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Friday, September 18, 2026
Workers & the EconomyCalifornia's minimum wage in 2026 operates as a three-tier system: a CPI-indexed statewide floor of $16.90 per hour, local city and county rates reaching $20.34 in Emeryville, and industry-specific mandates pushing healthcare workers to $25.00 per hour.
Labor Policy & LawMaryland's minimum wage is $15.00 per hour for every employer in the state, regardless of business size, a rate that took effect January 1, 2024 under the Fair Wage Act of 2023.
Union OrganizingStellantis signed a memorandum of understanding on September 15 with Roshel, a Canadian armored vehicle manufacturer, covering the potential sale of the Brampton Assembly plant in Ontario, according to Global News Canada.
Labor Policy & LawTexas does not set its own minimum wage dollar amount. The state's minimum wage law, administered by the Texas Workforce Commission, defers entirely to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, which means workers in Texas earn a floor of $7.25 per hour, a rate unchanged since July 24, 2009.
The National Labor Relations Board's General Counsel Crystal Stowe Carey issued a memo on August 26 identifying the Cemex precedent—a Biden-era rule enabling unions to organize through card-check campaigns—as a target for reversal, according to FreightWaves.
Labor Policy & LawThe National Labor Relations Board is the independent federal agency that decides whether your employer broke the law when it fired you for talking about wages, interrogated you about a union meeting, or refused to bargain after workers voted to organize.
Labor Policy & LawAmendment 42, approved by Colorado voters in 2006, turned the state's minimum wage into a self-adjusting constitutional provision indexed to the Consumer Price Index for the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood metro area.
Truck drivers rallied outside the Etobicoke office of Secretary of State for Labour John Zerucelli on September 12, demanding the federal government redirect enforcement of wage-theft laws away from workers and toward the employers violating Canada Labour Code protections, according to Justice for T
Healthcare & LaborThe state of Missouri minimum wage is set through voter-approved ballot initiatives rather than ordinary legislation, a mechanism that carried the rate to $12.30 per hour in 2024 and will push it to $15.00 by January 2026.
Union OrganizingDutch employers' associations announced Friday they will push to redirect 2027 collective bargaining negotiations away from wage increases toward investments in training and artificial intelligence, arguing that productivity gains must precede higher pay.
