{"id":352085,"date":"2021-10-17T14:32:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T14:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=193948"},"modified":"2021-10-17T14:32:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T14:32:25","slug":"union-victory-for-nola-city-workers-as-council-ratifies-15-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/17\/union-victory-for-nola-city-workers-as-council-ratifies-15-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Victory For NOLA City Workers As Council Ratifies $15 Minimum Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 7, the New Orleans City Council ratified a $15-an-hour minimum wage for city workers, effective in January. This will be $3.81 more than the paltry $11.19 minimum currently in place.<\/p>\n<p>Because of\u00a0sky-rocketing inflation, $15 dollars doesn\u2019t go as far as it did even a few months ago. Nevertheless, the raise is a major victory for the working-class movement here, and will be welcomed by city workers struggling to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0reported in Struggle-La Lucha\u00a0back in July, the council was forced to move forward when the firefighters\u2019 union and allies marched into the chambers on July 1, right in the middle of a session. When put on the spot, the council members voted unanimously that they would find the money for a raise. Now it\u2019s official.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/union-victory-for-nola-city-workers-as-council-ratifies-15-minimum-wage\/\">Union Victory For NOLA City Workers As Council Ratifies $15 Minimum Wage<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/union-victory-for-nola-city-workers-as-council-ratifies-15-minimum-wage\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 7, the New Orleans City Council ratified a $15-an-hour minimum wage for city workers, effective in January. This will be $3.81 more than the paltry $11.19 minimum currently in place.<br \/>\nBecause of\u00a0sky-rocketing inflation, $15 dollars doesn\u2019t go as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7230,8509,4246,5720,6162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352086,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352085\/revisions\/352086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}