Sentences with phrase «food workers demanding»

Now — in a time of red state teachers madly striking, of fast - food workers demanding $ 15 an hour, of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter activists refusing to go away — it looks like our time could represent a cultural turn of its own.

Fast - food workers demanding $ 15 per hour are planning yet another strike — and this one could be the biggest yet.

Just six months ago, Cuomo said $ 15 an hour, the minimum that fast - food workers demanded that would more than double the federal minimum of $ 7.25 an hour, was «too high,» and proposed $ 10.50 as an alternative.

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It started with customers asking about the labour and environmental conditions in the locations JQI sources from — not only are there regulations to honour, but consumers are increasingly demanding that food brands treat workers fairly and, in the case of produce, not use pesticides excessively.

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

In the time since, fast - food workers also have staged strikes, demanding the minimum wage be raised.

The Fight for $ 15 began in 2012 when two hundred fast - food workers walked off the job to demand $ 15 / hr and union rights in New York City.

The need for «store - friendly and aisle - ready» deliveries, reverse route sequence truck loading, worker ergonomics / safety, additional space, and the growing number of stock keeping units is creating demand for increased productivity, and efficiency in food and beverage distribution centres.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Fast food workers in Upstate New York could soon demand $ 100 more a week in pay than all other minimum wage employees in the region.

Pat Purcell, a top official of United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500, said the organization sent Mr. Levy a letter a week ago demanding he refund the $ 5,200 its political action committee gave him over the last two years.

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.

New York City fast food workers, union leaders and City Council members rallied in front of a federal Labor Department office this morning to demand President - elect Donald Trump drop his nominee to head the agency — minimum wage critic and Hardees / Carl's Jr. chain CEO Andrew Puzder.

New York City fast food workers, union leaders and Council members rallied in front of a federal Labor Department office to demand that Trump drop his nominee to head the agency — minimum wage critic and Hardees / Carl's Jr. chain CEO Andrew Puzder.

Also at 6 p.m., fast - food, airport, retail, carwash and other workers strike and protest to demand $ 15 / hr and union rights for all, outside Grand Hyatt Hotel 109 East 42nd St., Manhattan.

One of the unintended consequences of the new minimum wage deal: Fast food workers upstate could soon demand $ 100 more a week in pay than all other minimum wage employees in the region.

«We have been sending mailings in districts, mobilizing our members and making sure that workers who are demanding $ 15 have a voice in the airports, in security and in fast food,» Figueroa told POLITICO New York after a rally outside the Capitol on Tuesday.

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The fast food workers have been demanding $ 15 in their demonstrations.

Airport food workers who prepare in - flight meals demonstrated outside various airline headquarters around the country on Thursday, demanding that the...

That would - be explosion of organic would benefit the earth, its inhabitants, and workers in the food industry — but would also likely drive prices down, meaning people's wallets also benefit, and (hopefully) increase demand even further.

As one of the UK's biggest gig economy companies, the food delivery app defeated a demand by north London couriers for union recognition, and by extension, workers» rights.

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