Executive Council Statement
Broad-Based Wage Growth Is the Defining Challenge of Our Time
… The purpose of the labor movement is to give voice to working people so we can improve our lives, our nation and our world. The principle that all working people … speech last December, President Obama warned of a “dangerous and growing inequality” and declared that making our economy work for every working American was the “defining challenge of our time.” Pope Francis similarly warned last year that … in the minimum wage, an end to the exclusion of tipped workers from the minimum wage laws and, most importantly, the right to bargain collectively over wages. Now, as the 2014 elections approach and workers at Walmart and T-Mobile, workers …