Sentences with phrase «public unions give»

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In 1973 I gave the lectures (at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati) that would be published as The Broken Covenant in 1975, and would in turn project me into an intensive year of public speaking during the 1976 Bicentennial.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

We're also one of the only public schools to have guaranteed recess for every kid, everyday — it's a gift from our teachers who voluntarily gave - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise it.

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Ministers are being urged by unions to give public sector in - house bids equal consideration as firms gather in London to hear about the next round of possible privatisations.

Public employee union leaders slammed Gov. David Paterson for giving five of his staffers big raises as he pushed a furlough plan for state workers.

If he wins, get ready for another four years of investigations of the Governor since the public employee unions won't give an inch, and Schneiderman will be with them every step of the way.

In advance of the U.S. Supreme Court's Janus decision, a provision tucked into the state budget gives public - employee unions the right to deny many services, such as free legal help, to covered employees who opt not to join or pay dues.

Scrutiny should also give a public voice to those seeking to be heard by the Government in the negotiations — businesses, trade unions, civil society generally, the devolved administrations, Gibraltar, and the Channel Islands.

But that would mean getting legislators to partially dismantle the kind of advantages that powerful public employee unions have enjoyed for years, and which they are unlikely to give up without a fight.

The report, «By the People: The New York City Campaign Finance Program in the 2013 Elections,» shows, among other things, that: the number of candidates participating in the public - funding system in 2013 remained high; more than two - thirds of all New York City contributors gave $ 175 or less; and more than 90 percent of the total raised came from individual contributors, rather than from PACs or unions.

«What we're saying by contributing to her, is that we're encouraging her to maintain a strong voice in public life,» said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which recently gave her a maximum donation.

And then there was the announcement made at the State of the Union a few weeks earlier that Schneiderman would co-chair a multi-agency task force to investigate the mortgage crisis, a move that gave the onetime state senator a public profile for the first time in his life.

To help keep them afloat, # 22m of public money has been given to them to this year, while another # 277m will be injected over the next four years — figures that only emerged after Private Eye trawled through the obscure Official Journal of the European Union, which requires publication of such payments by member states.

Given that, unions are at least as necessary in the public sector as the private.

Large public sector trade unions the GMB and PCS fail to advertise on their membership forms that subscription fees include an optional levy let alone giving them the right to opt - in or opt - out of paying.

It was not the kind of budget that Gordon Brown would have given — full of spending on public services aimed at propitiating the public sector unions... Alistair Darling may have delivered the budget but Lord Mandelson is its co-owner.»

Repeal of the Triborough Amendment will establish a more equitable collective bargaining system in New York's public sector, preserving basic union rights while giving local officials the tools they now lack to negotiate needed changes to costly and outmoded contracts.

Paterson spokesman Morgan Hook defended his boss» decision not to continue his own 10 percent pay cut, saying: «(The governor) has already given back more of his salary than any public - employee union member.»

The state's Labor Law gives state agencies and public authorities broad discretion to require bidders to enter into project labor agreements (PLAs), essentially collective bargaining agreements with groups of labor unions.

Given the negative and selfish rhetoric we've heard from the leaders of the various public employee unions this year when Governor Paterson has asked them to share in the general belt - tightening that so many New Yorkers have been enduring as the result of the Great Recession, one might assume that if taxpayers knew that their gift was paying the salaries of state workers, they would not be so benevolently disposed toward our program.

Unions representing public sector workers that do not fall into one of the categories mentioned above gave Senate Democrats $ 749,442, Senate Republicans $ 362,207, and Assembly Democrats $ 824,346.

Dick Dadey, head of the New York - based Citizens Union, noted that while the practice is legal, this year's pitch is tone deaf to public sentiment, given the recent flurry of pay - to - pay probes.

We need repeal of union give - aways like the Triborough Amendment which rigs union contracts and benefits, repeal of the Wicks Law which raises public construction costs, reform of binding arbitration rules affecting police and fire contracts, and movement toward defined contribution pension plans for public employees.»

«The purpose of the council is to ask state employees to advise and make recommendations to the governor relating to employee / employer relations; to give front - line state employees a stronger voice in Frankfort; and to create a two - way communication mechanism between front - line state merit employees and the governor's office,» according to the state Personnel Cabinet website, which links to several public employee unions.

The threat of compulsory redundancy given to hundreds of benefits staff today (6) is a «reckless and provocative» act, the Public and Commercial Services union says.

