Sentences with phrase «be-hired public workers»

The negotiation of a «fair» agreement for taxpayers with Quebec's 430,000 public workers, whose payroll absorbed 59 per cent — or $ 37.3 billion — of government spending in 2013 - 14.

Whether the employees in that hatchet - job just referenced were on a lunch break or waiting for a call - out is immaterial to those whose mission in life is to portray all public workers as lazy and overpaid.

Public workers are hired on merit, not political affiliation, and are expected to do their work conscientiously in the public interest, not act as political assistants to the party in power.

This program program offers downpayments as low as $ 100 and homes at a 50 % discount to some public workers.

I'll be speaking at the second one, at 10:45 in the same room, along with the national leaders of NUPGE (representing provincial workers) and CUPE (representing municipal workers) about the contribution of public workers to greater equality by improving the lives of marginalized Canadians — the unemployed, the homeless, single parents, recent immigrants, senior citizens, and others.

Cuts landing everywhere, massive workload increases, discrimination, disrespect, workplace bullying and harassment (one in five federal public workers report being harassed at work, nearly two - thirds of them by their managers)-- the causes are many.

Well, we could start with a systematic and sympathetic approach to mental ill - health among federal public workers.

The city of 300,000 plans to cut payments to bondholders while leaving intact pension obligations to public workers and retirees.

Motown took a step closer to bankruptcy last week when the state - appointed fix - it man called on bondholders and public workers to accept steep cuts.

Among the proposals, Orr asked bondholders and current public workers to accept deep cuts on their respective investments and retirement plans.

If the Catholic organization hires public workers and those workers pay taxes, they have every right to this coverage.

Many Muslims are farmers, and in the cities there are many Muslim merchants as well as doctors, engineers, lawyers, teachers, and public workers.

Rev Neil Galbraith's comments come after Boris Johnson's refused to confirm reports he's the latest cabinet minister pressing for public workers to be given bigger pay rises.

>> It's the governments place to ensure that those hiring public workers provide the same coverage to them as they would anyone else.

American women are offered 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which exempts companies with fewer than 50 paid employees, but in 2011, only 11 percent of private sector workers and 17 percent of public workers reported that they had access to paid maternity leave through their employer.

Look what he did to his own employees, and made the average New Yorker hate public workers.

«Taxpayers are ultimately responsible for backing public pension benefits and paying public worker salaries.

Cuomo's budget calls for the new plan that would only impact future public workers.

The leadership of the state's largest public workers union says the proposal also raises questions and uncertainty for local government employees.

When Zephyr Teachout, then a little - known Fordham Law School professor, challenged Cuomo in a primary four years ago, one of the state's largest public workers unions, PEF, endorsed her, while NYSUT decided to sit out the governor's race entirely, declining to pick a favorite.

By attacking public workers, they can demonize «big labor» and «big government» at the same time, while deflecting attention from the more logical target of Middle America's rage: the irresponsible Wall Street traders, whose risky, high - profit business practices brought down the economy, and the lax regulators who let them get away with it.

The lavish lifestyle of public workers is a myth, but the right - wing mythmakers know it's a powerful talking point.

The measure does include some safeguards to protect the state's more than one million retired public workers.

Other top lobbying spenders have consistently been on the list in recent years, including health care interests, the trial lawyers, and public worker unions.

We have legislation that is not very clear in Iceland about when public workers, the bureaucrats in the system, have a duty to report or a duty to be silent.

Apart from that, it seems that if a public worker is sentenced to more than three years of prison he would lose his place and could not apply for a new one after he were released.

More than seven months after Republican Gov. John Kasich signed it into law, Ohioans have repealed SB 5, the anti-union legislation that would curb collective bargaining rights for 350,000 public workers and gut the political power of public - sector unions.

Public worker unions are beginning to launch a series of television ads opposing the new, less generous pension tier for future state workers.

A case that was heard Monday in the U.S. Supreme Court and will be decided later on this year could have a big impact on public worker unions in New York.

The taxpayer subsidy for Aetna spotlights how, while state and municipal budget constraints have forced cuts to social services and layoffs of public workers, lucrative corporate incentives continue to flow out of public coffers to politically connected companies.

The measure does include some safeguards to protect the state's more than 1 million retired public workers.

The case challenges whether unions can collect what are known as agency fees from public workers who do not choose to join the labor organization.

Voters last week showed they were upset with Cuomo's treatment of public workers, schools and his refusal to ban fracking, issues that Hawkins disagrees with Cuomo and Astorino on.

DiNapoli has been critical of 401 (k) style pension plans, a major component of the governor's proposed Tier VI for new public workers.

The recall election spurred by anger over changes Walker pushed through the Legislature last year to effectively end collective bargaining rights for most public workers is the most prominent campaign in the nation after the presidential race.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Union backers are decrying a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling upholding a law supported by Gov. Scott Walker that takes away most collective bargaining rights from nearly all public workers.

And in what is practically a rite of summer in labor - friendly Albany, there are dozens of bills to «sweeten» the pensions of public workers.

The public workers are upset with him.

This is supposed to be the way to keep so - called hard - to - replace teachers, policemen, firemen, engineers and other public workers on their jobs as they near retirement.

CWA New Jersey Endorses Tom Malinowski for Congress Democratic congressional candidate Tom Malinowski has picked up the endorsement of the Communication Workers of America New Jersey, one of the state's largest public worker unions.

Still, that looming debt matters, McMahon said in his annual look at the rising costs of healthcare for retired public workers.

«The government decided unilaterally to impose austerity measures without consultation, and public workers have not been paid for months.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he spoke with Republicans in neighboring Iowa as they prepared to vote on a bill that would eliminate most collective bargaining rights for public workers there.

That bill applied to all public workers, which even supporters in the Senate agreed wasn't the intent of the measure.

Recently, the IDC Leader, Senator Jeff Klein, and the other conference members were joined by heads of the major public workers labor unions to promote bills to make it easier to join a union.

The Assembly effort is significant because the chamber dropped out of a three - way 2015 agreement with the Senate and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, because it and public union leaders found the proposal to apply to all public workers too broad.

The current bill would change a constitutional protection for public workers that their pension «shall not be diminished or impaired.»

Public worker unions are expected to soon air TV ads opposing cuts, emphasizing that deep cuts will mean layoffs for New Yorkers and reduced services for the elderly, the infirm and the poor, many of them children.

Cuomo has been at odds with public workers on several fronts, pushing for a cap on local property tax increases and reducing pensions for new employees.

Stephen Madarasz, spokesman for the CSEA — the union representing many public workers in New York — says the economic downturn, and the subsequent tightening of state and local budgets, has put workers at risk.