Sentences with phrase «collar workers came»
The union's contract expired at the end of 2013, and as the local mayoral election heated up in Albany, blue - collar workers came out in force protesting Sheehan's pay increases for nonunion employees and demanded wage hikes.
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During the many sit - ins, cultural events and discussions at the Park, people of very different backgrounds, who would otherwise not come into contact — Turkish secularists and nationalists, Kurdish activists, members of the creative professions and white collar workers, Socialists, religious and ethnic minorities, Islamists as well as LGBT and gender campaigners — found a way to manage coexistence and respect for pluralism.
The contract comes about seven months after New York's second - largest state worker union, the white collar Public Employees Federation, reached its own three - year deal with 2 percent annual raises, no increases in negotiated health - care premium sharing and no givebacks.
About 500 white - collar state Thruway Authority workers will vote in coming weeks on a long - awaited contract proposal — one that includes, for the first time, health insurance co-pays, sources say.
The raises come as the administration heads toward contract negotiations with the Public Employees Federation, a union of 54,000 white - collar state workers whose current agreement expires on April 1.
The state AFL - CIO has donated $ 108,000 in cash and in - kind services, $ 120,000 has come from the New York Pipe Trades union and the Public Employees Federation, which represents white collar state workers, has donated $ 100,000.
Our online community come from a wide range of backgrounds, from white and blue - collar workers to the young and the old, not to mention the gay and the straight.
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Jones says, «The time has come for the nation to give greater support to the problem solvers — the clean - energy producers, green builders, eco-entrepreneurs, community educators, green - collar workers, and green consumers.