Sentences with phrase «successfully wage a campaign»

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Now union activists across the country are pressing companies for more in a campaign known as the «Fight for $ 15,» which has successfully spurred cities and private companies to establish higher wage floors.

After years of incrementally raising the minimum wage, the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice successfully enacted a statewide minimum wage increase to $ 15, raising the take - home pay of more than 2.3 million New Yorkers.

Earlier this year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo successfully advocated for the passage of a $ 15 minimum wage plan with the help of major labor unions and a nonprofit they created called The Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice.

Flush with an emerging confidence in their medium, photographers such as Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, wrote Hilton, found ways to turn the lens on these complexities: «The kind of campaign that was once waged, and waged successfully, for abstract painting is now being waged for «abstract» photography.»

In awarding the prize, the Goldman Prize committee said, «In a country with growing socioeconomic inequality and human rights violations, Berta Cáceres rallied the indigenous Lenca people of Honduras and waged a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam.»