Sentences with phrase «wage issue later»

The Senate plans to hold a series of hearings on the minimum wage issue later this year.

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One year later, he issued a remarkable document titled «National Security Strategy of the United States of America,» which declared the right of the U.S. to wage preemptive wars on rogue states.

The key issues include tax; nuclear power; the living wage (vociferously opposed by economic Liberals, who dispute the Resolution Foundation's work to demonstrate the economic benefits and savings to the exchequer); Trident replacement; and higher education where the party may struggle to avoid reopening the self - inflicted wounds of late 2010.

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.

But Cuomo has been making (another) leftward lean of late, championing key WFP issues like a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage and Paid Family Leave, leading party leaders to take some credit for their role in pushing the Democrats — not just in New York, but across the nation — to the left.

«I've been very clear that I think the minimum wage, the fast food issue, was executive overreach,» Flanagan told reporters prior to the news breaking of Cuomo's latest minimum wage action.

In general, the business community has opposed the minimum wage hike; lawsuits over the issue have been expected since the decision in late July.

Mr. Cuomo has historically been a more moderate Democrat than the mayor, especially on fiscal issues, but he's raised the minimum wage in the past and over the last year he has heavily leaned into the $ 15 movement, a major priority of the progressive wing of the Democratic party that he has locally named for his late father, Gov. Mario Cuomo.

The Working Families Party, which endorsed Cuomo in last year's election after a contentious process, only to feud with him publically later, issued a Sunday statement praising the proposal a a first step but pushing for a $ 15 minimum wage.

In a statement thanking the unions for their support, Stavisky mentioned a bill that has become a top campaign issue of late: Minimum wage.

Kicking of the latest phase of the push for a $ 15 minimum wage in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday said the effort to push for economic justice is a national issue.

Hawkins in the past has run on issues such as banning high - volume hydrofracking and instituting a $ 15 minimum wage — both of which were later picked up by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Miner says she did talk to him about the issue when she decided to raise the minimum wage for city employees late last year.

To much fanfare, most of it probably self - generated, Walmart issued its second round of wage increases in late February, taking the minimum hourly pay for as many as one million workers at its domestic stores up by a dollar to $ 10 an hour.

For a good description of some of the corporations, people, and machinery behind these right - wing message groups, take a look at an article in the latest issue of New Yorker, «Covert Operations, The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama,» by Jane Mayer.