Sentences with phrase «accept wage freezes»

By adopting a corporate philosophy of including employees in decision - making, they will be more likely to accept wage freezes and other cuts, says Holland.

Some critics worried that asking teachers to accept a wage freeze was unfair.

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The lawmakers who endorsed the wage freeze but accepted raises were: Calarco; Sarah Anker (D - Mount Sinai); Lou D'Amaro (D - North Babylon); DuWayne Gregory (D - Amityville); Tom Muratore (R - Ronkonkoma); Jay Schneiderman (I - Montauk); and William Spencer (D - Centerport).

The governor also called on teachers to accept temporary wage freezes and to increase their share of health benefit costs while blasting school administrators for making more than he does.

For about three years, the MTA — following a pattern that Cuomo's administration sought from unions throughout the state — demanded that LIRR workers accept a five - year pact with three years of wage freezes and several other concessions.

This is hardly surprising, but it's also worth noting that the WFP has agreed to embrace Cuomo's «New NY Agenda» — a condition laid out by the AG in order for him to accept the party's nod — which includes a property tax cap, creation of another pension tier and a wage freeze for public employees, among other proposals of which many unions (mostly the progressive and public sector types) aren't fond.

A uniformed - union leader who's since retired once recalled an early conversation with Governor Cuomo about what was in store for public employees at a time when Mr. Cuomo was leaning on state - employee unions to accept a three - year wage freeze and sizable increases in their health - care premiums.

His statement this weekend, at the Fabian conference, that he endorses Osborne's public sector wage freeze until the end of this Parliament — possibly 3.5 years away — and accepts all the government's spending cuts finally crosses a red line.

This request comes as the County is still calculating savings from early retirees, who are not required to state their intention to retire until early October, the fact that County Executive Picente is looking to work with unions to freeze wages for this coming year, and because of the need to plan for appropriate job losses in the event that the wage freeze proposal is not accepted.