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LA Council Delays the $30 Olympic Wage for Hotel and Airport Workers
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE121 days agoLAist[1] (27 May 2026): "The council made the final vote Tuesday" (26 May); Ordinance 188944 reads "Ordinance Passed May 26, 2026".The Los Angeles City Council voted 11-3 to slow the raises in its Olympic Wage ordinance, pushing hotel and airport workers' $30 minimum from the 2028 Games to 2030, as business groups withdrew a ballot measure to repeal the city business tax.0.78Germany's Minimum Wage Rises to €14.60
Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Berlin, GermanyFederal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
SCHEDULED78% CONFIDENCEin 99 daysThe Minimum Wage Commission's proposal of 27 June 2025 set two steps: €13.90 an hour from 1 January 2026 and €14.60 from 1 January 2027. The 2026 step has already taken effect.[1]Germany's statutory minimum wage goes up to €14.60 an hour on 1 January 2027, the second step of the largest increase the Minimum Wage Commission has recommended.0.67Amazon's $20 Minimum Starting Pay Takes Effect
SCHEDULED81% CONFIDENCEin 3 daysThe AP reports "The pay increase is effective starting Sept. 27, the retailer said"; Amazon's own post announces the raise on September 16 without an effective date.[1]A $1-an-hour raise lifts minimum starting pay for Amazon's U.S. full-time core operations employees to $20, with average pay nearly $24 an hour, part of a more than $1.5 billion investment in higher pay. A 10% employee grocery discount and a lifetime banking benefit come with it.$1.5B0.63LA Homelessness Rises for the First Time in Three Years
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE62 days agoLAHSA's[1] data page is "Published July 24, 2026"; LAist[3] reported LAHSA was "scheduled to officially announce the results Friday afternoon" (24 July).The 2026 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count found 45,194 people homeless in the City of Los Angeles, up 3.4%, and about 73,000 countywide, up 1.2%, driven by a 7.9% rise in unsheltered homelessness in the city.0.62Aldi Nord Raises Its Lowest Hourly Pay in Germany to EUR 14
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE4.3 years agoAldi Nord's release says "Zum 1. Juni 2022 erhöht ALDI Nord den Stundenlohn auf 14 Euro."[1]Every Aldi Nord employee in Germany earning under EUR 14 an hour, allowances included, got a raise to that floor, months before the statutory minimum wage reached EUR 12.0.61LA Reports 49.5 Million Visitors and $42.6 Billion in Tourism Sales for 2025
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE57 days agoThe release is datelined 'LOS ANGELES (July 29, 2026)': 'newly released data from Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board ... and Tourism Economics'.[1]Los Angeles Tourism and Tourism Economics counted 49.5 million visitors to LA in 2025, down about 1% on 2024, generating $42.6 billion in business sales and supporting more than 530,000 jobs.0.60Culinary Union's 69-Day Strike at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE1.9 years agoThe Nevada Independent[1]: 'A 69-day strike by some 700 non-gaming workers at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas quietly ended Wednesday' (22 Jan 2025) after 'the walkout began Nov. 15'; the union's release gives the start as 'November 15th at 5:00am'.About 700 Culinary Local 226 and Bartenders Local 165 workers walked out of the off-Strip Virgin Hotels Las Vegas in the union's first open-ended strike in over 22 years, holding 24/7 picket lines until members ratified a five-year contract on 22 January 2025.0.60LA's $14BN Airport Upgrade
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Los Angeles City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Civic Center, Los Angeles, CA 90012Mayor of Los Angeles
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE1.0 years agoMayor's release "Posted on 09/23/2025"; FOX 11 the same day: "Mayor Karen Bass signed an agreement Tuesday".[1]Mayor Karen Bass signed agreements with SEIU 721, AFSCME and other unions that averted the last of the roughly 600 civil-service layoffs and the planned furloughs in the 2025-26 budget, closing the city's $1 billion deficit.0.59Aldi Nord Gives 39,000 German Staff a 5.3% Raise Without a Wage Deal
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE3.0 years agoAldi Nord says it raises wages "freiwillig ab dem 1.10.2023" and that monthly tariff pay "steigen ab Oktober um 5,3 Prozent".[1]With the 2023 retail pay talks stuck, Aldi Nord raised tariff pay for its more than 39,000 store staff in Germany by 5.3% from 1 October, to be set against whatever ver.di and the employers finally agreed.0.59Ferrero Sets Italian Staff Bonus of Up to 2,555 Euros for 2025/26
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE3 days agoJoint union communique: 'Nel giorno 21 settembre 2026 la Direzione Aziendale Ferrero si è incontrata con le Organizzazioni Sindacali' and set the 2025/2026 bonus.[1]Ferrero and its unions fixed the 2025/2026 objectives-linked bonus for about 7,000 Italian employees at between 2,426 and 2,555 euros gross per site, paid with October 2026 wages, after targets were more than 90% met.0.58LA Votes on Charter Reform and an LAFD Sales Tax
SCHEDULED79% CONFIDENCEin 40 daysThe City Clerk's ballot measures page lists these under "2026 General Municipal Election - Voter Information Pamphlet (November 3, 2026)".[1]Los Angeles voters decide six charter amendments from the city's charter reform process, including a two-year budget and a parks funding guarantee, plus a half-cent sales tax for the Fire Department and a transfer-tax break for January 2025 fire victims.0.57
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