Sentences with phrase «employee union said»

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- The leader of the state's largest public employee union says the workers are willing to make financial concessions to Gov. Scott Walker but will not give up their collective bargaining rights.

Lawyers for Minnesota's public - employee unions say that state's law, passed last December to help close a $ 312 - million budget deficit, is unconstitutional because it abrogates the workers» constitutional claims to contract and equal - protection rights.

«If you are unemployed as a plumber in Australia there must be something wrong; you've either got a bad work ethic or are charging too much,» Paddy McCrudden from the Plumbing Trades Employees Union said.

Not exact matches

The union leaders say Disney is unfairly discriminating against the employees, or «cast members,» because they are engaged in contract negotiations and using the bonuses as leverage to accept a substandard pay increase.

Verizon Communications Inc and the unions representing its wireline unit employees on the U.S. East Coast said work will go on and talks continue after their current contract expired.

For example, if you have different business units, such as a manufacturing facility and a sales and research facility, you may want to have the core handbook be the same for each group of employees but you may want to include specific policies for specific business units, such as if one business unit has a union or hourly - paid employees, Cooper says.

Bourdon said some of the employees may have a chance to fill several hundred vacant positions and vowed to work with its unions to reduce the impact on staff.

More than 500 companies have expressed interest in rolling out student loan benefits to their workers next year, said Tim DeMello, founder and CEO of Gradifi, a platform that lets companies, including PwC, Connelly Partners and Western Union, pay off some of their employees» student loans.

Ryanair said that the Anpac and FIT - CISL unions represent employees of Italian carrier Alitalia SpA and have «no role» at the Irish carrier, having threatened walkouts five times in the past only to call them off.

Mermaid Marine Australia managing director Jeff Weber has defended the company's stance on negotiations with the Maritime Union of Australia, after employees at its Dampier Supply Base said on Friday they would strike for 10 days.

But wait, says the union representing those employees.

«Andy Puzder is against unions, calls the minimum wage and overtime «restrictions» and employees «extra cost,» and even said he wants to fire workers like us and replace us with machines that can't take vacation or sue their employers when they break the law,» the nonprofit Interfaith Worker Justice quoted Rogelio Hernandez, a Carl's Jr. cook, as saying.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC), which represents nearly 6 million British workers, said that the growing number of low - paid, self - employed workers who work irregular hours earn significantly less than conventional employees and therefore pay less tax and national insurance.

«It's regrettable that union leaders have called a strike, a move that hurts all of our employees,» Marc Reed, Verizon's chief administrative officer, said in a statement on Wednesday.

The union says it has no immediate plans for a work stoppage but fears employees may be locked out by management.

This clever pair of shed builders has thus been able to impose the carpenters union on all relevant regional employees, who had no say in the matter because they were at home on the day in question.

The Liberals are unlikely to make any final decision on drug testing until the Supreme Court of Canada rules on its legality in a case between Suncor and workers at its Alberta oil sands operation, said Troy Winters, senior health and safety officer with the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

In a public letter and interview in early October, the president of the Oakville local, Dave Thomas, said a deal similar to the one approved at GM would likely be rejected in Oakville, where 5,000 of the union's nearly 7,000 Ford employees work.

Tesla said employees were terminated en masse due to performance issues, though some workers have argued they were cost - cutting layoffs or used to punish union supporters.

In an ongoing dispute over electricity rate changes proposed by the crown corporation last November, the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union, Local 378, says that BC Hydro is using an accounting slight - of - hand to mask the real financial toll of unrealistically low electricity prices.

I believe that together, we will continue to create an industry standard of PBM - Employee / Union partnership through reduction of overall pharmacy costs, reduction of avoidable drug - impacted medical costs, and optimization of specialty spend» says Ravi Ika, Founder & CEO of RxAdvance.

«When I first learned about the composition of this committee I was quite taken aback,» said Larry Brown, President of the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE).

Yet our government would have us agree to sweeping economic agreements like CETA and the TPP without providing us any facts at all, just empty slogans about how wonderful things will be after we sign on,» says Larry Brown, national secretary - treasurer of the National Union of Public and General Employees and co-chair of the Trade Justice Network.

