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A new day is arriving in America. After decades of being pushed around, America's workers are standing up. After Tuesday's ballot initiatives in New Jersey (and estimated soon in the Seattle suburb of SeaTac), voters sounded loud and clear, “We are fed up and we won’t take it anymore.” In New Jersey, voters raised the state’s minimum wage by $1 effective Jan. 1. After an earlier victory in the California Legislature to raise the state minimum wage to $10 an hour, this is the second major state to push back against the stagnant wage growth hurting America's families.
Despite $1 million in pro-business propaganda spent to defeat it, a measure to raise New Jersey's minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.25 passed overwhelmingly Tuesday, getting 61% of the vote. The ballot question also amended the state's Constitution to make the wage rise with inflation in the future. The business community trotted out the same tired, disproven claims that increasing the minimum wage would kill jobs and hurt the economy, but most New Jersey voters didn't buy it and voted to help the working poor get a much-needed boost in an expensive state.
A little more than a year ago, Superstorm Sandy battered the East Coast and in New York City the powerful storm flooded subway tunnels, ripped up tracks, knocked down train signals and shut down the city’s transit system.But within hours, members of Transport Workers (TWU) Local 100—then eight months without contract—were on the job around the clock bringing the system back to life, pumping tunnels and getting the city's trains and buses back in service. But while the transit system is back in business—with a $1.9 billion cash windfall—Local 100 members are still without a contract.
A third senior U.S. Navy official was arrested Wednesday and charged with accepting prostitutes, luxury travel and cash from a foreign defense contractor in exchange for classified and internal Navy information, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California announced. U.S. Navy Cmdr.
Three people are dead after a shootout at a Detroit barbershop with a reputation for gambling, police said.Several others were injured amid the gunfire at Al’s Barbershop on the city’s east side, which authorities said is a hotbed of bookmaking.“We’re not sure if this was over a bad debt.
Two men were killed and eight others injured in a shootout outside a Detroit barbershop Wednesday night, police said.Police initially said three people were pronounced dead at the scene, but they later revised that figure to two.
Workers and shoppers made dozens of frantic calls to police in the moments after a gunman opened fire in the Garden State Plaza Mall. Here are some of those 911 calls, obtained exclusively by NBC 4 New York. Brian Thompson reports. Watch Part 2 here
Ten men were shot, two of them fatally, when the occupants of two cars got into a shootout outside a barbershop Wednesday night in east Detroit, police said.Police initially said three people were pronounced dead at the scene, but they later revised that to two.
DALLAS — The suburban Dallas home where Lee Harvey Oswald spent the night before he assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy opened as a museum on Wednesday ahead of the 50th anniversary of the shooting later in November.
VALDOSTA, Ga. — The attorney representing the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office released hundreds of hours of more surveillance video Wednesday from dozens of cameras at the school where Kendrick Johnson’s lifeless body was found rolled up in a gym mat in January.
