Sentences with phrase «of wage debates»

I'm trying to steer clear of wage debates from now on but someone posted a blog (Alex49 or something similar) where he listed all players and their wages obtained from an unnamed source not at the club.

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Until Price dropped his wage bomb, much of that debate was punditry.

Their early 1990s study Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast - Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania (available for download here) showed «no indication that the rise in the minimum wage reduced employment» and sparked a national debate.

Cohen is also at the center of a huge debate unfolding right now about raising the minimum wage, and the low pay of service workers in the restaurant industry, where employment has increased 72 percent since 1992, compared to job growth of 22 percent in higher - paying private sector employment over the same time period.

With that cheeky introduction by host Carlos Watson, the PBS debate show Point Taken last night dove headlong into the fractious debate of salary transparency that has been gaining steam of late, especially as a way to bridge widening wage gaps based on gender, race, and social class.

We employ 45 people in three locations and more than 80 percent of them are hourly — which puts me right smack in the middle of the current debate over the minimum wage.

Those are big claims, open to and worthy of debate, but they fall short of the claims of how raising the minimum wage would dramatically alter poverty.

For example, while a number of communities are debating how to provide benefits to gig economy workers, without policies that ensure a baseline wage threshold or that grant workers a voice in determining their wages and benefits, low - road companies could respond to requirements to contribute to benefits with commensurate decreases in pay.

Much of the debate about slack, the drop in unemployment to 16 - year lows and wage gains goes to the heart of the Phillips Curve — a model developed in 1950s by New Zealand economist William Phillips to determine the inverse relationship between the unemployment rate and inflation.

But the marriage debate is just one earthly battle, one among many that the people of God must wage.

Equally important, living - wage work has shifted the terms of public debate.

CNN: My Take: Hard truths matter; I'm Mormon, and I'm voting for Obama There are two moments and two moments only that made my soul sit upright during Tuesday night's presidential debate: President Obama, speaking about the loss of manufacturing jobs to low - wage economies like China: «There are some jobs that are not coming back.»

I'm surprised CNN is willing to wage a debate on «science» vs. «creationism» with Bill as the spokesperson for the «science» side of the debate... I know, he IS the «Science Guy»... well, I'm bald and fat, but that doesn't make me an expert on follicular transplants or endocrinology.

The quality of the theologian's «no» to the church differs from the impressive, if verbose, debate now being waged by the church's sociological pundits.

Debates about how much Irving really adds besides scoring can still be waged in the Twitter mentions of your favorite basketball nerd.

And he framed the debate over increasing the state's minimum wage — currently $ 7.25 — as a sort - of trickle - up economics.

Spitzer took issue with Cuomo's strategy of putting health care players with a vested interest in the Medicaid debate — namely GNYHA and SEIU 1199 — onto the redesign team that hashed out a reform and cost - cutting strategy that included sweeteners for the industry (the indemnity fund, living wage) in exchange for accepting spending cuts.

The letter is perhaps one of the bluntest and most truculent of the minimum wage debate, which is part of the broader budget negotiations.

How upstate reaches $ 15 has been a point of debate, with some suggesting a link to inflation to others saying it could an economic study that determines when wage gets there.

Even something as isolated and simple as effect of minimal wage magnitude on low - income employment is inconclusively debated among economists, and this is actually something relatively simple and easy to study, comparatively.

The break up of a UK wide national minimum wage could see England and Wales which, as we know has an in - built Tory majority, scuppering any attempt to increase it, driving wages down not up with Scottish MPs barred from taking part in debates or votes which don't affect Scotland.

«We'll see we'll see where we are at the end of two weeks,» Cuomo said of the minimum wage debate.

And, as the party's state director Bill Lipton writes in a fundraising email, the debate over increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15 is now at the forefront of the national political dicussion.

Massachusetts State Senate President Therese Murray last week raised the possibility of a debate in the legislature this year on raising the state's minimum wage.

