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UNION activists have insisted that grassroots campaigns are the key to future industrial victories following the successful fight for a $15 minimum wage in the US.
The Fight for $15: Lessons for Yorkshire online meeting on Tuesday night, organised by the Yorkshire & the Humber branch of the TUC, honoured the inspirational US-based Fight for $15 movement, which has created a model for worker-led organising.
The movement began in 2012 when 200 fast food workers in new York walked out to demand a $15 an hour minimum wage and union rights.
It soon spread across the country, prompting states such as California, New Jersey and Florida to commit to a $15-an-hour minimum wage.
All were deemed slightly too radical.
Retired actor Terrrington St Clement introduced a nostalgic note with a catalogue of classic plays given that special Norfolk flavour on the old Home Service during his matinee idol days. We sighed as the curtain went up on Weeing For Godot, Scole For Scandal, Heydon Fever, Chicken Soup With Barney, The Lady’s Not For Burnham and All’s Well That Bawdeswell.
Josephine in the other corner said they shouldn’t forget wireless programmes that regaled simple country people before their accumulators ran out. She called up Round the Horning, Down Your Weybourne, Much Binding in the Marshams, Have A Hoe Brain of Fritton and Sporle Temple.
Mining giant Gold Fields gives Australian workers 6 per cent pay rise as skills shortage bites
AprApril 2021 at 11:34am
Gold Fields Australia s vice-president of operations Stuart Mathews (right) with Gold Road Resources managing director at the Gruyere gold mine in WA.
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One of the world s biggest gold miners has given its Australian workforce a massive 6 per cent pay rise the latest sign that companies are growing increasingly desperate to keep skilled workers as staff shortages return to levels seen during the last mining boom.
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Production at Gold Fields Australian mines increased 11 per cent last year to 1.01 million ounces, up from 914,000 ounces in 2019.
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Over the past seven years, major firms have offered pay rises of 2% or more in annual shunto spring wage negotiations, in a nod to government efforts to eradicate two decades of grinding deflation. Japanese firms to offer lowest pay rises in 8 years as pandemic bites
Published March 17, 2021 7:02am By TETSUSHI KAJIMOTO Reuters TOKYO, Japan - Japanese companies are set to offer the lowest wage increases in eight years as labour talks wrap up on Wednesday, in a sign the COVID-19 pandemic is putting an end to the benefits brought on by former premier Shinzo Abe s stimulus policies. Over the past seven years, major firms have offered pay rises of 2% or more in annual shunto spring wage negotiations, in a nod to government efforts to eradicate two decades of grinding deflation.
He replied: “The NHS was carved out of the pay freeze that has been applied – due to the enormous pressure on the public finances – to everyone else in the public sector.”
And Mr Hancock added: “Inflation is below one percent and therefore a proposed one percent pay rise is indeed a pay rise and that’s simply a matter of fact.”
Responding to that, Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s shadow health secretary, said Mr Hancock knew full well the Office for Budget Responsibility has forecast inflation will reach 1.5 percent this year.
Nurses are preparing to strike over the pay offer, with a £35million strike fund set up by the Royal College of Nursing to support industrial action.