Sentences with phrase «dc37 municipal workers»

Many people who took the survey do not have a background in technology, including Jim Symbouras, 56, a municipal worker in New York City.

I'll be speaking at the second one, at 10:45 in the same room, along with the national leaders of NUPGE (representing provincial workers) and CUPE (representing municipal workers) about the contribution of public workers to greater equality by improving the lives of marginalized Canadians — the unemployed, the homeless, single parents, recent immigrants, senior citizens, and others.

On a field near Pier A in Hoboken, to which Borsellino had moved his charges, a young woman in Lycra stretched, watched by municipal workers scraping melted candle wax from a railing.

The city budget passed last year included a 2.5 percent cost - of - living adjustment, and in January the de Blasio administration announced that municipal workers and those working for contracted agencies will earn $ 15 an hour by the end of 2018.

As far as the intangibles that Torres refers to, surely he isn't suggesting that the existing municipal workers provide such astounding services in the community centers that they are truly irreplaceable.

All the candidates also skewered the mayor for allowing all municipal workers» contracts to expire and setting aside no money for raises.

His new plan, however, would let the municipal workers receive either half the average salary or half the maximum salary for their position — minus overtime — depending on which figure is larger.

New York voters should force the de Blasio administration to sock away more money to cover municipal workers» future health costs, which are now more than $ 90 billion, a legislator said Monday.

The prevailing wage is an amount set by the comptroller's office that seeks to provide pay parity between municipal workers and private contractors for doing the same job.

[amNY] • Mike Bloomberg is not exactly kind to the city's parkers (who can forget «Stop griping»), but at least he's fair: The mayor's annoyed with municipal workers who whip out government car placards in non-emergency situations, and wants to kill the perk.

New York voters should force the de Blasio administration to sock away more money to cover municipal workers» future health costs, which are now more than $ 90 billion, Manhattan Councilman Dan Garodnick said.

Employees of NYC's violence - plagued jails system topped the list of municipal workers pulling in loads of overtime, but the highest earners were largely maintenance workers rather than uniformed officers.

The mayor, whose own administration has been partially responsible for pension fund growth, now wants to require most new municipal workers to work at least 10 years, or double the current amount, to qualify for a pension, and bar them from receiving pension checks until age 65.

The WRS covers state workers, teachers and most municipal workers.

Rangel has the Harlem political machine he has built over the last four decades and union support from 1199 / SEIU Healthcare Workers East and DC 37, the city's largest municipal workers union, to help him drive voters to the polls.

And in late 2008, just as the financial crisis began to explode, Mr. Bloomberg granted 4 percent raises for two consecutive years to the city's largest municipal workers» union, District Council 37, without extracting support for pension givebacks.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg proposed sweeping changes on Wednesday to New York's costly pension system, seeking to save billions of dollars by fundamentally altering long - established rules that have awarded generous retirement benefits to municipal workers and have deepened the city's financial hole.

The mayor wants to require most new municipal workers to work at least 10 years, or double the current amount, to qualify for a pension, and bar them from receiving pension checks until age 65.

The average raise of the 475 employees in the Mayor's Office was 6.7 percent, but two - thirds of staffers received the standard 2.5 percent bump given to DC37 municipal workers.

DEC is working alongside municipal workers and volunteers from local snowmobile clubs to open gates, complete trail maintenance, and groom trails, all to be ready for the snowmobiling season.»

More than $ 1.9 billion of the $ 3.4 billion the de Blasio administration claims to be saving in healthcare spending on municipal workers over four years is coming from budgetary gimmicks, new documents show.

John Liu's bid for comptroller received the backing of District Council 37 today, the largest municipal worker union in New York state, his campaign said.

«As president of the COBA and knowing full well of the backroom politics that has continued to plague the citizens of this state and municipal workers, I am proud to support Senator Jeff Klein for his leadership in reaching out to members of both sides of the aisle,» he told the press.

The former agreed to shelve pay raises for municipal workers; the latter helped stave off bankruptcy by buying city bonds with pension funds.

Most state and local municipal workers younger than 65 are limited to $ 30,000 a year if they return to the public payroll.

After leaving her union post in 1908 Bondfield worked as organising secretary for the WLL and later as women's officer for the National Union of General and Municipal Workers (NUGMW).

