Sentences with phrase «by city workers»

REPOST every few days as the flyers are regularly removed by city workers.

The taxpayers of New York have coughed up nearly $ 5 million to settle sex harassment claims filed by city workers against city employees over the last five years, the de Blasio administration revealed.

Not exact matches

On Sunday, 80 employees arrived from Austin, Texas capital far from the danger zone, to stock stores in Corpus Christi, a coastal city hit by the storm and by Tuesday more workers from San Antonio were moving to Victoria, another affected city.

Following the lead of voters in Seattle in 2016, the Chicago City Council passed an ordinance in October requiring hotels to provide panic buttons to workers by next summer if they work alone in guest rooms.

By contrast, states such as Connecticut and California mandate that even entry - level workers receive about $ 10 an hour, while cities and, increasingly, states such as Illinois and New York are phasing in a new minimum wage of $ 15 an hour.

Union officials, who have vowed to fight any effort to reduce benefits to retirees and vested workers, claim the city has undermined the pension fund by outsourcing city services to workers who don't pay into the system.

A worker demonstrates Apple Pay inside a mobile kiosk sponsored by Visa and Wells Fargo to demonstrate the new Apple Pay mobile payment system on October 20, 2014 in San Francisco City.

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.

Backed by labor groups such as the Service Employees International Union, workers have landed some victories as individual cities and states have raised their minimum wage.

By hiring remote workers, we get access to experts located all over the world, at a fraction of the cost of hiring a full - time employee from an expensive city like New York or San Francisco.

Good thing, too, considering labour action by the nearly 30,000 workers represented by both groups would have thrown a wrench into daycare, community centres, pools, city - run museums and other services.

The tourism town, where the majority of Miami - Dade's estimated 11,500 housekeepers and other hotel workers are employed, may soon be the nation's next city to enact laws aimed at protecting hotel workers from assault or improper advances by hotel guests.

Ontario joins cities such as Seattle and New York in the U.S. seeking to address years of income stagnation and inequality by boosting wages for workers at the bottom of the pay heap.

The providers of the experiences are independent workers who, according to Airbnb, «create unique experiences around your city, and earn extra money by bringing others along.»

Remote workers also help recruitment efforts by enabling companies to conduct national or even global searches for talent instead of being limited to the local applicant pool or to those prospects willing to relocate to your city.»

The city, known for its large and diverse pool of skilled workers, also clocked noticeable gains in citizen engagement (which increased by 13.3 percent) and access to startup ecosystem cheerleaders (which jumped by 15.5 percent).

The debate got louder Thursday when members of Iron Workers Local 86 showed up at a rally in front of Amazon headquarters called by a socialist city council member.

According to a fact sheet accompanying a resolution filed by the Jacksonville City Council, JinkoSolar is now planning to invest only $ 50.5 million in its new Jacksonville facility, and hire only 200 workers to produce PV modules.

Cities and states will preserve their credit ratings by annulling their pension obligations to public - sector workers, and raising excise and sales taxes — but not property taxes.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

The results of a survey conducted by trade union reveals 85 per cent of shop workers oppose Belfast City... More

The results of a survey conducted by trade union reveals 85 per cent of shop workers oppose Belfast City Council's suggestion of extended Sunday trading.

They also often reject any role for governments in addressing social - economic problems, such as unemployment or the low wages earned by workers who are trapped in unskilled occupations or isolated in central cities, where financial and physical infrastructures are inadequate and social networks are weak.

The business, Lessing Food Service Management, proved to be so successful that by 1920 it was serving meals to New York City workers in 20 locations — including the famous Woolworth building — from a central bakeshop and commissary.

Even without another football game to further overcrowd the city, which considers itself a cultural oasis in a vast wilderness of oil workers» helmets and Levi's, the downtown area is declared off limits by every sane person, cultured or not.

Jim Mora was specifically talking about Darnold being a great fit in Cleveland, a city that in Mora's mind is apparently populated entirely by dreary factory workers who will only accept a football player willing to toil in anonymity.

The Chicago Food Policy Action Council and the Food Chain Workers Alliance have played a leadership role in the City's adoption of the Program by supporting the Chicago Good Food Taskforce organized by the Mayor's Office including multiple City of Chicago Sister Agencies (Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Park District, Chicago City Colleges, Chicago Housing Authority) and Departments (Department of Public Health, Department of Family and Support Services, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Aviation, and Procurement).

October 22, 2014 --(Altadena, CA) Piece by Piece instructor and mosaic artist Leigh Adams and her colleague Bea Jones, a retired psychiatric social worker, worked with our children through a special grant from the Marion Brucker Legacy Trust via Piece by Piece, which helped bring mosaic artistry to inner - city youth.

[Baby Milk Action comment: In addition to the documentary evidence substantiating the allegations by Syed Aamir Raza, there were contemporary surveys conducted in 33 cities in Pakistan and published as the report Feeding Fiasco, which found evidence from health workers of the activities of company representatives.

Allowing ride hailing apps like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City and infrastructure spending were also pushed by business groups, but workers» compensation legislation was considered especially key for Senate Republicans this year, who agreed to an extension of the millionaires tax rate expiring at the end of the year as well as a college tuition plan backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

In its effort to unionize flight attendants at JetBlue, the Transport Workers Union has found an uncommon array of allies — top New York City and state officials led by Cuomo.

That is already in motion, which means 300,000 fast food workers are on a schedule to make $ 15 by 2018 in New York City, by 2021 everywhere else in New York State.

The de Blasio administration is reissuing tens of thousands of parking permits to city education workers, rolling back reforms made by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Promoted by: Bakers Food & Allied Workers Union Stanborough House, Great North Road, Stanborough, Welwyn Garden City, HERTS.

Occupy Albany's camping permit expired at 7 am, by mid afternoon city workers moved in and began dismantling tents.

This year's conference is brought to you by our partners: The Murphy Institute for Worker Education (CUNY), New York State AFL - CIO, New York City Central Labor Council, and the New York Civic Engagement Table.

This event is sponsored by the New York City Central Labor Council, the New York State AFL - CIO, the AFL - CIO, Organizing 2.0, the Consortium for Worker Education and the New York Paid Leave Coalition.

The city budget passed last year included a 2.5 percent cost - of - living adjustment, and in January the de Blasio administration announced that municipal workers and those working for contracted agencies will earn $ 15 an hour by the end of 2018.

-- Political columnist Errol Louis reviews Sheldon Silver's «other offenses» — Advocates want changes in the city's proposed e-bike rules; «In case it isn't obvious by now: Mayor de Blasio should have talked with delivery workers about electric bikes rather than declaring war on them.»

Every previous attempt at unionization, including a general strike by New York City hotel and restaurant workers in 1912, had been crushed by the hotel owners.

Despite American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funding, which preserved jobs and public services, city and state workers have been affected by the recession.

While again hundred thousands of Egyptians show their defiance of the old regime at Cairo's Tahrir Square and worker protests have broken out in several Egyptian cities, Washington and London still follow a pipe dream of a gradual transition from Hosni Mubarak to a more or less democratic, yet by all means secular new government.

Syracuse, N.Y. — Mayor Stephanie Miner has cut the payroll of the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency by nearly 20 percent in the past year, responding to criticism that the renewal agency has long been misused to hire city workers without going through civil service.

He called Paterson's maneuver a «mistake,» and said the state would «do the right thing» by uniformed workers, describing the current state of New York City officers» benefits as «blatantly unfair.»

Halloran said five city workers, including two Department of Transportation and three Sanitation Department employees assigned to Queens, told him the day before that they were asked by supervisors «to take their time» plowing roads because the «mayor's office doesn't care about them.»

For workers in New York City employed by small businesses (those with 10 employees or fewer), the minimum wage would rise to $ 10.50 by the end of 2016, then another $ 1.50 each year after, reaching $ 15 on 12/31/2019.

«A lot of people think the deal that has been negotiated by the city is too rich for developers and doesn't do enough for workers,» Cuomo said.

The governor undercut the mayor by arguing that state law should obligate developers — who endorsed Mr. de Blasio's ideas — to pay construction workers prevailing wages, a requirement Mr. de Blasio asserted would cost the city dearly needed new below - market apartments.

For workers in New York City employed by large businesses (those with at least 11 employees), the minimum wage would rise to $ 11 at the end of 2016, then another $ 2 each year after, reaching $ 15 on 12/31/2018.

Also Wednesday, the council greenlighted legislation requiring used car dealers to disclose details about a vehicle's recall history, regulating commercial bicyclists, studying the feasibility of allowing pedestrians to cross in any direction while vehicle traffic is stopped, and extending a prior legal limit on the conversion of hotels into non-hotel use — a bill backed by the city's hotel worker labor union.