Sentences with phrase «food workers went»
Organizers said 200 fast - food workers went on strike in New York City.
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«When people go into a Whole Foods, they want to talk to the butcher about what cut of meat to buy, or the florist about what flower arrangement they need, or the produce clerk about which is the freshest head of lettuce,» says Erikka Knuti, communications director for the United Food and Commercial Workers.
Fasting workers go without food and water for 14 hours a day.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The workers tell me that over 50 % of the food at their school goes in the garbage containers.
ALBANY, NY (07/22/2015)(readMedia)-- «Congratulations to the fast food workers for their brave fight that goes to the very heart of the income inequality that plagues New York more than any other state.
«Had we not come to a compromise and taken appropriate action, the governor would have gone out and done this on his own,» Flanagan said, referring to Cuomo's tactics to increase the wage for fast - food workers in 2015.
But the raises start Dec. 31, when fast - food workers» minimum pay goes to $ 9.75 an hour.
«So Mr. Vice President, today I announce that I will propose to the New York state legislature not just $ 15 for fast - food workers, because a fast - food worker deserves $ 15 an hour, construction workers deserve $ 15 an hour, and home healthcare aides deserve $ 15 an hour, and taxi - cab drivers deserve $ 15 an hour, and every working man and woman in the State of New York deserves $ 15 an hour as a minimum wage - and we are not going to stop until we get it done!»
Cuomo went around the legislature and created a wage board to examine the wages of fast food workers.
Going forward, the development of a reliable diagnostic kit is much needed to enable hospital, clinic, and public health workers to confirm that patients seeking care are either infected or free of the virus; and while an effective vaccine is being tested, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should screen existing antiviral medicines to determine if any can protect people from contracting the virus, Song said.
According to the complaint, the team lead told one worker who bent over to get food from storage, «I'm gonna tear your ass up.»
When I went to the pet store, the worker told me Wellness Core is a really good dog food.
Thankfully, workers» access to civil remedies when their tips are stolen means greedy food industry bosses may be less apt to go for seconds.