Sentences with phrase «living wage campaign»

In recent years, this movement has crystallised in the form of the Living Wage Campaign, a carefully calculated figure that amounts to the minimum wage that people need to keep a family in health and properly housed, fed, and able to contribute to society.

Witness his living wage campaign, his proposal for a high pay commission and his insistence on keeping the new top rate of tax for high earners.

GNYC4C continued the push for Economic Justice, supporting the Living Wage Campaign and Paid Sick Leave legislation.

Take, for example, the living wage campaign; if you force an employer to pay a living wage then a government would not have to worry about improving in work poverty through tax credits.

I've known him six months and he's really connected with the community organising methods and our living wage campaign.

Matthew Bolton, who is the lead London Citizens community organiser in east London and head of the Living Wage campaign, said: «James is very special to us.

It is action by the poorest, and not simply for them, which has led to the extraordinary success of the Living Wage Campaign, and which has driven on the Just Money campaign against exploitative lending over the last four years.

But the talkers have inhabited separate enclaves — Greens here; Occupy London there; Citizens UK in the middle distance; the Living Wage campaign alongside them; Compass, the non-party campaigning group of the democratic left, in the foreground — and, despite their captivating élan, they have not yet launched a true conversation.

We've also worked together on front - line campaigns, including living wage campaigns, pipeline protests, and struggles against police brutality, environmental racism, coal trains and fracking towers.

Not exact matches

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has repeatedly slammed Walmart for not paying workers a living wage, most recently at a campaign stop in Missouri this weekend.

More recently, School District 69 for Qualicum and Parksville also adopted a living wage standard this week after a successful campaign to have one implemented.

«People have been squeezed before 2008 and they're gradually being squeezed more, and what it translates into is more people who are working or living in poverty having to go to food banks, trying to get two or three jobs, or going without basic necessities like food or heating,» said Michael McCarthy Flynn, spokesperson for the Living Wage for Families Camliving in poverty having to go to food banks, trying to get two or three jobs, or going without basic necessities like food or heating,» said Michael McCarthy Flynn, spokesperson for the Living Wage for Families CamLiving Wage for Families Campaign.

But while one Christian will feel inspired to campaign for a living wage to be paid, another may see the same situation and campaign for measures to strengthen family life, or to free up entrepreneurs to start small businesses.

As the Archbishop of Buenos Aires he waged a strong campaign in defense of life and the Church's teachings on the Christian family, despite enduring attacks from the militantly secular Argentine government and its allies.

By January 2001 — only six years after the Baltimore campaign succeeded — 155 living - wage initiatives had been put forward; 59 of these had been enacted and 12 defeated, 17 were actively pending and 67 were dormant.

Murphy lived through a campaign where Obama waged relentless culture war (despite enormous and unexploited weaknesses on abortion policy) and somehow Murphy decided that social conservatives were to blame for Romney's defeat.

Do I need to tell you about the Atlanta campaign that was specifically designed to wage war on CIVILIANS??? And please, spare us all by trying to refute that, I've read the letters and the military orders myself... Not to mention the personal accounts and countless photos and personal letters from those who lived through it.

We would urge all fans and their communities to get behind our campaign for all Premier League Clubs to pay a real living wage.»

The cause that prompted him to speak at the Cambridge Union and at other universities, for example, was the campaign for the Living Wage, a wage meant to cover the costs of life that the current minimum wage does not and one which the Cambridge newspaper «Varsity» recently revealed was not being extended to large numbers of low - earning workers within our multi-billion pound UniversWage, a wage meant to cover the costs of life that the current minimum wage does not and one which the Cambridge newspaper «Varsity» recently revealed was not being extended to large numbers of low - earning workers within our multi-billion pound Universwage meant to cover the costs of life that the current minimum wage does not and one which the Cambridge newspaper «Varsity» recently revealed was not being extended to large numbers of low - earning workers within our multi-billion pound Universwage does not and one which the Cambridge newspaper «Varsity» recently revealed was not being extended to large numbers of low - earning workers within our multi-billion pound University.

However at the official launch of Labour's local council campaign in Newark he appeared to focus on national policies including raising corporation tax, increasing the living wage and nationalising the railways.

Join our campaign for a genuine Living Wage.

At Pratt, he led many successful community - planning efforts, as well as campaigns to expand affordable housing and create NYC's «inclusionary zoning» program, which requires developers seeking tax breaks to set aside 20 percent of their units for low and moderate income families and pay a living wage to their service workers.

