Macy's Employees Ready To Go On Strike

Uh oh.

Over 4,000 New York City Macy’s employees are threatening to go on strike on Thursday if they can’t agree on new contract terms.

For the past 5 weeks the retailer’s management has been hammering out a new agreement with the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, but as with most negotiations the major battle is over money.

In the new contract, Macy’s proposed “a 35-cent hourly wage increase for current workers, and no change to the starting hourly wage of $7.50, which union negotiators have said does not constitute a living wage in New York”.

If a deal can’t be reached by midnight, employees are more than ready to stop working until they get what they want.

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