Sentences with phrase «of a living wage»

Though many in attendance were overwhelmingly in support of a living wage, some shared their concerns.

But, where is the party of a living wage for a day's work?

Effective immediately, commercial tenants at projects receiving more than $ 1 million in city subsidies will be part of the living wage provisions, including the hourly increase.

He has authored several studies questioning the sustainability of living wage policies.

The goal of a living wage is still in the distance, but I can see it getting closer.

Chances are, they've received a cost of living wage adjustment and understand that your expenses have gone up as well.

But he added, «We will work with the City Council to increase the number of living wage jobs offered by employers that the city subsidizes, reaching tens of thousands of additional New Yorkers.

Graff, Lange and Keller decided to center their effort on the idea of the living wage: any person who works full - time, year - round should make enough money to live decently, if modestly.

It is action by the poorest, and not simply for them, which has led to the extraordinary success of the Living Wage Campaign, and which has driven on the Just Money campaign against exploitative lending over the last four years.

In the portion presented here, Mark - Viverito addressed the City's open labor contracts and expected contract negotiations, the City's fiscal situation and an expected expansion of the living wage law.

She was also asked whether she is concerned that the mayor is taking important actions on his own, such as the expansion of the living wage law, without going through the City Council.

If labour market pressures are causing unemployment to rise and wages to fall, then naturally you will get stories such as «Study Says Louisiana Faces Stagnant Wages, Rising Unemployment,» «More Britons fall below level of Living Wage» and «Report: 25 % Of NJ Struggling To Make Ends Meet.»

Even a toothless effort like this one brings them out the woodwork though, with pro-business groups shouting dire warnings about the effect of a living wage on employment.

Hawkins and the Green Party have long advocated for a Green New Deal, which is a full employment program with a public guarantee of a living wage job that begins with transitioning to 100 % clean energy by 2030.

According to the report by Howard Reed of Landman Economics and commissioned by Unison: «It is unlikely that the extension of the living wage to all UK employees would result in any substantial aggregate employment losses.»

In the latest feud, council members and advocates will gather on the steps of City Hall tomorrow to denounce a $ 1 million city - funded study on the effectiveness and success of living wage policies.

During the public comment portion of Wednesday's Common Council meeting, speakers — to the applause of audience members — cited numerous studies in support of the positive impacts of a living wage.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn angrily stormed out of a major press conference Monday planned to celebrate the expected passage of a living wage bill — despite a promised veto by Mayor Michael Bloomberg — after someone dared to criticize Hizzoner by calling him a «pharaoh.»

A study to examine the economic viability of a living wage requirement was approved by the city's Industrial Development Agency board today, but city officials, including Comptroller John Liu, are already raising questions about whether it will be truly independent.

De Blasio said he would tackle that challenge head - on, in part by expanding the reach of the city's living wage standards, increasing the number of living wage jobs offered by city - subsidized employers and pushing Albany to allow the city to raise its minimum wage.

With the publication of this manual on the Anker Methodology of Living Wage measurement, there is an unprecedented opportunity to measure living wages that are accepted by the variety of players involved in living wage issues, and to lead cooperation and shape discussions about worker needs and wage levels around the world, to achieve progressive improvement in wages towards a living wage globally.

The Chancellor played an absolute blinder in delivering a truly Conservative Budget full of tax reductions, welfare tightening and measures to support business — whilst also flooring Labour and its leadership candidates with the announcement of a Living Wage.

Johnson has been a long term advocate of the living wage.

«There are already scores of British businesses who are saying that the living wage makes sense from them because it improves staff retention and reduces absence rates,» Ed Miliband said at an event promoting Labour's use of the living wage today.

Again, Dunlea: «$ 15 an hour still falls short of a living wage in most parts of New York state, especially if you have children.

Matthew Bolton, who is the lead London Citizens community organiser in east London and head of the Living Wage campaign, said: «James is very special to us.

WAMC's Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Kitty Callaghan, a member of the Living Wage Western Massachusetts steering committee.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has come out in support of the Living Wage legislation, sending a letter yesterday to Christine Quinn, the Council speaker.

«Commissioners will research and assess evidence on the value of the living wage, barriers to its implementation and how these could be overcome,» the Commission explained.

Today marks the start of Living Wage Week.

Councilman Steven Matteo (R - Mid-Island) said it was «difficult» to support any expansion of the living wage without hearings, testimony, public debate or investigations into potential impacts of the change.

That's what enables YOU to save 50 cents on your paper towels and a quarter on your hash browns — screwing your fellow Americans out of a living wage and health insurance.

Labour is miles away from even thinking of the Living wage because big business would be hurt and not like Miliband for doing that nasty thing to them.

«This month, we will extend the reach of living wage standards — ending a city lawsuit that stood in the way of expanding that important legislation,» de Blasio said during the 42 - minute address at La Guardia Community College in Queens.

A few things here: 1) You can see the result of a living wage law right on Goulden and Kingsbride; empty facilities that cost the community to maintain and add nothing to the social well being of the Bronx.

Quinn moved to exempt Hudson Yards from the restrictions of a living wage bill requiring developers to pay construction workers at least $ 10 per hour, or $ 2.75 per hour above the minimum wage.

In recent years, this movement has crystallised in the form of the Living Wage Campaign, a carefully calculated figure that amounts to the minimum wage that people need to keep a family in health and properly housed, fed, and able to contribute to society.

The data now shows that teachers, under the pressure of needing to make enough of a living wage to support their own families, are moving from poor schools to non-poor schools... from high - minority to low - minority schools... from urban to suburban schools.

I don't even think that authors being deprived of a living wage will destroy literature, because, for the most part, that has already happened, and people are writing more now than ever.

Animal Emergency & Referral Center of Minnesota is committed to providing a minimum of a living wage for all of our team members.

I'll close with this quote from USSC Chief Justice Hughes in the 1937 decision in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, he states: «The exploitation of a class of workers who are in an unequal position with respect to bargaining power and are thus relatively defenseless against the denial of a living wage is not only detrimental to their health and well being, but casts a direct burden for their support upon the community.»

Monitored the administration of the Living Wage Ordinance section of the Landscape Maintenance Contract.

There's also the point that community organising is great when you can make a popular case with the public - it's hard to see who could be against the idea of a Living Wage, except for industry.

They cite a new report which claims that raising the minimum wage to the level of the living wage would actually increase jobs in the UK.

«We're undertaking the most comprehensive study on the effect of living wage that has ever been undertaken anywhere in the country and we have a balanced group of external stakeholders in place that will have an opportunity to shape and contribute to it,» Lombino said.