Sentences with phrase «as union officials»

There is also good progress being made on cutting «facility time staffing costs» - this is the scandal where staff are paid by the taxpayer by spend their time working as union officials, the «Pilgrims.»

The state and federal probe into the de Blasio Administration has expended to include Emma Wolfe, the mayor's director of intergovernmental affairs, as well as union officials and consulting firms with longstanding ties to City Hall, WCBS 880's Stephanie Colombini reported.

What's more, as a union official told our reporter Rob Kuznia, the bonuses could also serve the purpose of persuading those who never receive them to quit the profession.

Not exact matches

As the Trump administration considers what action to take on trade tariffs on steel and aluminum, European Union and Chinese officials are considering taking aim at politically strategic products made in the U.S., such as bourbon and motorcycleAs the Trump administration considers what action to take on trade tariffs on steel and aluminum, European Union and Chinese officials are considering taking aim at politically strategic products made in the U.S., such as bourbon and motorcycleas bourbon and motorcycles.

Canadian trade officials are currently lobbying Spanish and European Union officials to ensure artificial icewine is not labelled as the real deal.

The Canadian side isn't quite as bullish on prospects for an immediate deal:» (It would be) a bit of a challenge,» Canada's chief negotiator, Steve Verheul, said before a meeting with union officials in Ottawa.

It started with Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in March, and it has been followed by a cascading series of punches and counterpunches: U.S. sanctions on Kremlin officials, Putin's support for Ukraine separatists, more penalties against Russia, and then counter-sanctions as Russia banned the U.S., the European Union, Norway, Australia, and Canada from selling billions of dollars» worth of fruits, vegetables, fish, and meats to Russia.

«The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 spawned thousands of powerful crime gangs — collectively known as the Russian mafia — and some of these groups, officials warn, are establishing bases among emigre communities in the United States, particularly in South Brooklyn.»

Airbus confirmed Wednesday that it plans to spin off several manufacturing sites and shed about 10,000 jobs as part of a long - awaited restructuring plan, union officials said.

Despite what officials described as a warm meeting, China and the European Union could not agree on a broader final communique meant to focus on a range of other issues discussed at the talks, including a commitment to free trade and measures needed to reduce a global steel glut.

European Union officials have said they plan to probe the matter as well.

Trade union officials, as surveyed by the Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training (ACIRRT), have revised up their forecasts of inflation for the year to June 2001 in recent quarters, reflecting the incorporation of the effect of the GST on prices by more respondents.

Trade union officials, as surveyed by the Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training (ACIRRT), have raised their inflation forecasts for the year to June 2001.

Sales tax on catering may be the largest difference between Greece and its creditors as they negotiate rescue arrangements this week, according to two European Union officials.

Then again, services like CarAmigo can expand all over the European Union as well, yet Belgian government officials have created their own set of rules without waiting for the EU's decision.

If there is a «treasury of the Church» (D 550 - 2,757,1541; Paul VI, Indulgentiarum Doctrina) which consists actually in the active union with God of all justified Christians, then this, too, makes it clear that all acts of those justified in the Holy Spirit constitute the very life of the Church, hence that the action of the Church is not the same as the action of her official representatives or what is done explicitly in their name.

This guidance attracted a great deal of criticism as it stated that clergy could not take part in gay marriages and that no official liturgy would be produced for those who wish to bless same - sex unions.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

The first is the Traffic Light (TL) system, developed by the UK Food Standards Agency, where nutrients of greatest public health significance (total fat, saturated fat, sugar and sodium) are ranked and colour - coded as either high (red), medium (amber) or low (green), based on cut - points established by the European Regulation for Nutrition and Health Claims (Official Journal of the European Union, 2006).

The SFA, in an unprecedented unilateral decision by its «urgency committee», has dismissed the arbitrators chosen by the Serbian Players Union and appointed officials with links to the biggest clubs, Red Star and Partizan Belgrade, as the chamber's chairman and vice-chairman, who typically will have the casting vote in disputes.

As the Chicago Board of Education prepares to approve a 2011 - 12 budget Wednesday, school officials and the teachers union are battling publicly over related issues of withdrawn raises and the mayor's push for a longer school day.

Park District Supt. Forrest Claypool, who met with employees and union officials Tuesday, characterized the latest interest in privatization as «testing the market.»

As principals got a better sense this week of their school's budget for the coming year, officials with the Chicago Teachers Union and privately run charter schools — which rarely agree on anything — both sounded an alarm over the effects of potential funding cuts.

Five months after Rory Lamont, the former Scotland full - back, lifted the lid in an exclusive Scotsman interview on a culture within sport that treated concussion as a temporary, minor injury, rugby unions, leading sports medics, government officials and other sporting bodies have begun to accept that some of their practices in managing head injuries were inadequate.

Mr Awah, at the ongoing AASU Delegates Congress in Khartoum, Sudan has fraudulently chosen his friends and cronies as official representatives of national student unions across Africa including Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone among others for the purposes of electing his friends into office as his tenure as Secretary General of the continental student body ends this weekend.

