Not exact matches
Albany participants include
workers from area McDonald's, Wendy's, Boston Market and other fast - food
restaurants; city crossing guards; Saint Rose College and Siena College adjunct professors; health care
workers; UAlbany students; community groups and labor
unions.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -
Union leaders,
workers and Citizen Action activists held a press conference in front of a Syracuse Burger King
restaurant Thursday to build on momentum to raise the minimum wage and to call on Sen. Dave Valesky to return to the Democratic conference in the Senate.
Alcantara was given nod of Unite Here Local 100, a labor
union that includes
workers in cafeterias, executive dining rooms,
restaurants, bars, delis, airports, sports and exhibition halls.
Talks between restaurateur Dean Poll, who runs the Central Park Boat House, and the
union representing
restaurant workers broke down.
That requirement would have forced a
restaurant like McDonald's to pay its
workers more if they rented space in a development that had received city help — a crucial provision,
union leaders had said.