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US: CUNY Union Members Arrested During Protest Demanding Higher Wages

Police arrested several protesters as members of the UNCY PSC (City University of New York Professional Staff Congress) and their allies demonstrated outside John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan on Monday, October 21, to demand higher wages.

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US: Thousands Of Bay Area Hotel Workers Go On Three-Day Strike 2

Thousands of hotel workers in California's Bay Area started a national three-day strike on Sunday, September 1.

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US: Hotel Workers Go On Strike Across Country

Thousands of hotel workers across the U.S. went on strike on Sunday, September 1, as part of a national three-day strike.

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US: Thousands Of Bay Area Hotel Workers On Strike

Thousands of hotel workers in California's Bay Area went on strike on Sunday, September 1, as part of a national three-day strike.

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Japan's PM vows to do utmost to tackle negative impact of price hikes

TOKYO, Japan Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged on Nov. 28, 2023, to take all necessary measures to tackle the negative impact of recent price hikes by achieving wage growth in collaboration with the public and private sectors. (Kyodo)

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Turkish president hikes public worker salaries by 45 pct ahead of elections

STORY: Turkish president hikes public worker salaries by 45 pct ahead of elections DATELINE: May 10, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:44 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the signing ceremony 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Turkish): RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, Turkish President (courtesy of ihlas news agency) 3. various of workers in Türkiye 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Turkish): RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, Turkish President (courtesy of ihlas news agency) 5. various of workers in Türkiye STORYLINE: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Tuesday a 45 percent wage hike for 700,000 public workers ahead of May 14 elections. SOUNDBITE 1 (Turkish): RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, Turkish President "We are increasing the wages by 45 percent, including the welfare share. With this protocol, we determine the framework of the wages that approximately 700,000 of our brothers will receive in the 2023-2024 period." The minimum monthly wage for public workers will be 15,000 Turkish liras (768.72 U.S. dollars), he said. The Turkish presid

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Japan's government holds meeting on wage hike

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (second from L) speaks at a government meeting on wage hikes with representatives from the business community and the labor unions held for the first time in eight years in Tokyo on March 15, 2023.

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Japan's government holds meeting on wage hike

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (far R) and Tomoko Yoshino (far L), head of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation known as Rengo, attend a government meeting on wage hikes in Tokyo on March 15, 2023, with representatives from the business community and the labor unions. The meeting was held for the first time in eight years.

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Japan's government holds meeting on wage hike

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at a government meeting on wage hikes attended by representatives from the business community and the labor unions in Tokyo on March 15, 2023. The meeting was held for the first time in eight years.

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Japan's government holds meeting on wage hike

Tomoko Yoshino (L), head of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation known as Rengo, and Masakazu Tokura, chairman of the country's biggest business lobby, the Japan Business Federation or Keidanren, attend a government meeting on wage hikes with representatives from the business community and the labor unions, in Tokyo on March 15, 2023. The meeting was held for the first time in eight years.

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Türkiye hikes minimum wage by 55 pct for 2023

STORY: Türkiye hikes minimum wage by 55 pct for 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:43 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Turkish flags and people on the streets 2. various of factories and employees 3. various of the press conference of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announcing the minimum wage for 2023 (courtesy of ihlas news agency) 4. various of Turkish Lira 5. various of the press conference (courtesy of ihlas news agency) 6. various of factories and employees STORYLINE: Türkiye has decided to raise the minimum wage by 55 percent from the beginning of 2023, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Thursday, as part of efforts to ease the burden of rising living costs on Turkish citizens. According to the president, the monthly net minimum salary will be 8,506.80 liras (about 455 U.S. dollars) in 2023, marking a 55 percent hike from the level determined in July and a 100 percent increase from January. Erdogan said at a press conference that give

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Indonesian workers rally

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Tens of thousands of workers from Jakarta and surrounding cities march in the capital on Sept. 5, 2013, demanding a 50 percent wage hike from 2014.

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S. Africa ahead of World Cup

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Railroad workers march in a demonstration calling for a wage hike in Johannesburg, South Africa, on May 19, 2010. As the World Cup finals come up, a concern has loomed that prolonged wrangling between the management and laborers could affect an already inconvenient public transport system.

