Sentences with phrase «food industry workers»

Food producers and the unions representing food industry workers clearly have a vested interest in the campaign.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo today applauded his wage board's ruling that fast food industry workers should receive $ 15 an hour for their labor — and shrugged off claims from business groups that the new pay floor will result in layoffs.

BFAWU to work with Unite the Resistance and John McDonnell MP to support fast - food industry workers.

Not exact matches

This year brought the franchise industry some impressive highs, like the increasing growth of new jobs, and some difficult lows, such as the ongoing fast - food worker strikes.

And, whether workers succeed in getting a pay raise or not, the strike and the surrounding scrutiny of the fast - food industry is going to affect everyone in the business.

Kenney announced the moratorium on the food service industry Thursday night, after the controversial program made headlines yet again over allegations of misuse of the temporary workers at three McDonald's franchises in Victoria and a pizza restaurant in Weyburn, Sask.

Several of those groups, including the National Restaurant Association, the Retail Industry Leaders Association and the Food Marketing Institute, had been fighting hard for what they referred to as «transition relief,» extra time for companies that must provide health insurance to their workers under the new law to implement the changes without having to fear financial penalties for not doing so properly.

Average weekly wages for airport operations workers, a category that includes baggage handlers and other support staff, fell by 14 percent from 1991 to 2011 — a growth rate that was lower even than the low - wage retail and food service industries, according to a 2013 study.

But they're also turning to incentives to entice workers, raising costs for an industry in which cheap labor is an essential ingredient to making cheap food.

But in an industry where cheap labor is an essential component in providing inexpensive food, a shortage of workers is changing the equation upon which fast - food places have long relied.

Studies of the economic impact of existing laws sponsored by groups across the ideological spectrum have found that while the costs to employers of paid sick leave mandates tend to be low on average, they tend to be more significant in certain industries, like food services, where paid sick leave is less common and workers typically are younger.

If there is sincerity behind his question in creating jobs for Canadians, why is he writing letters to bring in Chinese workers in the food industry in Montreal rather than helping us create jobs for Canadians in Montreal?»

While Starbucks workers are still getting a benefit that is very uncommon for the food service industry, the new program means some stark changes for the 135,000 «partners» who staff the company's stores.

While traditionally in lower - profit and lower - value industries such as food, retail, and other services, worker cooperatives are now on the upswing in high - tech and other business sectors (http://www.isthmuseng.com/inWisconsin) and are converting existing small businesses to this model (http://institute.coop/workers-owners and http://institute.coop/resources/successful-cooperative-ownership-transitions-case-studies-conversion-privately-held).

While about half of the 65,000 worker visas issued in 2014 under Zuckerberg's favored immigration program, H - 1B, go to the tech industry, the other half go to people working in various other occupations such as architecture, food service, and health care.

Peter Rossman, a spokesman for the IUF, an international association of unions in the food industry, says Heinz workers are nervous, though its factory jobs have so far gone untouched.

The decision to suspend the food services industry from the Temporary Foreign Worker program will hurt businesses and their employees, says the restaurant industry association, an outcome the minister responsible for the move called «regrettable, but necessary.»

But in an industry where cheap labour is an essential component in providing inexpensive food, a shortage of workers is changing the equation upon which fast - food places have long relied.

Put differently: The food - service industry made up 30 percent of U.S. hourly workers earning the lowest legal wage, and 65 percent of workers earning less than that.

The food service industry employs most of the country's minimum wage workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and within that sector fast food jobs are typically among those that pay the lowest hourly rates.

While traditional heavy industry is declining, the service sector (made up of office workers and computer operators, fast food and restaurant workers, health care workers, bookkeepers, optical workers, and building custodians, among others) is rapidly expanding.

The food and beverage industry alone paid workers $ 78 billion in wages and benefits.

A leader in food safety, quality control, and innovation, Markon is also mindful of the produce industry's impact on people — from field workers to consumers.

It also called on the government to ensure that the supply of EU workers to the food and drink industry would be safeguarded.

A leader in food safety, quality control, and innovation, we are also mindful of the produce industry's impact on people — from field workers to consumers.

