Sentences with phrase «for city workers on»

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Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry ordered a mandatory evacuation for some parts of the city on Friday, but an evacuation order does not necessarily protect absent workers from being fired.

The idea of May 1 as a day for workers» rights was born in the US city of Chicago, where on May 1, 1886 hundreds of thousands of people walked off the job to protest long hours and harsh working conditions.

Workers in major cities like New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and Atlanta walked out on their jobs that day, arguing for a $ 15.00 minimum wage.

In his ruling, Rhodes said that settlement, which was key in winning the support for the plan from Detroit's two retirement systems and scores of city workers and retirees, «borders on miraculous.»

Fitzgerald also pointed a finger at Soglin for the Kraft Heinz announcement that it will shutter the Madison Oscar Mayer plant, which employs 1,000 workers and is a century - old fixture on the city's East Side.

The proposed $ 100.8 million budget will spend millions on police and fire pensions as well as a 3 percent pay raise for city workers.

The camp trailers on family property of Santa Rosa contractor Michael Wolff, which serve as temporary homes for workers clearing fire debris, won't result in fines this week against Wolff, a city official said Wednesday.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

The city of Philadelphia has decided to start collecting a 4.3 % city wage tax on visiting workers, including professional athletes, for money earned there.

On Monday, authorities in the northern city of Tianjin said they had punished 13 medical workers for taking bribes from Dumex to recommend its infant formula.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today said he will not rely on making city workers take unpaid days off to solve a $ 30 million budget gap Mayor Richard Daley left him with for the second half of the year.

This plan is based not on economics but on politics, and is focussed on making hard working public sector workers pay for the irresponsibility of city bankers.

A coalition of diverse organizations in New York City has banded together to escalate the conversation regarding paid sick days for workers, with an emphasis on getting the NY City Council to pass legislation mandating paid sick days.

Four NYC workers punished for ethics violations include a vehicle - fleet manager who admitted using an agency car to drive his mom to a Pier 1 Imports store in Freeport on Black Friday to shop for a chair, according to the city's Conflicts of Interest Board.

After leading the fight for increasing the minimum wage for fast food workers, Kirk Laubenstein with the Coalition for Economic Justice says it's exciting the facility is on the city's East Side.

For New York City workers at companies with 11 or more employees, the minimum wage will increase to $ 11 an hour on Saturday.

We need you to join Milwaukee workers at City Hall 8:30 am - 2 pm tomorrow, March 9th, for a people's hearing on the Milwaukee Jobs Act.

For workers in New York City employed by small businesses (those with 10 employees or fewer), the minimum wage would rise to $ 10.50 by the end of 2016, then another $ 1.50 each year after, reaching $ 15 on 12/31/2019.

For workers in New York City employed by large businesses (those with at least 11 employees), the minimum wage would rise to $ 11 at the end of 2016, then another $ 2 each year after, reaching $ 15 on 12/31/2018.

Councilmember Lander said the district needed someone like Sikora who would «fight for progressive values in government, try to win a more equal city, address the challenges of climate change, make sure the rights of workers are respected, address the issues of health care on the policy level, and fight in the neighborhoods to improve our schools and make them better.»

For more than 30 years, New York City charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % — on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special electiFor more than 30 years, New York City charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % — on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special electCity charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % — on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special electcity's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special electifor any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special election.

The New Year's Eve event will be hosted by the Association for a Better New York, Blasters, Drillrunners and Miners Local 29, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, Central Park Conservancy, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Municipal Art Society of New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York Historical Society, the New York Mets, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Transit Museum, Partnership for New York City, Real Estate Board of New York, Regional Plan Association, NYC Sandhogs Local 147, Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

«It is interesting to note that on the same day the media is reporting that Governor Cuomo has made limiting retirement benefits for new state and city workers his top priority next year, it has also been announced that the Common Retirement Fund achieved a 14.6 % rate of return for the 2010 - 2011 fiscal year.

Facing resistance in Albany over his calls for a minimum wage exceeding $ 13 an hour in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio took his case directly to business leaders on Thursday, urging them to raise workers» pay to that level voluntarily.

Hawkins also would allow cities to institute an income tax, which is more progressive and would require out - of - city workers to help pay for municipal services they use on a daily basis when they go to work.

A version of this article appears in print on May 24, 2010, on Page A20 of the New York edition with the headline: Wage Proposal for Workers at Subsidized Projects May Prompt a Fight at City Hall.

