McDonald’s counters Fight for $15 with automation nationwide

11/30/2016

Calls for a minimum-wage hike nationwide and in Illinois are increasingly met with businesses’ use of technology to cut costs.

TAGS: Fight for 15, jobs, minimum wage

Village of Barrington to resist Cook County minimum wage hike

11/28/2016

The northwest suburb of Barrington passed an ordinance to allow local businesses to forgo Cook County’s minimum wage hike, which has the potential to be devastating for jobs in the county.

TAGS: Cook County, minimum wage

Jobs growth, not raising the minimum wage, is best way to fight crime

By Bryant Jackson-Green

05/15/2016

The White House encourages raising the minimum wage as a way to reduce crime, but this proposal ignores what happens when people are priced out of legal work.

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Madigan manipulated ballot question to help re-elect Quinn

By Hilary Gowins

08/10/2015

Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan admitted that he rigged a minimum-wage ballot question to boost former Gov. Pat Quinn’s re-election chances.

TAGS: Mike Madigan, minimum wage, Pat Quinn

Cook County judge rules some state workers get minimum wage in absence of budget

By Heather Weiner

07/07/2015

Figuring out who qualifies for the payments will be a logistical nightmare, according to the state comptroller’s office.

TAGS: budget, minimum wage

Chicago minimum-wage timing could spell disaster

By Michael Lucci

12/14/2014

Chicago City Council claims that over 400,000 workers in Chicago will get pay hikes. What lawmakers should be studying is how many tens of thousands of those workers are going to be unnecessarily thrown out of work the next time the economy slows down, property taxes go up or a new technology comes along that can replace human labor.

TAGS: Chicago, minimum wage

What Illinois lawmakers need to know about a minimum-wage increase

By Naomi Lopez Bauman

11/19/2014

The Illinois General Assembly is currently considering a dramatic increase in the state’s minimum wage.

TAGS: jobs, minimum wage

Good politics makes bad policy on Emanuel minimum-wage hike

By Jane McEnaney

09/12/2014

On Sept. 3, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel signed an executive order requiring city contractors to immediately hike wages for the city workers they employ to $13 per hour from the current rate of $11.93 per hour. The current rate is already nearly 45 percent higher than the statewide minimum wage of $8.25 per hour. Illinoisans...

TAGS: Chicago, minimum wage, Rahm Emanuel

Quinn seeks unpaid interns, higher minimum wage

By Austin Berg

07/25/2014

Perusing Gov. Pat Quinn’s website, one can easily find calls for increasing Illinois’ minimum wage to $10 from $8.25. Just a few clicks away is an application to work for the governor, full time: for free. If Quinn did what he says he wants every Illinois employer to do – pay these workers $10 an...

TAGS: minimum wage, Pat Quinn

‘Fight for $15’ puts workers at risk

By Paul Kersey

06/11/2014

The Chicago Tribune recently reported on the links between the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, and various community organizing groups behind the campaign to increase Chicago’s minimum wage to $15 per hour. In her story, reporter Alejandro Cancino found that SEIU and its affiliates had spent at least $2 million on a campaign to organize...

TAGS: Chicago, Fight for 15, minimum wage, SEIU: Service Employees International Union, unions

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McDonald’s counters Fight for $15 with automation nationwide

Village of Barrington to resist Cook County minimum wage hike

Jobs growth, not raising the minimum wage, is best way to fight crime

Madigan manipulated ballot question to help re-elect Quinn

Cook County judge rules some state workers get minimum wage in absence of budget

Chicago minimum-wage timing could spell disaster

What Illinois lawmakers need to know about a minimum-wage increase

Good politics makes bad policy on Emanuel minimum-wage hike

Quinn seeks unpaid interns, higher minimum wage

‘Fight for $15’ puts workers at risk

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