Sentences with phrase «thousands of city workers»

Please consider joining the thousands of city workers, teachers and other volunteers who have helped with relief efforts, including at a number of the public schools in our region still being used as shelters.

The mayor laid out plans to spend $ 115 million to boost the minimum wage to $ 15 for tens of thousands of city workers, and $ 5.4 million to expand FDNY ambulance tours in Upper Manhattan, Queens and The Bronx in an effort to boost response times.

MANHATTAN — Starting in January, thousands of city workers will be guaranteed at least six weeks of fully paid parental leave, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday.

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«Experts are clearly favoring Atlanta,» noted Bert Sperling, the firm's founder and CEO, in a recent statement, nodding to the city's comparatively low cost of living, international air hub and potential ability to absorb tens of thousands of new workers.

Thousands of low - paid workers striking in hundreds of cities across the country, demanding a minimum wage of up to $ 15 per hour to replace the current $ 7.25 minimum wage, showing that an increasing amount of those even in jobs are unhappy with their lot.

TIME spoke to aid workers familiar with Aleppo to discover what daily life is like for thousands in the war - torn, eastern part of the city:

The idea of May 1 as a day for workers» rights was born in the US city of Chicago, where on May 1, 1886 hundreds of thousands of people walked off the job to protest long hours and harsh working conditions.

The camps, which house tens of thousands of oilsands workers, are located north of the city while wildfire encroaches from the south

Its swelling campus is transforming a swath of this city, a 10 - million - square - foot bet that tens of thousands of new workers will be able to sell everything to everyone everywhere.

But the vote is the first step in a process that eventually could lead to the walkout of thousands of city Park District workers, many of whom become particularly important and visible during the summer months.

Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and thousands of workers across different fields rallied in Lower Manhattan's Foley Square ahead of a Supreme Court vote that could affect labor union funding.

The de Blasio administration is reissuing tens of thousands of parking permits to city education workers, rolling back reforms made by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Embattled city Comptroller John Liu has hauled in thousands of dollars in $ 800 contributions from workers and firms associated with hotel magnate Sam Chang.

While again hundred thousands of Egyptians show their defiance of the old regime at Cairo's Tahrir Square and worker protests have broken out in several Egyptian cities, Washington and London still follow a pipe dream of a gradual transition from Hosni Mubarak to a more or less democratic, yet by all means secular new government.

«With thousands of jobs and millions of taxpayer dollars at stake, a potential bailout holds profound ramifications for its workers, the racing industry and the City and State.»

Following these attacks, thousands of first responders, construction workers and volunteers who live in our cities and towns selflessly acted to comb through dust, debris and rubble to look for survivors and eventually restore normalcy.

More than 140 New York City firefighters, police officers and other workers are in Puerto Rico to help, and Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio is preparing for an expected influx of thousands of Puerto Ricans fleeing the storm's damage.

This comes as thousands of health care workers and community advocates are scheduled to rally in New York City this afternoon in support of the MRT plan.

«Raising the city's living wage — and expanding it to include thousands more workers — will spur economic activity and growth while lifting working families out of poverty,» Councilwoman Debi Rose (D - North Shore) said.

CITY HALL — Bypassing the City Council, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order on Tuesday expanding the living wage law to cover thousands of more workers and raising the hourly wage from $ 11.90 to $ 13.13 for those without benefits.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, last week raised salaries for tens of thousands of private workers operating under city - funded contracts.

The governors of New York and New Jersey have staked out such starkly different positions on the minimum wage that their discord could result in uneven pay scales for thousands of workers at the airports that serve New York City.

Today, in a gesture that will affect thousands of incoming city workers, Bill de Blasio signed an executive order banning this practice for municipal employers of the City of New Ycity workers, Bill de Blasio signed an executive order banning this practice for municipal employers of the City of New YCity of New York.

Filings with the city Campaign Finance Board show that the public advocate has been the leading recipient of union contributions, with tens of thousands of dollars in donations, alone, from local chapters nationwide of UNITE, which represents needle trades and textile industry workers.

According to the plan, nearly two - thousand permanent jobs will be created: Golby was told there may be a project labor agreement - that the average worker at the facility can expect a salary of $ 43,000 dollars a year - there will be part time jobs as well - with job training targeting locals and minorities - and those jobs will go to city residents.

BP Eric Adams called on the New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO) to conduct an «economic impact analysis» on recent outages to study the loss «economic productivity of hundreds of thousands of workers» and its impact on local businesses and lost taxes.

Rahul Goswami, who works with India's National Agriculture Innovation Programme, said the spread of cheap mobile service has facilitated the creation of a cheap alert system for «tens of thousands of informal workers in towns and cities» that points those seeking work to spots where the next 50 or 100 rupees can be earned.

Again, you can't just introduce thousands of new workers (bacteria), you need to help your existing city workers flourish as well.

Saadiyat Island («Happiness Island» in Arabic), a once uninhabited stretch of coastal desert close to Abu Dhabi's city centre, is steadily being converted by tens of thousands of migrant workers into a $ 27bn (# 16.5 bn) cultural metropolis.

She points to Gibson & Ors v Sheffield City Council [2010] EWCA Civ 63 where earlier this year the Appeal judges backed the unions» claim that carers, care workers and dinner ladies working in Sheffield were entitled to the same bonus payments as men, This ruling, in the view of the union, is «opening the door for thousands of women» to pursue claims.

In recent history, the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Disaster, which took place December 26, 2004 and took hundreds of thousands of lives, as well as the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and WS The Pentagon in Washington DC, may have caused PTSD in many survivors and rescue workers.

Dr. Ham's approach to trauma treatment has been used to train thousands of mental health professionals and non-clinical frontline staff throughout New York City, including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, inpatient and outpatient staff, case managers, child welfare workers, teachers, and corrections and probation officers.

As Facebook hires more employees, purchases more land and expands its college - inspired campus, the social network has floated the idea of creating thousands of new housing units for its workers and the public, city documents show.