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Pages tagged "living wages"


Austin Interfaith Fights for City Temp Worker Wage Standard

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · November 04, 2014 4:17 PM

Said Strategy Team member Kayvon Sabourian:

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Border Interfaith Leverages Commitments on Lending, Wages, & Training in County Comm. Race

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · October 20, 2014 3:04 PM

With over 100 leaders in attendance, Border Interfaith assembled with candidates for County Commissioner Precinct 4 to challenge them to work with the organization for greater regulation of payday lending, a boost to the wage floor for County employees and contractors to $10 / hour, and the investment of $100K in County funds into job training program Project ARRIBA. One candidate, Julio Diaz, committed to the agenda. The other candidate did not. Leaders vowed to spread the word and get out the vote.

Diaz, Haggerty Offer Stark Choices in Race for El Paso County Commissioner in Precinct 4, El Paso Times


200 COPS / Metro Examines Living Wages in San Antonio Wage Fight

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · August 18, 2014 4:58 PM
Almost 200 COPS / Metro Alliance leaders from twenty-nine institutions spent a Sunday afternoon examining the state of wages in San Antonio — and found that state sorely lacking!

A diverse mix of congregational members from Catholic, Unitarian, Lutheran, and Baptist denominations, as well as unions, public schools and colleges, gathered to study the City of San Antonio's proposed budget, its impact on the local economy and how it may fund better wages for working families.

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COPS / Metro Launches Living Wage Fight

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · June 25, 2014 10:16 AM
COPS/Metro Alliance leaders & allies kicked off their Living Wage Campaign on Tuesday morning at the Bexar County Commissioners Court, asking elected officials to raise the county's minimum wage, currently set at the Federal Poverty Level. In response, Judge Wolff asked the County Manager to immediately begin a study of the wage scale and to meet with a COPS/Metro delegation within 7 days.

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Austin Interfaith Wins Historic Living Wage Vote for School Construction

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · June 17, 2014 10:23 AM

Labor caucus leaders of Austin Interfaith leveraged a historic living wage vote from AISD school board members in a close-to-midnight vote approving the use of federal Davis-Bacon wage standards for workers employed on school construction projects. After months of deliberation and negotiation, labor caucus members of Austin Interfaith testified at AISD board proceedings, backed by a crowd of supporters.

Catholic Bishop Joe Vasquez's letter exhorting the Board to support Davis-Bacon wages was followed by impassioned testimony from leaders representing LiUNA, Education Austin, IBEW, Painters Local 1779, Pipefitters, Workers Defense Projects, Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church and the Equal Justice Center. Plans are in the works for the school district to soon establish an accompanying living wage floor to raise the wages of the lowest paid workers.

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Austin Interfaith Fights for School Adoption of Davis-Bacon Wages

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · June 03, 2014 6:50 PM
Over two dozen Austin Interfaith leaders descended on an Austin Independent School District board work session to call for the adoption of federal Davis-Bacon wage standards, and to explain the benefits to workers, families, the school district and the economy at large. In photo, Minerva Camarena-Skeith explain how Davis Bacon wage standards would benefit construction workers.

Activistas Presionan A Distrito Escolar de Austin para Aumentar Salarios, Telemundo Austin


TBO Leaders Leverage Mayoral Candidate Commitments on Water, Wages, Trash & Safety

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · June 03, 2014 10:52 AM

At an accountability meeting organized by The Border Organization (TBO), both Del Rio mayoral candidates committed to work for the creation of a groundwater conservation district (long fought for by local leaders), higher wages for police officers, matched with accountability measures to be put in place, equitable trash collection rates for both city and county residents, and the establishment of another walking trail on the city's south side.

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Austin Passes Historic Living Wage Ordinance for Future Economic Incentives

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · October 25, 2013 10:49 AM
Austin Interfaith leaders celebrated the passage of a historic living wage ordinance they had fought for over the course of five years. Institutional representatives from congregations, schools and workers associations challenged city council candidates in 2012 to craft an ordinance requiring that jobs emerging from taxpayer incentives pay at least a living wage or prevailing wage, if higher. An economic incentive team put together language, which included an exception process, that was later adopted by a Special Committee on Economic Incentives and proposed by Councilmembers Martinez, Tovo and Morrison (and enhanced by Councilmember Riley) Thursday night.

Catholic Bishop Joe Vasquez intervened reading a statement of support for the ordinance at a 6pm rally, which was later read by an Austin Interfaith leader in Council chambers. After four hours of testimony and debate, the City of Austin passed, for the first time ever, a requirement that corporations receiving taxpayer incentives be required to pay the City established living wage of $11 per hour or prevailing wages, whichever is higher.

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Project Quest Partners with Rackspace for Cloud Academy

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · September 06, 2013 4:46 PM

"Project Quest, a local jobs training program established in 1992, has partnered with San Antonio-based Rackspace to recruit individuals interested in enrolling in Rackspace's Open Cloud Academy. There have already been 17 Project Quest students enrolled in the Cloud Academy, and Quest is seeking city funding to expand participation by its clients....The additional funding would allow another 200 Project Quest clients to participate in the Cloud Academy...."

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Texas IAF Reconstitutes Launchpad (Job Training) Fund

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · August 28, 2013 10:38 AM
Photo of compressors and mechanical drives class at Texas State Tech in Waco"The Launchpad Fund, which gave nonprofits $10 million starting in the 2010-11 biennium to support career training programs for low-income students, will be replaced by the Texas Innovative Adult Career Education Grant program. The ACE grant program will award about $5 million under a similar model to nonprofits for the next biennium. It will be administered by Austin Community College, which will step into the comptroller's office's current oversight role....

Said Minerva Camarena-Skeith, a representative of Austin Interfaith, the nonprofit that helped found Capital IDEA with business community members and advocates for public funding: "It still gives these job-training programs the opportunity to apply for these $5 million, and also be able to leverage more city and local funds."

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