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Mar 31 2023
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Labor strikes are rising – and winning pay hikes
At a time of high inflation, pushing household budgets to the limit, workers are speaking up through union action – and the boosts won by employees have been sizable.
A wave of union activity is rippling across the United States, giving workers historic boosts in pay at a time when the cost of living is soaring. In this month alone:
Public works employees in St. Paul, Minnesota,
Christian Science MonitorDec 13 2021
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Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
For all the hype that wage growth has received this year, pay isn’t keeping up with price growth. Real earnings, or wage growth less inflation, turned sharply negative the last two months, after eeking out gains over the summer, consumer price data out Friday show.
Why it matters: That’s an erosion of spending power, which is a bummer. But for time being, it takes the edge off worries
AxiosJul 29 2022
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Pay growth and prices picked up, keeping the Fed on track for rate increases
A wage growth measure that the Federal Reserve watches closely climbed swiftly in the three months through June and prices increased sharply last month, fresh economic reports showed on Friday, developments that are likely to keep the central bank on track for future rate increases even as the economy shows some signs of cooling.
Prices climbed by 6.8 percent in the year through June,
New York Times (News)Nov 15 2022
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Widespread strikes descend on California
It’s strike season in California, again.
Today, fast food workers across the state are set to picket outside of Starbucks, Chipotle, Jack in the Box and other restaurants to protest the companies’ efforts to qualify a 2024 referendum to overturn a new state law. The first-in-the-nation law, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Labor Day, would create a state council to regulate fast food
CalMattersJan 09 2023
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Thousands of NYC nurses strike Monday morning as contract deadlines pass without deals
More than 7,000 nurses from two New York City hospitals began striking at about 6 a.m. Monday in pursuit of increased wages and improved conditions after new contracts were not agreed to Sunday night.
The New York State Nurses Association said it planned to walk out at 6 a.m. if a deal wasn't reached, per CNN. Tentative deals were reached in recent days at seven hospitals, including two
Washington ExaminerJan 02 2023
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Miami FL Rita's Italian Ice stores' child labor violations
The owner of five Miami metropolitan area locations of Rita’s Italian Ice & Frozen Custard chain were fined $15,414 for child-labor violations after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation, the agency announced. Ice Custard Hialeah LLC, which owns the Rita’s franchise stores in Miami Beach, Surfside, Northwest Miami-Dade, Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood, also owed $275 in back pay to two
Miami HeraldFeb 08 2023
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Donald Trump Gives 'Real State Of The Union' And Declares He's 'A Victim'
Former President Donald Trump declared he was giving “the real State of the Union” Tuesday in a bitter campaign speech disguised as a rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. (Watch the video below.)
In a Truth Social video aired by far-right channel Newsmax, Trump fearmongered on immigration and hit other Republican talking points before smearing Biden and
HuffPostJan 06 2023
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US targets Iranian drone companies over ties to Russia in new sanctions
The US Treasury on Friday imposed sanctions on officials tied to an Iranian defense manufacturer that designs and produces unmanned aerial vehicles, which have been used in the war in Ukraine, as well as the director of “the key organization responsible for overseeing Iran’s ballistic missile programs.”
The new US sanctions hit “six executives and board members of U.S. designated Qods
CNN (Online News)Dec 08 2022
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New York Times Writer Nikole Hannah-Jones Speaks at Union Walkout
Nikole Hannah-Jones, editor of the New York Times‘ 1619 Project, spoke at a union protest outside of the Times building in Midtown Thursday, cheering on fellow employees who walked out after contract negotiations with management broke down.
At least a hundred employees representing the New York Times Guild and other newspaper unions attended the demonstration to demand higher wages,
National Review (News)Dec 30 2022
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100 Years Since the Birth of the Soviet Union, in Pictures
It is the disintegration of the U.S.S.R. that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia says he wants to remedy by waging war against Ukraine; it is the legacy of Moscow’s dominance that Ukrainians hope to free themselves of by defeating Moscow.
It was supposed to be “a voluntary association of peoples with equal rights,” one that would guarantee the “peaceful coexistence and fraternal
New York Times (News)