Sentences with phrase «collectively bargain for»

The rule gave drivers for Uber and Lyft and other ridesharing services the right to organize and collectively bargain for improvements to their working conditions, earnings and benefits.

Its mission was simple: to create a critical mass of indie devs that could band together to collectively bargain for prime expo floor space at events such as PAX, Gamescom and GDC — space that previously was the sole domain of affluent corporate players such as Activision and EA.

In the wake of recent rebellions by teachers and other public education advocates that have been taking place in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Arizona, the teachers» unions in Florida have been largely silent on getting involved, mostly reminding education professionals that we can not strike here due to the deal we made with the Florida Legislature in 1968 that exchanged our right to collectively bargain for our right to strike.

The bill actually does not eliminate the state tests but makes it an option and stipulates that districts must collectively bargain for assessments that also require state approval for use in the evaluations of teachers and administrators.

Under Act 10, Madison teachers can collectively bargain for a 2.13 % base wage increase this year, which would make up some of this difference.

Moreover, many of the things that teachers collectively bargain for are good for kids.

Representative Rick Hansen (DFL - South St. Paul) and Senator Matt Klein (DFL - Mendota Heights) today introduced legislation that would enshrine Minnesotans» right to collectively bargain for good jobs, wages and benefits into the state's constitution (Senate File 4083).

It also strips them of their ability to collectively bargain for anything except wages no higher than inflation.

As it stood, the bill only permitted public employees to collectively bargain for wages, preventing them from collectively bargaining for health insurance and pensions.

But in a free nation, where senators and representatives are elected to represent their constituents, what is the justification or reasoning for allowing elected officials to accept money from corporations that bid for government contracts, or unions that collectively bargain for government contracts?

And before you contiune GOP bashing, remember this, Richard Nixon (yes that Nixon) allowed public employees in the US Postal Service to form a union and collectively bargain for salaries and benefits and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller (R - NY) signed into law the Taylor Act, allowing NYS employees to form a union and negiotiate (but not strike).

Astorino doesn't do that since he never was endorsed by the CSEA or PEF and thus can negiotiate in the best interest of the county (since it's the county taxpayer whose paying for any extra salary increase or benefits) And before you contiune GOP bashing, remember this, Richard Nixon (yes that Nixon) allowed public employees in the US Postal Service to form a union and collectively bargain for salaries and benefits and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller (R - NY) signed into law the Taylor Act, allowing NYS employees to form a union and negiotiate (but not strike).

I support unions and the right of workers to collectively bargain for fair wages and safe working environments.

A life - long Democrat, he is committed to standing with working people and has stood with workers as they collectively bargained for better wages and working conditions.

Meanwhile, states as diverse as Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida, Ohio and — you guessed it — Wisconsin are attacking union prerogatives such as valuing seniority over on - the - job performance and collectively bargaining for benefits.

Not exact matches

A Congressional committee has begun the process for writing legislation that may rescue as many as 200 collectively bargained pension plans from insolvency.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has granted authorisation allowing a group of small business owner drivers to collectively bargain with Toll Transport Pty Ltd for the supply of air freight courier transport services at the Toll Priority Brisbane depot.

More specifically the ACCC has authorised independent owner drivers in fields including concrete carting and milk vending to collectively bargain, some of these arrangements have provided for union assistance or participation.

The ACCC has authorised South Australian broiler chicken growers to collectively bargain with Inghams for ten years.

The ACCC has re-authorised the «Lottery Agents Association of Victoria to collectively bargain on behalf of its members» for a period of ten years.

The ACCC «has issued a draft determination proposing to reauthorise the Lottery Agents Association of Victoria to collectively bargain on behalf of its members with Victorian lotteries providers for ten years».

The ACCC has approved an application by Manning Valley Dairy Farmers to collectively bargain with Woolworths and Milk2Market for a period of three years.

The ACCC has denied the application by several banks for interim authorisation to collectively bargain with Apple.

A union is a way for workers to collectively bargain with management.

Walker, famous for overhauling public - employee unions ability to collectively bargain, is a villain to labor and those on the political left, but emerged as a hero to conservatives across the country.

«Some of what I've heard coming out of Wisconsin, where they're just making it harder for public employees to collectively bargain generally, seems like more of an assault on unions,» Obama told a Milwaukee television reporter on Thursday, taking the unusual step of inviting a local TV station into the White House for a sit - down interview.

