Proposed wage hikes have 'uplifted' P.E.I.'s health support services workers, says union
After two years of negotiations, Health P.E.I. has reached an agreement on wages for support services staff that the union representing the workers is calling “historic.” 
#wage #labor #union #agreement #PEI #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-health-support-services-workers-collective-agreement-1.7564593?cmp=rss

Kroger is shuttering stores temporarily to pressure union to concede. Their offer is below the poverty levels set by the state! Their CEO took $15.4M home last year (450 times their average employee) and the company announced 7.5B in stock buybacks!! But now they cry poor, and want to stiff the workers.
#Teamsters #union #pride #fair #wages #job #security #slow #walking #negotiations #pay #below #minimum #wage #Kroger #greed #grocery #price #eggs #trucks #food #inflation https://www.thestreet.com/retail/kroger-faces-massive-worker-walkout-closed-stores

Income Inequality Depresses Support for Higher Minimum Wages [pdf]

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xge-xge0001772.pdf

#HackerNews #Income #Inequality #Minimum #Wage #EconomicDisparity #LaborRights

📣 New Podcast! "Declining Approval, Historic Settlements & Resilient Pollinators" on @Spreaker #approval #diversity #equity #higher #immigration #inclusion #increase #justice #lgbtq #minimum #policies #portland #progressive #ratings #restorative #rights #settlement #trump #victories #wage

Declining Approval, Historic S...

Minimum wage in B.C. is increasing to $17.85 per hour
On June 1st the B.C. Government is increasing minimum wage to $17.85 per hour based on last years average inflation rate. Living wage advocates say that while an annual minimum wage increase is good, it still falls short of what B.C. workers need.
#economics #politics #wage #BC #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/minimum-wage-bc-increase-1.7546356?cmp=rss

A private home care worker says she’s considering leaving her job over government handling of wages
The Newfoundland and Labrador government announced last fall that wages would increase for agency home care support workers. But as the CBC’s Elizabeth Whitten reports, private home care workers won’t see the same benefits.
#government #wage #healthcare #worker #Newfoundland #Labrador
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6776203?cmp=rss

More Canadian youth are taking on debt — and low wages mean many can’t pay
There's a rising number of youth aged 18 to 25 who are missing debt payments as they struggle with the cost of living combined with low wages at new jobs.
#youth #debt #wage #Canada #Consumer #creditcarddebt
https://globalnews.ca/news/11200818/canada-youth-debt-delinquency/

#news ⚡ Wagenknecht fordert Ukraine zu Verzicht auf Nato-Beitritt auf: Sahra Wagenknecht fordert die Ukraine auf, eine zukünftige Nato-Mitgliedschaft auszuschließen. Das sagte die BSW-Vorsitzende vor dem B... https://hubu.de/?p=280291 | #natobeitritt #ukraine #verzicht #wage

Child-care workers in Manitoba receive up to $5/hour boost to wages
Child-care workers at provincially funded centres in Manitoba are getting what Early Childhood Learning Minister Tracy Schmidt called the largest boost to their wages in the province's history, with some seeing hourly increases as high as $5.
#wage #childcare #politics #economy #Manitoba #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-child-care-wages-increase-1.7542071?cmp=rss

“The essential difference between the
various economic forms of society, between, for instance, a society
based on #slave #labour, and one based on #wage labour, lies only in the
mode in which... #surplus-labour is in each case extracted from the
actual producer, the #labourer."
[Karl #Marx, Capital, Vol. I, p. 200]

“Capital has not invented surplus-labour.
Wherever a part of society possesses the monopoly of the means of
production, the labourer, free or not free, must add to the working time
necessary for his own maintenance an extra working time in order to
produce the means of subsistence for the owners of the means of
production, whether this proprietor be the Athenian καλός καγαθός,
Etruscan theocrat, civis Romanus, Norman baron, American
slave owner, Wallachian Boyard, modern landlord or capitalist."
[p. 218]

#MARX: Objective wealth is converted into capital solely because the worker sells his labour capacity in order to live. | #Money cannot become #capital without being exchanged for labour capacity as a commodity sold by the #worker himself. | #Wage #labour is therefore a necessary condition for the formation of capital, and it remains the constantly necessary presupposition for capitalist production. [MECW 34]

ECB’s Restrictive Monetary Conditions in the Face of Tariffs

#ECB Policy Rate > Euro Zone #Wage Growth

And being behind the curve might, for sure, cost employment in the #euro zone.

https://acemaxxanalytics.substack.com/p/ecbs-restrictive-monetary-conditions

US #wage and salary growth is running below the level of the #Fed funds rate – That’s is a sign that past monetary policy has already been too tight, chart @yahoofinance.com

Montreal Ikea workers launch strike against Swedish retailer’s major store
Ikea offered its members a five per cent wage increase over the next four years. The union rejected it because that won't even cover inflation during the contract period.
#labor #retail #strike #wage #Montreal #Canada
https://globalnews.ca/news/11162779/montreal-ikea-workers-strike/

Montreal Ikea workers launch strike against Swedish retailer’s major store
Ikea offered its members a five per cent wage increase over the next four years. The union rejected it because that won't even cover inflation during the contract period.
#labor #retail #strike #wage #Montreal #Canada
https://globalnews.ca/news/11162779/montreal-ikea-workers-strike/

Montreal Ikea workers launch strike against Swedish retailer’s major store
Ikea offered its members a five per cent wage increase over the next four years. The union rejected it because that won't even cover inflation during the contract period.
#labor #retail #strike #wage #Montreal #Canada
https://globalnews.ca/news/11162779/montreal-ikea-workers-strike/

Montreal Ikea workers launch strike against Swedish retailer’s major store
Ikea offered its members a five per cent wage increase over the next four years. The union rejected it because that won't even cover inflation during the contract period.
#labor #retail #strike #wage #Montreal #Canada
https://globalnews.ca/news/11162779/montreal-ikea-workers-strike/

The #federal #minimumwage is officially a #poverty wage in #2025
When the minimum wage was created as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, the policy was intended to protect the nation from “the evils and dangers resulting from #wages too low to buy the bare necessities of life.” The last time Congress increased the federal minimum wage was in July 2009, meaning that as prices have risen over the last 15 years, the value of the minimum #wage has fallen by 30%.
https://www.epi.org/blog/the-federal-minimum-wage-is-officially-a-poverty-wage-in-2025/

California's $20 fast-food minimum wage improves pay at small cost to consumers

https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2025/02/27/uc-berkeley-fast-food-worker-study-minimum-wage

#HackerNews #California #fast #food #minimum #wage #consumers #wages #study

https://www.alojapan.com/1256748/japan-wage-growth-expected-to-slow-amid-trump-tariffs/ Japan wage growth expected to slow amid Trump tariffs #expected #GROWTH #Japan #JapanNews #JapanTopics #news #Slow #tariffs #trump #wage TOKYO — Risks of a sharp decline in earnings is threatening Japan’s wage growth as the U.S. continues to wave its “tariff card” around the world, putting pressure on businesses that are already suffering from chronic labor shortages. “For the past two years, Japan’s wage growth was higher than inflation. But…