Ed Miliband's campaign for a living wage of more than # 7 an hour is a promising start.

A brilliant campaign waged by Alexis Tsipras and the leadership of Syriza united all those who want an end to austerity and to the national humiliation of living under the diktat of Brussels / Frankfurt and Washington.

Last week he urged people to sign up to his campaign to stop the VAT tax rise — a clever way to capture contact details for party members that he perhaps copied from Ed Miliband's campaign for a living wage and David Miliband's Movement for Change.

And it was this experience that inspired me to put the living wage at the centre of my Labour leadership campaign.

And that's why I am delighted to join with you in reaffirming my commitment to the campaign for the living wage.

During separate and recent evenings on the campaign trail, the candidates offered up the usual political fare: use environmental technologies to create jobs (Kessner); give teachers more time to implement the Common Core teaching standards (Stott); ensure more workers have a living wage.

Through its campaigning and negotiating — ordinary people brought face to face with politicians and businessmen with «testimonies» about how they live their lives — the organisation was successful in getting Ken Livingstone, the former mayor of London, to back a living wage in the capital, and to persuade the current mayor, Boris Johnson, to maintain it.

Ed really came through for the living wage [a Glasman campaign].

He had campaigned on a promise of more affordable homes, a better transport system and a living wage «that reflects the reality of living in our great city».

In the last two campaigns for governor, Hawkins pushed for a living wage for workers, a ban on fracking and a millionaires» tax - all positions that Cuomo later adopted as part of his platform.

Despite campaigning for the living wage to be paid in the public sector and for zero - hours contracts to be scrapped, Freedom of Information requests have shown that all three of the councils controlled or led by Plaid Cymru — Ceredigion, Conwy, and Gwynedd - pay people less than the living wage and use zero - hours contracts.

«On behalf of the half - million New Yorkers invested in our fight for a living wage for direct care workers, we want to express our gratitude for the tremendous support we've received from members of the Senate and Assembly,» the campaign said in a statement.

«Women's equality in all forms, campaign finance reform, sorely needed, it's the basis of our democracy, and minimum wage so people can live a decent life,» she said.

Every day, you take action to change communities for the better, from the CitySafe initiative to campaigning for the Living Wage.

In preparation for a long - awaited Nov. 22 City Council hearing on Living Wage legislation, which has its roots in the battle over the fate of the Kingsbridge Armory, supporters, including several Council members, are stepping up their p.r. campaign.

«Increasing the National Minimum Wage is a good thing, but pretending it is a Living Wage is farcical propaganda which undermines the campaign for a real Living Wage.

The union has been at the forefront of a global campaign for Fast Food Workers Rights which calls for a living wage http://fastfoodrights.wordpress.com/

Leading and participating in individual campaigns, from the living wage to library closures to campaigns against legal loan sharks.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have launched a campaign to increase their pay to the «London living wage» of # 7.85 an hour.

At noon, advocates for people with developmental disabilities and the #bFair2DirectCare campaign urge Cuomo and the state Legislature to provide funds so direct care workers can be paid a living wage, Duffy Square, 47th Street and Seventh Avenue, Manhattan.

I just don't believe, either, that campaigning for a living wage crowds out campaigns for a social wage - my experience is that once people have won on one thing, their ambitions grow and they are motivated to address other issues.

Mr. Lipton, who has campaigned for better pay for low - wage workers for years, said, «There's clearly a new standard for the minimum wage, and it's actually a living wage for the first time in many, many decades.»

«Campaign finance reform, a ban on fracking, a live - able wage, if these are the kind of issues you want, the only way to tell the government that is by voting for the Green Party,» said Hawkins.

The campaign for a $ 15 an hour minimum wage in New York is being fought on emotional grounds - as a tool to fight poverty, to fix income inequality and to ensure a «living wage» for people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder.

Hawkins was active in the campaigns to establish the Citizens Review Board in the 1990s and the Living Wage Ordinance in the 2000s in Syracuse.

Graf accepted Miliband's challenge, and proposed new campaign methods that relied on grass - roots campaigns on concrete issues such as pay - day lenders, the living wage, energy prices, zero - hours contracts, saving the local library, and so on.

The Chancellor's «Living Wage» is considerably lower than the rate the Living Wage Foundation campaigns for but this is still a bold move.

The seven - minute clip sees the candidate discussing historic figures like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and John Brown, and cycling through his campaign platforms, including single - payer health care, a living wage and removing the corrosive influence of money in politics.