According to the California Department of Labor Statistics and Research, workers in food - processing plants have a higher likelihood of being hurt on the job than workers in many other industries.1 One injury while using a meat slicer could end up costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars, especially when you think about the damage that a meat slicer could do to the human body.

The U.S. food, beverage and consumer packaged goods industry has facilities in 30,000 communities, generates $ 1 trillion in sales annually, contributes $ 415 billion in added value to the economy every year and is the single largest U.S. manufacturing industry with 1.7 million manufacturing workers.

The California Department of Labor Statistics and Research reports that workers in food - processing plants have a higher likelihood of being hurt on the job than workers in many other industries.1 A simple investment in solutions such as ergonomic stands can save you from the high cost of employee injury.

The food, beverage and consumer packaged goods industry in the United States generates sales of $ 2.1 trillion annually, employs 14 million workers and contributes $ 1 trillion in added value to the economy every year.

Since restaurant industry workers are known to like a shift meal and a drink, some restaurants like Tosca Café in San Francisco gear their's toward comfort food with a «pasta and a beer» deal and special cocktails that tend to involve coffee and hard alcohol.

Holding a summit to tackle the tough issues of food insecurity, exploitation of food workers, and food waste at the opulent Ritz Carlton in San Francisco provoked an interesting contrast, but the collection of industry, NGOs, media and students in attendance were indifferent to their surroundings and intently focused on improving the world's food system.

Training in breastfeeding medicine for health care workers must be paid for by hospitals or by the health care workers themselves, again at considerable cost, by contrast with education on artificial baby food, which is offered at no charge by the infant food industry.

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The SNA, which represents school food workers across the nation, has always been heavily funded and influenced by the very food industry giants who stand to lose money when healthier school nutrition standards are enacted.

The National School Boards Association and the School Nutrition Association, which represents 55,000 school food workers and gets about half of its revenue from the industry, backed a rider in the last omnibus spending bill to block future limits until there is more science to justify them.

The School Nutrition Association, representing thousands of school food service workers across the country, has embraced a «study» promoting chocolate and other sugar - enhanced milk that was paid for by the dairy industry, conducted by a firm that specializes in devising corporate marketing schemes, and which the dairy group refuses to release for close inspection.

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And, as always during budget talks, there's potential for legislative horse trading: Senate Republicans want to remove the Cuomo administration's ability to raise the minimum wage for a specific industry, which it used to approve a major hike for fast - food workers last year.

This time, he will direct its members to examine raising wages for workers in the fast food industry, which is a signature issue for labor advocates and their left - leaning allies.

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That's lower than the minimum wage for non-tipped workers, which ranges from $ 9.70 an hour upstate in some industries to $ 12 an hour for fast - food workers in New York City.

Cuomo and other supporters say it makes sense to target the fast - food industry because it employs more low - wage workers than any other sector.

Established in 1937, RWDSU's membership counts on 32,600 workers across New York State in a wide range of industries including but not limited to retail, poultry processing and food chains.

«Singling out fast food restaurants while ignoring other industries that hire workers who are paid under $ 15 is unfair and discriminatory, harms New York workers, and puts some New York businesses — including mine and my fellow New York McDonald's franchisees — at a competitive disadvantage,» said Jack Bert, who owns seven locations in Queens.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo is convening a wage board to examine raising wages for workers in the fast food industry, he wrote in a lengthy op - ed to be published in the New York Times on Thursday.

The broad - based move follows recent efforts to increase wages in particular industries — last year, Cuomo leveraged a state wage board to boost hourly pay for fast - food workers, and used executive action to do the same for an estimated 10,000 state workers.

Cuomo instead convened a wage board at the state Department of Labor to review potential changes to the minimum wage for workers in the fast - food industry, giving a nod to a growing campaign for better wages in that sector.

The proposal comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo in recent months has pushed for a broader minimum wage increase and through executive authority hiked the wage for workers in the fast - food industry as well as state and SUNY employees.

Tipped workers and those in the fast - food industry will see different increases.

The BFAWU has agreed to work with Unite the Resistance and John McDonnell MP, along with other groups at a meeting on January 8th 2014 in order to discuss and hopefully address the lack of fairness and justice for workers in the UK's fast - food industry.