The Cuomo campaign is very sensitive to possibly being labled «anti-union», and so is making a clear distinction between private unions that, as one source explained to me, «represent real working people», and public sector unions whose expensive contracts and pensions and refusals to agree to give - backs has labled them special interest No. 1 in many minds.

A recent survey of 500 professors by the union found 85 % believed for - profit providers would offer lower quality courses than public universities, if they were given the green light to expand.

McConnell's comments followed an interview by House Speaker by Nancy Pelosi that also aired on State of the Union where the California Democrat said the public option was «an alternative to give much more leverage to the individual.»

Mr. Rodriguez, the representative of the district where the rally took place, argued that the Assembly had given a great deal to teachers unions and public education advocates by proposing a $ 1.8 billion outlay for schools in the budget.

«A survey of nearly 4,000 company bosses in the UK shows more than three - quarters back giving the public a say on membership of the European Union.

This is because those rules were long ago written into labor contracts, giving public employee unions a veto over any reforms.

Yet even if his rhetoric were more restrained, Barron would still be the wrong choice, given his role as a tool of the public - sector unions — who, to their disgrace, are now backing his candidacy.

Repeal of the Triborough Amendment would establish a more equitable collective bargaining system in New York's public sector, preserving basic union rights while giving local officials the tools they now lack to negotiate needed changes to costly and outmoded contracts.

A provision tucked into the state budget gives public - employee unions the right to deny many services, such as free legal help, to covered...

Gordon Brown has admitted he would like to contribute more on the public stage after giving his first speech since leaving Downing Street - at an African Union meeting in Kampala.

On another, he was the leader of a 9,000 - strong public employees union with unusually high dues of $ 45 per paycheck — 50 percent higher, to be exact, than the $ 30 rate of the Correction Captains Association, for example — giving him plenty of cash to lavish on pliant politicians.

Dick Dadey of the Citizens Union good - government group, who supported Agata's choice, «Given the need for our public ethics enforcement agency to be as transparent as possible, providing this information seems like a no - brainer to me.»

The real problem remains however as to how exactly the arguments can be got across to the public when the media, and particularly the tabloids, are determined not to give a fair hearing to potential strikers, but will seize the opportunity to demonise the unions (and the Labour Party too) as wreckers or worse.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- The leader of the state's largest public employee union says the workers are willing to make financial concessions to Gov. Scott Walker but will not give up their collective bargaining rights.

In order to establish what kind of organisation the CRC is, openDemocracy has previously examined the public records relating to every type of group that was allowed to give money to referendum campaigns — from the register of trade unions to the Gibraltarian Companies House.

While acknowledging that he faces an uphill struggle, Hawkins listed a number of things that will impact on his viability: one, that he be included in a series of debates (a critical factor for Ventura); second, that the public employee unions whose members have been under assault by Cuomo provide him with support; and third, that the media give him equal coverage and status in the narrative of the campaign.

Perry of NYCLU and a host of good government groups including Citizens Union, the New York Public Interest Research Group, and Common Cause New York say that the governor has given no evidence that these new disclosure rules for nonprofits will do anything to impact corruption.

If the public employee unions do not quickly find a way to give back, they will be stripped of their dues paying members and financially destroyed.

In a recent op - ed published by the New York Daily News, the father of two Brooklyn public school students gives a first - hand account of just how important it is that the teachers» union and City officials come to an agreement on a new teacher evaluation deal.

«It took them a little while, but (Governors Office of Employee Relations) gave them permission,» said Craig Hammer, a DOH employee and health and safety steward for the Public Employees Federation union.

The raises had become an overnight distraction since they were revealed Tuesday, said Morgan Hook, a Paterson spokesman, adding public employee unions should also give up their 4 percent raises due this year — a move that could end furlough talk.

On Tuesday evening, The Times Union reported that Cuomo has empowered Schwartz under the Moreland Act, giving him «the power to issue civil subpoenas,» which the Cuomo administration confirmed, though it still declined to make any documentation public.

[47] He has also expressed distaste for public service labor unions, which he has compared to pigs, [53] and is an outspoken critic of state laws such as the Wicks Law, which sets prevailing wage requirements, [49] and the Taylor Law, which gives unions significant negotiating advantages in exchange for prohibiting them from striking.

The Government may be cautious about direct attacks on the trade unions but this morning's newspapers give a sense of the coming confrontation between the powerful public sector unions and the people who depend upon public services.