Historic change for tipped workers: Subminimum wage to end in Chicago restaurants, bars (www.usatoday.com)
Tipped restaurant and bar workers in Chicago will make $15.80 per hour through raises over the next few years as subminimum wages are banned.
5,000 autoworkers walk out at Texas GM's largest plant, as UAW expands strike for second day in a row (thehill.com)
150,000 Workers Vote to Authorize Strikes at Stellantis, GM, and Ford (www.investopedia.com)
150,000 workers vote to authorize strikes at Stellantis, GM, and Ford — Workers are fighting for increased pay, retirement pensions, and better benefits::Workers at the automotive Big Three have voted to authorize a strike when contracts expire on Sept. 14, bringing the nation one step closer to a major labor stoppage costing...
Uber, Grubhub and DoorDash must pay NYC delivery workers an $18 minimum wage (www.engadget.com)
New York Acting Supreme Court Justice Nicholas Moyne rejected a bid by Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub to block a bill requiring a minimum wage for app-based delivery workers.
Return to the office? These workers quit instead. (news.yahoo.com)
And buried in the middle of the article:...
Durham Public Works Employees “Illegally” Strike for 1st Time (paydayreport.com)
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA – In late June, I attended a meeting of public works employees in Durham, who were planning the first strike of public works employees in the rapidly gentrifying city, where many city workers can’t afford to live....
UAW strike would show Biden, other leaders that it's time to 'pick a side,' union boss says (www.cnbc.com)
US auto workers strike escalates as UAW president calls on 38 more plants to join (www.theguardian.com)
New U.A.W. Chief Has a Nonnegotiable Demand: Eat the Rich (www.nytimes.com)
UAW justifies wage demands by pointing to CEO pay raises. So how high were they? (apnews.com)
The United Auto Workers union has made CEO pay a central part of their argument for a big worker wage increase.
Flight attendants threaten strikes over low pay and unpaid work (www.theguardian.com)
Alaska Airlines, American and United could all be disrupted as air crew demand fairer share of vast profits
'Suits' Was Streamed For 3 Billion Minutes on Netflix and the Writers Were Collectively Paid $3,000 (nofilmschool.com)
The sorry state of streaming residuals shows why SAG and the WGA are striking.
Pharmacy staff from Walgreens, CVS say they’re at a breaking point — here’s what their days look like (www.cnbc.com)
Millions of additional salaried workers could get overtime pay under Biden proposal (www.npr.org)
A proposal from the Labor Department would make an estimated 3.6 million salaried workers newly eligible for overtime pay. It covers workers earning less than $55,000 per year.
Frontier Airlines CEO says the pandemic made workers 'lazy' and less productive: 'People are still allowing people to work from home, all this silliness, right?' (www.businessinsider.com)
Frontier Airlines CEO Barry Biffle blamed higher overhead costs on workers being less productive, calling it a "society-wide" problem.
Seattle becomes first in U.S. to protect gig workers from sudden 'deactivation' (kuow.org)
We’re now finding out the damaging results of the mandated return to the office–and it’s worse than we thought (finance.yahoo.com)
Automaker CEO Elon Musk Strips UAW Twitter Verification as Union Strikes Against Big Three (theintercept.com)
Nearly 20% of workers have changed their name on a resume because of discrimination concerns, says new report (www.cnbc.com)
A recent survey on hiring practices led by hiring software company Greenhouse found "pretty sobering stats" about discrimination in hiring processes.
A pastor invited to DeSantis' Disney board meeting quoted the Bible telling people not to 'resist authority' as it strips workers' park perks (www.businessinsider.com)
Retirees and employees at Disney World are losing their perks under the new district board, which says benefits like park passes are unethical.
Health care workers picket outside US hospitals in multiple states, kicking off 3-day strike (apnews.com)
Video on subject, The Hill:...
33 Amazon Japan workers halt deliveries over nonpayment of 'Prime Day' incentives: union - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)
NAGASAKI -- Thirty-three Amazon Japan delivery workers in the Nagasaki area boycotted their jobs on the afternoon of Sept. 15, claiming that they were not paid incentives as promised when they received more packages during the shopping website's "Prime Day" sale in July, a labor union has revealed.
62% of Student Loan Borrowers Say They're Likely to Boycott Repayments: Poll (www.commondreams.org)
They quit their jobs. Their ex-employers sued them for training costs (www.straitstimes.com)
New York Times tech workers to strike over return-to-office rules (www.reuters.com)