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Major manufacturers to implement automatic annual pay hikes

TOYOTA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Senior Managing Director Satoshi Ozawa speaks about the management's reply to the union's demand for a pay hike at a news conference at Toyota's headquarters in the city of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on March 17, 2010, as annual spring labor-management wage bargaining reached a peak.

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ANA group labor unions enter strike affecting domestic flights

NAGOYA, Japan - Passengers flock to an All Nippon Airways ticket counter at Chubu Centrair International Airport near Nagoya on April 11. Four labor unions of the All Nippon Airways Co. group went on strike after their wage-hike negotiations with the major airline company broke down earlier in the day, affecting domestic flights but not international ones.

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Auto unions lodge demands for pay hikes in wage talks

TOKYO, Japan - Michiyuki Sato (R), chairman of the labor union at Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., hands the union's pay increase demand to Fuji Heavy Industries President Ikuo Mori (L) at the start of their annual wage negotiations at the company's head office in Tokyo on Feb. 14. Labor unions at other Japanese automakers also filed their pay hike demands to their management, effectively launching this spring's annual labor-management wage talks across the nation.

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Metalworkers' unions presenting pay-hike demands

TOKYO, Japan - Rikio Kozu (R), chairman of the labor union at Nippon Steel Corp., presents the union's wage demands to company director Kizo Hirayama at its head office in Tokyo on Feb. 10 as labor unions at steel and heavy machinery makers and shipbuilding companies began this year's wage negotiations.

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Rengo to seek pay hike for part-time workers

TOKYO, Japan - Participants in a gathering sponsored the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) in Tokyo on Feb. 3 shout their slogans ahead of the start of this year's spring pay negotiations. Rengo President Tsuyoshi Takagi said the group will seek wage hikes for part-time workers to narrow pay gaps between them and full-time workers.

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Toyota, Nissan fully meet wage hike demands from labor unions

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuhiko Hagiwara, secretary general of the Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers' Union, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on March 17 about management's replies to the trade union demands for new wages. Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. fully met the demands, but for most electronics firms, bonuses will not reach the amounts demanded by their labor unions.

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Toyota's core union not to demand basic pay raise

NAGOYA, Japan - Masamoto Azuma, chairman of the Toyota Motor Wokers' Union, speaks at a press conference in the town of Fujioka, Aichi Prefecture, on Jan. 7 about the union's decision to abandon a plan seeking a basic monthly wage hike at this spring's labor-management wage talks.

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Rengo to forego uniform wage hike for 2nd consecutive year

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) Chairman Kiyoshi Sasamori addresses a Central Committee meeting in Tokyo on Nov. 19. Rengo leaders proposed to foregoing a uniform wage hike during its 2003 annual wage negotiations for the second straight year amid Japan's prolonged economic slump.

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(2)Toyota Motor, union agree on no pay-scale hikes

TOYOTA, Japan - Masamoto Azuma, chairman of the Toyota Motor Corp. workers union, speaks at a news conference March 13 following conclusion of annual spring wage talks March 13. The union accepted the management's offer for no monthly wage hikes, apart from a regularly scheduled seniority-based monthly hike of 6,500 yen.

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(1)Toyota Motor, union agree on no pay-scale hikes

TOYOTA, Japan - Mitsuo Kinoshita, managing director of Toyota Motor Corp., talks with the media March 13 after Japan's biggest automaker and its union ended annual spring wage talks with an agreement on no pay-scale hikes apart from a regularly scheduled seniority-based monthly hike of 6,500 yen.

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Unions not to put forth wage hike demand to keep jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Central Committee members of Rengo, the nation's largest confederation of labor unions, meet in a Tokyo hotel Nov. 13, 2001. Rengo officials said they will not put forth a uniform wage increase during annual wage negotiations this coming spring, in the hope the move would discourage employers from cutting jobs.

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3% wage hike could get Japan out of crisis: German expert

FRANKFURT, Germany - Heiner Flassbeck (in this photo), former German vice finance minister who currently serves as senior economist at the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development, proposes March 27 that Japan implement an across-the-board wage hike of around 3% in nominal terms to stimulate consumer spending and help it overcome deflation and other economic problems.

