Sentences with phrase «collar workers union»

The Common Council will vote on a new contract for some 240 Blue Collar Workers Union members employees in the three departments that would increase their pay by 2 percent retroactive to April 1, 2017 and another 1 percent for 2018, according to the council's agenda for Thursday's meeting.

Requests for comment to the Blue Collar Workers Union and the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 106 weren't immediately returned Monday.

Not exact matches

They also said Macri at times seemed uncomfortable with the tug and pull of the top union job, in which he represented a diverse membership of white - and blue - collar workers.

The contract comes about seven months after New York's second - largest state worker union, the white collar Public Employees Federation, reached its own three - year deal with 2 percent annual raises, no increases in negotiated health - care premium sharing and no givebacks.

CSEA is New York's largest state workers union with about 60,000 mostly blue collar workers, has been without a contract since their last agreement expired at the end of March 2016.

Two of the three candidates running in the Democratic primary for Albany mayor sought support Saturday from the union for city blue collar workers, but incumbent Mayor Kathy Sheehan passed, claiming the union already backs an opponent.

For all the changes the area has gone through, it's held on to a large part of its middle class core: white and blue collar civil servants, private sector professionals, union workers and small entrepreneurs.

ALBANY — Two of the three candidates running in the Democratic primary for Albany mayor sought support Saturday from the union for city blue collar workers, but incumbent Mayor Sheehan passed, claiming the union already backs an opponent.

PEF, a union of mostly white - collar workers, represents about 55,000 members and is the second - largest public workers union in the state.

No opponent yet faces Erie County Comptroller Stefan I. Mychajliw Jr., but the union representing more than 1,500 blue collar workers is already endorsing the Republican incumbent.

This labor equivalent of «Game of Thrones» — albeit with less blood — stands in contrast to the other major state workers union, the Civil Service Employees Association, which represents blue - collar workers.

The raises come as the administration heads toward contract negotiations with the Public Employees Federation, a union of 54,000 white - collar state workers whose current agreement expires on April 1.

For Union members, blue and white collar workers, we can no longer have a Governor who doesn't want to put a pipe in the ground, who claims to want growth while putting up every roadblock imaginable, and firehoses tax money at pet projects.

The union's contract expired at the end of 2013, and as the local mayoral election heated up in Albany, blue - collar workers came out in force protesting Sheehan's pay increases for nonunion employees and demanded wage hikes.

With approximately 54,000 employees, PEF is the state's second largest union representing professional, or white collar state workers.

Unlike some bigger labor counterparts — like SEIU 1199 and H.T.C., both firmly in Cuomo's corner — the union of some 55,000 mostly white - collar state workers isn't known as a political powerhouse.

The blue - collar union represents everyone from parks workers, highway laborers and tradesmen to certified nurses aides.

The state AFL - CIO has donated $ 108,000 in cash and in - kind services, $ 120,000 has come from the New York Pipe Trades union and the Public Employees Federation, which represents white collar state workers, has donated $ 100,000.

PEF is the state's second largest public employee union representing about 55,000 mostly white collar workers.

«Blue Collar» (1978), 9:00 p.m.: Stymied by their dead - end jobs and existence, three Detroit auto workers (Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto) decide to rip off their union office.

But neither did they belong to trade unions like the thousands of blue - collar workers in Dayton's sprawling General Motors and National Cash Register plants.

Even workers» rights divided liberals: with the rise of identity politics, and the shift of blue - collar voters to Nixon in protest of liberals» anti-Vietnam war and pro — affirmative action stance, trade union issues lost their pristine value to many liberals.

The Communists were at the time powerful in New York City's white - collar unions of teachers, social workers, and the like.

«Growing up in Bowmanville, which is very blue collar, especially with the proximity to Oshawa, a union stronghold for years, we grew up caring about workers» rights issues, and human rights issues in the workplace,» she says.

We have represented every type of disabled policyholder: professional athletes, Hollywood A-listers, medical and legal professionals, teachers, first responders, clergy, union members, and the heart of our practice — blue - collar workers.

He urges them to rise up to capture their true (higher) value by labeling hourly billing as Marxism, and contrasting his superior «knowlege workers» with mere «cattle,» «union workers,» «blue collar occupations,» and those who «work with their hands» rather than their heads, and are stuck laboring by the hour (see, e.g., here and there).

One unsettling likely reality is that blue - collar workers may never again enjoy the job security and prosperity they had in the mid-20th century, when unions were strong and industry giants like American automakers reigned supreme.