Sentences with phrase «food worker wages»

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As U.S. fast - food workers continue to strike over wages, concerns build about what a wage hike might do to franchise owners and consumers.

The debate is particularly fraught in the service sector, where fast food workers have organized and protested for higher wages this year.

Specifically, it comes against a backdrop of groups such as Fight for $ 15, which has been organizing fast food workers to demand higher wages.

About 10 days prior to Senigaglia's post, another Yelp worker published a Medium post complaining of low wages and poor treatment in her customer service role at Yelp food delivery subsidiary Eat24.

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.

The decision on minimum wages added New York to a list of other regions, such as San Francisco and Chicago, that have sought to jack up minimum wages for fast - food workers.

The panel's decision on minimum wage adds New York to a list of other regions, such as San Francisco and Chicago, that have sought to jack up minimum wages for fast food workers.

The higher wages, profits and rents earned in soybeans allow the workers, farmers and input suppliers to buy more food and other necessities — either domestically produced or imported.

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

They want dignified and decent working conditions and wages for all food sector workers.

Food Justice is About Workers Amy Frykholm interviews Jose Oliva The Christian Century Jose Oliva is the codirector of the Food Chain Workers Alliance, which aims to improve wages and working conditions for «all -LSB-...]

«He stood with fast food workers and airport workers in their fight for better wages and benefits, and has been a strong supporter of a $ 15 state minimum wage and a paid family leave policy that can truly help working families.»

Conducted by the Retail Action Project, a community organizing group co-founded by the union RWDSU, the survey of more than 110 people on 14 CUNY campuses — or one - quarter of all CUNY food service workers — reported numerous instances of what it says are workers being served «a steady diet of low wages, few benefits, precarious schedules and labor violations.»

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.

Fast - food employment has risen across New York, adding significantly to the growing problem of low - wages that are far from adequate in allowing a worker to meet basic family budget needs.

Op - ed, «Boosting the Wages of Fast - Food Workers Will Help the Economy,» in the July 20, 2015 Albany Times Union

Perhaps rattled by his relatively anemic win in last year's Democratic primary against liberal long shot Zephyr Teachout, he has quelled key camps of left - wing opposition by unilaterally banning fracking, raising wages for fast - food workers and endorsing a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage.

Because of the two different minimum wages, for fast food workers and the rest of workers, an employee at McDonald's or Burger King could make $ 100 more a week than a home health care worker or grocery store cashier.

to raise wages for fast - food workers.

He too wrote an op - ed, for today's Times, about the reasons to raise wages for fast - food workers.

Washington (CNN)---- Fast food workers striking for higher wages in seven cities Monday are bound to be disappointed.

MIDTOWN — Workers planned to rally at several major fast - food chains throughout the city Monday to demand higher wages and the right to unionize, organizers said.

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 push to raise the minimum wage for fast - food workers in New York was part of a broader campaign conducted nationally to increase wages to $ 15, a movement that has had success in Los Angeles and Seattle.

New York now has 14 different minimum wages for various sectors and regions — including a statewide wage and different ones for fast - food workers and tipped employees.

The labor protest movement that fast - food workers in New York City began nearly three years ago has led to higher wages for workers all across the country.

Support the #Fightfor15 protests planned for April 15 around the country to raise the wages of fast food workers to $ 15 an hour.

Flanagan said he's not happy with Cuomo's unilateral action to use a wage board to raise fast food workers» wages, without any input from the legislature, calling it executive overreach.

On 15 April 2015, thousands of fast food workers will lead a mass movement of around 60,000 low waged workers striking across the United States to raise the issue of poor wages and the lack of trade union rights within their industry.

Cuomo appears to be taking that tack, instead promoting on Wednesday that several private New York colleges have signed on to his campaign aimed at reducing sexual assault on campuses and penning an op - ed in the New York Times announcing his new move geared at raising the wages of fast - food workers.

As such, Cuomo said, fast food workers collect an average of $ 6,800 in public assistance benefits each year, a total of $ 2 billion per year, which prompted him to raise wages in that sector by convening a state wage board.

According to the release, this is the first increase in wages for fast food workers.

In an acceptance speech delivered in both Spanish and English, Ms. Mark - Viverito underscored her liberal beliefs, calling for higher wages for fast - food and carwash workers, describing her experience as a labor activist, and, echoing the familiar rhetoric of Mr. de Blasio, pledging the Council would strive «for a more equal and just New York.»

The Wage Board has mandated that state employees and fast food workers will see their wages rise to $ 15 an hour by mid-2021.

I think the fast food workers are really are a powerful example of the unconscionable low wages that many very hard - working New Yorkers are subject to,» Assemblyman Richard Gottfried told the Observer.

When the board meets Wednesday, it could increase wages for fast - food workers from $ 8.75 to $ 15 an hour.

The rally was timed to coincide with the state labor board's first meeting to discuss requiring all fast food companies to raise wages for workers, who typically earn close to the current federal minimum of $ 8.75 an hour.

Protests by fast - food workers in New York City in 2012 got the movement started, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo has now given the effort its biggest boost so far by announcing the creation of a board to look into raising wages for the state's more than 180,000 fast - food workers.

Cuomo went around the legislature and created a wage board to examine the wages of fast food workers.

So does our support for other labor campaigns, such as the fight by fast - food workers for decent wages.

Under the state's laws, wages for fast food workers are actually rising at a more rapid pace than for the rest of the workforce.

Organic Coup is paying starting wages of $ 16 an hour in San Francisco and $ 14 an hour in Pleasanton, whereas fast - food workers in the U.S. on average make $ 7.98 an hour.

It's silly to blame them for pesticides existing in veggies, except for that small minotiry (probably more like 1 % than 5 %) who might insist «no I insist my veggies be grown iwth the most pesticides» Similarly you can grow veg food in other ways that are bad — that's not veganism's fault any more than «it's your fault they pay low wages to the workers in the factory that makes veg food!»

Fast - food workers organized by the Fight for $ 15 group plan to join the Chicago Teachers Union's one - day strike, connecting their push for higher wages with school funding.

On March 11, Media Matters released a report showing that ABC's World News, the CBS Evening News, NBC's Nightly News, and the PBS NewsHour only mentioned the public cost of low minimum wages eight times in the last year — including how low wages force workers to rely on government programs, such as food stamps, housing vouchers, or other anti-poverty programs.

Specific examples of the abuse of domestic workers cited by Mr Ewins in his report include physical and sexual violence, threats, psychological, emotional and verbal violence, isolation, food deprivation, sleep deprivation, denial of private life and intimacy, excessive working hours, confiscation of identity documents, non-payment of wages or grossly inadequate wages, no access to health or medical care, limited freedom of movement, threat of deportation, and assertions by the employer of their impunity.

Fast food workers earned median hourly wages of $ 8.85 and median annual earnings of $ 18,410 in 2013.

The cost of food was expected to rise up to 4.5 % this year after increasing 4 % in 2007, while workers» wages generally aren't keeping pace.