Sentences with phrase «fight for a living wage»
Diaz, the entire Bronx Council delegation, along with members of the Northwest Bronx Comnunity and Clergy Coalition and the city's biggest retail workers union, fought for living wage jobs as part of a Community Benefits agreement with the developer, the Related Companies, but a deal couldn't be worked out.
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«On behalf of the half - million New Yorkers invested in our fight for a living wage for direct care workers, we want to express our gratitude for the tremendous support we've received from members of the Senate and Assembly,» the campaign said in a statement.
Receiving honors for the fight for a living wage for all workers will be Shantel Walker, on behalf of Fast Food Forward.
In New York right now, where the statewide minimum wage is $ 8.75, this means the fight for a living wage.
Artist Statement I believe we should all fight for a living wage for all citizens.
Not exact matches
Today marks four years since since the labor movement known as the Fight for $ 15 launched, and American fast - food employees and other hourly workers are continuing to push for a living wage.
«Another person could stay at Arsenal, have a good wage, live in a nice city and not playing, but I prefer to leave comfort aside and fight for my dreams.
And saying this made me like him even more...» Another person would stay at Arsenal, have a good wage, live in a nice city and not playing, but I prefer to leave comfort aside and fight for my dreams.
We fight hunger differently by providing the high - quality nutrition kids relying on school meals need to learn and grow while sustaining meaningful, living - wage careers for at - risk adults who have completed our Culinary Job Training program.
I will fight to ensure dignity and a living wage for all New York State workers, and will stand strongly against any attempts by the federal government to undermine unions.»
«We make no apologies for fighting to ensure a decent day's wage for a decent day's work and give all New Yorkers a chance at a decent life,» Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said in a statement to The Alt.
First we must fight this double whammy of unfair cuts being forced upon them and, second, we need to push for improvements to the chancellor's living wage proposal so that low paid workers genuinely are better off.»
«When we were waging the fight to pass a living wage bill, Bill de Blasio didn't show up to a single rally, didn't testify once, didn't send a letter of support and our pleas for his support fell on deaf ears until the very last moment when he saw a poll that showed it had widespread support,» Appelbaum said in a statement.
The campaign for a $ 15 an hour minimum wage in New York is being fought on emotional grounds - as a tool to fight poverty, to fix income inequality and to ensure a «living wage» for people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder.
«From Egypt to Tunisia, from Wisconsin to «Occupy Wall Street» there is a movement for social justice in this country and the living wage fight in New York is an integral part of it,» said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
On Saturday, LaborPress caught up with Hawkins and his Green Party supporters at a «$ 15 Now» rally held outside a Starbucks on Fulton Street in Downtown, Brooklyn, where the gubernatorial hopeful talked about the need for legislation guaranteeing a living wage - as well as Mayor Bill de Blasio's apparent surrender in the fight against charter school expansion.
«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.
DeFrancisco ridiculed a challenge issued Friday morning by the Central New York Fight for $ 15 Coalition, a group of local labor officials and others, who said DeFrancisco should try to live on minimum wage for a week.
«From championing the DREAM Act to fighting for the $ 15 minimum wage to supporting affordable housing, Assemblyman Moya is truly dedicated to bettering the lives of the families that call this city home,» the pols wrote.
Based on the first major work of Pulitzer Prize - winning author John Steinbeck, this rousing tale of farm laborers fighting for a few more dollars a day takes on modern relevance as workers across the U.S. continue the struggle for a living wage.
We are proud to stand with Fight for $ 15 in calling for a living wage and the right to join a union.
Rather than fighting for an increase in minimum wage for all, as both the St. Paul and Minneapolis teachers unions have done, for example, Minnesota Comeback talks about «schools as the unit of change,» where the lucky will land — through the wonders of school choice — in the right kind of life - altering spot.
In a VIN article, Hughston emphasizes there is much more to fight for than just wage increases: «We're talking about things like work / life balance, like respecting professional boundaries, like making sure we have safe procedures and protocols in place, that we have safe levels of staffing.