Sentences with phrase «back wage hikes»

In the second of today's companion cases, Meredith v. Canada, the SCC has issued a starkly contrasting judgment, ruling against RCMP officers who challenged the constitutionality of the 2009 Expenditure Restraint Act, which had unilaterally rolled back wage hikes from 2008 to 2010 for officers, instead imposing a cap of 1.5 per cent annually.

It remains to be seen how Cuomo can convince Senate Republicans, who hold a narrow majority in the chamber and have generally won support from the state's business interests, to back the wage hike, which through the campaign has had a specific connotation to $ 15.

Not exact matches

While some workers may lose their job after the minimum wage increase (more on that in a minute), a very large number of workers will see an important pay hike, and that will loop back into the economy.

But the minimum wage increase backed by Assembly Democrats aligns with de Blasio's push to hike the minimum wage in the city to $ 15 by 2018, plus indexing to inflation future increases.

The WFP in 2014 at the last minute endorsed Cuomo's re-election over an insurgent outside challenge from Zephyr Teachout after he pledged to back a new minimum wage hike; at the time $ 10.10 was on the table.

Unions have made noise about challenging Sen. John DeFrancisco, the deputy majority leader, over his vocal opposition to a minimum wage increase, though that could be tempered after all 31 Republicans backed the budget bill containing the hike.

Senate Republicans were divided over whether to back the minimum wage increase, which hikes the pay floor to $ 15 in New York city and the suburbs and to $ 12.50 upstate, with future increases tied to an economic analysis.

And so they backed Cuomo, in exchange for promises to fight for Democratic control of the State Senate and push more progressive policies, including the minimum wage hike that Cuomo delivered.

For Cuomo, a united Democratic Senate majority is a nightmare scenario: a centrist at heart, he belittled raising the minimum wage before it came back into vogue, ridiculed the idea of hiking taxes on wealthy people, and still won't comply with a ten - year - old court ruling to fork over state cash to underfunded city public schools.

Based on cost of living, Clinton has backed a smaller wage hike to $ 12 an hour nationally, and supports states moving to $ 15 on their own.

Clinton backs increasing the federal floor to $ 12, and has supported individual states, like New York and California, to hike their wage higher to $ 15.

Cuomo has not taken on a position on the Silver proposals or a similar measure that's backed by Sen. Adriano Espaillat, though has supported past wage hikes.

Cuomo was endorsed by the party last month, however, after agreeing to help Democrats retake the state Senate and back a host of liberal legislation such as a minimum wage increase as well as local control for future hikes.

Republican State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan cooperated with him in passing a minimum wage hike earlier this — and declined to back Democrat Todd Kaminsky «s bid in a special election to fill the Long Island seat of former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

This wage hike will back businesses into a corner, and force owners to make very difficult decisions with regard to their workforce to ensure their companies can survive.

Ultimately, Senate Republicans voted to back a minimum wage hike that phases in to $ 15.

The speaker called for the wage hike in a legislative election year and polls show that the proposal has broad support among New York voters, with more than 80 percent backing it.

The cuts are actually phased in over several years as is the increase in the state's minimum wage to $ 15 (A Siena College poll released on Monday found voters backed the $ 15 wage hike 65 percent to 33 percent).

The Utica Observer - Dispatch says the governor's plan to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour «could put a severe dent in many operations and short - circuit the energy they are creating as the upstate region claws its way back to prosperity,» adding: «For that reason alone, Cuomo's wage hike should be rejected.»

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan acknowledged that his fellow Long Islander, Sen. Tom Croci, had last - minute hesitations about backing a steep minimum wage hike — some thought he might skip the vote.

The Assembly's Democratic majority already has called for another state minimum wage hike, mirroring Democrats around the nation backing the populist issue.

There's a certain degree of irony here, given that Senate Republicans backed a minimum wage hike in 2004 in order to help then - Sen.

But Josh Vlasto, a spokesman fro Gov. Andrew Cuomo, said that while the governor backs a minimum wage hike, there isn't enough time for a deal by the end of June.

Assembly Democrats back the minimum wage hike, but they have a slightly different plan for paid family leave.

Can the SNP come under unrelenting pressure about whether they would back Labour policies such as hiked taxes on the top 5 %, increased corporation tax, a statutory living wage and sweeping public ownership?

«We need to proceed cautiously and deliberatively, and take a step back to study the real - life consequences of any additional increase in the minimum wage, especially one of the magnitude of a nearly 70 - percent hike.»

Opponents of the wage hike and family leave — small - business groups and business lobbies — say they don't have the same kind of money to fight back.