#wages

#wages

Last month, New York City's strengthened delivery worker protection laws finally took effect. After years of organizing and advocacy, delivery workers are now guaranteed a minimum pay rate of $21.44 an hour and the opportunity to earn tips before customers checkout. These are fair, common-sense updates designed to honor the dignity of grueling work and protect the tens of thousands of delivery drivers who make our city run.

U.S. employers added a surprisingly strong 130,000 jobs last month, but government revisions cut 2024-2025 U.S. payrolls by hundreds of thousands. The unemployment rate fell to 4.3%, the Labor Department said Wednesday. The report included major revisions that reduced the number of jobs created last year to just 181,000, a third the previously reported 584,000 and the weakest since the pandemic year of 2020. The job market has been sluggish for months even though the economy is registering solid growth.

Aston Villa might move for Morgan Gibbs-White, Liverpool's Mohamed Salah is a target for one of the Saudi Pro League's top clubs, and Sandro Tonali's wages could be an obstacle for any Serie A side looking for a deal. Nottingham Forest midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White might be heading for the exit door this summer and Aston Villa view the 26-year-old England international as an excellent fit.

The German owned discount retailer Lidl is to provide their workers with the seventh pay rise since 2023. The retailer will double paid paternity leave as part of a further £29 million investment for workers wages and entry level pay will rise to £13.45 per hour. Londoner's starting out with Lidl will see an increase from £14.35 6o £14.80 and with length of service pay will rise to £15.30.

Rumors are circulating of potential strike action next month from CorePower Yoga instructors, who say they are paid less per hour than the cost of a single class drop-in fee. CorePower Yoga has a cult following online, particularly for their Hot Sculpt classes, and currently has more than 200 locations across the US. But in the r/Corepower subreddit, a recent post urges members to pause or quit their membership to show support for instructors, who are fighting for fair wages and cleaner studios.

The biggest challenge facing Americans right now is the cost-of-living crisis, according to Statista's recent Consumer Insights Survey. The poll, conducted in June and July 2025, revealed that 49% of U.S. adults said that the high cost of living was one of the biggest challenges they currently face. Despite inflation cooling, prices have remained high, with Statista noting that, even with inflation cooling down, it leaves a legacy of high prices.

"A few months ago at the bargaining table, we said we can't let this drag on into another year," Robbins said. "We're close to an agreement, but we're still pretty far apart on a lot of important issues." The union (NSLU) told New Seasons they needed to come to a tentative agreement on a historic first contract by the time they held their monthly membership meeting on December 4, so union members could review the agreement prior to the end of the year.

Convincing workers to spend their days welding at a shipyard, when they could earn a similar amount of money working behind the counter of an air-conditioned Buc-ee's, is one of the biggest obstacles to reviving the country's lagging $37 billion shipbuilding industry. At least that's the theory of U.S. Navy Secretary John Phelan, who, during his confirmation hearing in February, said he was handed down a mandate of " shipbuilding, shipbuilding, shipbuilding " by President Donald Trump.

They are underpaid and haven't seen a raise in many years. This is the predicament facing many workers in the service industry, even though they play a critical key role in the contemporary capitalist economy. Gig and service-sector workers are indeed among the most overexploited segments of the working class - struggling with low pay, lack of legal protection, and insecure employment.

The steep rise in hospitality wages to a record high will come as a big concern to the sector, particularly following a prolonged period of subdued sales. This puts more pressure on margins, with every £1 increase in wages also leading to additional employers' NIC, resulting in a double whammy on operators' costs.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Jan Bartek has always believed in his country's potential. That year marked Poland's entry into a fiercely competitive market economy, after more than four decades of isolation under the communist system. We were coming out of a regime as a poor country, so we had a lot to recover, explains this employee, nearing 50, at a car dealership in Warsaw.

The agreement late Friday ends a weekslong stalemate after the Austin Firefighters Association rejected of a proposal that it said wouldn't substantially increase wages for its personnel. The AFA agreed to a deal that would raise wages by at least 3 percent over four years. The contract also would eventually reduce firefighters' hours to fewer than 50 per week, a key provision that the city pushed back on.

In howling winds and choking smoke during the January fires that devastated Altadena and Pacific Palisades, more than 1,100 incarcerated firefighters cleared brush and dug fire lines, some for wages of less than $30 per day. Those firefighters could soon see a major raise. On Thursday, California lawmakers unanimously approved a plan to pay incarcerated firefighters the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour while assigned to an active fire, a raise of more than 700%.

The British Columbia government has unveiled details of its last offer to striking public service workers, ahead of the expected expansion of job action by the B.C. General Employees' Union. The Finance Ministry says the government is proposing a 4.5 per cent compensation increase over two years, made up of both general wage increases and cost-of-living allowances. It says the union wants 15.75 per cent, while BCGEU President Paul Finch has