Sentences with phrase «minimum wage battles»

They discuss marijuana laws, prescription drug oversight, the minimum wage battle, and the fall elections.

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This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

McDonald's size makes it a target too, putting it in the cross hairs of minimum wage and nutrition battles.

(One Conservative backbencher's promotion this month of a bill that would allow the minimum wage to people willing to work for less suggests that the battle would indeed be bloody.)

Increase in the minimum wage; caps on salary and income packages for the Street's head honchos; and a more down - up economic model are more important in battling the income inequality conundrum.

After the polls closed and the votes were tallied, de Blasio was left with a G.O.P. - led body that will be loath to do things like giving municipalities the right to increase their own minimum wage, something the mayor has made a priority in his broad plan to battle income inequality.

The two men, engaged in a long - running public battle that has even affected public policy, both spoke about achieving a higher minimum wage, and then shook hands and hugged at the end of the one - mile trot from 145th Street to 125th Street.

In what could set off a major City Hall battle, two City Council members from the Bronx plan to propose a bill on Tuesday that would guarantee wages of at least $ 10 an hour, nearly $ 3 above the minimum wage, to all workers at development projects receiving public subsidies.

The governor's push for both a hike in the minimum wage and paid family leave faces an uphill battle in the Republican - controlled Senate, and business groups argue that both proposals would be burdensome for small business owners.

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On issues of labor, Ms. Mark - Viverito pointed to successes in the city — paid - sick legislation among them — and to the road ahead battling in Albany for local control of the minimum wage.

For now, it seems Mr. de Blasio has an uphill battle with Mr. Cuomo, who approved a statewide minimum wage hike last year, and sounds unlikely to cede his authority to the city.

The primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders exposed policy fault lines within the party on issues ranging from the minimum wage, to free trade and hydrofracking.

DeFrancisco, seen as a leader of upstate conservatives in the Senate, has battled Cuomo in recent years on issues like the minimum wage.

He earned the unflinching admiration of progressives by battling for a hike in the minimum wage and the legalization of same - sex marriage.

After Senate Republicans in the new budget gave Cuomo his top two priorities — a $ 15 minimum wage and creation of a statewide paid family leave program — some suggested the governor would stay on the sidelines in the upcoming battle for control of the Senate.

«In Dubious Battle» is the story of the working class during the Depression, striking against an increasingly cruel establishment in ways that would lead to the formation of workers» rights, including a minimum wage.

As the fight to raise minimum wage wins battles across the country, the obligation to tip will slowly be eradicated.