Organized labor's effort to secure a living
wage for all workers at the soon - to - be redeveloped Kingsbridge Armory fell apart today, when the Building & Construction Trades Council of Greater New York pledged its support of the redevelopment.
Not exact matches
Bills to raise the federal minimum
wage, currently
at $ 7.25 an hour,
for other
workers have gotten signficant pushback from lawmakers, who recently killed legislation in the Senate.
«The first thing to keep in mind is that, in some long run equilibrium,
wage inflation should be equal to what the growth rate of productivity is — so how much
workers can produce — and the increase in prices
for the goods they produce,» he said
at the UBS Greater China conference in Shanghai.
Did you know
at least half of all minimum
wage workers in Ontario work
for employers with over 500 employees?
Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum
wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows
for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying
workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off
at him.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has repeatedly slammed Walmart
for not paying
workers a living
wage, most recently
at a campaign stop in Missouri this weekend.
Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million
workers — earned the minimum
wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory
for the Democrats, one that came
at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.
Chief Executive Doug McMillon recently said the company would improve opportunities
for workers, including getting the roughly 6,000 people who make the federal minimum
wage of $ 7.25 an hour
at its stores off that rate.
Wage and benefit increases of 15 to 20 percent per year
at the average Chinese factory will slash China's labor - cost advantage over low - cost states in the U.S., from 55 percent today to 39 percent in 2015, when adjusted
for the higher productivity of U.S.
workers.
Hiring surged last month
at its fastest pace since mid-2016, but
wage growth slowed — an ideal combination
for the stock market but not
for workers longing
for consistently bigger paychecks.
The DOL's former head of
wage enforcement, David Weil, recently suggested that weighing whether gig economy
workers should be classified as employees or independent contractors is not so different than making the same determination
for workers at brick - and - mortar businesses.84 Existing legal tests to determine whether a
worker is an employee or an independent contractor are multifactor, fact - based exercises based on the level of control a company exerts over the
workers in question.
One study by economist Elaine McCrate found that any reduction in wages associated with the benefit of flexibility is modest
at best and, in fact, many jobs with greater flexibility have higher wages.137 Furthermore, the volatility of earnings
for many independent contractors would offset any compensating
wage differentials, because
workers can not compare the value of flexibility to higher earnings when they aren't able to predict their earnings as independent contractors.138
Develop responsible contracting standards
for service contracts to ensure that cafeteria
workers, janitors, security officers and other onsite service
workers are paid a livable
wage, receive benefits equitable to those received by directly employed
workers, have the right to a voice
at work without fear of discrimination or retaliation, do not suffer mass layoffs when contracts change hands, and are protected from misclassification and other forms of
wage theft;
Tesla production
workers start
at about $ 17 per hour, below the average
wage for auto
workers around the country, according to the union.
When German institutions — government, businesses and labor unions — negotiated among themselves
at the turn of the century a sharp reduction in
wage growth
for its
workers, they were obviously attempting to reduce German's high domestic unemployment by gaining trade competitiveness.
At the federal level, the
wage premium
for public sector
workers was 7.8 per cent
for males and 16.0 per cent
for females compared to the private sector.
The unemployment rate remained
at 4.1 %
for the sixth straight month, and
wage gains went up slightly
for workers.
According to the literature, this
wage premium is largest
for men who demonstrate other «markers of workplace hegemonic masculinity,» meaning those who are white, heterosexual, married with a traditional division of labor in the home — even a stay -
at - home - wife — college graduates, and white - collar
workers.
Labor costs often amount to as much as half of the budget
for a school nutrition department, but salary
for cafeteria
workers varies greatly, with some districts paying close to minimum
wage for entry level
workers, while others may pay closer to $ 15 - 20 per hour even
for those
workers still
at first step.
The cause that prompted him to speak
at the Cambridge Union and
at other universities,
for example, was the campaign
for the Living
Wage, a wage meant to cover the costs of life that the current minimum wage does not and one which the Cambridge newspaper «Varsity» recently revealed was not being extended to large numbers of low - earning workers within our multi-billion pound Univers
Wage, a
wage meant to cover the costs of life that the current minimum wage does not and one which the Cambridge newspaper «Varsity» recently revealed was not being extended to large numbers of low - earning workers within our multi-billion pound Univers
wage meant to cover the costs of life that the current minimum
wage does not and one which the Cambridge newspaper «Varsity» recently revealed was not being extended to large numbers of low - earning workers within our multi-billion pound Univers
wage does not and one which the Cambridge newspaper «Varsity» recently revealed was not being extended to large numbers of low - earning
workers within our multi-billion pound University.
In New York, Cuomo used the power of a state
wage board
at the Department of Labor to increase the
wage for fast - food
workers to $ 15 over the next several years.
At 11:30 a.m., low -
wage tenants and
workers and members of Real Affordability
for All and building and construction unions call
for real affordable housing and good union jobs from NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, City Hall Park, near Broadway and Park Place, Manhattan.
