Retailers and restaurants are paying up to attract workers

May 14, 2021

The labor market is tightening as businesses staff up in response to the diminishing threat from the novel coronavirus pandemic and rise in economic activity. National employers, including Amazon, Chipotle, McDonald’s and Walmart, are raising hourly wages, offering bonuses and other incentives to recruit new workers.

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Waffle House Workers Strike for Fair Pay and Better Working Conditions

Waffle House workers in Conyers, Georgia, are now on their third day of striking over what they call the company’s unfair policies. Led by the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW), Waffle House employees are demanding an end to the mandatory “meal credit” deductions from their paychecks, along with better wages and improved working conditions.