Sentences with phrase «building service workers»

At 1 p.m. the Committee on Civil Service and Labor will meet to hear a series of new bills that would require successive employers of buildings to retain workers for a transitional time period and extend protections for displaced building service workers to food service workers.

Hundreds of building service workers gathered near City Hall on Wed, Mar. 2, asking the City Council to update an existing law to increase their job security, and help them fight back against property owners who attempt to drive down wages.

«We support expanding the Displaced Building Service Workers Act, and I know we'll get it done because this is a Council that cares about working men and women,» said Van Bramer, the son of a 32BJ member who worked as a cleaner in the city's school system.

A representative for 32BJ SEIU, which represents building service workers, did not respond to questions about the union's position.

The bill, which Bloomberg vetoed last month, would boost wages for building service workers, including custodians and security guards, in 41 large buildings where the city leases the majority of space.

If 421a is simply extended as - is, as some are seeking up in Albany, there will be no prevailing wage construction jobs, far fewer building service workers making prevailing wage and no progress on affordable housing for tens of thousands in desperate need.

Not to be outdone, a spokesperson for the mayor shot back, «If 421 - a is simply extended as is, as some are seeking up in Albany, there will be no prevailing wage construction jobs, far fewer building service workers making prevailing wage and no progress on affordable housing for tens of thousands in desperate need.

I admire the mayor for making a full commitment to building affordable housing, but we can not build our way out of this,» said Frank Castillo, a building service worker who spoke on behalf of Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ.

At 11:30 a.m., Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York President Gary LaBarbera and Long Island City construction and building services workers host a Labor Day celebration, Courthouse Plaza, Jackson Avenue and Thomson Avenue, Queens.

Hector Figueroa, the president of SEIU 32BJ, a union of building services workers, said, «We... applaud Speaker Quinn for negotiating a bill that will give more than a million workers paid sick days and provide hundreds of thousands more with an assurance that they won't have to choose between taking their child to a doctor and losing their job.»

At 12:45 p.m. Monday, City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, joined with Unite Here 100, will rally for food service worker retention, supporting a bill that expands upon the 2002 Displaced Building Service Worker Protection Act to include food service workers from being fired from work after a new owner takes over a business.

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The present and future of our knowledge worker industry is built upon the power of software, services, consulting, technology and thought.

The nonprofit Last Mile Health is assembling a massive team of health workers who can serve critical health care needs for people within their own communities — i.e., provide the «last mile» of medical service delivery built into the organization's name.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

While traditional heavy industry is declining, the service sector (made up of office workers and computer operators, fast food and restaurant workers, health care workers, bookkeepers, optical workers, and building custodians, among others) is rapidly expanding.

The business, Lessing Food Service Management, proved to be so successful that by 1920 it was serving meals to New York City workers in 20 locations — including the famous Woolworth building — from a central bakeshop and commissary.

SEIU, the Service Employees Industrial Union, has 246,080 members in New York City including 150,000 in SEIU 1199 (hospital workers) and 70,000 in 32BJ (building services including janitors).

Scott Parslow, a 27 - year veteran state worker from Tribes Hill, said many of his colleagues at the Division of Criminal Justice Services worried their move from suburban Stuyvesant Plaza to the Alfred E. Smith building on Swan Street would toss them into the downtown parking grind.

The Hand Hygiene Alliance (www.idrn.org/alliance.php) has come together as patients and as healthcare workers across all spectra of the health services, as research workers and supply agencies, to ensure that the achievements of the campaign are maintained and built upon.

In Brooklyn, Menchaca, a former top aide to Council Speaker Christine Quinn and before that to Borough President Marty Markowitz, has the support of Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, powerful unions, including SEIU 1199, which represents healthcare workers, 32BJ, representing building services employees, and the Hotel Trades Council, as well as the city's Central Labor Council.

De Blasio's proposal to renew 421 - a would increase the allowable length of a tax abatement from 25 years to 35 years and require more service workers in subsidized buildings to be paid a prevailing wage.

The union that represents 85,000 city doorman and other service workers, including building porters and handymen, has a new leader.

A political project that adapted to the public's notion of fairness could appeal to millions of uncommitted voters — especially if it also embraced immigration, a major house - building programme, more opportunities for young workers, better - run public services and effective enforcement of the minimum wage: in short a less ideological approach to building a fairer society.

