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#minimumwage

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

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%.
epi.org/blog/the-federal-minim

Economic Policy InstituteThe federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a “poverty wage.” The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650 (established by the Department of Health and Human Services guidelines). The limitations of how the federal government calculates poverty understate how far…
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Maggie Maybe

It’s my goal to enjoy seeing New Hampshire restaurants close. Let me tell you why.

In 2020 they all took massive PPP loans, even the ones that had extensive outdoor seating and volleyball courts and the whole deal. Makris lobster & steakhouse took 2 PPP loans even though they have extensive outdoor seat. Jimmy’s x wife took a trip to Greece as soon as the world reopened.

Then Biden won the election, and a bunch of restaurant owners lobbied our state government to pass a new law that says if federal minimum wage goes up tipped employees will not get a raise. They did.

In New Hampshire servers are paid $3.26 an hour. A lot of the chain restaurants pay some of the kitchen staff, like the expo, $4 or $5 an hour because they call them a tipped employee.

They make the servers tip them out based on sales. (Which is why it’s awful to stiff servers even if you believe their boss should be paying them. Just don’t go to restaurants. You are punching down if you are making the server pay to wait on you to prove a point to their boss by letting their boss enjoy the profits from your visit.)

Then I saw a story after story of wage theft from the restaurants that stayed open during the pandemic, they were stealing tips from employees or just not paying them at all.

Checkmate Pizza is the only one I specifically remember because I used to order from them for lunch at work until they did the wage theft and then I stopped forever.

Plus, Kkkaroline Leavitt bragged on Facebook in 2020 about how she was eating in local restaurants the entire time she was contagious with Covid to “support”.

Nah. Cry more.

#NH#minimumWage#restaurants
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@jurjen_heeck Personally, I think #ZuckBot like #Elon need ti be firced to #TouchGrass and get their #wealth taken away and instead be condembed to living off #MinimumWage #WageWork only for the rest of their lives.

infosec.space/@kkarhan/1139755

Some Marvel/DC superhero dude staring disapprovingly at the viewer like he wants to smack them. Caption on top reads: "watching your paper straw dissolve while a billionaire goes to lunch in a private jet"
Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)Attached: 1 image @Eyedust@mk.absturztau.be @topher *exactly that* is my main gripe. The reason the #EU refused to standardize upon [IEC 60906-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60906-1#Possibility_of_acceptance_in_European_Union) was because they expected it to generate 700.000t of 100% avoidable #eWaste (or ~ 1,4 kg per EU citizen). - IDK about you, but even if people were to only throw out mainboards due to #CensorBoot (which noone does!) we'd easily see way more eWaste due to #Windows11 in the EU alone, yet @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu and @Bundesregierung@social.bund.de don't even bat an eye. And that really infuriates me like this:
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Peter Riley

The new wage lifts two-thirds of the workforce above Mexico’s family #povertyline, & above Mexico’s #minimumwage of about $1.71 per hour. A proposed nationwide shift to a 40-hour workweek without a reduction in pay (Mexico’s workweek is currently capped at 48 hours) would also mark a significant advance.

labornotes.org/2025/04/unmoved

#Mexico #GeneralMotors #LaborMovement #organize #autoworkers #Solidarity Silao #Guanajuato #unions SINTTIA

Labor Notes · Unmoved by Tariff Threats, Mexican GM Workers Win a Double-Digit Wage HikeMexican General Motors workers in the Silao, Guanajuato, factory complex clinched record raises after staring down company scaremongering about tariff threats. “They said, well, we’re offering 6 percent,” said Norma Leticia Cabrera Vasquez about management’s offer at bargaining. “We knew they were going to show up with that, but we said, ‘We still have weeks to negotiate, so we won’t let that intimidate us,’” said Cabrera Vasquez, who worked at the plant for 15 years, and now serves as a leader of the union’s Women’s Department.
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Peter Riley

Researchers at Melbourne's RMIT University and the University of Melbourne found artists were among some of Australia's worst-paid workers, earning an average income of $13,937 from their arts practice.

The national #minimumwage is $915.90 a week, or an annual salary of about $47,500.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-02/rmi

ABC News · New study of Australian artists finds average income from art is only $14kBy Hannah Story
#labormovement#organize#artsworkers
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CitizensAdviceEL

📢 Important Update!

Did you know that the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage have increased from today? Make sure to check your payslips for any mistakes!

It’s important to know your rights when it comes to fair pay. Employers must pay at least the National Minimum Wage—it’s the law! If you think you’re being underpaid, make sure to talk with your manager or employer.

Find more info here 👇🔗 gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-r #uk #minimumwage #wage #work #job

GOV.UKNational Minimum Wage and National Living Wage ratesThe National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates: age, apprentices, previous years.
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 20, 1985: The Bolivian authorities sent in the army to crush a General Strike. Workers had launched the strike in response to austerity measures by the Siles Zuazo administration. They demanded higher wages, stable food supplies, price controls and the president’s resignation. At the time, inflation was 3,400%. 10,000 miners filled the streets of La Paz each day. The General Strike lasted 16 days and spread to Santa Cruz and Chuquisaca. On March 24, the miners accepted a government offer to quadruple the minimum wage. They eventually forced Zuazo to resign.

Bolivians marching through the street with picket signs during the 1985 General Strike.
#workingclass#LaborHistory#bolivia
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Nonilex

The #legal battle has national repercussions as the number of #ICE detainees…rises to its highest level in 5 yrs. The vast majority are held in #private facilities run by #GEOGroup or corporate competitors like #CoreCivic. If following state #MinimumWage becomes the norm, #Trump’s #immigration crackdown could cost the country even more than it otherwise would—unless private detention centers absorb the cost themselves or…cut back on cleaning, which…detainees…already accused GEO of doing.

#law
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