City council members credit the hard work of grassroots labor organizations. By Lauren Kaori Gurley / AlterNet Photo Credit: (flickr / Bob Simpson) The Minneapolis City Council passed a law Friday making it the first Midwestern city to adopt a $15 minimum wage, increasing the salaries of 71,000 workers by 2024. With the historic vote, Minneapolis joins a […]
Author Archives: Lauren Kaori Gurley
Lauren Kaori Gurley is a freelance writer and master's candidate in Latin American studies and journalism at New York University. Her work has been published in In These Times, the American Prospect and the American Journal of Economics and Sociology. Follow her @laurenkgurley.