In one of the hotel's inner courtyards, two committee members said they were still debating whether or not to support Cuomo, who has reportedly expressed a willingness to back some of the party's priorities — including raising the minimum wage, and backing a Democratic State Senate — in return for the party's ballot line.

Tolbert and Howard waged the fiercest of this year's three countywide contests, despite little or no direct confrontation after the incumbent shunned most invitations for debates or candidate forums.

Critics are also unhappy with Cuomo for letting an unelected wage board issue the recommendation instead of letting the legislature debate the idea.

Although the failure to reach a living wage agreement with the developer had been a key issue in the weeks of debate leading up to the City Council vote, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn cited traffic issues as integral to the decision to vote against the project.

He mentioned the need for a living wage bill, which Quinn has yet to embrace, and he said «police - community relations were strained to a dangerous point in many of our neighborhoods» in a nod to the debate over stop - and - frisk, which he said «could happen to his own son.»

In addition to our coverage of the City Council's living wage debate at the Kingsbridge Armory, The Daily News reports that negotiations may be collapsing.

The wage proposal also lands squarely in the middle of a debate over whether 421 - a should have a similar requirement for construction workers.

As debate about the Living Wage goes on this week, much of it will revolve around whether or not more businesses can afford to pay it (an early salvo published today by Unison concludes the LW will be a win - win for low paid people and the wider economy).

«That's why the Working Families Party stands shoulder to shoulder with the movement of courageous low - wage workers whose fight for $ 15 has transformed the national debate about inequality.

The debate, for now, has been waged by groups in favor of making changes to the cap, including the New York State United Teachers and representatives of local government lobbying groups like the New York State Association of Counties, New York Conference of Mayors and the Association of Towns.

While the education fight last year was largely waged over the policy of testing and teacher evaluations, the debate this year is broadly over funding.

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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.

He's acknowledged that the debate over the minimum wage will likely be a part of end of the session talks, but has not listed it as one of his top priorities.

There has been a bit of a debate waging over the past week about «classical (or economic) liberals versus social liberals,» partly due to the launch of the Social Liberal Forum and exacerbated by a recent editorial in Liberator Magazine.

The ratings from the National Federation of Independent Business especially hit the Republican - led Senate, where the GOP conference out of solidarity approved a budget bill containing the minimum wage increase after a contentious internal debate.

The real voice of reason in this race comes instead from left field, from Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, who has waged a consistently serious race and who on Wednesday issued a call for his fellow candidates to stop arguing about sports teams and debate issues like jobs, health care and climate change.

From the color of lights on an iconic building to a $ 15 minimum wage to a family - leave policy he signed into law without public debate, Cuomo's control of New York is unlike anything seen in recent times.

In a sweeping debate of issues ranging from the minimum wage to northern border security, Maffei and Katko outlined their differences in their race for Congress.

Each side of the debate received more than $ 1 million from national and state advocates who waged media blitzes and promised campaign cash for lawmakers who sided with them.

He even seemed to gain the upper hand on Mr. Donovan in two fiery debates, one televised, embarrassing Mr. Donovan when the Republican appeared unable to answer his question of what the federal minimum wage is.

Sean Ryan [email protected] Months of debate over whether expanding the reach of prevailing wage would ruin the industry did little to persuade contractors to fill out the state survey.

While there have been major debates this year over Cuomo's plan for a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage and a family leave policy, talk about workers» compensation has been relatively muted — perhaps because of its complexity and number of moving parts in the system.

Today's lead editorial in the Times Union lambasted Cuomo & Astorino for failing to run serious campaigns and praised Howie Hawkins, writing «The real voice of reason in this race comes instead from left field, from Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, who has waged a consistently serious race and who on Wednesday issued a call for his fellow candidates to stop arguing about sports teams and debate issues like jobs, health care and climate change.»

The future of New York's minimum wage is being debated in state budget negotiations, and will likely be discussed in the legislative session to follow.

At the campaign rally as, at this week's gubernatorial debate, Hawkins called for a $ 15 an hour minimum wage and to fund essential state services by increasing taxes on the rich while cutting taxes for 95 % of New Yorkers.