Sentences with phrase «projected wage demands»
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Related won a competitive bid for the project but pulled their after the City Council demanded that any tenants at the new site pay their employees a living wage.
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The accord is a far cry from the initial demands of union groups, who sought prevailing wage requirements for construction workers on most projects that qualified for the tax break.
Last year, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union successfully defeated the $ 310 million Kingsbridge Armory project in the Bronx, which would have meant hundreds of jobs for construction workers, when the developer failed to agree to certain wage demands for employees who would work at the resulting retail mall.
It also demands the passage of laws guaranteeing renters an attorney in housing court, a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, more construction projects employing union workers and local residents, more supportive housing for people with HIV, and an end to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's «cluster - site» housing — where the city paid landlords $ 3,000 a month to put up homeless families, often in deplorable conditions.
Resolution 13 - 04.16 demands «all actions» to ensure that California's 121 charter cities lose state funding if they exercise their right under the state constitution to establish their own policies concerning government - mandated construction wage rates on purely municipal government projects or private projects that only receive government assistance from that municipality.
Progressive projects — with youth of color in the lead — are demanding living wage work, an end to handouts of public lands and public dollars that privilege the wealthy few, and a city that protects all of its residents from the perils of poverty, eviction, criminalization, deportation and violence.
«The demand for leases and new construction projects is expected to slowly climb as businesses add to their payrolls and consumers reap the benefits of cheaper gas and any accompanying wage growth from a tighter labor market,» he said.