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Jan 02 2024
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Nebraska’s Minimum Wage Increases to $12.00/Hr in the New Year
As the clock stuck midnight on Monday, January 1st 2024, about 150,000 Nebraskans got a pay raise. In November 2022, Nebraska voters took to the voting booth, and approved the Minimum Wage Increase Initiative (Initiative 433). The citizen-initiated ballot measure would increase the state’s minimum wage to $15.00 by 2026. At the time, the minimum wage was $9.00 per hour in Nebraska, and had
KLINMay 16 2024
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Car industry worker's rant about economy, inflation, foreign aid goes viral: 'the American Dream is dead'
A man working in the car industry, claiming to make three-times the minimum wage, went on a rant about the economy, saying how young people can't afford the same lifestyle their parents and grandparents had. "The American dream is dead, it is over, gone and forgotten," TikToker Nicholas Sumners said in a viral TikTok video. He asked viewers, "Can somebody explain to me in crayon-eating terms
Fox News DigitalDec 28 2023
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341K MD Minimum Wage Workers To Get Pay Raise Jan. 1
The minimum wage in Maryland will increase to $15 an hour on Jan. 1, 2024, as the Fair Wage Act of 2023 takes effect, which was signed into law by Gov. Wes Moore on April 11. For companies that employ more than 15 people, this change wasn’t supposed to go into effect until January 1, 2025. However, under the legislation Moore signed, it takes effect next month. Effective Jan. 1, 2023, Maryland
Patch.comMay 14 2024
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University of Washington student workers go on strike
Thousands of academic student employees at the University of Washington (UW) went on strike on Tuesday, after union representatives and university officials failed to reach an agreement on wages Monday night. The union, United Auto Workers Local 4121, has held bargaining sessions with university officials since February, and all but one provision in the contract – wages – has been resolved.
The HillJan 08 2024
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MN takes action against dairy company in major wage-theft case
Minnesota officials have announced what they call one of the largest wage theft lawsuits in state history. The case involves a dairy operator northwest of the Twin Cities. Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General, detailed the civil suit against Evergreen Acres Dairy in Stearns County on Monday. His office estimates that Evergreen owes its employees at least $3 million in unpaid wages. The
Minnesota Spokesman ReporterJan 31 2024
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A wage dispute led to hundreds of Durham Public Schools employees to call out from work
Durham Public Schools employees' anger over the elimination of pay raises for more than a thousand workers escalated Wednesday with an organized "sick out." Driving the news: Hundreds of workers, led by the Durham Association of Educators, called out sick from work on Wednesday so that they could protest the school system's handling of employee pay. • The "sick out" caused 11 schools
AxiosNov 07 2023
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Starbucks raising wages at least 3% starting Jan. 1
Starbucks announced Monday that it is raising wages for its workers at least 3% starting next year as part of an expanded benefits package the company is hailing as being "well beyond the industry average."
The coffee giant said "Effective January 1, eligible U.S. retail hourly partners will see an incremental pay increase come to life, with at least a 3% increase and differentiated
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