Essential Voice
an Essential Workers for Democracy newspaper to share with your coworkers!
Issue #7 - Summer 2026
What’s “$30 + COLA”?
If you’re asking this, you’re probably either in conversation with us already or saw one of our shirts (which we’ll have at the LaborNotes Conference)!
Most grocery workers , and many other essential workers, start at a few bucks over min wage, which we all know isn’t enough to afford rent anywhere…