Sentences with phrase «city immigrant workers»

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The first dinner kicks off Monday in New York City, where ROC and PAUWR hope to create a space for guests to discuss the reality immigrant workers face today.

Immigrants who avoid ICE face the possibility of exploitation by employers: A 2008 survey from the National Employment Law Project found that 51 % of all undocumented workers in New York City were underpaid by more than $ 1 per hour, and 47 % said they were required to work after sustaining an injury on the job.

«I am proud to have their support and will continue to lead the fight for low wage and immigrant workers in the City Council with the help of RWDSU.»

«Francisco has been with us through our fight to give a union voice to car wash workers across New York City, and has been a leader in the Assembly in our fight to end the tip - credit — he knows that supporting our immigrant workers is what makes New York City move every day.

Also at 10 a.m., the Asian American Federation will partner with the Biking Public Project, Transportation Alternatives, and other advocates to hold the E-Bike Rally to Protect Immigrant Food Delivery Workers to protest de Blasio and the NYPD's planned enforcement of electric bicycle regulations starting in January, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Most private sector workers in New York City do not have any access to a retirement savings program, and low - income, immigrant, minority, and female New Yorkers are disproportionately impacted.

Cuomo's national strategy also explains other high - profile actions, including his belated embrace of a «women's agenda,» his refusal to permit «fracking» for natural gas even after repeatedly promising to do so, his anti-gun Safe Act, his embrace of the teachers unions he had once sharply criticized, and his recent high - profile crackdown on Korean - owned nail salons in the city that, according to a deeply flawed report in the New York Times, were exploiting their immigrant workers, said the source.

Thirty - three underpaid workers did ironwork at 11 city schools and the Queens Museum New York, NY — On Monday, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer presented checks to immigrant workers who were cheated out of nearly $ 1 million in wages -LSB-city schools and the Queens Museum New York, NY — On Monday, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer presented checks to immigrant workers who were cheated out of nearly $ 1 million in wages -LSB-City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer presented checks to immigrant workers who were cheated out of nearly $ 1 million in wages -LSB-...]

«The wages of workers in cities that feature strongly inclusive institutions, whether measured by social capital or immigrant ordinances, respond much more sharply to changes in immigrant diversity in their urban context,» they write.

Students at three New York public high schools designed for immigrants have just collaborated on a compelling book of photographs and first - person accounts called Forty - Cent Tip: Stories of Immigrant Workers in New York City, to be published by Next Generation Press in February 2006.