Acting Social Services Commissioner Marie Cannon added, «This agreement will have a very positive effect on our ability to retain CPS workers and will aid our department in building a team with longer years of service and more experience in helping families.

Amid what one person described as intolerably hot conditions, dozens of state workers at 40 North Pearl St. were sent home yesterday when the building heated up from an unseasonably warm weekend and after the Office of General Services had disabled the cooling system.

Local 32BJ represents cleaners, property maintenance workers, doormen, security officers, window cleaners, building engineers, and school and food service workers.

«Whether workers are plowing county roads in a blizzard, answering 911 calls, protecting our vulnerable children and adults or answering phones in the county office building, Marc sees the value in the services CSEA members provide for Dutchess County.

The Service Employees International Union Local 1199, which represents health care workers; the influential state and city teachers unions, and building workers union SEIU Local 32BJ, are all backing Clinton.

Hundreds of pages of newly disclosed e-mails show that 32BJ SEIU, which represents building - service workers, pretty much ran the process of coming up with new laws to «protect» non-unionized fast - food workers.

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Irwin's campaign disclosure form reads like a «who's who» of big union players, including max - out contributions from AFSCME, the California School Employees Association, the California State Council of Laborer's PAC, the California Teachers Association, Los Angeles County Firefighters Local 1014, SEIU United Long Term Care Workers Local 6434, Service Employees International Union Local 1000, the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California and the United Nurses Association

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One would require a prevailing wage for building service employees, while the other would require a living wage for every worker on a city - assisted development, including the development's tenants.

At the same time, SEIU 32BJ, which represents service workers in buildings, recommitted itself to de Blasio's plan.

ALBANY, NY (01/08/2013)(readMedia)-- Hundreds of workers, community advocates, and members of several faith communities from Brooklyn and throughout the state joined together at a rally at the Legislative Office Building to protect SUNY Downstate Medical Center and maintain the essential health services it delivers to New York City's most populous borough.

That attitude won Menchaca friends in labor — including SEIU 1199, which represents healthcare workers, 32BJ, representing building services employees, and the Hotel Trades Council, as well as the city's Central Labor Council.

Mr. Percoco called officials at Service Employees International Union 1199, which represents health care workers, and 32 BJ, the building services union, according to a person with knowledge of the conversations who did not want to be identified for fear of retribution from Mr. Cuomo.

One notable example is 32BJ SEIU, the building - service workers union, which played an active role in shaping a package of legislation related to non-unionized fast - food workers, down to the very bill language, according to a Politico New York report.

In West Africa, the U.S. Defense Department built a 25 - bed, state - of - the - art hospital specifically for healthcare workers, to be staffed by the U.S. Public Health Service for the next six months, said Stic Harris, chief of the Alert and Response Operations team in the Division of Integrated Biosurveillance at the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center.

Rather than focusing on how games such as World of Warcraft or the socialnetworking services of Twitter and Facebook change our brains, Davidson believes we should foster these newfound skills, building curricula around interactive multiplayer games and training workers using virtual environments.

Building on the successful Recent Advances in Understanding Mental Illness and Psychotic Experiences (2000), this report is intended for service users, their friends and families, journalists, policymakers, mental health workers and the public.

For better service, our escort Miami workers use these apps to chat with customers and build confidence.

(iii) Each school district shall establish a comprehensive developmental school counseling / guidance program advisory council to be comprised of representative stakeholders (such as parents, members of the board of education, school building and / or district leaders, community - based service providers, teachers, certified school counselors and other pupil personnel service providers in the district including school social workers and / or school psychologists).

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• School - wide social worker services which offer opportunities for Banana Splits, friendship groups, push - in programs and community building to prevent bullying.

With appropriate funding and support, districts should provide principals, teachers, school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, and mental health specialists with appropriate professional health and development to build their capacity to support comprehensive school - based interventions, and coordinate mental wellness services.

Here are just a few of the different careers Americans now hold, along with the number of people who are employed in these jobs: • Teachers: 7.2 million • Registered Nurses: 2.8 million • Janitors and Building Cleaners: 2.1 million • Gaming Services Workers: 111,000 • Tax Preparers: 105,000 • Service Station Attendants: 87,000

Building and construction workers often work on multiple projects across many employers, which makes it difficult to accrue long service leave (LSL).

Neighborhood Trust Financial Partners, based in New York City, will build on an existing financial coaching service provided through the workplace by adding tools that enable workers to align their goals with their actions.