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Washington (AFP) - Dozens of American Airlines flight attendants demonstrated Thursday in front of the White House as they seek to be allowed to strike during protracted contract negotiations. The Association of Professional Flight Attendants organized the Washington rally along with parallel events at about a dozen US airports. "Flight Attendants are the only employees at American Airlines who have not had a raise in the past five years," said the APFA, which represents more than 27,000 workers at the big US carrier. "We've reached an impasse with American Airlines in our negotiations, and we...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Fast food workers in California on Monday hailed a pay raise that takes their minimum wage to $20 an hour, even as firms warned of likely price increases in an already expensive state. Staff flipping burgers or filling burritos at large chain restaurants will now be guaranteed one of the highest base rates in the country. "It'll help me breathe a little easier in terms of paying my rent and even buying groceries," said Angelica Hernandez, who works at a McDonald's in Los Angeles. "In all of my 19 years working in this industry... maybe 25 cents would be the max (raise) that...
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Washington (AFP) - An acute labor crunch amid the coronavirus pandemic is boosting US wages, with many large chains now paying $15 an hour, a minimum level long sought by Democrats and labor activists. The disruption of Covid-19 has led to record job openings, but also millions of unemployed workers, some of whom dropped out of the labor force to stay home to take care of children. But some workers have used the pandemic to retire or try to change careers. Economists say that so far, the wage bump has not resulted in troubling inflation. "For the first time since the late 1990s, low-wage work...
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New York (AFP) - US President Joe Biden's proposed minimum wage increase would cut 1.4 million jobs but lift 900,000 people out of poverty, according to a study released Monday. The proposal also would boost wages for another 27 million workers, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office, that showed the overall increase in earnings outweighs those lost through the projected job cuts. The CBO report paints a mixed picture of the benefits of the plan to gradually lift the wage floor in the United States to $15 an hour by 2025 from the current $7.25. Biden has championed the increa...
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