Act Now

• Tell Disney CEO: Pay your workers a living wage
• Share this graphic to support our right to join a union
• Check out and sign up for for the Fed Up Campaign to get involved with their latest efforts to get the Federal Reserve to adopt pro-worker policies for the rest of us
• Add your name to co-sign the Restoring Overtime Pay Act, Daily Kos, CAP, EPI
• Submit a comment to the U.S. Department of Labor to say NO! to the National Restaurant Association’s attempts to steal workers’ tips
• #Boycott Wendy’s until they join the Fair Food program via @CIW
• Tell Disney CEO Bob Iger: Don’t discriminate against your union employees!
• Sign up to join the Jobs with Justice activist network

Educate Yourself

• WATCH: Inequality for All, Robert Reich, YouTube
• WATCH: The Big Picture: Strengthen Unions, Robert Reich, Moveon
• Inequality is Everywhere, But Not Inevitable, Michelle Chen, The Nation
• Collective Bargaining and Civil Liberties, ACLU
• Unions Helped Build the Black Middle Class. The Wealthy’s Political Lackies Are Out to Get It, Rashad Robinson, Color Lines
• There is power in a union: Here’s how we beat inequality & rebalance our economy, Dorian Warren, Salon
• Goodbye to All That Democracy, Zephyr Teachout, The American Prospect
• The Stock Market Swings Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Our Rigged Economy, Kate Aronoff, The Intercept
• U.S. CEOs Are World’s Best – For Themselves, Sam Pizzigati, OurFuture.org
• The CEO-Worker Pay Gap, IPS
• Bloomberg pay ratio tracker, Bloomberg
• Equilar 100: Highest-Paid CEOs at the Largest Companies by Revenue, Equilar
• Why it is time to curb the madness of executive pay, Patrick Jenkins, Financial Times
• CEO pay remains high relative to the pay of typical workers and high-wage earners, Lawrence Michel and Jessica Schieder,  EPI
• The Highest-Paid CEOs Are The Worst Performers, New Study Says, Susan Adams, Forbes
• Why We Don’t Vacation Like the French, Ezra Klein, The American Prospect
• Report: Work Sick or Lose Pay?, Elise Gould and Jessica Scheider, EPI

In the News

• Illinois Workers Celebrate as ‘Life-Changing’ $15 Per House Minimum Wage Law Signed Into Law, Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams
• It’s Time for TSA Workers to Strike, Barbara Ehrenreich and Gary Stevenson, The New York Times
• Los Angeles Teachers Strike Was a Teachable Moment for Students, Steve Appleford, The American Prospect
• Tipping the pay scales: Initiative 77 could dramatically alter D.C. restaurant culture, Fenit Nirappil and Tim Carman, The Washington Post
• D.C. to Decide on Giving Its Servers a Raise, Manuel Madrid, The American Prospect
• Unions, anticipating Janus case Supreme Court loss, jump-start recruiting drives, Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun Times
• Disney embraces $15 minimum wage in negotiations with workers, Jackie Waddles, CNN
• The Emerging Plan to Save the America Labor Movement, Dylan Matthews, Vox
• Missouri’s Greitens Guts Public-Sector Unions on His Way out the Door, Manuel Madrid, The American Prospect
• America may soon face its biggest labor strike in decades, Chris Isidore, CNN
• Trump Moves to Curb Federal Employee Labor Protections, Kalena Thomhave, The American Prospect
• Fast-Food Blues: Workers Protest Low Wages, Sexual Harassment as McDonald’s Profits Soar, Manuel Madrid, The American Prospect
• West Virginia Teachers Won Their Strike. Now, They’re Rebuilding the Local Economy. Kalena Thomhave, The American Prospect
• What Now for Unions?, Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect
• The Supreme Court case that could kneecap public sector unions, explained, Dylan Matthews, Vox
• Black Women Will be Most Affected by Janus, Celine McNicholas and Janelle Jones, EPI
• Trump’s Budget Cuts Are Forcing Teachers and Nurses to Work as Federal Prison Guards, Samantha Michaels, MotherJones