Sentences with phrase «battling over pensions»

A battle over pension reform threatens to derail the Pennsylvania state budget in the wake of a report which shows sharply rising retirement costs for school districts around the Keystone State.

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British Gas engineers will take part in five 24 - hour strikes in the coming weeks in a battle with the company over pension rights.

In the first term, Cuomo battled public labor unions over the Tier Six pension measure, cut a deal with lawmakers in the Assembly and Senate to draw their own legislative boundaries, capped property taxes and was hesitant to embrace taxing the rich that was called for by the nascent Occupy Wall Street movement.

Labour unions have for the past seven years battled government over payment of their second - tier pension funds.

And the controversy over public pensions is helping to fuel a broader battle in statehouses across the country between public unions and elected leaders who want to curb their influence.

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.

But early on as governor he was at odds with public - sector labor groups, including public employee unions he battled over contract renewals as well as a new, less generous pension tier during his first term.

«This coming year is the most important year in our history as we face battles over jobs, privatisation, pensions, pay and our terms and conditions.

... That was lead of David Rubin's column in today's Syracuse Post-Standard, in which he sided with the city's mayor, Stephanie Miner, in her ongoing verbal battle with Gov. Andrew Cuomo over the governor's controversial pension smoothing proposal.

Lord Mandelson tonight raised the stakes in the battle over the future of the Royal Mail by releasing a letter from its pension trustees warning that if part privatisation does not go ahead, staff may have to see the value of their pension slashed in half.

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New ways to evaluate teachers and old battles over teacher pensions and benefits.

The one - day walkout was designed to draw attention to ongoing the contract battle between the teachers union and CPS administrators, who are wrangling over pay, pension and staffing levels in the cash - strapped school district.

In Kentucky, a battle over educators» pension benefits has raised the possibility of a teachers» strike there, too.