Sentences with phrase «supported living wage»

David Cameron and Ed Miliband support the living wage, but not legislation to enforce it.

«Increasingly James has been thinking about the Labour party and the labour movement and he's moved to a different position where, for instance, he supports a living wage, but that was something that when he was a cabinet minister he said he opposed.

How about supporting a living wage?

A large turnout for yesterday's Ithaca Common Council meeting bore witness to a historic moment for laborers in Tompkins County as the city, joining with the Town of Ithaca, chose to support a living wage for all workers in the county.

Wanted to stick to his mantras on supporting a living wage, a graduate tax and «not retreating into a New Labour comfort zone».

VID then passed a resolution supporting the Living Wage proposal and urging Council Speaker Christine Quinn to support the bill and to promptly take action to enact it.

GNYC4C continued the push for Economic Justice, supporting the Living Wage Campaign and Paid Sick Leave legislation.

He is the «17th richest man on the planet and he doesn't support a living wage,» she said.

«I'm hopeful Chris Quinn will support Living Wage,» said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, via email.

It's outrageous that at the same time he is refusing to support a living wage for working families in Syracuse so that they can afford the basics,» said Jerry Lotierzo, the Coalition chair.

Supporting a Living Wage: A $ 15 living wage is now guaranteed to every City worker and employee of nonprofit organizations contracted with the City, and the Mayor and Council have advocated for higher wages for all workers across the state.

Not exact matches

As the founder of a Kansas City nonprofit she was tasked with figuring out how the homeless mothers she worked with, many with felony convictions, could make a living wage that supported their families with also retaining the flexibility they needed to care for their kids.

A Treasury spokesman told the BBC: «We are taking action to support families with the costs of living by cutting taxes for millions of working people, doubling free childcare for nearly 400,000 working parents and introducing the National Living Wage - a significant pay rise for the lowest earners.&living by cutting taxes for millions of working people, doubling free childcare for nearly 400,000 working parents and introducing the National Living Wage - a significant pay rise for the lowest earners.&Living Wage - a significant pay rise for the lowest earners.»

«We agree with her remarks about the high costs of living in San Francisco, which is why we announced in December that we are expanding our Eat24 customer support team into our Phoenix office where we will pay the same wage,» read a company statement, echoing CEO Stoppelman's comments on Twitter over the weekend that the cost of living in San Francisco was excessively high.

Make your employees» lives easier by adding on direct deposit, or automatically remove payments for child support, or wage garnishments.

United for a Fair Economy conducts the Responsible Wealth Project, a network of over 750 business leaders, investors, and other wealthy individuals who work to build a fairer economy through shareholder activism, support for the living wage, and fair taxation work.

In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

«They are struggling to support children in a school system Christy Clark tore down, struggling to support their parents at a time when Liberals have left 9 in 10 residential care facilities understaffed, and struggling to make ends meet when we have the slowest wage growth in the country and the highest cost of living.

On the subject of wage inflation, Rudolph - Riad Younes recently noted, correctly I think, that in recent years, «wages, plus equity withdrawal from your house, was enough to support your living standard.

Mintz concludes that the psychological cost to children has steadily grown more apparent, and he makes the familiar array of policy recommendations: more widely available health care, education reform, subsidized high - quality child care, family - friendly employment policies, a living wage, a limited work week and economic support to the impoverished.

The insufficiency of work to provide self - sufficiency is behind the movement — backed by many religious groups — to ensure that all employers pay a living wage, which is generally understood to be the wage needed to support a family at or slightly above the poverty level.

On top of that, the same right - wing cons who praise capitalism as the reason that millions of people have, truthfully, found a way out of poverty, support politicians who keep wages stagnated, attack the very CONCEPT of a minimum wage despite the skyrocketing inflation and general cost of living, and support one war after another that makes a handful of people VERY rich while millions suffer, and thousands of troops come home with no legs (and thus, lose their jobs and often never recover).

If they truly want to be a witness, they should be taking care of their employees by [1] paying them a living wage and [2] supporting them with health care, not trying to run their lives by denying it because they personally don't believe in birth control *** AHEM HOBBY LOBBY, all you had to do was voice your objection and step aside, and the provider would absorb the cost, but NOOOOOOOOOO, you thought you knew better & said I FORBID YOU TO HAVE IT so your employees lost out on ALL health care, nice work in the name of the Great Physician *** or firing them because they get pregnant BECAUSE you didn't let them have birth control...

Faith in Public Life: People of Faith Support Minimum Wage Raise Majorities of all religious groups favor increasing the minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 10.00 an hour, including black Protestants (87 %), Catholics (73 %), Americans who are religiously unaffiliated (68 %), white mainline Protestants (61 %) and white evangelical Protestants (61Wage Raise Majorities of all religious groups favor increasing the minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 10.00 an hour, including black Protestants (87 %), Catholics (73 %), Americans who are religiously unaffiliated (68 %), white mainline Protestants (61 %) and white evangelical Protestants (61wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 10.00 an hour, including black Protestants (87 %), Catholics (73 %), Americans who are religiously unaffiliated (68 %), white mainline Protestants (61 %) and white evangelical Protestants (61 %).