Union members say that four employees now do the work that 10 once did.

The law was proposed by a leading trade union, Solidarity, which said employees deserved Sundays off.

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The secretary of the NSW Manufacturing Workers Union, Tim Ayres, said the agreement secured «real wages» for Simplot employees.

A CUB spokeswoman said trade unions» accusations that CUB had sacked the maintenance workers was wrong, because they were not direct employees.

But the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) said jobs at the Cobram plant, in Victoria's north, may also be affected, as well as at Longford in Tasmania.

«No one was threatened with their jobs,» Peck said, addressing claims that employees were encouraged by park officials to return their union cards.

AFSCME officials said a majority of the 44 employees they propose to represent have signed union cards and expressed an interest in unionizing.

«You never get everything you want in negotiations, but in this time of economic prosperity we got the best agreement we could,» said Jarvis Williams, president of Local 46 of the Service Employees International Union.

The union wants health coverage for all employees; the termination of a merit - pay system, which its members call unfair; and a stop to the privatization of Park District functions, Loza said.

Union Communications Director Joanna Misnik said a major concern is that half of the district's employees are part - time workers with no holidays and few or no benefits.

In recent weeks, Emanuel took steps to start laying off as many as 625 employees, saying that could be avoided if unions agree to change contract work rules, including ones that require the city pay double - time for overtime or allow some managers to work only 35 hours a week.

Joanna Misnik, spokeswoman with the Service Employees International Union Local 73, which represents 85 percent of the district's employees, said staffing remains one of the keEmployees International Union Local 73, which represents 85 percent of the district's employees, said staffing remains one of the keemployees, said staffing remains one of the key issues.

For the last two years, Park District officials relied on employees taking eight furlough days a year to balance the budget, but «the unions, for whatever reason, didn't want to agree to furlough days this year,» Mitchell said.

Andrew Cuomo represents paying off the government employee unions, more expensive government, higher taxes, and continuing to destroy the New York economy,» Gingrich said.

He said he had not heard about the reported deal being asked for by the Civil Service Employees Association, which the union denied was the case this morning.

Donohue has been very outspoken during this budget battle, issuing some memorable zingers directed at Gov. David Paterson in response to the governor's efforts to get the public employee unions to agree to concessions such as furloughs or a wage freeze that he says would help close the budget deficit.

Gov. David Paterson said his administration will not appeal US District Court Judge Lawrence Kahn's decision granting a preliminary injunction to block his furlough plan, and said he will again ask public employee unions to accept a pay lag instead of moving straight to layoffs.

Eliot Spitzer and current executive director of the nonprofit Union Settlement, says prohibiting the use of taxpayer dollars to settle sexual harassment claims brought against government employees, as Cuomo has proposed, is probably illegal and also bad policy.

The leadership of the state's largest public workers union says the proposal also raises questions and uncertainty for local government employees.

This union represents thousands of hardworking men and women across the country, including employees at Remington Arms in Ilion, New York,» Tenney said.

Donohue has used some colorful language during the public employee unions» furlough fight with Paterson, memorably saying during a protest outside the Capitol Monday that it's an «insult to a rodent» to compare the governor to a rat.

Other Republicans say they fear that an expected multimillion - dollar media blitz from the state's powerful public - employee unions might panic some upstate senators into backing higher taxes, undermining Skelos» position.

«It's an interesting and complex situation,» said Fred Kowal, president of United University Professions, the union that represents State University system employees.

But the governor will get pushback from the state worker unions if he tries to balance the budget solely through state agency cuts and consolidations, says Public Employees Federation President Ken Brynien.

(Cuomo's isn't up yet, but he has said he has somewhere in the neighborhood of $ 4 million left, and plans to spend it — and whatever he's able to raise — to wage war against the public employee unions).

Jeffrey R. Gural, the chairman of Newmark Knight Frank and the owner of two upstate racinos that are members of the New York Gaming Association, said he had contributed about $ 200,000 last year to the committee, chiefly because he supported Mr. Cuomo's agenda and shared the governor's view that public employees unions had grown too powerful in Albany.