Sentences with phrase «fair living wage»

Save yourself the anticipation for easy weight loss and invest your consumer dollars into fair trade coffee to provide growers a fair living wage.

It's called deconstruction and the GOP is leading the way because, as this nation knows all too well, the religious right of America hates to pay a fair living wage to workers, they prefer to enslave people to serve them.

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It's important to me to buy fair trade coffee, to know that the farmers who harvested the coffee beans I take for granted were paid a living wage.

Pius XI sets up the case carefully, noting that a firm with up - to - date technology, progressive management, and good labor relations, selling its product in a fair market, may nevertheless find itself unable to pay a living wage.

«That's the way to guarantee not just a minimum wage, not just a living wage but a fair wage, and fair shares of the wealth workers help create.

At the January 12th membership meeting the Village Independent Democrats endorsed a letter to Speaker Christine Quinn applauding her support of the Fair Wage For New Yorkers Act as a first step toward ensuring a living wage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial number of minimum wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our cWage For New Yorkers Act as a first step toward ensuring a living wage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial number of minimum wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our cwage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial number of minimum wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our cwage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our city.

At our state conference last month, we overwhelmingly passed resolutions supporting guaranteed healthcare as a human right, free public education from pre-K through college or trade school, a living wage and fair compensation for all, investments in environmental protection and renewable energy, restoration of voting rights to former felons, public financing of elections to eradicate the corrupting influence of big money in politics, and other policies that serve the people.

And Mr. Stringer's office maintains that despite a clause in the executive order saying it «shall not be construed to infringe upon the Comptroller's responsibility for monitoring compliance with, and conducting investigations under, the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act,» the act does not allow him to conduct oversight of the new living wage.

At 10 a.m., the NYC he Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on a change to the «Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act,» which would mandate «certain companies that receive at least one million dollars of financial assistance from the City of New York to pay their employees no less than a living wage,» 42 Broadway, 5th Floor, Manhattan.

Assembly Member Mosley, however, tells LaborPress» «Blue Collar Buzz» that Albany not only needs to act now to secure a fair contract for CUNY faculty and staff — but that Governor Andrew Cuomo also needs to convene a wage board to help improve the lives of farm workers.

«There's a reason that our friends in labor have coalesced around my campaign, because they know I'm the candidate that will fight for a real $ 15 living wage, fair working conditions, better jobs and continued rights to collectively bargain,» responded Rafael Salamanca in a statement.

Throughout the year, you've helped others secure a living wage and affordable housing, expanding access to health care, limiting discrimination and disenfranchisement on the basis of color or gender, and ensuring a fairer, more ethical, more participatory democracy and government that work for us all.

Elegantees employs and hires women who have been rescued out of the horrific industry, teaches them a skill, gives them a job, a fair and living wage, a positive and safe environment to be in and works to restore their hope.

The bill preempts a local municipality from enacting a local living wage, fair scheduling standard, and a host of other measures that would improve the lives of working people.

We've seen our Black and Latinx neighborhoods robbed of their fair share of funding for housing, health care and living wage work.

As independent authors, we're responsible for our own marketing and for figuring out the best ways to satisfy the reader and make a fair wage from our work (a living wage, if we're lucky).

We believe in paying a fair wage, which is why we are committed to paying the Voluntary Living Wage as the minimum pay rate for permanent members of stwage, which is why we are committed to paying the Voluntary Living Wage as the minimum pay rate for permanent members of stWage as the minimum pay rate for permanent members of staff.

Artist Statement «We can not overstate the importance of ensuring that all Americans have a fair, living wage.

SSE is a UK Living Wage employer, and Fair Tax Mark business, and it started offering broadband in 2015.

This is not a top - down program but one run in each case by a democratically elected Fair Trade worker committee that decides how the funds will be used, whether designated for social, economic and environmental community projects like private health care or a child care center, or as a cash bonus that gets workers directly closer to a living wage.

«Walmart and the Waltons can help our communities truly live better by switching to clean energy and paying workers a fair wage.»

Although moving to a more techy end of the market the company honours their fair trade roots by ensuring «every piece is handmade by artisans living in remote regions of the globe who earn a fair wage.»

Bonnie writes «There are so many communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America that are benefiting from the [Fair Trade] movement's commitment to paying a living wage by teaching people to create products that are useful, use local materials, and

«By producing and selling Maya Nut, women earn a fair wage, often for the first time in their lives,» says Vohman.

A social enterprise behind a new «ethical» smartphone, the Fairphone, aims to change that by using conflict - free raw materials for the devices, paying the workers who manufacture them a fair wage, and working to set up e-waste recycling programs for taking care of other electronics at the end of their useful life.

They think that a wealthy country should have no one living in poverty, and they believe in a fair wage for a full - time job, and that the wealthy should not have lower tax rates than the middle class via loopholes.

Providence Labor & Employment partner Andrew Prescott authored this column discussing the reinstatement of the U.S. Department of Labor's final rule requiring third - party employers of companionship and live - in domestic service workers to comply with the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime and minimum - wage requirements.

You need to make sure you're being paid a fair wage for your labor and level of education and that this amount of money will ensure that you have access to the basics of life, such as housing, food, clothing, healthcare, and especially enough to offer a sense of security so you can enjoy some free time away from work.

Anyone performing valuable labor that helps save lives deserves to be paid a fair wage and this includes medical assistants.