Sentences with phrase «because union dues»

«The position is that because union dues are deductible, there is a beneficial tax position,» explains Andrew Tremayne, a partner at Emond Harnden, a management - side labour and employment law firm in Toronto.

Because union dues are unreimbursed employee expenses necessary for union membership, deducting union dues is permitted for the following:

Not exact matches

This is a good argument for asking to reduce your income tax deductions at source if you regularly get a refund because you pay union dues, childcare costs, contribute to your RRSP or donate to charity (among other things).

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.

A PLA is negotiated behind closed doors between the Owner of the project and the trade union; one party politically motivated to protect the unions because they are heavy campaign contributors — and the other party that is only concerned with keeping their members working so that they can collect hefty union dues from them.

While an MP might owe his or her place in parliament, or even cabinet, not due to patronage from above, but because he was an NUM MP, or had backing from the public sector unions, or the London Labour Party etc, s / he could enter into those discussions pre-vote from a position of real stregnth.

Ms Williams explained that the Liberal Democrats and Tories had been excluded because «we wanted to have candidates more representative of trade unions» but that not inviting the Greens had been «an oversight» due to the less prominent tradition of green politics in Wales.

Government unions will likely continue to push to weaken the cap because it's been an effective curb on the growth of government spending, causing some unions to collect less money in dues than they would have otherwise.

Lippman recently told the Times Union that a delay in approving the chief judge could impede the court's operation — especially because it's already down one member due to the resignation last summer of Judge Susan Read.

«It's always easy for the unions to compromise on issues affecting future workers, because those workers aren't hired, aren't paying dues and aren't voting.»

Several states have ruled that public unions must require non-union employees to pay dues because they benefit from union powers.

«Our party has always been a broad church, and despite my principled differences with Jeremy over many issues of defence, foreign policy and national security, I agreed to serve on his front bench because of the mandate he was given, his assurances that honesty and difference were welcomed, and due to the many areas we agreed wholeheartedly on such as fighting the vicious Tory trade union bill - which I was proud to lead our work on - cuts to tax credits and tackling climate change.

She says she doesn't belong to the local chapter of the teachers» union, the National Education Association (NEA), because «part of our dues goes to fund abortions.»

Collecting dues on their own is more costly and less productive for unions because it is easier for teachers to opt out.

The teacher, Barbara Wolfe, refused to pay dues to the Helena Education Association, an affiliate of the National Education Association, because of the national union's support for abortion rights and birth control.

He said that fully understanding this dynamic is essential to making sense of why education policy «has been such a disappointment for a quarter century,» because schools are organized like they are largely due to the pressures exerted by teacher unions.

This is less than ideal for the unions, because they don't collect dues in exchange for pushing through legislation like they can for representing members to achieve the same ends through collective bargaining.

Teachers unions like having more members on the payroll simply because then the unions can fill their coffers with more dues money.

Because charter school teachers wouldn't have to join the WEA local, the union wouldn't collect dues from them and would lose clout, they say.

But Evans said that money could be seen as in - state dollars because it came from teachers union dues.

Lindsey said he's concerned about future growth in WEAC because of teachers» wage increases being limited by Walker's Act 10, as well as a swath of young teachers who may not make enough annually to feel inclined to join a union and pay dues.

The latest union complaint, in New Mexico, argues that the evaluations violate teachers» due process rights because they are «based on flawed methodology, erroneous records, and inaccurate data.»

One such executive, AFT's Kombiz Lavasany, asserted that the report was «sadly dishonest [because the] vast majority of union dues support things universally supported,» such as «work to represent and work for better pay, work conditions, professionalism.»

There's no way to get around it, because the teacher - union leaders have bundled their political activities with those valuable benefits into comprehensive membership dues.

At the very same time, the Washington Teachers Union faced a similar threat because of non-payment of national dues.

Implementation wouldn't be that hard, because the largest teacher unions already keep their books so that they can break dues revenue into two categories:

In this scenario, the teacher is still forced to pay about two - thirds of full dues because the union claims it's forced to represent you in collective bargaining.

However, it is clearly in the best interest of the union to be the only representative for teachers because it then gets to collect dues from every teacher in the district.

And, teacher union managers are complicit in this because they know the truth but do not publicly denounce this attack on teacher individual rights of due process.

Credit unions love the program because it provides added value to members, generates new business, and helps protect the bottom line from losses due to charge - offs and bankruptcies.

That year is significant because it is when rent Cooper Union receives on the Chrysler Building is due to increase from $ 9 million to more than $ 32 million a year, potentially creating a major improvement in Cooper Union's troubled finances.

Most experts, and the International Union of Conservation of Nature and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, believe that polar bears are threatened because the Arctic sea ice from which the bears hunt is disappearing due to global warming.

In case involving First Union National Bank's violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Sixth Circuit holds that 1 - to - 1 ratio of punitive to compensatory damages is maximum federal due process will allow: And because the compensatory damages total $ 400,000, the district court's original award of $ 2,628,600 in punitive damages must likewise be reduced to $ 400,000.

Janus will not directly impact union member employees because they are voluntarily paying union dues.

But then we should not have exemptions because of religious beliefs such as refusing to pay union dues because of religious beliefs conflicting with purposes for which dues are used.

MPs should make sure they have a toothbrush and a few changes of clothes handy because they can expect some long nights debating their response to the anticipated sheaf of hostile Lords amendments to the EU Withdrawal Bill, and determined attempts to stick requirements about a customs union into the Customs Bill, which is due back before them for report stage consideration.

Anna Fusco, the president of the Broward Teachers Union also spoke, saying the students should not be dismissed as they have by some because of their youth, and that their activism isn't due to adult intervention.