Sentences with phrase «many fast food workers»

The debate is particularly fraught in the service sector, where fast food workers have organized and protested for higher wages this year.

Specifically, it comes against a backdrop of groups such as Fight for $ 15, which has been organizing fast food workers to demand higher wages.

By 2021, fast food workers across the state should all be earning, at a minimum, $ 15 an hour.

New York's three - person fast food wage board voted unanimously to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers, which it defines as working in an establishment with 30 or more locations.

Places like New York are instituting a $ 15 an hour wage for fast food workers, which many restaurant owners say is too high and will result in either restaurant closures or staff layoffs.

Our program has welcomed artists, graphic designers, political scientists, former fast food workers, salespeople, MBAs and many others.

Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a package of bills that the city estimates will cover some 65,000 fast food workers.

A report by Anzalone Research Group published by Fast Food Forward, the campaign behind the fast food strikes in New York, found that of the 500 fast food workers it surveyed in New York in April 2013, 84 % said that their employer had committed at least one form of wage theft in the past year.

A decision to raise the minimum wage for New York's fast food workers could have a profound effect on Dunkin' Brands and other fast food companies.

Fast Food Workers in New Hampshire to Protest Ahead of Republican Debate Fortune Claire Zillman February 5, 2016

The panel's decision on minimum wage adds New York to a list of other regions, such as San Francisco and Chicago, that have sought to jack up minimum wages for fast food workers.

If there was ever a reason for revolution in the streets, it should be the fact that wealthy Canadians pay tax on only half of the income they derive from flipping stocks, bonds, and real estate — while fast food workers pay tax on every dollar of the hard - earned income they derive from flipping burgers in greasy, dangerous kitchens.

You might as well allow comedians to be brain surgeons or have fast food workers run NASA.

Please force all Fast food workers to pay for my brocolli I need to get free with every visit, so I am healthy.

«He stood with fast food workers and airport workers in their fight for better wages and benefits, and has been a strong supporter of a $ 15 state minimum wage and a paid family leave policy that can truly help working families.»

If this hadn't passed, Cuomo would have used his executive powers of control over the wage board and done it anyway like he did for fast food workers.

This year, the Governor took the recommendation from the state wage board he created to establish a $ 15 minimum wage for fast food workers.

That is already in motion, which means 300,000 fast food workers are on a schedule to make $ 15 by 2018 in New York City, by 2021 everywhere else in New York State.

When NYCC first took fast food workers on strike right here in New York City, people thought $ 15 / hr was crazy.

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.

Right now, New York's roughly 180,000 fast food workers are covered by the statewide minimum wage of $ 8.75 an hour, which will rise to $ 9 at the end of the year.

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.

Randy Mastro argues against a minimum wage hike for fast food workers.

Mr. Figueroa was another player in the major effort to increase the minimum wage in the state, first for fast food workers and then for everyone.

He said the Cuomo's administration should revoke the wage board rulings that set the higher minimum wage for fast food workers.

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.

The Legislature passed a bill Friday that requires Upstate minimum wage workers who aren't fast food workers to be paid a minimum wage of $ 12.50 an hour beginning Dec. 31, 2020.

Last month, a wage board appointed by Governor Cuomo suggested a minimum wage hike for fast food workers to $ 15 an hour.

That means a full - time fast food worker could make $ 100 a week more than every other minimum wage worker in Upstate.

The governor proposed having the minimum wage for all Upstate workers to hit $ 15 an hour at the same time as the fast food workers reached that rate.

Lawmakers created a different schedule for increasing the state's minimum wage for all workers in Upstate New York than Cuomo's wage board used last year when it ordered that the minimum wage for fast food workers be gradually increased until it reaches $ 15 an hour on July 1, 2021.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Fast food workers in Upstate New York could soon demand $ 100 more a week in pay than all other minimum wage employees in the region.

So fast food workers could be earning $ 15 an hour in 2021 while all other minimum wage workers are paid $ 2.50 an hour less.

I also asked Heastie if he's concerned about the governor's increased reliance of late on his executive powers to circumvent the Legislature on key policy issues like a minimum wage increase for the state's fast food workers and creation of a special prosecutor to handle cases in which unarmed civilians die at the hands of law enforcement officers.

Governor Cuomo has acted alone this year on several different issues, including a minimum wage hike for fast food workers and legal protections for transgender New Yorkers.

«Because if fast food worker deserves $ 15 an hour, construction workers deserve $ 15 an hour,» Cuomo said to enthusiastic union members, where he also announced an executive action raising the minimum wage for fast food workers to $ 15 an hour.

Cuomo, after the state spending plan was agreed upon, concedes that there will likely be a discrepancy between the pay of fast food workers and others, for a time.

But both backers and opponents of the multi year phase in to $ 15 an hour for fast food workers say there's a larger concern here.

But more than six months before lawmakers acted, Governor Cuomo convened a wage board that enacted a different schedule for fast food workers.

Citizen Action's Karen Scharff: «We're out here today with workers striking McDonald's and other fast food companies because it's time we get fifteen dollars an hour and a union for fast food workers.»

The victory celebration by fast food workers and the state's major union leaders also featured Governor Cuomo.

The fourth and final hearing was held by a board specially appointed Governor Andrew Cuomo to consider raising the minimum wage for fast food workers in New York.

Because of the two different minimum wages, for fast food workers and the rest of workers, an employee at McDonald's or Burger King could make $ 100 more a week than a home health care worker or grocery store cashier.

Cuomo says he'll by pass the legislature and create a state board to examine increasing the state's minimum wage for fast food workers.

Cuomo could actually do an end - run around lawmakers as he did for fast food workers earlier this year when they received an increase.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he'll try to get the state legislature to broaden an increase in the state's minimum wage beyond fast food workers, but the newly appointed deputy majority leader of the state Senate is throwing some cold water on that plan.

«Because if fast food worker deserves $ 15 an hour, construction workers deserve $ 15 an hour,» Cuomo said to enthusiastic union members, where he also announced his executive action raising the minimum wage for fast food workers to $ 15 an hour.

Washington (CNN)---- Fast food workers striking for higher wages in seven cities Monday are bound to be disappointed.

Mr. de Blasio's announcement today follows a flurry of similar policy initiatives that Mr. Cuomo, after his skepticism of the State Legislature, rolled out unilaterally over the last year: first, a $ 15 - an - hour wage for fast food workers through a special wage board, then the same for state public employees last November, and most recently for SUNY employees Monday — complete with a call for the city to follow.

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.