Sentences with phrase «now wage advocates»

Now wage advocates are focused on 2016, as several states...

Now wage advocates are focused on 2016, as several states and cities including California and New York will consider proposals in the new year to gradually lift pay further to $ 15 an hour.

Not exact matches

After a decidedly right of center first term (with the exception of marriage equality — which was all politics, and he still lost the gay vote to Teachout in the primary), Cuomo is now trying to lurch left by championing a minimum wage bill that is still weaker than what advocates wanted and what he refused to force through in his first term.

Poverty advocates have been critical of the minimum wage law now in effect, which they contend moves too slowly and included detrimental tax breaks for businesses.

Supporting a Living Wage: A $ 15 living wage is now guaranteed to every City worker and employee of nonprofit organizations contracted with the City, and the Mayor and Council have advocated for higher wages for all workers across the stWage: A $ 15 living wage is now guaranteed to every City worker and employee of nonprofit organizations contracted with the City, and the Mayor and Council have advocated for higher wages for all workers across the stwage is now guaranteed to every City worker and employee of nonprofit organizations contracted with the City, and the Mayor and Council have advocated for higher wages for all workers across the state.

We need look no further than Washington, DC, where a battle is now being waged between TNR advocates and conservationists who want to round up cats and take them to shelters (where the feral ones would be killed) and force owners of pet cats to keep them indoors on pain of death (death to the cats, not the owners, although sometimes one wonders).

But now go - slow advocates, waging a campaign to keep electronic signatures firmly rooted in the familiar world of paper documents and metal file cabinets, have upset this arcadian garden of legislative cooperation — with dire consequences for electronic commerce, say backers of a uniform law.