Sentences with phrase «battle over workers»

Not exact matches

«Over the past year, city workers and their unions have had to fight major battles to protect rights that we fought hard to win as well as to preserve the vital safety - net services we provide to an ever - growing clientele.

DiNapoli is close and quite popular with the public workers unions whose pension fund he manages and Cuomo, as governor, was preparing to do battle with state workers over a less generous contract, threatening layoffs in the process.

And it's hit a new low over the battle on 421a, with Cuomo taking a pro-union stance and de Blasio arguing that the need for housing trumped the issue of a prevailing wage for workers.

De Blasio commended sanitation workers for their role in helping the city rebuild following Hurricane Sandy in 2012, as he battles the federal government over how effectively the city managed funds provided for the Build It Back program for homeowners and faces pressure from City Council members to speed up the rebuilding of homes.

Battles over state worker furloughs and threats of a government shutdown.

Despite the conclusion of one of the more controversial contract battles in recent history between the Civil Service Employees Association and the executive branch, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NY's largest state workers union remain at odds over a host of issues.

In the House, Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler assembled the James Zadroga Health and Compensation Act, a bill that would end the need for yearly battles over patchwork appropriations to cover the care for World Trade Center workers and neighbors.

[122] He added, «You see, despite a lot of the rhetoric we've heard over the past 11 days the bill I put forward isn't aimed at state workers, and it certainly isn't a battle with unions.

But the Yemeni government, with the help of a Saudi - led coalition, is battling Shiite Houthi rebels backed by Iran and there were concerns over whether the vaccine could be used effectively as battles raged in parts of the country, and whether administering it might distract health workers from treating patients, a cornerstone of epidemic response.

Earlier this year, teachers joined the battle over Wisconsin public workers» collective bargaining rights.

Then, in 2005, Kevin Keays, an assembly line worker at the Honda Plant in Alliston, Ontario, was fired in the midst of a battle over Honda's sceptical efforts to accommodate his chronic fatigue syndrome.

It looks like the insurance companies in Maryland workers» compensation cases want to end run any battles over anything and everything related to independent medical exams.

Another legal battle over whether English law requires employers to boost workers» holiday pay to include commission payments has commenced in the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT).

Meanwhile, the battle continues over efforts to enact the 2013 Labor Department rules regarding home care workers» pay.

But Walmart would still likely face a battle from the City's labor unions and other activist groups over the low wages it pays its workers and over the amount of traffic its store might create.