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Employers meet trade union leaders

Jiro Nemoto (standing R), chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers Associations (Nikkeiren), speaks to top officials of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) on Jan. 20 in Tokyo at a meeting to discuss key issues related to their annual wage hike negotiations. Rengo President Etsuya Washio (L) is sitting opposite Nemoto.

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Demonstrators take to streets across France to demand pay rise

STORY: Demonstrators take to streets across France to demand pay rise DATELINE: Nov. 11, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:06 LOCATION: SAINT-ETIENNE, France CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of demonstrators on the streets of Saint-Etienne 2. various of CGT union banners 3. various of protesters STORYLINE: The French union General Confederation of Labour (CGT) launched a new strike call Thursday with demonstrations nationwide asking for a pay hike. A rally was organized at Place de la Republique in Paris while more than 120 demonstrations were organized in many cities in France. On Oct. 18, a little over 100,000 demonstrators gathered across the country while several trade unions called for a strike. "For months, in the face of galloping inflation, workers in all professional sectors have been mobilized to obtain general wage increases," announces the CGT union in a press release before, adding that "the government does not respond to social emergencies and the rise of inequalities only through ineffective measu

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Unions not to put forth wage hike demand to keep jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Central Committee members of Rengo, the nation's largest confederation of labor unions, meet in a Tokyo hotel Nov. 13, 2001. Rengo officials said they will not put forth a uniform wage increase during annual wage negotiations this coming spring, in the hope the move would discourage employers from cutting jobs.

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Rengo to seek pay hike for part-time workers

TOKYO, Japan - Participants in a gathering sponsored the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) in Tokyo on Feb. 3 shout their slogans ahead of the start of this year's spring pay negotiations. Rengo President Tsuyoshi Takagi said the group will seek wage hikes for part-time workers to narrow pay gaps between them and full-time workers. (Kyodo)

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Metalworkers' unions presenting pay-hike demands

TOKYO, Japan - Rikio Kozu (R), chairman of the labor union at Nippon Steel Corp., presents the union's wage demands to company director Kizo Hirayama at its head office in Tokyo on Feb. 10 as labor unions at steel and heavy machinery makers and shipbuilding companies began this year's wage negotiations. (Kyodo)

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Auto unions lodge demands for pay hikes in wage talks

TOKYO, Japan - Michiyuki Sato (R), chairman of the labor union at Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., hands the union's pay increase demand to Fuji Heavy Industries President Ikuo Mori (L) at the start of their annual wage negotiations at the company's head office in Tokyo on Feb. 14. Labor unions at other Japanese automakers also filed their pay hike demands to their management, effectively launching this spring's annual labor-management wage talks across the nation. (Kyodo)

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Labor, management meet over pay hike

Representatives of the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, (R) meet with members of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, on Jan. 29, 2015, in Tokyo. The focus of their meeting was on if they could achieve wage hikes larger than last year's to create a virtuous economic cycle. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toyota union to seek 3,000 yen or more base salary hike

Tatsuya Sasaki, head of Toyota Motor Corp.'s labor union, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2016. Sasaki said that the union plans to seek a base wage hike of 3,000 yen ($25) or more a month before the start of annual wage talks in February that are widely considered crucial for the country's economic recovery. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe calls for 3% hike in minimum wage to achieve GDP goal

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from L) speaks at a meeting of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 24, 2015. Abe said that a 3 percent hike in the minimum wage is needed annually to achieve the government's goal of boosting Japan's nominal gross domestic product to 600 trillion yen ($5 trillion yen). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toyota stock price hits all-time high

An electronic signboard shows the stock price of Toyota Motor Corp. at 8,353 yen, up 73 yen, in Tokyo's Nihombashi-Kayabacho district on March 17, 2015. Toyota stock rose to as high as 8,369 yen at one point the same day, hitting the highest level since its listing in May 1949, on buying attributed to its recent decision to offer its largest pay-scale hike of around 4,000 yen at the spring wage talks in a move expected to boost the overall Japanese economy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toyota likely to agree to biggest base-wage hike since 2002

Tatsuya Sasaki, chairman of the Federation of All Toyota Workers' Unions, speaks at a press conference in the city of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on March 12, 2015, about this spring's labor-management wage talks. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Labor, management meet over pay hike