To bruce, if you really love them, then I hope you support expanding the Living Wage laws so that they can support themselves and not rely on handouts.

I was a teen mom and I've been divorced for 3 years this summer, with one income and no child support, I'm still above the poverty level which I must say is not set to be «living wage» because people like me, who are just above it, have a hard time making ends meet.

The mission of the Durham Living Wage Project is to support worker livelihoods by urging employers to pay living wages, certifying and publicly recognizing employers, and promoting living wages as a matter of conscience within our commLiving Wage Project is to support worker livelihoods by urging employers to pay living wages, certifying and publicly recognizing employers, and promoting living wages as a matter of conscience within our commliving wages, certifying and publicly recognizing employers, and promoting living wages as a matter of conscience within our commliving wages as a matter of conscience within our community.

In Cape Girardeau, Mo., and Mehoopany, Pa., where Pampers are manufactured, wages plus the company's benefits packages can support two adults, according to MIT's living - wage calculator.

Purchasing Joobles products not only lifts up workers with a living wage and a safe workplace, it also helps support small family - run organic cotton farms in Peru.

Our Rainbow Fund allows families to receive this support, while at the same time compensating our team members with a living wage for their important and valuable work.

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While parents who are paid a higher hourly rate may indeed qualify for support by working a low number of hours per week, those who earn national minimum wage or national living wage will effectively have to work more hours to qualify for the same type of support - but those extra hours may not be available to them.

Caution was served by keeping giveaways to a minimum, but the giveaways that were unveiled were almost exclusively focussed on the «compassionate Conservatism» agenda: support for Universal Credit claimants, a small boost to the living wage, bringing forward business rate changes, some extra money for the NHS.

At 9 a.m., state lawmakers and the #bFair2DirectCare Coalition urge Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature to speed up living wage funding for workers who support New Yorkers with developmental disabilities, Legislative Office Building terrace, Albany.

Also at 10 a.m., Rochester - area leaders participate in a rally calling for the governor and Legislature to accelerate the process and ensure that direct support professionals receive the living wage they are entitled to — and that was agreed to in the state budget passed in April — by 2020, Heritage Christian Services» Pieters Family Life Center, 1025 Commons Way, Rochester.

There's strong bipartisan support among the region's state delegation for paying a living wage to Direct Support Professionals — the people responsible for caring for society's most vulnerable indivsupport among the region's state delegation for paying a living wage to Direct Support Professionals — the people responsible for caring for society's most vulnerable indivSupport Professionals — the people responsible for caring for society's most vulnerable individuals.

Based on cost of living, Clinton has backed a smaller wage hike to $ 12 an hour nationally, and supports states moving to $ 15 on their own.

However, the Tories attack was dampened when Conservative mayor Boris Johnson reasserted his support for the living wage.

So a real living wage requires employers to make good on any cuts in state support.

Regardless of how the WFP pyschodrama plays out, the Green Party will remain the choice this November for progressives who support a $ 15 an hour minimum wage, living wage jobs, climate action, strong public schools, and an end to corruption at the State Capitol.»

At the January 12th membership meeting the Village Independent Democrats endorsed a letter to Speaker Christine Quinn applauding her support of the Fair Wage For New Yorkers Act as a first step toward ensuring a living wage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial number of minimum wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our cWage For New Yorkers Act as a first step toward ensuring a living wage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial number of minimum wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our cwage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial number of minimum wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our cwage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our city.

At our state conference last month, we overwhelmingly passed resolutions supporting guaranteed healthcare as a human right, free public education from pre-K through college or trade school, a living wage and fair compensation for all, investments in environmental protection and renewable energy, restoration of voting rights to former felons, public financing of elections to eradicate the corrupting influence of big money in politics, and other policies that serve the people.

The Welsh Liberal Democrat manifesto recognised the need to support vocational education and invest in apprenticeships, as well as calling for public sector organisations becoming living wage employers.

«Eric's public support for good, well - paying jobs with a living wage, equal rights and social justice reform, plus his innovative approaches to reducing our city's reliance on incarceration, make him the right choice to continue moving Brooklyn forward,» Gresham said.

As a result, this morning, Diaz will tell the Council he will not support the project until Related agrees to the living wage provision.

Common Council made quick work in discussing its support of a county - wide living wage, voting 11 - 0 for the increase

Bronx resident Jorel Ware, 35, a McDonald's employee, told the Observer after the rally that the labor secretary should be someone who wants to support the 64 million people that «don't make a living wage in this country.»

Between 30 and 40 people turned out Wednesday at City Hall in a cold drizzle to lobby in support of a countywide living wage of $ 14.34 an hour for a worker whose employer does not offer health benefits.

«On behalf of the half - million New Yorkers invested in our fight for a living wage for direct care workers, we want to express our gratitude for the tremendous support we've received from members of the Senate and Assembly,» the campaign said in a statement.

His opponent, Chris Gibson, on the other hand, has failed to live up to his word, saying he supports raising the minimum wage, then voting against it in Congress.