Sentences with phrase «ensure low wage workers»

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For example, while a number of communities are debating how to provide benefits to gig economy workers, without policies that ensure a baseline wage threshold or that grant workers a voice in determining their wages and benefits, low - road companies could respond to requirements to contribute to benefits with commensurate decreases in pay.

Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Brian Higgins should join with the new president and their colleagues in Congress — including House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has also supported EITC expansion — to ensure that no working American is taxed into poverty by working to expand the EITC for low - wage workers not raising children in the home.

«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.

Also at 11 a.m., fast - food workers and allies rally and meet with NYC Council members to urge them to quickly pass a set of bills to ensure they and other low - wage workers «hold onto gains they've won as US workers face an uncertain future under a new presidential administration in Washington,» City Hall, Manhattan.

«The low - wage service workers we represent need a champion in Albany who will advocate for raising workers» standards, the DREAM Act and state - level immigration reforms, and ensure the labor movement remains a force for upward economic mobility.»

«These policies will not only lift up the current generation of low - wage workers and their families, but ensure fairness for future generations and enable them to climb the ladder of opportunity,» Cuomo said in a statement April 4 when the bill was ceremoniously signed into law.

Deborah Axt, Deputy Director of Make the Road New York, said: «By signing the Wage Theft Prevention Act, Governor Paterson makes a commitment that New York State will finally stand up for workers, crack down on lawless employers, and use the power of the State to ensure fair, treatment for vulnerable, low - wage immigrant workers.&raWage Theft Prevention Act, Governor Paterson makes a commitment that New York State will finally stand up for workers, crack down on lawless employers, and use the power of the State to ensure fair, treatment for vulnerable, low - wage immigrant workers.&rawage immigrant workers.»

«Ensuring the ability of low - wage workers to work hard and climb out of poverty is a paramount issue,» said Assemblyman Dinowitz.

In contrast, real immigration reform, Hira said, should «significantly raise wage floors» depressed by the presence of low - paid workers on temporary visas and «ensure that Americans have a first and genuine opportunity for these jobs» — two goals apparently absent from Warner's stated preferences.