At the January 12th membership meeting the Village Independent Democrats endorsed a letter to Speaker Christine Quinn applauding her support of the Fair Wage For New Yorkers Act as a first step toward ensuring a living wage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial number of minimum wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our city.

There are also questions around whether Cuomo will include a proposal and dedicated funding for paid family leave, something that de Blasio recently moved on for some city employees and called on the state to pass for all workers.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is facing backlash from the city's transport workers union for skipping out on funeral services for two transit workers killed on the job last month.

The council is also preparing for a potential vote on requiring a certain percentage of contract workers to be hired from within the city.

According to the wage board's recommendation, the first phase of the increase would take effect on December 31, when the minimum wage for affected workers would leap from $ 8.75 to $ 10.50 in New York City and to $ 9.75 in other areas.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has been slamming Quinn for failing to allow a vote on the legislation, which would guarantee some paid sick leave for most workers in the city.

Children of Bombardier workers will be mascots for the game, against Birmingham City, and Bombardier workers will carry a huge banner on to the pitch.

«Instead of reaching out to union leaders to gain consensus on an affordable housing program that ensures middle - class wages for workers, (de Blasio) coordinated with a lobbying group — led by billionaire developers — to run an anti-union campaign that would lead to unsafe job sites and a low - wage workforce,» The Greater New York Laborers - Employers Cooperation and Education Trust and the New York City and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Corporation said in a joint statement.

At 1:30 p.m., 1,000 low - wage workers and advocates will descend on Albany to urge the Senate and Assembly to pass legislation that would raise the state minimum wage to $ 10.10, index it for inflation, and allow cities and counties to set their wages 30 percent higher than the state's minimum, Million Dollar Staircase, state Capitol.

Also at 11 a.m., wheelchair advocates join taxi, livery, black car and luxury car drivers, base owners and workers to call on the City Council to act on regulating the taxi and for - hire vehicle industry, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

MTA delays are causing record - setting tardiness for New York City workers, a report released on Wednesday found.

At 1 p.m., Real Affordability for All, top elected officials (like NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Tish James), union leaders, workers, and local residents, will call on de Blasio to make substantial changes to his housing plan to ensure real affordability and good union jobs for residents who live in neighborhoods that will be rezoned, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Ferrer is serving on the search committee along with two former MTA leaders — Joe Lhota and Tom Prendergast, as well as Partnership for New York City president Kathryn Wylde, real estate executive Scott Rechler, Transport Workers Union leader John Samuelsen, and former U.S. transportation secretary Rodney Slater.

10:00 AM — Public Advocate Letitia James hosts a news conference for Workers» Rights Protections & Releasing Report on Mandatory Arbitration City Hall Steps, New York, NY

CITY HALL — Bypassing the City Council, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order on Tuesday expanding the living wage law to cover thousands of more workers and raising the hourly wage from $ 11.90 to $ 13.13 for those without benefits.

«The majority of the construction workers at the city have been waiting for the city and the county to stop sitting on their hands,» said Baker, an elevator constructor.

On Friday February 19th, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer toured businesses on Jerome Avenue in the Bronx with Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA) and the United Auto Worker AssociatioOn Friday February 19th, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer toured businesses on Jerome Avenue in the Bronx with Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA) and the United Auto Worker Associatioon Jerome Avenue in the Bronx with Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA) and the United Auto Worker Association.

Magnarelli said COR has a good reputation for training and hiring workers from the inner city on past projects.

Albanese, a lawyer, said the city often refused to indemnify public workers for actions taken «outside the scope of their employment,» and cited a case he handled on behalf of two security guards at an Upper Manhattan homeless shelter.

«I commend the governor for his action, and I'm proud to say that our city workers are already on a pace that's well ahead of the state minimum wage as it is, and I think would be very consistent with what the governor put forth,» Mr. de Blasio said, trying to put the onus on Albany and particularly on the Republican - run State Senate.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce on Wednesday he plans to raise the minimum wage for city workers to $ 15 an hour by 2City Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce on Wednesday he plans to raise the minimum wage for city workers to $ 15 an hour by 2city workers to $ 15 an hour by 2018.

This afternoon, at a press conference on the steps of City Hall, Transport Workers Union Local 100 endorsed Bill Thompson for mayor.

New York City Council Members joined FPWA on the steps of New York City Hall today to call on the New York City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio to support initiatives that center on workforce development for low - income workers.

The governors of New York and New Jersey have staked out such starkly different positions on the minimum wage that their discord could result in uneven pay scales for thousands of workers at the airports that serve New York City.