With the Lisbon Treaty, the member states of the European Union (EU) established a European External Action Service (EEAS), otherwise known as the «European foreign service», consisting of several thousand officials drawn from the EU institutions and national diplomatic offices.

At a union hall rally today, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the official kickoff of the «Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice,» or as the twitter handle calls it, «@Fightfor15NY.»

Although they haven't been anywhere near as public about it as their colleagues at CSEA, officials at the statewide teachers union, NYSUT, have also quietly turned off the campaign cash spigot and is reassessing its contribution habits for everyone from Gov. Andrew Cuomo on down following the passage of Tier VI.

A government source said: «As part of its preparations for leaving the European Union, officials from across Whitehall are undertaking a wide range of ongoing analysis.

As part of the union's long - standing commitment to civil rights, the NY Hotel Trades Council organized a delegation of 360 members and officials to represent the union in the march.

He then went on to study Politics and History at Swansea University after which he returned to the Valuation Agency and then full time as a trades union official for the Public and Commercial Services Union, a role he held until until union official for the Public and Commercial Services Union, a role he held until until Union, a role he held until until 2004.

But Clarke did speak with Spectrum News: «I'm on a mission right now, and that mission is, as one of the headlines in the, uh, Times Union I think is the newspaper here, «Trump boosting ex-lawman comes to Albany,» uh, I'm a huge supporter of the president of the United States, I work with America First Action, the official Trump PAC, I'm a senior spokesman for the PAC and the objectives of the PAC.

Those events unfolded as the state teachers union on Wednesday filed the first official petition asking State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to take action against the Buffalo board member.

Union officials also argued that Elia did not consider whether Cash attempted to negotiate with the union «in good faith,» as the receivership law requUnion officials also argued that Elia did not consider whether Cash attempted to negotiate with the union «in good faith,» as the receivership law requunion «in good faith,» as the receivership law requires.

His older brother, Michael, was employed at the same time as a bag man for organized crime boss John Gotti Sr. and shook down union officials for payoffs.

At 8 a.m., more than than 100 community, law enforcement and religious officials participate in a «Cops, Community, Clergy» multi-faith prayer breakfast organized as part of efforts to improve community - police relations; Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway, Manhattan.

«We are strongly convinced that people seeing as their mission to disrupt or dissolve the European Union should not be accredited as official representatives to the EU,» the letter said.

Pushing Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia to recognize Russian as an official language could be seen as either legitimizing the Soviet Union's colonization of these countries, and / or legitimizing potential future claims by Russia to parts (or all) of the territory of these countries.

The first problem for Blair was that the right wing was split into two slates — the AEEU - backed Labour First slate made up of individuals tied to right wing unions, and a number of other Blairites, such as actor Michael Cashman, retired USDAW official Diana Jeuda and Scottish party official - turned - lobbyist Jack McConnell.

While OGS officials and the unions have met a half - dozen times since last May, Kent said PEF was shocked to learn Wednesday that the plan is effectively final despite what she described as unanswered questions.

Representatives of the 600,000 - member union, in response, pointed out that Education Department officials responsible for supervising teacher evaluations had themselves cited the union - endorsed scoring system as one that districts could adopt.

Faso was never accused of a crime or personally held liable for the improper pension contact, but the Albany Times Union cited «a source close to the investigation» in reporting that «Faso arranged or tried to arrange meetings between the investment firm Kellner DiLeo & Co. and officials at the state Common Retirement Fund, as well as the teachers, police and firefighter funds.»

The salty speech came on a day when union officials discussed hot - button issues such as teacher seniority rights and charter schools.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's office did an abrupt about - face Wednesday over plans to use the Queens Detention Complex as an additional Department of Corrections training facility, after receiving sharp criticism from the correction officers» union and key Queens officials, who say they were never briefed on the decision.

Bill became a postman in Liverpool in 1974, and after 18 years as a lay union activist before becoming a full time official in various capacities and being elected general secretary in 2001.

Several officials, including the head of the NYPD's biggest union, former mayor Rudy Giuliani, for whom Bratton served as police chief in the 1990s, and former Gov. George Pataki have criticized the mayor in the wake of the officers» deaths and ongoing protests against grand jury decisions not to indict police in the Garner and Brown cases.

There was a reason why even FDR was against public employees unions and I quote «All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, can not be transplanted into the public service, It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management» «The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations» «The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress.

Mayor Stephanie Miner weighed in on police staffing levels, after weeks of comments from police officials and the union president about needing more cops, saying while everyone wants more personnel, the cash - strapped city simply can't afford as many police as the chiefs would like.

City officials in the state capital have been focusing as well on the concerns of individual Democratic members of the Assembly — partly to please Mr. Heastie — while also laying out their priorities to unions and other allies who can carry that message for them.

Democratic elected officials aligned with the city and state teachers unions see charters as a thinly - veiled, well - moneyed effort to erode job protections for teachers.