Sentences with phrase «fair wages for»

Eco-Bags is also a B Corporation that works to ensure fair wages for those producing their bags.

Another key challenge, as we've noted at HiMama before - is the lack of fair wages for early childhood educators.

An important element to this announcement today is the support for fair wages for early childhood professionals.

Donna's early childhood education and policy concerns include: Phase 2 Regulations under the Child Care Early Years Act; fair wages for early childhood educators (including fair access to labour regulation protection); and the need for a national early childhood education and care strategy for Canada.

I suggest four liberal values by which we should judge the morality of a barrel of oil: respect for the environment; peace; fair wages for workers; and human rights.

It is one that secures good work, clean jobs and healthy communities — that means fair wages for all including migrants without status.

The PCP, as it is known, calls for fair wages for artists, commercial rent control, and community land trusts for artist housing.

Using humor, satire, and perturbation to comment on serious problems that effect the art world at large, Andrea Fraser has helped create a dialogue around systemic issues, paving the way for groups like W.A.G.E. (established in 2008) that advocates for a more equitable distribution of the art world's economy (i.e. fair wages for artists), and Occupy Museums, an activist group that sprung from the Occupy Wall Street Movement and that made an instillation about artist's debt at the 2017 Whitney Biennial.

Participants engaged in activities in the Hammer's courtyard that tested Reyes's hypothesis that conflict - resolution techniques used in social psychology, theater, and art can help solve the world's most challenging problems, from climate change, to fair wages for women, to food shortages.

Participants will engage in activities that will test Reyes's hypothesis that conflict - resolution techniques used in social psychology, theater, and art can help solve the world's most challenging problems, from climate change, to fair wages for women, to food shortages.

We make sure to provide fair wages for all of our team and especially our porters and horsemen.

Part of our mission statement is to secure fair wages for professional editors.

M'Sa strongly believes there's no beauty in clothing if those who make it are suffering, and she is a huge advocate of fair wages for garment workers.

in addition to paying fair wages for these expertley crafted handmade goods, they also donate a portion of profits to live simply 4 peru.

Also traffic congestion, lack of coordination at construction sites, participatory budgeting, and fair wages for service employees, eliminating tipping.

«We first introduced the «Fair Wages for New Yorkers» Act in 2011 to fight for the rights of those underserved and often ignored residents of this City.

Priests, pastors, rabbis, imams and other faith leaders began the silent procession at St. Peter's Catholic Church on Barclay Street, where they gathered in a rallying prayer for The Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act.

But a City Hall spokesman insisted that authority remained with the comptroller's office, citing a passage within the executive order: «this Order 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.»

«Today marks an important victory on the road to fair wages for all.»

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.

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.

«New York continues to be a national leader in fighting for justice for working men and women, and by providing a platform for New Yorkers» concerns to be heard, we are furthering our efforts to deliver fair wages for all,» Cuomo said in a statement.

The bill (full name: The Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act) is sponsored by council members Oliver Koppell and Annabel Palma.

The Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, as the bill is being called, would have wide - ranging implications for the largest development projects in New York, replacing agreements hammered out project by project with a broad standard intended to protect low - wage workers.

Strike Poverty in the Hudson Valley is set to rally 4 pm, meeting at the corner of Main St. and South Grand Ave in Poughkeepsie, then marching over to the McDonald's on Main St. to hear from workers who are demanding fair wages for their work.

The textile and clothing industries are important components of economic development, and consumers who demand safe conditions and fair wages for farmers and industrial workers could help ensure that such development benefits everyone, not just wealthy factory owners.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

Prisons should be reorganized to provide meaningful work for all able inmates; workers should be paid fair wages for their work and charged for their room and board.

Other «social good» companies such as Uganda - based sandal manufacturer Sseko Designs ensure fair wages for employees and ethical sourcing.

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It ensures fair wages for workers, sustainable sourcing for materials, and responsible methods for manufacturing and shipping from forest to store shelf.

The governor's proposal provides more affordability for tenants and fairer wages for workers, but keeps the cost of the program from the original 2015 law largely intact,» said the spokesperson, Dani Lever.

Not exact matches

They stretch as far out as 2050 and include all the usual buzzwords about fair trade and sustainability, but also living wages for workers and influencing animal - welfare policy.

The following year he offered a fair day's work for a fair day's pay, doubling wages to $ 5 per day to enable his workers to enjoy an adequate standard of living and be able to purchase the cars they produced.

They failed to forecast the predictable backlash by those unwilling to accept low wages and the loss of factory jobs as a fair price to pay for the benefits of free trade.

SANDERS: Senator Bernie Sanders has consistently taken a hard line on free trade deals during his time in politics, from NAFTA to the TPP, citing concerns for fair wages and U.S. job loss to outsourcing.

But, the president offered few specific policy proposals beyond calling for a code that is fairer for lower - and middle - class Americans and for the corporate tax rate to be lowered to 15 %, a level he said would create jobs and raise wages.

You claim «higher prices (and wages) for fair trade coffee should be enough to draw people into the coffee industry».

He fought for racial equality and voting rights, for fair wages and the reproductive rights of women.

They came to build a just community where the able could work for fair wages, the sick receive care and the frail eat their fill.

Raven + Lily currently helps employ marginalized women in Ethiopia, India, Cambodia and the United States at fair trade wages to give them access to a safe job, sustainable income, healthcare, education, and a real chance to break the cycle of poverty for themselves and their families.

Taylor paid serious attention to its efforts to stop the abuses of child labor and to develop fair wages, compensation for injured workers, and pensions.

The workers worked 6 - 7 days a week for stunningly low wages, and fair wages and the 40 hour work - week were considered radical Communist ideas.

Together they are providing fair and sustainable wages for tea farming families including creating

Petrol giant Caltex Australia has been blasted by the Fair Work Ombudsman for widespread and systemic underpayment of wages and an unsustainable operating model across its franchise network.

The team at Bostock New Zealand is focusing their Fair for Life social program efforts primarily on wages and overall health of their workers:

Fair Work's investigation into systemic underpayment of wages, the role of head office, and a decision last week by the Fair Work Commission to terminate 26 enterprise bargaining agreements (EBAs) between Domino's and the Shop, Distributive & Allied Employees Association sets the scene for a colourful annual general meeting on November 8, at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane's cultural precinct.

Petrol giant Caltex has been blasted by the Fair Work Ombudsman for systemic underpayment of wages and an unsustainable operating model across its franchise network.

Loving Earth also sources its raw ingredients through systems that have fair conditions and wages for farmers.

It means fair, living wages and safe working conditions for farm workers.