By emphasising the primary importance of economic growth of all kinds and supporting the Living Wage, the recommendations in the Northern Economic Futures Commission report will go a long way to ensuring that we reverse, rather than exacerbate, levels of inequality and poverty in the region.
We did it," Jorel Ware, a McDonald's worker, said at the rally celebrating the wage board's recommendations.
New York will lead the way in fighting economic inequality, Cuomo said after the wage board announced its recommendations.
Nancy Pelosi's Democrats have passed bills to raise the minimum wage, enact all the recommendations of the 9/11 report on security, extend federal funding to stem-cell research, bring down the cost of prescription drugs for the elderly and cut the interest rate on student loans, with a vote to end subsidies to big oil companies under debate.
The Food Chain Worker Alliance and Restaurant Opportunities Centers ROCC) United work on improving workers' wages through a list of policy recommendations, including indexing federal wages for tipped employees.
The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and the city will begin arbitration hearings today in which a three-person panel will make binding recommendations on wages and benefits.
Faced with unflattering national publicity, Harvard set up a committee of faculty members, administrators, students and employees to look at the situation of its low-wage workers and make recommendations.
In Hungary, until 2011, employers and trade unions, although very divided and fragmented, issued a joint recommendation for wage increases within the framework of the now abolished tripartite consultation body.
Qatar recently announced a new system for the automatic payment of wages electronically, another recommendation in the report.
On Sunday, the government set up a new minimum wage board that will issue recommendations for pay raises within three months, the textiles minister, said.
