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"Since 2014, 12 states have passed minimum wage increases through ballot measures," Martinez Hickey told CNBC. Meanwhile, voters in Arizona will decide on a ballot measure that would lower the minimum wage for tipped workers. Here's what's at stake for workers who make the minimum wage, and the employers who pay them, in next month's election. 1 would raise the minimum wage to $13 in 2025, and to $14 in 2026. Question 5 in Massachusetts would slowly phase out its tipped minimum wage of $6.75 per hour, until it eventually matches the state's standard minimum wage by 2029.
Persons: Lucy Nicholson, Sebastian Martinez Hickey, Martinez Hickey, Here's, erick Pasquier, Joelle, Hall, Kati Capozzi, Capozzi, Richard von Glahn Organizations: California Labor, Reuters, Economic, Institute, CNBC, Alaska AFL, Alaska Chamber, Healthy Families, San Francisco, LAO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Locations: Alaska , Missouri, California, Arizona, Alaska, United States, Bering Sea, Missouri, North America, U.S, Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Massachusetts, Massachusetts
A painted pig stands on the lawn of Smithfield Foods executive offices in Smithfield, Virginia May 30, 2013. REUTERS/Rich-Joseph Facun/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsOct 18 (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods' Chinese owner WH Group (0288.HK) is working with banks to take the U.S.-based pork producer public again in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Smithfield could list its shares as early as next year, the WSJ reported, adding the deliberations are ongoing and the timing could change. Smithfield and WH Group did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. WH Group bought Smithfield in 2013 in a $4.7-billion deal aimed at tapping the massive supplies of U.S. meat for export to China.
Persons: Joseph Facun, Rishabh, Savio D'Souza Organizations: Smithfield Foods, REUTERS, WH, Wall Street, WSJ, WH Group, Missouri Worker, Thomson Locations: Smithfield , Virginia, HK, U.S, United States, Smithfield, China . Virginia, Missouri, Bengaluru
In 2021, Amazon's injury rate was almost 1.5 times the industry average. Jennifer Crane works through pain at an Amazon warehouse in St. Peters, Missouri, after hurting her wrist in October. Amazon worker Jennifer Crane at her house outside St. Louis, Missouri, in 2022. OSHA also cited Amazon for 14 record-keeping violations, finding that the company failed to properly report worker injuries and illnesses. If you're rushing, you're going to make mistakes and someone's going to get hurt."
Ten years ago, fast food workers took to the streets of New York to strike for a $15 minimum wage. He was making $7.25, the minimum wage at the time. It was just like, oh no, raising the minimum wage, especially for fast workers, are you crazy? Since the launch of Fight for 15 ten years ago, the federal minimum wage hasn't budged. In California, where Perez works, the minimum wage is now $15 an hour for employers with 26 or more employees.
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