Sentences with phrase «wage immigrant workers»

Deborah Axt, Deputy Director of Make the Road New York, said: «By signing the Wage Theft Prevention Act, Governor Paterson makes a commitment that New York State will finally stand up for workers, crack down on lawless employers, and use the power of the State to ensure fair, treatment for vulnerable, low - wage immigrant workers.»

Those who died in the United States represent a cross section of the human community: 4,000 people from more than 80 nations, people of nearly every ethnicity and religious belief, wealthy individuals and people with very little, including low - wage immigrant workers.

Not exact matches

«I represented immigrants and low wage workers, and people don't understand how they're treated.»

-- Similarly exploited immigrant labor without labor rights (all temporary and dual purpose immigrants), employer sponsorship being the key to suppressing wages (plus all of David Card's papers and equations are wrong due to DNWR)-- Fair Labor Standards Act generally doesn't apply to office workers and other positions that corporations tag as professionals and / or managers, despite recent Obama hike of minimum applicable wage.

Ms. Bannan is an Associate Counsel at LatinoJustice PRLDEF, focusing on working with low - wage Latina immigrant workers.

In addition to demanding a $ 15 minimum wage and union rights, the campaign said it will keep up «unrelenting opposition» to efforts to «block wage increases, gut workers» rights or health care, deport immigrants or support racism or racist policies.»

[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.

As immigrants disproportionately increased the supply of workers in a particular skill group, the wage of black workers in that group fell, the employment rate declined, and the incarceration rate rose.

The «propositional nation» right is glad to talk about the contributions of immigrants (especially when asking Congress to permit more guest workers to staff their businesses), but their policy preferences (tax cuts for themselves, entitlement cuts for wage - earners) will never seem inclusive.

If Cuomo delivers on his IOU, life will improve for low - wage workers, immigrants, women, grassroots political candidates and others.

«I am proud to have their support and will continue to lead the fight for low wage and immigrant workers in the City Council with the help of RWDSU.»

«To me, our concerns as immigrants and low - wage workers are not being addressed enough.

As part of a policy review, Miliband proposes sanctions against labour agencies that advertise solely for immigrant workers, an early warning system if some industries are employing disproportionately large number of foreign workers, a doubling of fines if employers undercut the minimum wage, and no early lifting of migrant barriers for new EU countries such as Croatia.

Ms. James further claimed with near - certainty that she'll be able to increase the office's relatively underfunded budget, enabling her to create new divisions for low - wage workers and immigrants.

«I've stood up to Wall Street, I've stood up for immigrants» rights, I'm standing up for low - wage workers,» he said.

The shadow health secretary promised that Labour would run its own Yes campaign, focusing on issues such as preventing workers being «undercut» by EU immigrants, exclusive recruitment from overseas and strengthening enforcement of the national minimum wage.

It was vintage Cuomo, beginning with a mention of his Italian immigrant grandparents and their experience, then covering a variety of state government and political initiatives on education, minimum wage, M / WBE contracting and undocumented worker protections and concluding with a fierce declaration of support for diversity and the integral role of immigrants in seeking and sustaining the «American Dream.»

Immigration reform, which once garnered bipartisanship support in the Senate a few years ago, has wilted as American - born workers battle lower - paid immigrants for vanishing low - wage jobs.

The AFL has repeatedly called for the phasing out of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, especially in low - wage sectors, because it is driving down wages and blocking the first rungs on the job ladder which traditionally have been filled by young workers, seniors and new immigrants.

These low - wage and largely immigrant workers suffer about one - third of all workplace accidents.

The government has targeted the residential construction industry for its investigation because of its high number of immigrant workers that it employs and after recent investigations have found some construction contractors have been misclassifying workers as independent contractors to get around wage laws, says Nancy J. Leppink, acting director of the department's wage and hour division.