Sentences with phrase «paid campaign worker»

She said Sayles was a loyal, paid campaign worker, graduated from college last year and took his first job in January.

His decision never to pay his campaign workers made him enemies within his own ranks.

Not exact matches

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has repeatedly slammed Walmart for not paying workers a living wage, most recently at a campaign stop in Missouri this weekend.

They will do little to help former factory workers who have had to take lower - paying jobs — which is one reason that calling for new investments doesn't bring nearly the cheers on the campaign trail that denouncing Nafta does.

«Instead of Walmart paying its workers what they deserve for their work, Walmart is merely offering to pay more — for more work,» said Randy Parraz, director of Making Change at Walmart, a campaign run by the United Food and Commercial Workers Internationalworkers what they deserve for their work, Walmart is merely offering to pay more — for more work,» said Randy Parraz, director of Making Change at Walmart, a campaign run by the United Food and Commercial Workers InternationalWorkers International Union.

IG Metall's campaign follows a 6.3 per cent pay increase over two years secured for 2m public sector workers last month by Ver.di, the services union, after weeks of stoppages.

When Nestlé runs mass media advertising campaigns, targets parents with baby clubs or throws a promotional event for health workers at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London to encourage them to promote SMA — who pays for it?

It is the latter who pay for promotion, such as advertising campaigns, mother and baby clubs, targeting of health workers and so on through premiums on top of what is already one of the most profitable products on the supermarket shelves.

campaign Despite having equal pay legislation for over 30 years, there is still a gender pay gap between men and women workers.

Fair pay today campaign Local government workers are demanding a proper pay settlement.

He also added that state workers whom his administration has a contractual obligation to pay at the end of every month, and the political class who made it possible to campaign, contest and win elections will be carried along in his administration.

The Business Council and wall street tycoons who paid almost $ 10 million of own money in the anti-state worker campaign last year certainly have their own interests in mind by bankrolling Cuomo and his ideas.

My book, Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns, deals with how American political campaigns mobilize, organize, and target their field operations, using large numbers of volunteers and paid part - timer workers to contact voters at home at the door or over the phone.

This pay rise is a step in the right direction for all of McDonald's workers but it is by no means the end of the campaign.

His book, Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns, deals with how American political campaigns mobilize, organize, and target their field operations, using large numbers of volunteers and paid part - timer workers to contact voters at home at the door or over the phone.

More than $ 15,000 was spent on mailings, and another almost $ 25,000 was paid out to more than 100 campaign fields workers involved in a get - out - the vote effort on election day.

At Pratt, he led many successful community - planning efforts, as well as campaigns to expand affordable housing and create NYC's «inclusionary zoning» program, which requires developers seeking tax breaks to set aside 20 percent of their units for low and moderate income families and pay a living wage to their service workers.

This all follows on from the 3Cosas Campaign («tres cosas»), meaning» 3 Things» in Spanish, the first language of the majority of low - paid workers at the University of London.

He was a Director of the Child Poverty Action Group 1969 — 79, and of the Low Pay Unit (a body that campaigned to ensure wages councils protected the rights of workers in certain industries) during 1974 — 80.

The WFP was an early backer of the campaign for a $ 15 minimum wage and the paid family leave law and helped recruit iron worker Randy Bryce to run for retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan's congressional seat in Wisconsin.

That's how much a company that's been accused of ignoring workers» rights sent to the mayor's campaign just five days after their paid lobbyist snagged a coveted phone chat with Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen.

In response to James» question about the Labour leadership candidates — Ed Miliband campaigned for Simon Hughes to speak out & is encouraging his supporters to call on the Lib Dems to stand up for their values, David Miliband has suggested ending the charitable status of fee - paying schools and (one of those non-monetary aspects to reducing inequality) giving representation to ordinary workers on corporate remunertion committees, Ed Balls has strongly opposed the VAT rise and is calling for a graduate tax instead of higher tuition fees, Andy Burnham has reiterated his support for a National Care Service and spoken out on the abolition of the Future Jobs Fund, Diane Abbot has called for fair taxation, cancelling Trident, and setting a timetable for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Pigeon held secret meetings at his elderly mother's house and had a campaign worker paid with grocery bags stuffed with cash, according to the operative's longtime nemesis, former Erie County prosecutor Mark Sacha.

