These are not isolated incidents, either. Google has been accused of illegally firing workers for unionizing, interfering with protected activities, and generally engaging in illegal behavior to suppress its workers from exercising their rights to organize for better working conditions, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Daily Mail
May 3, 2024
To be sure, for many minimum wage workers, the pay raises are needed. Of the nearly 10 million workers in the country who are now set to receive raises, women make up over half; nearly a quarter of them, or roughly 2.5 million, are working parents with families; and over 50% of workers getting raises currently earn incomes below the poverty line, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute.
Fortune
May 3, 2024
The economy is absorbing foreign-born workers while also generating jobs for those who were born in the U.S., an analysis from the left-leaning, pro-union Economic Policy Institute found, bucking claims that immigrants may be filling jobs that Americans would otherwise be working.
Kansas City Beacon
May 3, 2024
The foreign-owned firms’ payrolls also reflect Alabama’s long history of racial discrimination, with Black and Latino workers earning substantially less than their white counterparts. By contrast, the Economic Policy Institute has found that union workers make 10.1 percent more on average than non-union workers.
Inequality.org
May 3, 2024
According to a 2019 report by the Economic Policy Institute, a national survey of private-sector businesses showed that 49.4 percent had at least some employees who were subject to non-compete clauses and 31.8 percent said all employees were required to enter into the agreement.
KRWG
May 3, 2024
In Ohio, as of the third quarter of 2023, Ohio’s Black unemployment stood at 6.1%, according to the Economic Policy Institute and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Ohio Capital Journal
May 3, 2024
Noncompetes are bad for workers, bad for consumers, and bad for the broader economy. By banning them, the FTC’s rule will help raise wages for workers and take an important step toward creating an economy that is not only strong but also works for working people.
Inequality.org
May 3, 2024
Black Americans typically suffer rates of unemployment twice those of white Americans. In Georgia, that gap has widened: Black unemployment reached 5.7 percent at the end of last year, while white unemployment was at 2.2 percent, according to an analysis of federal data by the Economic Policy Institute.
New York Times
May 3, 2024
The tech companies, meanwhile, are geared up for a fight. Collectively, they’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars around the country — including nearly $50 million over two election cycles in Massachusetts, according to a new report coauthored by the worker advocacy nonprofit National Employment Law Project — and worked to successfully pass laws in 34 states between 2015 and 2022 with language defining gig workers as non-employees, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Boston Globe
May 3, 2024
The DOL will automatically update the threshold every three years using current wage data. The next adjustment would occur on July 1, 2027. The new rule would impact 4.3 million U.S. workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute, or 3% of workers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Retail Dive
May 3, 2024