Representatives of the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, (R) meet with members of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, on Jan. 29, 2015, in Tokyo. The focus of their meeting was on if they could achieve wage hikes larger than last year's to create a virtuous economic cycle. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Labor, management meet over pay hike

Sadayuki Sakakibara, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, known as Keidanren, makes a speech at a meeting with members of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2015. The focus of their meeting was on if they could achieve wage hikes larger than last year's to create a virtuous economic cycle. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Labor, management meet over pay hike

Nobuaki Koga (front), president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, speaks at a meeting with members of the Japan Business Federation, known as Keidanren, in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2015. The focus of their meeting was on if they could achieve wage hikes larger than last year's to create a virtuous economic cycle. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese national labor center leader meets press in Tokyo

Rikio Kozu, new president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), meets the press in Tokyo on Oct. 22, 2015. Rengo held a Central Steering Committee meeting the same day to discuss strategy for annual wage negotiations in spring 2016. Rengo is poised to demand an average pay hike of around 2 percent. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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ANA group labor unions enter strike affecting domestic flights

NAGOYA, Japan - Passengers flock to an All Nippon Airways ticket counter at Chubu Centrair International Airport near Nagoya on April 11. Four labor unions of the All Nippon Airways Co. group went on strike after their wage-hike negotiations with the major airline company broke down earlier in the day, affecting domestic flights but not international ones. (Kyodo)

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S. Africa ahead of World Cup

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Railroad workers march in a demonstration calling for a wage hike in Johannesburg, South Africa, on May 19, 2010. As the World Cup finals come up, a concern has loomed that prolonged wrangling between the management and laborers could affect an already inconvenient public transport system. (Kyodo)

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Major manufacturers to implement automatic annual pay hikes

TOYOTA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Senior Managing Director Satoshi Ozawa speaks about the management's reply to the union's demand for a pay hike at a news conference at Toyota's headquarters in the city of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on March 17, 2010, as annual spring labor-management wage bargaining reached a peak. (Kyodo)

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(1)Toyota Motor, union agree on no pay-scale hikes

TOYOTA, Japan - Mitsuo Kinoshita, managing director of Toyota Motor Corp., talks with the media March 13 after Japan's biggest automaker and its union ended annual spring wage talks with an agreement on no pay-scale hikes apart from a regularly scheduled seniority-based monthly hike of 6,500 yen.

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(2)Toyota Motor, union agree on no pay-scale hikes

TOYOTA, Japan - Masamoto Azuma, chairman of the Toyota Motor Corp. workers union, speaks at a news conference March 13 following conclusion of annual spring wage talks March 13. The union accepted the management's offer for no monthly wage hikes, apart from a regularly scheduled seniority-based monthly hike of 6,500 yen.

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Toyota union to demand over 3,000 yen pay-scale hike

Mitsuyuki Tsuruoka, head of the Federation of All Toyota Workers' Unions, speaks at a press conference in Amagasaki in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, on Jan. 12, 2018. Tsuruoka said the federation of labor unions at the Toyota Motor Corp. group plans to demand a monthly base wage increase of 3,000 yen ($27) or more in upcoming spring wage talks. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's largest labor union to demand 4% pay hike in wage talks

The Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, holds a central committee meeting in Tokyo on Dec. 5, 2017. The largest labor organization in the country decided to demand a pay hike of around 4 percent in annual wage talks starting in early 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's largest labor union to demand 4% pay hike in wage talks

Rikio Kozu, head of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, addresses a meeting of the labor organization in Tokyo on Dec. 5, 2017. Rengo decided to demand a pay hike of around 4 percent in annual wage talks starting in early 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Major Japan firms offer smaller pay-scale hike

A union official lists responses from major Japanese companies in annual wage talks on a whiteboard in Tokyo on March 15, 2017. The major firms notified their labor unions that they will offer smaller pay-scale hikes than last year -- the second straight yearly fall -- amid uncertainty surrounding U.S. President Donald Trump's economic policies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Major Japan firms offer smaller pay-scale hike

A union official lists responses from major Japanese companies in annual wage talks on a whiteboard in Tokyo on March 15, 2017. The major firms notified their labor unions that they will offer smaller pay-scale hikes than last year -- the second straight yearly fall -- amid uncertainty surrounding U.S. President Donald Trump's economic policies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo