Sentences with phrase «city worker wages»

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Today, it provides jobs to 262,000 workers throughout the city and contributes nearly $ 30 billion annually in wages to the local economy.

Smaller retailers that struggle financially are seeking teen workers through the city's program, which helps employers pay their wages.

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.

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.

He said the city needs «a new, comprehensive approach that builds needed affordable housing citywide, while also offering construction workers good middle - class wages and benefits.»

Dr. King was in Memphis to lead a march protesting the working conditions and low wages of the city's sanitation workers, and in his final speech, he spoke of how racial and economic injustice are inextricably linked.

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.

Mr. de Blasio and many city Democrats oppose Walmart for the consistently low wages it pays workers and its anti-union stance.

Alicia Glen, Mayor Bill de Blasio's deputy mayor for housing and economic development, told the City Council today that obligating developers who receive the controversial 421a tax break to pay construction workers prevailing wages could result in 17,000 badly - needed below - market apartments not getting built — and argued that the demand for low - cost housing trumps the call for union jobs.

Hundreds of low - wage workers and advocates descended upon Albany today to urge the Senate and Assembly to pass legislation that would raise the state minimum wage to $ 10.10, index it to inflation, and allow cities and counties to set their wages 30 percent higher than the state's minimum.

In what could set off a major City Hall battle, two City Council members from the Bronx plan to propose a bill on Tuesday that would guarantee wages of at least $ 10 an hour, nearly $ 3 above the minimum wage, to all workers at development projects receiving public subsidies.

A hearing was held to consider whether developers who receive big city grants should pay workers higher wages.

Washington (CNN)---- Fast food workers striking for higher wages in seven cities Monday are bound to be disappointed.

MIDTOWN — Workers planned to rally at several major fast - food chains throughout the city Monday to demand higher wages and the right to unionize, organizers said.

The prevailing wage law requires that contractors contribute a portion of a worker's wages to health care and retirement benefits, which can represent up to half of an average $ 96 - an - hour pay scale in New York City.

City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer has announced that, thus far, 53 workers have been able to receive $ 351,791 in unclaimed wages, with interest.

«Instead of reaching out to union leaders to gain consensus on an affordable housing program that ensures middle - class wages for workers, (de Blasio) coordinated with a lobbying group — led by billionaire developers — to run an anti-union campaign that would lead to unsafe job sites and a low - wage workforce,» The Greater New York Laborers - Employers Cooperation and Education Trust and the New York City and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Corporation said in a joint statement.

At 1:30 p.m., 1,000 low - wage workers and advocates will descend on Albany to urge the Senate and Assembly to pass legislation that would raise the state minimum wage to $ 10.10, index it for inflation, and allow cities and counties to set their wages 30 percent higher than the state's minimum, Million Dollar Staircase, state Capitol.

For the city's decades - old tax abatement program for developers, 421 - a will see a four - year extension if the real estate industry and labor come to an agreement over wages for construction workers involved in those projects.

A New York City law firm says it has filed a class action lawsuit accusing the Syracuse - based Dinosaur Bar - B - Que chain of failing to pay its tipped workers fair wages.

Workers at 10 Domino's in New York City and around the state have scored a $ 480,000 settlement over lost wages amid Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's ongoing crackdown on the pizza chain.

The labor protest movement that fast - food workers in New York City began nearly three years ago has led to higher wages for workers all across the country.

There are cities that have raised their minimum wages to $ 15 an hour — Los Angeles and Seattle are the most recent - but those increases apply to all workers.

The donation came less than two months after workers at certain busing companies, including one owned by Mr. Lodde's firm, had gotten an unprecedented windfall from New York City government: a $ 42 million grant pushed through by Mayor Bill de Blasio to raise wages at low - paying private bus companies with city contraCity government: a $ 42 million grant pushed through by Mayor Bill de Blasio to raise wages at low - paying private bus companies with city contracity contracts.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said he's fine with the state subsidizing higher wages for construction workers who build affordable housing in the five boroughs — as long as it doesn't impact the city's bottom line.

The bill, which Bloomberg vetoed last month, would boost wages for building service workers, including custodians and security guards, in 41 large buildings where the city leases the majority of space.

A Queens - based contractor that worked on a number of New York City projects, including 111 W. 57th St. on Billionaires» Row, was charged with stealing more than $ 1.7 million in wages from its workers and $ 7.8 million from the state by manipulating the workers - compensation system, according to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who announced the charges at a Wednesday press conference.

Mayor Bill de Blasio hewed closely to his campaign theme in his first State of the City address, focusing on income inequality and vowing to raise workers» wages.

Hundreds of building service workers gathered near City Hall on Wed, Mar. 2, asking the City Council to update an existing law to increase their job security, and help them fight back against property owners who attempt to drive down wages.

De Blasio and city officials have said broadly that one of the most significant drivers of the increase in homelessness citywide has been income inequality, writ large: stagnant wages for workers combined with rising rents over the past decade.

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In response, a spokesman for the mayor cited de Blasio's efforts to expand pre-K, raise worker wages and build affordable housing, as well as the city's record - low crime rate and record - high jobs rate.

But it may also reduce competition for workers, especially outside big cities, holding down wages.

«It is not acceptable for developers to get a billion - dollar - a-year tax break while paying workers low wages and creating little to no affordable housing,» said Paul Fernandes, executive director of the New York City and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Corporation, an organization of unions and contractors.

Protests by fast - food workers in New York City in 2012 got the movement started, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo has now given the effort its biggest boost so far by announcing the creation of a board to look into raising wages for the state's more than 180,000 fast - food workers.

«The governor's proposal raises the city's cost in foregone property tax revenue in order to subsidize construction workers» wages, without increasing the expected number of affordable housing units,» she said.

«We can no longer ignore the needs of low wage workers in this city,» said Stuart Appelbaum, the president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, the most vocal labor group on living wages.

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 state.

For six years, a particular group of workers employed through contracts with the city, and filling important roles, saw their wages stagnate.

«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.

December 5, 2013 • Workers rallied in 100 cities on Thursday to raise awareness for increasing pressure to raise wages.

In his decision last month, U.S. District Judge Joseph H. Young ordered the city to pay the workers some $ 3.3 million they lost in wages as a result of the 2 - day layoff.

A social worker at a women's homeless shelter in New York City contacted me about a resident of the shelter who wanted to sue her former employers for unpaid wages.

Since the first edition of Chilton's book appeared in 1989, the wages of typical Canadian workers (barbers or otherwise) have not kept up with the rising cost of houses, especially in larger cities.

An unprecedented movement by labor unions to raise Disney park and resort worker wages, through city legislation, is facing

There was a fairly long period in our political history where big - city liberals opposed all such scientifically - backed issues simply because they looked at the world narrowly — we must increase wages for workers and we must maximize the number of workers.

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With offices in Bossier City - Shreveport and Monroe, Jacqueline A. Scott & Associates helps injured ship workers throughout Louisiana protect their right to compensation and bring Jones Act claims that reimburse them for their pain and suffering, lost wages, and medical bills.

Although San Francisco tech workers have the highest nominal wages in the country ($ 134K annually), the study found that tech workers from nine other US cities are actually «better off.»

But Walmart would still likely face a battle from the City's labor unions and other activist groups over the low wages it pays its workers and over the amount of traffic its store might create.