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From 2006 until the restaurant closed recently, The Linkery, in San Diego, didn't allow customers to tip its servers. Instead, a flat surcharge of 18% was added to every bill. The restaurant's owner, Jay Porter, made the policy for a variety of reasons and has written about the experience extensively at his blog and elsewhere.
Neidi Dominguez, a DREAMer activist, recently wrote an op-ed for NBC Latino, saying that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) makes a good point about President Obama being able to act alone if Congress fails to pass commonsense immigration reform.
The hard work of union members created Labor Day, and we think it’s about time union members @Work took full credit. We need more Americans to grasp the impact of your skilled labor. Not only because you build everything from our roads, our cars and the places we go, but U@Work are the living infrastructure that makes America happen. If pictures say a thousand words, we would like at least 10,000 of them this Labor Day to show the union difference. From Aug. 15 to Sept. 15, submit your photo to www.UnionPlus.org/Contest for a chance to win BIG and show what U@Work really means.
A group of workers at the mall fixture Forever 21 clothing stores might be stuck forever in poverty without health insurance and paid time off now that execs at the trendy youth fashion chain have decided to reclassify some of the full-time sales, stock and maintenance workers, along with cashiers and other store employees, as part-time workers, allowed just 29.5 hours of work a week.The outrage over the cold, corporate move is flooding the Forever 21 Facebook page, with most vowing never to shop at Forever 21—well, forever.
An apparent Romanian princess and her husband are among the 18 people rounded up in Oregon on Thursday as authorities cracked down on an alleged cockfighting ring in the eastern part of the state, according to the state attorney’s office.
California prison officials are grappling with starvation-related ailments among hunger-striking prisoners who have refused to eat for nearly six weeks to protest the state's solitary confinement policies.
TULSA, Okla. -- A plan to change who is actually being honored on a popular Tulsa street, from a businessman who was in the Ku Klux Klan to a 19th century photographer, was approved by the local council on Thursday.
The National Security Agency broke privacy rules and exceeded its legal authority thousands of times since it was given new powers in 2008, according to top secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
Police who searched the torched home of kidnapping and murder suspect James Lee DiMaggio found firebombs, ammunition, used condoms, and "letters from Hanna," court documents show.
Near historic droughts have led to dozens of wildfire breakouts in Western states, leaving firefighters struggling to battle flames threatening homes and inching closer to populated areas from Alaska down to Arizona.
