Dole Packaged Foods' US workers will soon make $15 an hour
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All of Dole Packaged Foods' US-based employees will make at least $15 an hour within a few months, the company says.
"The $15 an hour that is actually being discussed today in the Biden administration... I think we're very close from actually doing the same ourselves," said Pier Luigi Sigismondi, president of Dole Packaged Foods, in an interview with CNN Business. "A few more weeks or months of work and I think we will be able to actually confirm that." The move comes as farm and plant workers across the US have remained at high risk during the pandemic — often working in tight quarters -— and concerns are high about the global food supply chain. Dole Packaged Foods, a Dole brand that grows and distributes fruit and healthy snacks, employs 27,000 people globally including 1,100 in the Americas.The US began pulling military equipment and additional personnel out of Niger on Friday after waiting months for the ruling military junta to approve US military flights into the country, two sources familiar with the matter said Saturday, ahead of a September 15 withdrawal deadline agreed to by the two countries.
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