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Schultz's most recent proclamation is about the wage increases he will give Starbucks employees, but the announcement was short on details.
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The Washington, D.C., city council on Tuesday approved unanimously a measure to raise the city's minimum hourly wage to $15 by 2020.
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The second look at first-quarter productivity was revised to −0.6%, slightly better than the preliminary −1.0% seen in a prior BLS report.
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Unemployment in the United States has steadily improved over the past six and a half years. The unemployment rate today is half its mid-recession peak, and non-farm payroll employment has increased...
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At the quadrennial meeting of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), organizers of the “Fight for $15” campaign announced that fast-food workers plan to join the union following a vote...
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A new startup called Otto seeks to equip existing trucks with driverless technology, but only for highway rather than urban driving.
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The battle over executive pay has gone on for decades, particularly due to cash and stock option rich contracts of chief executive officers.
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Boeing continues to say that the new 737-800 MAX will be available to launch customer Southwest Airlines by next May, well ahead of the earlier schedule.
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Between 2009 and 2013, the federal government and the states spent more than $10 billion annually on public safety net programs for 34% of frontline manufacturing production workers and their...
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Inflation remains well short of the Federal Reserve's 2% target, and combined with a first-quarter total compensation increase of 1.9% indicates that U.S. workers are earning enough to cover higher...
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In a brief announcement Friday morning, GM said it would begin two-week closures at four North American manufacturing plants as a result of supply chain problems caused by the recent earthquakes in...
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Strikebreakers are hard at work at Verizon Communications, some working 12-hour shifts to fill in for some 40,000 union workers on strike since April 13.
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Target announced this week that it would raise the minimum wage for its workers to $10 an hour. Investors are speculating whether this is a public relations move.
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The unemployment rate in March in California was more than 5%. Because the state's labor force is so large, that was more than a million people out of work.
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Oil field workers in Kuwait walked off their jobs Sunday, cutting production from the country by 60%. The strike was timed to coincide with the producing nations’ meeting taking place in Doha. The...
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