Presumptive GOP nominee Nicole Malliotakis said she'll institute a hiring freeze for all non-emergency municipal workers if elected mayor in November — and cut City Hall staffing by 10 percent...

The city's municipal workers earned an average of $ 69,124 last year — but the cost to taxpayers reached an eye - popping $ 106,743 because of skyrocketing fringe - benefit expenses, according to a report...

«There's been a tendency to take the solution out of the hide of the municipal workers, the tax payers and the people who use city services,» said Brodsky.

He has moved to lock up endorsements from 11 unions so far, including those representing teachers and municipal workers, and from the Working Families Party, which has helped many Democratic candidates in their ground game.

Meanwhile, her father (Matt Walsh), a municipal worker, creates an... [MORE]

David Cross makes his directorial debut with a comedy about a paranoid municipal worker named Dave, his The Voice obsessed 19 year old daughter, a wannabe teenage rapper and their neighbours in a small, working - class town in New York.

The city desperately needs structural reform to clean up its financial mess and to ensure adequate benefits for its teachers and municipal workers.

Amid the current economic uncertainty, myths are circulating about the pension programs and health insurance for municipal workers Municipal Labor Coalition Chairperson and Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association President Harry Nespoli and MLC Co-Chair and UFT President Randi Weingarten wrote in the Daily News on March 28, «These myths not only misrepresent the problems, they stand in the way of finding realistic solutions.»

While federal and provincial leaders debate how to solve the pension crisis during meetings in Whitehorse this week, an interesting proposal has been suggested by the head of Ontario's municipal workers pension plan: let anyone join a government employee pension plan.

Top: Municipal workers pick up a dump - truck - load of cat food, dog food, treats and supplies for Animals Need You on July 30, 2009.

I once spent a week sketching in Cartagena, Colombia, and got to know many of the city's municipal workers: a security guard at the Plaza de San Pedro Claver; the trash men who swept the streets; a coffee vendor named Wilmet.

His famous Rusakov Club, built for the Moscow Municipal Workers Union (1927 — 29), has three cantilevered wedges that suggest the teeth of a gear.

The Firm has defended a series of other young professionals charged with Domestic Assault, including bankers, pharmacists, TTC employees, construction and Municipal workers, real estate agents and even other members of the Law Society.

In this Jan. 31, 2018 file photo, Public Works Sub-Director Ramon Mendez, wearing a hard hat at left, works with locals who are municipal workers, from right, Eliezer Nazario, Tomas Martinez and Angel Diaz as they install...

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[74] In 2008, Corzine approved a law that increased the retirement age from 60 to 62, required that government workers and teachers earn $ 7,500 per year to qualify for a pension, eliminated Lincoln's Birthday as a state worker holiday, allowed the state to offer incentives not to take health insurance and required municipal employees work 20 hours per week to get health benefits.

In the U.S., deteriorating urban finances — from Detroit to Stockton, Calif. — threaten municipal bond holders, public - sector workers, and taxpayers.

That included backing from two chapters of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees representing county workers at Miami International Airport (Local 1542) and in the county's trash - hauling department (Local 3292).

High - priced government workers cost taxpayers in Illinois $ 10 billion a year, with municipal managers in areas surrounding Chicago reaping the most benefits.

Unable to obtain municipal funding, it declared bankruptcy last month, leaving a lot of parents up in the air and 12 child care workers unemployed.

Similar results can be expected from New York City's five municipal - worker pension funds, which also bank on 7 percent returns.

The lag would eliminate one day's pay from each two - week paycheck for 20 weeks for 4,800 white - and blue - collar workers who belong to the Association of Municipal Employees.

The New Year's Eve event will be hosted by the Association for a Better New York, Blasters, Drillrunners and Miners Local 29, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, Central Park Conservancy, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Municipal Art Society of New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York Historical Society, the New York Mets, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Transit Museum, Partnership for New York City, Real Estate Board of New York, Regional Plan Association, NYC Sandhogs Local 147, Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Every time a municipal union worker is threatened with replacement, we are warned of imminent disaster.

The taxpayer subsidy for Aetna spotlights how, while state and municipal budget constraints have forced cuts to social services and layoffs of public workers, lucrative corporate incentives continue to flow out of public coffers to politically connected companies.