A federation of labor unions in Japan’s machinery and metal sectors said Thursday that it would request a pay scale hike of at least ¥17,000 per month in next year’s spring labor-management negotiations. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/04/companies/japan-unions-wake-hike-demand/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #shunto #wages #unions
#wages
There’s a conservative myth that goes back decades. There are people out there who, usually of color, are liv’n high off the hog, on the tax payers’ dime (MAGA working class pay little to no federal income taxes unless they’re just financially clueless or their employer is grifting off them ). #snap #fraud #business #psychology #meme #maga #education #wages
The average monthly gross #wage in #Lithuania amounted to EUR 2,427.6 in Q3/2025, which was up 8.5% on year, the State #Data Agency reported. Compared to Q2/2025, the average wage rose by 1.7%. Average #wages rose in all municipalities.
https://viabaltica.fi/lithuania-average-wage-up-8-5-on-year-in-q3-2025-statistics/
Today in Labor History December 1, 1912: The rustling card system was put into place by the Anaconda Mining and Smelter Company. Rustling cards verified employees’ identities and employment status. The company used spies to identify union agitators and refused them rustling cards and jobs. In 1917, the IWW called a strike at the Anaconda mines around Butte, Montana. They demanded the end of the rustling cards system, and the implementation of the 8-hour day and higher wages. Author Dashiell Hammett served as a Pinkerton strikebreaker in the Anaconda miners’ strike. However, when the Pinkertons enlisted him to assassinate Native American IWW organizer Frank Little, he refused, and quit the agency. On 4/21/1917, guards opened fire on unarmed picketers, killing one and injuring sixteen, while vigilantes lynched Frank Little. Dashiell Hammett depicted the strike in his first novel, “Red Harvest.” André Gide called Red Harvest “the last word in atrocity, cynicism, and horror.”
You can read my biography of Frank Little here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/frank-little/
You can read my essay on the Pinkertons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/union-busting-by-the-pinkertons/
You can read my biography of Hammett here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/dashiell-hammett/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #mining #wages #unionbusting #books #fiction #franklittle #assassination #indigenous #nativeamerican #author #writer #dashiellhammett #pinkertons @bookstadon
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This is a damn good idea - organizing #labor #movement everywhere all at once around the world (not just red states in #US) with the same themes - #healthcare for all, higher #wages for all, #housing for all, #food security for all, #education for all, etc.
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This is a damn good idea - organizing #labor #movement everywhere all at once around the world (not just red states in #US) with the same themes - #healthcare for all, higher #wages for all, #housing for all, #food security for all, #education for all, etc.
" True affordability comes when working people earn enough to cover the costs of living with dignity and security." What a concept!
https://www.ms.now/opinion/inflation-affordability-prices-wages-jobs #Affordability #Jobs #Economy #Prices #Wages #Paycheck #Inflation
Who Should Tell Employees About Raises? https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2025/11/28/employees-raises/
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#emplyees #employee #workplace #raise #salary #wages #leadership #management
The Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, adopted a plan to demand a pay increase of 5% or more in annual spring wage negotiations next year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/28/economy/rengo-wage-hike-shunto/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #rengo #wages #shunto #inflation #japaneseeconomy #jobs #unions
A body for labor unions in the automotive, electronics and other industries announced a policy for its member unions to ask for a pay scale hike of at least ¥12,000 per month in next year's wage negotiations. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/27/economy/jcm-shunto-pay-hike/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #shunto #wages #us #tariffs #manufacturing #metals
The profit margin at general hospitals in Japan, excluding psychiatric institutions, stood at minus 7.3% on average in fiscal 2024, a 0.2 percentage point improvement. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/26/japan/general-hospitals-in-red/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hospitals #doctors #wages #mhlw #surveys
The leader of Japan’s largest labor union group urged Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government to do more to fight inflation to help ensure that workers’ wage gains outpace increases in the costs of living. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/25/economy/rengo-interview/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #sanaetakaichi #reno #unions #wages #tomokoyoshino
Today in Labor History November 25, 1946: St. Paul teachers, led mostly by women, walked out of their classrooms in American’s first organized teachers’ strike. 1,165 teachers and principals (all represented by the same union) remained out until Dec. 27 in what they called the “strike for better schools.” 90% of teachers voted to strike. Conditions were deplorable. Classrooms designed for 35 students often had 50. Teachers had to buy textbooks for students, yet they were among the lowest paid teachers in the nation.
#workingClass #LaborHistory #teachers #strike #union #students #children #school #women #wages #saintpaul #minnesota
Từ năm 2026, Chính phủ sẽ dùng nguồn quỹ tích lũy để thực hiện cải cách tiền lương, bảo đảm đầy đủ các chế độ tiền lương, phụ cấp và trợ cấp bảo hiểm xã hội theo quy định. Đây là bước quan trọng nhằm nâng cao phúc lợi cho người lao động và ổn định thị trường lao động. #ChínhSách #TiềnLương #PhụCấp #BảoHiểmXãHội #Vietnam #Policy #Wages #Insurance
: #costofliving #democrats #donaldthehoaxtrump #donaldtramp #eightysix47 #livablewage #nokings #presidenttramp #trumpstein #trumpsteincoverup #uspol #uspolitics #wages :
Some Capitol Hill Republican lectured that not all wages are designed to be livable. It would have been great if one of his colleagues had said, Many wages are designed to cheat workers.
...first they lower #wages and increase the #taxes and prices of necessities, then they cut #benefits for already struggling #families...and next they come and remove the #children from their homes citing that they are not being cared for or "neglected"!
...dont they know that poor folks will do without everything, including meals, so their babies can survive? ....or was abducting our children always the goal??!
(they dont care about the kids, they just use them as pawns in their sick games!)
Early signs regarding Japan's annual wage negotiations for next year indicate another round of pay hikes despite profit pressure from U.S. tariffs, reinforcing the case for the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/24/economy/japan-pay-hike-signs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #wages #boj #japaneseeconomy #inflation
The people who tell you that #SocialSecurity is about to run out of money are either lying or ignorant. The Social Security Trust Fund is a supplemental source of benefits. Social Security payments are funded directly by FICA taxes. Any surplus collections have been deposited into the Trust Fund. When the Trust Fund runs out of money in a little over 7 years, all Social Security payments will be reduced by (currently an estimated) 23% but they will continue (unless the system is ended by Congress).
Too many politicians in Congress are waiting for the Trust Fund to run out so that they can privatize Social Security (enriching yet more billionaires at workers' expense). You don't want privatized Social Security. You want Congress to end the cap on taxable income. You want Congress to keep the mandatory retirement age schedule as it is. You want (newly hired) state and local employees to be enrolled in the Social Security system. You want a 0.5%-1.0% increase in the FICA tax. You want initial benefits to be based on prices, not wages. You want high earners' initial benefits to be reduced.
Every year that Congress waits to address the shrinking Trust Fund makes it more expensive to fix the problem. But that doesn't mean there won't be a Social Security system if they do nothing. And if they insist on waiting another 10 years or 20 years, voters can still compel Congress to do SOMETHING to rebuild the Trust Fund in the future.
The important thing for YOUNG WORKERS to do NOW is tell their representatives and senators to take action NOW. Make it a political priority for any politician who wants to be re-elected to office (regardless of party affiliation) to take action to rebuild the Trust Fund and to AVOID privatizing Social Security. If they privatize it, that will just mean more working Americans' money will be transferred to a few hundred wealthy families that don't need more money.
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