Sentences with phrase «single minimum wage worker»

«How could it be that the Labour Party, supposedly the Party of working people, was not in relationship with a single minimum wage worker?

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The CUPE proposal suggests that there are only benefits and no costs to a higher minimum wage, but then caps the minimum wage hikes to a level where only single - earner full - time minimum - wage workers (with no other sources of income) cross the LIM.

Currently, certain kinds of small businesses are exempt from paying employees the federal minimum wage, such as businesses with annual revenues less than $ 500,000, companies that transact within a single state, seasonal businesses, or companies that rely on contract workers.

Two - thirds of the minimum wage workers, who are earning an average across this country of five dollars and fifty cents an hour (they're in this hotel today, and you'll pass them in the hall over and over again), are single mothers with three children.

Workers in restaurants, nail salons and car washes rallied to kick off a campaign to push for one single minimum wage, instead of the $ 7.50 to $ 8.65 tipped workers currently take home, which is below the state's minimum wage of $ 10.40 to $ 13, depending on the area of theWorkers in restaurants, nail salons and car washes rallied to kick off a campaign to push for one single minimum wage, instead of the $ 7.50 to $ 8.65 tipped workers currently take home, which is below the state's minimum wage of $ 10.40 to $ 13, depending on the area of theworkers currently take home, which is below the state's minimum wage of $ 10.40 to $ 13, depending on the area of the state.

Hawkins not only supports but organizes on issues such as a $ 15 minimum wage, a ban on fracking, 100 % clean energy by 2030, full public campaign financing, single payer health care, the legalization of marijuana, worker rights, taxing the rich, an end to the New Jim Crow and mass incarceration, universal child care... the list goes on and on.

A union pushing to hike New York's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, SEIU Local 32BJ, will single out Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco in an attack ad that calls him the $ 6 million man who doesn't want workers to earn a livable wage.

Hawkins» platform includes a call for a $ 15 hourly minimum wage rate, a ban on hydrofracking, using government money to hire unemployed workers for public projects, a single - payer healthcare program, rejecting the Common Core teaching standards (and the federal money that came with them), refiguring school aid to give more help to poorer districts and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers.

A state Wage Board has voted to phase - in an increase in the minimum wage for fast food workers to $ 15 an hour, making New York the first state in the nation to increase the wage for a single segment of the work foWage Board has voted to phase - in an increase in the minimum wage for fast food workers to $ 15 an hour, making New York the first state in the nation to increase the wage for a single segment of the work fowage for fast food workers to $ 15 an hour, making New York the first state in the nation to increase the wage for a single segment of the work fowage for a single segment of the work force.

The governor convened a wage board that eventually led the state's Department of Labor to increase the minimum hourly rate for fast food workers, arguing that the industry should be singled out because many of its employees also receive public assistance.