Sentences with phrase «food workers puts»

Courageous fast - food workers put a $ 15 minimum wage on the national agenda.

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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.

Your worldly profession may be rancher, or contractor, or mill worker, or businessman, but that is just something to put food on the table.

Well, I hope you don't wear clothes of different fabric, or farm (or purchase food from a farm) which puts different crops side by side, or mind if I buy your daughter at a decent price (though I don't know the going rate, but I could sure use the worker), or that you don't work on the Sabbath, or eat any kind of shellfish, or get a hair cut, or play football.

Chicago food workers have put up some resistance to the revamped USDA guidelines, Phillips says.

In a statement calling for more restrictions on the sale of competitive alternative foods, the American School Food Service Association, a national organization of school food - service workers, says «students are being put in a position of deciding between nutritious and non-nutritious foods while the financial and nutritional integrity of the child nutrition programs are being jeopardized.&raFood Service Association, a national organization of school food - service workers, says «students are being put in a position of deciding between nutritious and non-nutritious foods while the financial and nutritional integrity of the child nutrition programs are being jeopardized.&rafood - service workers, says «students are being put in a position of deciding between nutritious and non-nutritious foods while the financial and nutritional integrity of the child nutrition programs are being jeopardized.»

«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.

At 9 a.m., Walmart workers, clergy, and supporters fast outside the estate of Alice Walton, whose family owns half of Walmart, as part of a national day of action to «demonstrate the hunger crisis for Walmart workers and their families that are struggling to put food on the table this holiday season,» and protest for a $ 15 - an - hour minim wage, 515 Park Ave., Manhattan.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo will put together a Wage Board that can raise the state's minimum wage for fast - food workers without legislative approval.

«After so many years of struggle to put food on the table... $ 15 an hour for fast - food workers like me will make a huge difference,» Jordan said.

«The current broken two - tiered wage structure in New York puts women restaurant workers at the mercy of their customers and co-workers,» said Saru Jayaraman, President and Co-Founder of ROC United, and author of Behind the Kitchen Door: The People Who Make and Serve Your Food.

«Minimum wage workers can't afford to put food on table,» Scharff said.

As CBS2's Marcia Kramer reported, sources say the offer to hike the minimum wage, which could have put money in the pockets of thousands of fast - food workers and others who toil for base pay, was offered as part of a deal to revamp disability pensions for cops and firefighters injured in the line of duty.

Meanwhile, Thomas said, aid workers want to see more resources put into the Sahel region, which is on the brink of its third major food shortage in seven years.

Along the polluted 18 - Mile Creek in upstate New York, migrant farm worker Oscar Puente said he fishes to put food on his family's table — even though a state advisory warns against consuming any fish there.

The amount is already woefully inadequate for workers who must pay the rent, and put food on the table while unable to work.

After workers at the post office were notified about the dog that was running around in the lobby, they came to get it, put it in a basket with food and water before members of an animal shelter could come and pick the pup up.

For more than 50 years, our firm has been helping clients throughout Ohio get the workers» compensation and Social Security Disability (SSD) benefits they need to pay their bills, treat their injuries and put food on the table.