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Monday, September 28, 2026
Civil Rights at WorkNew York's minimum wage operates through a three-layer structure: a regional hourly floor ($17.00 downstate, $16.00 upstate as of January 1, 2026), a set of sub-rates for tipped and salaried workers, and starting in 2027, an automatic inflation-indexing formula.
The National Labor Relations Board ruled in a recent decision that employers do not have to disclose attorney-client privileged documents when responding to union information requests, according to a Law360 Employment Authority report published September 25.
Workers & the EconomyThe Texas Minimum Wage Act contains no dollar amount. The statute adopts the federal minimum wage rate by reference, making the state of Texas minimum wage identical to the federal floor: $7.
Union OrganizingNurses at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Maine, voted 204-21 in favor of joining the Maine State Nurses Association on September 24, according to WGME. The 91% approval margin came after hospital management fired 15 nurses and suspended five others in the weeks leading up to the election.
Civil Rights at WorkPublic Act 19-4 transformed Connecticut's minimum wage from a number set by legislators into a self-adjusting rate indexed to the federal Employment Cost Index. For 2024, that mechanism pushed the state of Connecticut minimum wage from $15.00 to $15.
Workers & the EconomyM.G.L. Chapter 151, Section 1 sets the minimum wage in Massachusetts at $15.00 per hour and contains no indexing formula, no inflation trigger, and no scheduled future increase.
Virgin Australia cancelled up to 30 flights over the weekend of September 21-22 after cabin crew called in sick amid ongoing contract negotiations, according to a report from Paddle Your Own Kanoo.
Workers & the EconomyConnecticut's minimum wage is an annually auto-adjusting rate tied to the federal Employment Cost Index (ECI), set at $15.69 per hour for 2024 and currently $16.94 as of January 2026.
Labor Policy & LawThe United Steelworkers union declared the right to strike "a red line" on September 22, opposing proposed Canada Labour Code amendments that would grant the federal labour minister discretionary power to end legal strikes without Parliamentary approval, according to a statement from USW National Di
Civil Rights at WorkThe mass minimum wage held at $15.00 per hour throughout 2024, unchanged for the first time in five years, after the final scheduled increase under the state's 2018 "Grand Bargain" legislation took effect on January 1, 2023.
