Peter Riley15h ago

The new wage lifts two-thirds of the workforce above Mexico’s family #povertyline, & above Mexico’s #minimumwage of about $1.71 per hour. A proposed nationwide shift to a 40-hour workweek without a reduction in pay (Mexico’s workweek is currently capped at 48 hours) would also mark a significant advance.

https://labornotes.org/2025/04/unmoved-tariff-threats-mexican-gm-workers-win-double-digit-wage-hike

#Mexico #GeneralMotors #LaborMovement #organize #autoworkers #Solidarity Silao #Guanajuato #unions SINTTIA

Unmoved by Tariff Threats, Mexican GM Workers Win a Double-Digit Wage Hike

Mexican General Motors workers in the Silao, Guanajuato, factory complex clinched record raises after staring down company scaremongering about tariff threats. “They said, well, we’re offering 6 percent,” said Norma Leticia Cabrera Vasquez about management’s offer at bargaining. “We knew they were going to show up with that, but we said, ‘We still have weeks to negotiate, so we won’t let that intimidate us,’” said Cabrera Vasquez, who worked at the plant for 15 years, and now serves as a leader of the union’s Women’s Department.

Labor Notes
John1d ago

Employer lobby successfully pushes Irish Cabinet to backtrack on #LivingWage, paid #SickLeave, and other support for low-paid, sick, young, migrant, and retired employees

https://www.ictu.ie/news/union-leaders-unanimously-condemn-government-taking-wrecking-ball-workers-rights

#union #unions #MinimumWage #pensions #retirement #RaceToTheBottom #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar

VasApr 11

Bernie Sanders Demands a $17 Minimum Wage as Trump’s Tariffs Embarrass GOP

Hungry for an economic populism that challenges Trump, Democrats line up behind Sanders’s latest minimum wage push.
..#Dems..#minimumwage

Tadonic the FlautulentApr 9
"Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die."
44 percent of DC-area restaurants surveyed say they’re ‘likely to close’ by the end of this year
https://wamu.org/story/25/04/04/44-percent-of-dc-area-restaurants-surveyed-say-theyre-likely-to-close-by-the-end-of-this-year/
#news #WashingtonDC #DC #regime #politics #restaurants #tariffs #tipping #MinimumWage
44 percent of DC-area restaurants surveyed say they're 'likely to close' by the end of this year | WAMU

A recent survey of D.C.-area restaurants show there is a pretty pessimistic mood among owners.

WAMU 88.5 - American University Radio
RainSMediaRadioApr 8
ICYMI: Workers Decry Hardship as Seven States Delay N70,000 Minimum Wage Implementation https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/04/workers-decry-hardship-as-seven-states.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #MinimumWage #Nigeria #WorkersRights #LabourUnion #EconomicCrisis
Workers Decry Hardship as Seven States Delay N70,000 Minimum Wage Implementation

 Amidst Nigeria's worsening economic conditions, organized labour unions and civil servants in 20 states have decried the prolonged dela...

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RainSMediaRadioApr 7
Workers Decry Hardship as Seven States Delay N70,000 Minimum Wage Implementation https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/04/workers-decry-hardship-as-seven-states.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #MinimumWage #Nigeria #WorkersRights #EconomicCrisis #LabourUnion
Workers Decry Hardship as Seven States Delay N70,000 Minimum Wage Implementation

 Amidst Nigeria's worsening economic conditions, organized labour unions and civil servants in 20 states have decried the prolonged dela...

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Voting is Your POWERApr 4

🚨Do YOU live in Florida or do you know anyone who does?🚨

After a supermajority of Florida voters passed a minimum wage ballot measure, Republican lawmakers are now trying to gut the measure in an attempt to let employers underpay subminimum-wage workers — including children. #florida #flpol #flpolitics #resist #resistance #MinimumWage #uspol #uspolitics https://www.levernews.com/florida-republicans-seek-to-gut-wildly-popular-minimum-wage-law/

Florida Republicans Seek To Gut Wildly Popular Minimum Wage Law

Sunshine State voters overwhelmingly voted to approve a new $15 minimum wage, but Republican lawmakers are now trying to carve out exceptions.

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StacesCases2Apr 2
And yet? He hasn't. In fact he mimics them! #PierrePoilievre has consistently voted AGAINST: #AffordableHousing, #Childcare, #DentalCare, #Medication, #Contraceptives, and #FoodPrograms in schools. He’s opposed expanding the #PensionPlan, raising the #MinimumWage, and protecting our #Environment.
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Show threadPeter RileyApr 2

Researchers at Melbourne's RMIT University and the University of Melbourne found artists were among some of Australia's worst-paid workers, earning an average income of $13,937 from their arts practice.

The national #minimumwage is $915.90 a week, or an annual salary of about $47,500.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-02/rmit-study-australian-artists-arts-workers-average-income/105126138

#labormovement #organize #artsworkers #solidarity #unions

New study of Australian artists finds average income from art is only $14k

A new study of more than 900 Australian artists and arts workers has found poor working conditions and pay are widespread throughout the industry.

ABC News
Pomegranate_StewApr 1

One of the Dem state Senators, Danielle Conrad, just said, “we shouldn’t have to explain basic civics to adult state senators.”

Another Dem, Jane Raybould, is trying to help the Republicans undermine the ballot initiatives which passed last fall to give sick leave and a higher minimum wage. Of course her family owns a grocery store and she wants to pay children who work less than minimum wage.

This state. 😡

#Nebraska #MinimumWage #SickLeave