Sentences with phrase «hourly union workers»

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Wal - Mart's critics — including a group of its workers backed by labor unions - say the retailer pays its hourly workers too little, forcing some to seek government assistance that effectively provides the company with an indirect taxpayer subsidy.

According to the Florida Times - Union, «Georgia - Pacific is considering offering severance packages to about 1,000 hourly workers at its Palatka paper mill as it tries to trim its head count without resorting to layoffs.

Ricardo Loza, chief union negotiator, said in June that the union was seeking health care coverage for hourly workers, the termination of a merit - pay system and an end to the privatization of park functions.

An hourly rate of # 10, an end to zero hour contracts and recognition of the unions - all key points in the latest campaign for fast food worker's rights.

Hourly workers at the plant, which makes equipment for the scrap recycling industry, approved representation by the Ironworkers Shopmen's union last June and have been bargaining a first contract since then.

Henry, whose union has endorsed Clinton, said they've discussed the issue with her and that she supports a $ 15 hourly wage for fast - food, home - care and child - care workers.

ALBANY — A senior adviser to Governor Andrew Cuomo said the governor stands in «strong solidarity» with labor unions and progressive groups seeking a $ 15 minimum wage for fast food workers, but stopped short of saying Cuomo would support that particular hourly rate.

He urges them to rise up to capture their true (higher) value by labeling hourly billing as Marxism, and contrasting his superior «knowlege workers» with mere «cattle,» «union workers,» «blue collar occupations,» and those who «work with their hands» rather than their heads, and are stuck laboring by the hour (see, e.g., here and there).