«Bogus students not only add to net migration, they undercut the pay of British workers while dodgy colleges damage the reputation of British education,» Sir Andrew Green of campaigning group Migrationwatch said.

At noon, advocates for people with developmental disabilities and the #bFair2DirectCare campaign urge Cuomo and the state Legislature to provide funds so direct care workers can be paid a living wage, Duffy Square, 47th Street and Seventh Avenue, Manhattan.

The campaign started after the National Employment Law Project released a 2009 survey showing that restaurant workers, grocery baggers, household cleaners and other low - wage workers complained their bosses paid them less than promised, if at all.

Mr. Lipton, who has campaigned for better pay for low - wage workers for years, said, «There's clearly a new standard for the minimum wage, and it's actually a living wage for the first time in many, many decades.»

The group, known as SWAN, is joining the #bFair2DirectCare advocacy campaign, which is backing an expedited funding plan in the budget for direct care workers» pay.

Since then, federal and state prosecutors have widened their inquiries to business leaders, lobbyists, city employees and campaign workers to see if the mayor was engaging in pay - to - play schemes.

But a spokesman for Mr McCluskey's leadership campaign said: «Unite members will be baffled by this nonsense when they see daily that Len McCluskey's priority is to fight for their jobs, pay and pensions, as he is doing today for the tens of thousands of UK workers who depend on the auto industry for their livelihoods.»

Teaming with 1199 - SEIU, the health care workers union, and 32BJ - SEIU, the buildings workers union, Cuomo made campaign stops in an RV paid for by the nonprofit, which was funded largely by unions.

Blue Carreker, head of Citizen Action of NY's paid family leave campaign said that her organization thinks any paid leave bill has to cover all workers and all businesses, provide 12 weeks leave, and increase the rates paid by TDI to bring it into parity with what will be paid by the family leave program.

The positions once occupied by paid campaign operatives known as field marshals, who previously managed volunteers across the state, are now held by volunteers because the party can not afford to pay the workers.

Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to the president, met at the Midtown headquarters of 1199 SEIU, the health care workers» union, with about 30 other people, including 1199 president George Gresham and members of his union, representatives from 32BJ SEIU, which represents property service workers, and the New York Paid Family Leave Insurance Campaign, said Dolan, who also attended.

De Blasio's campaign responded with a typical comment harping on the mayor's universal prekindergarten initiative, his executive orders hiking pay floors for public employees and city contract workers, his affordable housing plan and the continued downward trajectory of the crime rate during his tenure.

The message is among what one Republican campaign worker described as «a couple of hundred» different calls that the GOP plans to employ, tailored to different states and areas and paid for by state parties, the RNC or the McCain campaign.

ALBANY — Like a scene from «The Sopranos,» a political operative busted by the state Attorney General's Office held secret meetings at his elderly mother's house and had a campaign worker paid with grocery bags stuffed with cash, a former upstate prosecutor told The Post.

CPS workers began a campaign in August for higher pay.

Extending New Yorkers» Legal Right to Sick Leave: 3,400,000 private and nonprofit sector workers have access to paid sick leave thanks to an expansion created in partnership with the Council and the Mayor's robust education campaign.

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — A worker - owned printing shop is still waiting for Brooklyn City Councilman Vincent Gentile to pay the $ 1,300 he owes for campaign materials purchased a month ago, according to its co-owner.

In the UK, anti-Amazon campaign group Amazon Anonymous has been campaigning for the company to pay UK warehouse workers the Living Wage.

The new President campaigned on the promise of building a wall to keep Mexican workers fleeing the country out of America, a project that looks like it'll be paid for by a tariff on Mexican goods coming back to the United States.

Motor insurance premiums have risen by # 110, up 16 % since this time last year, and yet the cost of pay outs to injured motorists and workers have all gone down, according to campaigning law firm Thompsons Solicitors.

This was accomplished after an intensive three - year campaign by the Canadian Labour Congress and its affiliated unions to change bankruptcy laws that unfairly put workers last in line to get paid.

Some of the BC Employment Standards Coalition's health worker colleagues in Ontario have launched a new campaign for paid sick leave.

Specifically, the campaign supports legislation to address pregnancy discrimination, close gaps in the state's equal pay law, provide workplace accommodations for nursing workers, protect patients and doctors from harassment, and prohibit legislatively coercing doctors to lie to patients.