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Terrence Wise with Stand Up KC addresses protesters at McDonald's. McDonald's workers across the country staged a one-day strike to demand higher pay and a union. After working to raise the minimum wage for eight years, activists say they are starting to see results. McDonald's USA recently announced plans to raise the average wage in company-owned restaurants to $15 per hour. McDonald’s says this amounts to a 10% pay hike for more than 36,000 workers. But Terrence Wise with Stand Up KC, a group of food and retail workers advocating for better wages, notes that the company owns only about ...

Costco to increase its minimum wage to $16 next week, CEO says By Aimee Picchi Rep. Andy Levin on COVID relief, minimum wage Costco CEO Craig Jelinek said that the retailer will boost its minimum wage to $16 an hour starting next week, up from its current baseline pay of $15 an hour. That will hike Costco's lowest pay rate to $1 an hour above that of many competitors, including Amazon.com and Target. Jelinek announced the pay boost while speaking at a U.S. Senate Budget Committee hearing on worker wages at large companies such as Costco, Walmart and McDonald's. Costco's ph...

/ Bridget Hughes is a part of Stand Up KC, an organization advocating for a $15 minimum wage. Kansas City’s 311 hotline was set up to be a resource for residents to document workplace complaints, like a business violating COVID-19 regulations, but the health department has struggled to follow up on dozens of complaints about job safety. For workers living on the edge, missing a paycheck can be crushing. “I've gone to work sick,” McDonald’s worker Terrence Wise said. “This COVID disaster forces us sometimes to do things we don't want to do. And we shouldn't be in a position to have ...

Biden faces questions about commitment to minimum wage hike By WILL WEISSERT and ALEXANDRA JAFFEFebruary 16, 2021 GMT FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2021 file photo, President Joe Biden signs a series of executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Biden campaigned on raising the national minimum wage to $15 per hour and attached a proposal doing just that to the $1.9 trillion coronavirus pandemic relief bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2021 file photo, President Joe Biden signs a series of executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washingt...

Democrats have been nearer to achieving a much-sought-after minimum wage increase. This is notwithstanding opposition growing against the involvement of a nationwide wage floor of $15 per hour in the forthcoming COVID-19 relief package.