Starbucks workers are taking legal action against the coffee giant, saying it violated the law when it changed its dress code but refused to reimburse employees who had to buy new clothes. The employees are backed by the union organizing Starbucks’ workers. They filed class-action lawsuits in state court in Illinois and Colorado Wednesday, and complaints with California’s labor agency. Starbucks’ new dress code went into effect May 12. The company has said its dress code will create a sense of familiarity with customers and make stores more welcoming. But some employees say they had to spend more than $100 on new clothes.
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Amazon says it’s investing $1 billion to raise wages and lower the cost of health care plans for its U.S. fulfillment and transportation workers. The Seattle-based company said Wednesday that the average pay is increasing to more than $23 per hour. Some of its most tenured employees will see an increase between $1.10 and $1.90 per hour and full-time employees, on average, will see their pay increase by $1,600 per year. Amazon also said it will lower the cost of its entry health care plan to $5 per week and $5 for co-pays, starting next year. Amazon said that will reduce weekly contributions by 34% and co-pays by 87% for primary care, mental health and most non-specialist visits for employees using the basic plan.
Another contract proposal has been rejected by Boeing workers who now have been on strike for nearly six weeks from three Midwest plants where…
Income inequality dipped, more people had college degrees, fewer people moved to a different home and the share of Asian and Hispanic resident…
South Korea’s foreign minister is en route to the U.S. to finalize steps for the return home of several hundred workers detained in a massive immigration raid in Georgia. The arrests at a Hyundai battery plant have caused confusion, shock and a sense of betrayal among many people in the key U.S. ally. South Korea announced that the U.S. has agreed to release the detained workers and that it would bring them home on a charter flight. South Korean analysts say problems in U.S. visa and immigration systems are colliding with President Donald Trump's goal of having foreign companies finance a U.S. manufacturing renaissance.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani march in the annual Labor Day Parade on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)
HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) — Laura Peña knew she had two hours to stop the children she represents from being deported home to Guatemala. She and o…
CHICAGO (AP) — Eight people were killed and 50 others were wounded in dozens of shootings in Chicago over the Labor Day weekend, according to police.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The numbers were picked Monday night for an estimated $1.1 billion Powerball jackpot, although it’s not immediately cl…
Protesters took to the streets of Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Washington D.C. on Labor Day to criticize President Donald Trump and demand a living wage for workers. Chants of “Trump must go now!” echoed in the streets outside the president’s former home in New York, while protesters gathered outside a different Trump Tower in Chicago yelling “No National Guard” and “Hey hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go!” And in Washington, a large crowd gathered with signs saying “Stop the ICE invasion” and an umbrella painted with “Free D.C. No masked thugs.”