Sentences with phrase «of living wage»

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

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.»

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.

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

But a salary low enough to qualify him and his family for Medicaid and food assistance, combined with a lack of other professional support, forced him to leave his beloved town and state in search of a living wage.

[2] forced him to leave his beloved town and state in search of a living wage.: http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2013/11/14/outstanding-teacher-reluctantly-leaving-north-carolina/

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.

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 staff at Nebraskaland joins fast - food workers as well as state and SUNY employees who experience the transformative impact of a living wage, and I commend the company for leading by example.»

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.

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.

The City Council could kill the plan because of the lack of a living wage requirement, or members of the Bronx delegation could agree to a watered - down wage deal with the developer, The Related Companies, and the Bloomberg administration.

«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.

The Daily News reports that Council members Oliver Koppell and Annabel Palma are introducing a bill that would tie the creation of living wage jobs ($ 10 an hour, plus benefits or $ 11.50 an hour) to city - subsidized development projects.

«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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

On Thursday, Diaz could boast that he worked with the mayor's office to jumpstart a new round of development proposals for the armory this January, and that Speaker Quinn is likely to introduce a bill this year that incorporates some of the living wage proposals that Diaz called for in 2009.

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.

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.

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.

Today marks the start of Living Wage Week.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

«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.

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

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

We are subsidizing Walmart by making up for a lack of a living wage through food stamps and Medicaid so that these six billionaires can increase their billions upon billions of dollars advantage to over half of the population.

But most of the descriptions they attach to it appertain to impersonal states of affairs — «high unemployment» or «inequality of incomes» or «lack of a living wage» are cited as instances of «social injustice.»

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.

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

Not exact matches

This is, in a nutshell, McConnell's case for reelection: that as Kentucky's heavyweight in Washington, he'll thwart the assault liberals are waging not just on the health care system and the coal industry but, more broadly, on the state's way of life.

Within her first year of running Bee Downtown full time, Bonner sold over 50 hives, enabling her to make a living wage and hire a beekeeper.

As the founder of a Kansas City nonprofit she was tasked with figuring out how the homeless mothers she worked with, many with felony convictions, could make a living wage that supported their families with also retaining the flexibility they needed to care for their kids.

In the scenario suggested, we have a construction worker who will have a wage differential of approximately $ 2,264 per month and would clear about $ 280 a month after living expenses.

Trudeau reset the benchmark in Hamburg, Germany on February 17, delivering a direct message to business leaders: «It's time to pay a living wage, to pay your taxes and to give your workers the peace of mind that comes with stable, full - time contracts.»

We then use that to build out two additional scenarios: one assuming a doubling of the current minimum wage plus factoring in the cost of fire and building safety improvements based on data from the Worker Rights Consortium; and another using a «living wage» figure from the East Asia labour organization Asia Floor Wage, which is considered at the high end of labour reform demawage plus factoring in the cost of fire and building safety improvements based on data from the Worker Rights Consortium; and another using a «living wage» figure from the East Asia labour organization Asia Floor Wage, which is considered at the high end of labour reform demawage» figure from the East Asia labour organization Asia Floor Wage, which is considered at the high end of labour reform demaWage, which is considered at the high end of labour reform demands.

Many of the policies that Barack Obama has advocated - the Affordable Care Act (ACA), banking reform, and changes to tax rates, the minimum wage, and regulations - make life more difficult for small - business owners.