For the past month, since April 13, nearly 40,000 Verizon union employees, with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), have been on strike, protesting outside of corporate and retail locations across the country.

Apple products being pushed here in the US and other countries gets people excited, but it never crosses your mind how exactly they’re able to push out a new product every year.

San Francisco’s new minimum wage could be highest in the country if passed on the November 2014 ballot. Community and labor groups that make up the Coalition for a Fair Economy are pushing for a higher minimum wage as rents in the San Francisco also top all other US cities.