In the letter, Laundry, Distribution and Food Service Joint Board
Workers United / SEIU Manager Wilfredo Larancuent lays blame
at Flanagan and Senate Republicans
for trying to cushion the impact of the $ 15 minimum
wage on businesses.
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.
Port Authority staff recommended that the agency raise the minimum
wage for more than 40,000 NYC - area airport
workers to $ 19 an hour by the fall of 2023 — an increase of more than 80 percent in about five years
for the lowest - paid
workers at Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the three major airports operated by the authority.
At the same time, Heastie indicated there is no comparison to the SAFE Act MOU and the pending recommendation by a
wage board convened by Cuomo to increase the state's minimum
wage to $ 15
for fast - food
workers.
The agreement
for workers» compensation in the budget was key
for business organizations that had reeled over last year's spending plan that included a minimum
wage agreement setting the floor
at $ 15 over the next several years and a paid family leave program.
Both houses also agree to increase money to direct care
workers at not
for profits who care
for the disabled, to help meet new higher minimum
wage requirements.
For New York City
workers at companies with 11 or more employees, the minimum
wage will increase to $ 11 an hour on Saturday.
At Pratt, he led many successful community - planning efforts, as well as campaigns to expand affordable housing and create NYC's «inclusionary zoning» program, which requires developers seeking tax breaks to set aside 20 percent of their units
for low and moderate income families and pay a living
wage to their service
workers.
While there are compelling reasons from the perspective of poorly paid (or unemployed)
workers in eastern and southern Europe to relocate to higher
wage economies in the west and north of Europe, there is little incentive
for British
workers to go to the post-2004 EU countries where the quality of life is lower and minimum
wage is as low as # 1.36 per hour, if it exists
at all.
«
At the current rate of progress it will take 450 years
for all
workers to be paid a living
wage in London,» she added.
The union earlier this year praised Moya's support
for a bill aimed
at bolstering the pay and
wage theft protections
for car wash
workers.
For workers in Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester Counties, the minimum
wage would increase to $ 10
at the end of 2016, then $ 1 each year after, reaching $ 15 on 12/31/2021.
Having two different minimum wages in Upstate will make it difficult
for some industries to recruit or keep good
workers who could make more money
at McDonald's, said Greg Biryla, executive director of Unshackle Upstate, a business group that opposed the
wage hike.
For workers in New York City employed by large businesses (those with
at least 11 employees), the minimum
wage would rise to $ 11
at the end of 2016, then another $ 2 each year after, reaching $ 15 on 12/31/2018.
Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency
workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum
wage, the living
wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection
at age 11 damaged education
for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).
The governor proposed having the minimum
wage for all Upstate
workers to hit $ 15 an hour
at the same time as the fast food
workers reached that rate.
Momentum is building
for a $ 15 - an - hour minimum
wage in Connecticut,
at least
for some
workers, given the formation of a new low -
wage worker advisory panel and this week's recommendation to raise pay
for fast - food
workers in neighboring New York, according to some state lawmakers and activists.
For workers in the rest of the state, the minimum
wage would increase to $ 9.70
at the end of 2016, then another.70 each year after until reaching $ 12.50 on 12/31/2020 — after which will continue to increase to $ 15 on an indexed schedule to be set by the Director of the Division of Budget in consultation with the Department of Labor.
I also asked Heastie if he's concerned about the governor's increased reliance of late on his executive powers to circumvent the Legislature on key policy issues like a minimum
wage increase
for the state's fast food
workers and creation of a special prosecutor to handle cases in which unarmed civilians die
at the hands of law enforcement officers.
New York Governor Cuomo,
at a large union rally to raise the minimum
wage in New York City's Union Square, called out fast food chains McDonald's and Burger King by name Thursday and accused them of «corporate greed»
for underpaying
workers.
The minimum
wage for city
workers at businesses with 11 or more employees increased to $ 11 - an - hour Saturday and will rise incrementally to $ 15 by Dec. 31, 2018.
A version of this article appears in print on May 24, 2010, on Page A20 of the New York edition with the headline:
Wage Proposal
for Workers at Subsidized Projects May Prompt a Fight
at City Hall.
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 c
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 c
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 c
wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our city.
The proposal would follow the July recommendation by a panel formed
at Cuomo's request that the
wage floor
for just fast - food
workers be raised to $ 15 by 2018 in New York City and by 2021 in the rest of the state.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo also spoke
at the conference, championing a $ 15 minimum
wage for all
workers in the state and citing his administration's efforts to combat exploitation of undocumented
workers.
Governor Andrew Cuomo held a rally
at the Manhattan headquarters of the Hotel and Motel Trades Council Thursday urging a «
Wage Board», which he appointed, to increase the minimum wage for fast food work
Wage Board», which he appointed, to increase the minimum
wage for fast food work
wage for fast food
workers.
That did not stop advocates from protesting
at the Dunkin' Donuts
at the state Capitol, saying the governor's recently phased in
wage increase
for fast food
workers is too slow.
During a rally today aimed
at raising the minimum
wage for fast food
workers Governor Cuomo declared that «I don't use those words «income inequality.»»