Sentences with phrase «contentious contract negotiations»

Around the country it's often at the core of contentious contract negotiations and legal battles between teachers unions and school district officials, politicians and lobbyists.

Three times as many Chicagoans side with the teachers union as with Mayor Rahm Emanuel on how to improve public schools at a time when the two sides remain locked in contentious contract negotiations, a Chicago Tribune poll has found.

Also on hand for the visit was CSEA President Danny Donohue (you can hear Donohue, who had differed with the governor during contentious contract negotiations in his first term, joke to Cuomo when he arrives, «There goes the neighborhood!»).

In contrast to previous highly contentious contract negotiations, the most recent collective bargaining agreement, approved in April 2013, was reached relatively amicably and contains numerous provisions and mechanisms for collaboration between administrators and teachers.

SEIU Local 99, which represents education support employees in the district, will hold a 24 - hour strike on May 15 because of contentious contract negotiations.

NYSUT has remained wary of Cuomo, though a truce has been reached with both PEF and CSEA after a contentious contract negotiation that led to less generous benefits.

The PBA is also locked in a contentious contract negotiation with the city, which has moved on to binding arbitration.

But contentious contract negotiations — for 16 months we worked with no teachers» contract in Hawai'i — and the uncertainty created by the Common Core and new teacher evaluation systems also heightened my anxiety.

The contentious contract negotiation with teachers.

They are attempts to get people to take sides in a contentious contract negotiation.

Maybe, just maybe the end is in sight for the contentious contract negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild and the major studios.