GOP state lawmakers are urging Gov. Cuomo to defend a state labor provision that makes it difficult for farm and agricultural workers to collectively bargain.

At issue are the constitutionality of laws in 22 states — including New York — that force public employees who do not want to belong to unions to pay unions «agency fees» for bargaining collectively on their behalf.

This week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I - VT), along with other Senate Democrats, introduced legislation that would make it easier for people working in the gig economy to prove they are employees and thus be able to organize and collectively bargain.

A coalition of 18 farm organizations on Tuesday urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo to reconsider not defending a state constitutional statute that makes it difficult for agricultural workers to collectively bargain.

Farmworkers are set to rally at the state Capitol on Tuesday in Albany, pushing for the right to collectively bargain and form a union.

«From prosecuting labor law violators, to advocating for a minimum wage increase to fighting outsourcing and erosions of their power to bargain collectively, I'm proud to be an advocate for the working families and union members that form the backbone of our workforce.»

The Daily News has long campaigned for giving farm workers the right to organize and bargain collectively.

The New York Civil Liberties union is suing the state for the right of farm laborers to collectively bargain with their employers, and Governor Cuomo said earlier this year that he would not defend the state in the lawsuit.

«There's a reason that our friends in labor have coalesced around my campaign, because they know I'm the candidate that will fight for a real $ 15 living wage, fair working conditions, better jobs and continued rights to collectively bargain,» responded Rafael Salamanca in a statement.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's proposal also would allow most public workers to collectively bargain only for wages.

Mr. Shafran added, «We think there are substantial legal issues with reducing hours for workers who are under a collectively bargained contract.»

THAT at the upcoming conventions of the National Educational Association and the American Federation of Teachers, NYSUT sponsor and support resolutions encouraging teacher unions, public employee unions, private sector unions and not - for - profit organizations to call upon their pension and retirement funds to not invest in private equity funds that are complicit in and profit from the denial of the rights to organize into a union and bargain collectively.

THAT NYSUT work with the trustees of all NYSUT member retirement and pension systems to advocate for non-investment in private equity funds that are complicit in and profit from the denial of the right to organize into a union and bargain collectively; and

While their obstacles, in struggles against tuition increases or for the right to bargain collectively, are enormous, the hurdles to supporting international students are often even higher.

Richard D. Kahlenberg: Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's campaign earlier this year to significantly curtail the scope of bargaining for the state's public employees, including teachers, set off a national debate over whether their long - established right to collectively bargain should be reined in, or even eliminated.

Moreover, collectively bargained contracts placed a premium on characteristics such as seniority and credentials rather than performance, further depressing the opportunities for the high - aptitude teacher.

Teachers have an absolute right to organize, to collectively bargain, and to make their case for who they believe the best candidate would be.

No, Mr. Obama, Michigan's new law — for better or worse — will not affect any union's right to collectively bargain.

A student who is enrolled in a state - approved teacher preparation program in a postsecondary educational institution that is approved by rules of the State Board of Education and who is jointly assigned by the postsecondary educational institution and a district school board to perform a clinical field experience under the direction of a regularly employed and certified educator shall, while serving such supervised clinical field experience, be accorded the same protection of law as that accorded to the certified educator except for the right to bargain collectively as an employee of the district school board.

If that review, proudly posted on their website until recently, isn't enough to convince the public of the true nature of the teachers unions, how about this — a training tape, clearly inspired by Alinsky, made by the Michigan Education Association, an NEA affiliate, in the 1990s for union negotiators who collectively bargain with school boards.

For example, if she sincerely believed in «democratic values,» she would back a move to stop requiring teachers in most states to pay union dues for the right to teach in a public school, and at the same time stop forcing them to collectively bargaFor example, if she sincerely believed in «democratic values,» she would back a move to stop requiring teachers in most states to pay union dues for the right to teach in a public school, and at the same time stop forcing them to collectively bargafor the right to teach in a public school, and at the same time stop forcing them to collectively bargain.

Teachers unions are pushing to collectively bargain bonuses for teachers included in Senate Bill 566.

Educators for Excellence supports the rights of educators to freely associate, organize, and collectively bargain, while also championing innovative changes that support teachers and their students.

The arguments and questions from the justices focused primarily on school funding, supervisory authority, local accountability, and the ability for charter school teachers to collectively bargain.