Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka On the Gap Increasing Wages and the Question of Walmart

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2014.  Gap’s announcement that it will raise its own minimum wage to $9.00 an hour in 2014 and $10 an hour next year represents a major victory by working people in their growing campaign to raise wages and working standards. While Gap has more work to do both in the United States and with its supply chain in countries like Bangladesh, this wage increase is a turning point.

The Gap’s decision exposes the…