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Living Wage

A minor league baseball player winds up a pitch on a field in front of a beige building and a sign that reads "Yellow House: John Deere."

Baseball Has Spent Years Fighting Minor League Pay Raises, and Now It’s Facing a Union Drive

Minor league baseball may soon be unionizing. The MLB Players Association is sending out union authorization cards to the minor league, where concerns about inadequate pay and benefits have grown in recent years.
By Courtney Vinopal
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Scott Stringer.

Executive Order Leaves Stringer and de Blasio Divided, Again

Who's in charge of investigating complaints related to yesterday's expansion of the city's living wage law? It depends who you ask.
By Jillian Jorgensen
Comptroller Scott Stringer. (Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Stringer Slams de Blasio For ‘Middle of the Night’ Living Wage Order

"In the middle of the night, you issue an executive order, you don’t tell anybody about it. And then you think thats OK?" Comptroller Scott Stringer asked today.
By Jillian Jorgensen

In Criticizing Living Wage Report, Liu Says ‘It May Curtail Number of New Minimum Wage Jobs’

By Azi Paybarah

Roundup: A Living Wage Report, A Marriage Rally

By Azi Paybarah

San Francisco Pushes New York City Council on Living Wage

By David Freedlander

Wal-Mart and the Lesson of Betamax

By Robert Knakal

City Plans Living Wage Report by Early `11

By Eliot Brown

Elected Officials, City, Clash Over Living Wage Study-to-Be

By Eliot Brown

Living Wage Bill Formally Introduced; Bloomberg Smirks

By Eliot Brown

Gauging Prevailing Wage

By Robert Knakal

City Wants Living Wage Study

By Eliot Brown

Council Torpedoes Kingsbridge Armory, Again

By Eliot Brown

Wage Wars: $10 an Hour Emerges as Make-or-Break for New Development

By Observer Staff

Council Hands a Rare Defeat to Related Over Armory Project [Updated]

By Observer Staff

Praying For a Living Wage at the Armory

By Kate McGee

Related Cos. vs. Bronx Electeds in Retail Fight

By Eliot Brown

Related Cos. vs. Bronx Electeds in Retail Fight

By Eliot Brown
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