Wholesale retailer Costco told its employees that it would increase pay for most of its hourly store workers to more than $30 ...

Starting in March, workers at the top of the pay scale will receive a $1 per hour raise to $30.20, followed by additional $1 raises each year for two years.

The week's investing action plan includes a strong dose of pharma and biotech earnings, January econ reports, plus Amazon and ...

U.S. labor cost growth cooled in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, reassuring Federal Reserve policymakers wage pressures are gradually diminishing and no longer a key driver of inflation.

A line of shoppers snakes around a Costco store in Novato, California. Costco is set to raise hourly pay for many of its U.S. store workers, but the wage boost isn’t universal.According to Reuters, ...

UPS managed to negotiate a contract with USPS and took over its airlift needs from FedEx. The prior USPS-FedEx contract expired at the end of September 2024. UPS management expects the deal to be ...

A labor agreement, covering more than 500 U.S. stores, would be the company’s first. Talks stalled last year over wages.

On Monday, workers at Philadelphia’s Center City Whole Foods Market voted 130–100 to be represented by the United Food and ...

One of the inauguration’s most enduring images is that of tech billionaires — including Google’s Sundar Pichai, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Tesla’s Elon Musk — arrayed obediently ...

Whole Foods workers at the Spring Garden store have expressed frustration about low pay and want better health-care benefits.

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