Sentences with phrase «bargaining power of the state»

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In December, as Greek policy - makers approved yet another round of budget cuts — tough legislation that caps salaries at state - owned companies, cuts many state salaries by 10 % and diminishes collective bargaining power — some 20,000 protestors jammed the streets in the country's seventh general strike that year.

Cuomo's role in crafting the state's spending plan provides his primary power over the education system, and it also offers him maximum leverage in negotiating with lawmakers, because he typically has lots of bargaining chips.

The Republican minority, however, would gain bargaining power and the ability to help override or sustain a veto on important issues such as the adoption of a state budget or even a redistricting plan.

So a key element of the charter bargain is the state's handing off an essential power.

Greater power over the curriculum and the choice of texts has been a long - standing goal of the California teachers unions, which have sought, unsuccessfully, to pass state legislation that would have placed the issue squarely into collective bargaining negotiations.

Gov. Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Tom Menino — both Democrats with histories of strong labor support — are proposing new state laws that would give them broader power to overhaul troubled schools, open more charter schools and revamp collective - bargaining agreements.

Many school districts in the state extended teacher contracts through the 2011 - 2012 school year after Act 10, Gov. Scott Walker's law gutting collective bargaining powers of most public employees, was implemented in 2011.

Since Evers was first elected in 2009, Republicans have all but eliminated teachers unions» collective bargaining power, expanded the number of private voucher and independent charter schools, fought Evers» adoption of the Common Core State Standards and changed the way school success is measured.

Over the last quarter century, the teachers unions have clearly been the most powerful force in American education, and they have clearly been using their extraordinary power — in collective bargaining at the local level, in the political process at the state and national levels — to undermine major reform and to burden the schools (via seniority provisions, the protection of bad teachers, and all the rest) with ineffective forms of organization.

Offering a fascinating window onto the battle of ideas that raged as United States was catapulted to the status of a global power by its industrial might, Banquet at Delmonico's will make an enjoyable read for anyone wanting to learn about an eminently relevant era of U.S. history and have some fun in the bargain.

Adding to solar energy's prospects in the Sunshine State, independent solar power industry participants, pro-solar advocates, homeowners, and business and property owners are demonstrating that they are increasingly well - organized and intent on protecting their basic rights and leveraging their collective political and bargaining power and influence to help ensure that solar energy plays a key, core role in the future of power and energy in Florida.

Assumes that the power of «right to work «s states to attract jobs remains diminished based on continued loss of bargaining power by labor unions.

Some Conservative MPs, who will have their say on the Bill when it returns to the House of Commons in two weeks» time, had argued that giving guarantees to EU citizens in Britain would reduce the UK's bargaining power in negotiations over the status of its own nationals living in Member States.

I'll close with this quote from USSC Chief Justice Hughes in the 1937 decision in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, he states: «The exploitation of a class of workers who are in an unequal position with respect to bargaining power and are thus relatively defenseless against the denial of a living wage is not only detrimental to their health and well being, but casts a direct burden for their support upon the community.»

It seems wrong that the coercive power of the state should be used to force an unconsented transfer from A to B where the operation of the open market has failed to generate the required bargain by means of normal arm's length dealing.

It is the practice of law when the outcome of a process is to produce legal agreements — contracts — enforceable by a court of law and the state's police power, and which in fact will affect an individual's legal rights for years to come (notwithstanding the interests - based win - win versus rights - based positional bargaining structure to get there).