. With one in four working-age people in India participating, this 24-hour work stoppage can again claim the status of “world’s biggest strike.” The first record-breaking genera...

Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Labor and Environmental Groups 11/25/2020

Amazon combines social media spying with old-fashioned muscle from the notorious union-busting Pinkertons!

Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Labor and Environmental Groups A trove of more than two dozen internal Amazon reports reveal in stark detail the company's obsessive monitoring of organized labor and social and environmental movements in Europe, particularly during Amazon's “peak season” between Black Friday and Christmas. The reports, obtained by Motherboar...

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03/11/2020

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