Sentences with phrase «food workers rally»

Supporters of a $ 15 minimum wage for fast food workers rally in front of a McDonald's in Albany, N.Y., July 22, 2015.

Fast food workers rallied around the state of New York on Wednesday to push for an increase in the minimum wage in their industry to $ 15 an hour.

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Dozens of Chicago Public Schools food service workers rallied Tuesday afternoon to call for an end to quickly prepared frozen meals that can be readied in smaller kitchens by fewer workers.

At noon, Albany fast food workers join nationwide protests on the anniversary of the Memphis sanitation strike and rally as part of the Fight for $ 15 movement, state Capitol, Albany.

New York Governor Cuomo, at a large union rally to raise the minimum wage in New York City's Union Square, called out fast food chains McDonald's and Burger King by name Thursday and accused them of «corporate greed» for underpaying workers.

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.

Governor Andrew Cuomo held a rally at the Manhattan headquarters of the Hotel and Motel Trades Council Thursday urging a «Wage Board», which he appointed, to increase the minimum wage for fast food workers.

Cuomo's announcement came on a day of nationwide protests and rallies, as fast - food workers and other low - wage workers called for the $ 15 wage and for the right to unionize.

During a rally today aimed at raising the minimum wage for fast food workers Governor Cuomo declared that «I don't use those words «income inequality.»»

Demonstrators kicked off the rallies — which they called a one - day strike — about 6 a.m. outside a Midtown McDonald's, 1651 Broadway, where about 30 people including fast food workers and elected officials filled the sidewalk.

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.

At a subsequent rally, he said the state is subsidizing big fast food restaurants like McDonald's to the tune of $ 700 million a year — in part by providing health care coverage and other public assistance to its workers — and called for New York to get out of the «hamburger business.»

In June, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, the wage board's chairman and a longtime Cuomo ally, said he and his fellow members clearly believed «a substantial» increase was needed to bring fast food workers up the economic ladder — despite persistent opposition from the business community, which often found itself drowned out at public hearings that served more or less as labor rallies.

Also at 11 a.m., fast - food workers and their allies including Public Advocate Tish James and Comptroller Scott M. Stringer will rally for an announcement from the nonprofit Fast Food Justfood workers and their allies including Public Advocate Tish James and Comptroller Scott M. Stringer will rally for an announcement from the nonprofit Fast Food JustFood Justice.

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 10 a.m., the Asian American Federation will partner with the Biking Public Project, Transportation Alternatives, and other advocates to hold the E-Bike Rally to Protect Immigrant Food Delivery Workers to protest de Blasio and the NYPD's planned enforcement of electric bicycle regulations starting in January, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Also at 11 a.m., fast - food workers and allies rally and meet with NYC Council members to urge them to quickly pass a set of bills to ensure they and other low - wage workers «hold onto gains they've won as US workers face an uncertain future under a new presidential administration in Washington,» City Hall, Manhattan.

Governor Cuomo, at a large union rally in NYC's Union Square to raise the minimum wage, called out fast food chains McDonalds and Burger King by name and accused them of «corporate greed» for under paying workers.

«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.

At a rally in Manhattan, the Democratic governor shared the stage with national labor leaders after a state wage board recommended raising the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 and hour, delivering a key victory in a national push by unions — led by Service Employees International Union — to improve the lot of (and unionize) employees at McDonald's, Burger King and other chains.

Teachout had just come from a rally with fast - food workers, where she endorsed their call for a $ 15 minimum wage.

Gwenn Sorensen, the manager of the Stone Soup Food Co. across the street from Cuomo's rally, said the rising wage wouldn't affect her lunch spot, where workers make between $ 12 and $ 16 an hour and a lunch of coffee, soup and salad cost $ 13.18.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo channeled his inner Bernie Sanders — the socialist Democratic US senator from Vermont who's challenging Hillary Clinton for the party's 2016 nod — at a NYC rally where he formally announced he'll convene a wage board to examine boosting the income of fast food workers in New York.

Earlier, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, spoke at a rally outside the meeting of union members and fast food workers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a labor rally, announcing a plan to get a wage hike to $ 15 an hour for fast - food workers, Thursday, May 7, 2015, in New York.

«Everyone across the country has agreed that Governor Cuomo coming out in support of fast - food workers has been a game changer,» Christine Quinn, the former New York City Council speaker and current Cuomo aide, said at a rally.

In a rally Wednesday, workers celebrate the wage board's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $ 15

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.

A man attends Wednesday's rally of fast food workers and their allies seeking a $ 15 minimum wage.

The governor also shared the stage with Stringer at a rally to celebrate a state board's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers — something de Blasio called for before Cuomo, but alas, was unable celebrate because of his Italy trip.

At 12:45 p.m. Monday, City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, joined with Unite Here 100, will rally for food service worker retention, supporting a bill that expands upon the 2002 Displaced Building Service Worker Protection Act to include food service workers from being fired from work after a new owner takes over a busworker retention, supporting a bill that expands upon the 2002 Displaced Building Service Worker Protection Act to include food service workers from being fired from work after a new owner takes over a busWorker Protection Act to include food service workers from being fired from work after a new owner takes over a business.

The health care workers union 1199, which financed a specially designed bus and provided audiences for a series of rallies promoting the $ 15 minimum wage, called the new law historic, and said it «means fewer hardworking home care workers, nurse assistants and other caregivers will have to rely on food stamps to feed their families.»

Earlier, Cuomo's Lieutenant Governor, Kathy Hochul, spoke at a rally outside the meeting of union members and fast food workers.

The party sees $ 15 an hour as a powerful rallying cry to attract employees of fast - food restaurants and other low - wage workers to the polls this fall, he said.

A coalition of clergy, fast - food workers and labor advocates rallied Tuesday in Montgomery, Ala., to defend a bill establishing a minimum wage of $ 10.10 an hour in the city of Birmingham, Ala..

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