Sentences with phrase «fight over union»

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Wisconsin will no longer be obligated to bargain with its largest public employee unions after the weakened labor groups decided Thursday against seeking recertification votes in the state that was the forefront in this year's fight over union rights.

Not exact matches

The Center for Union Facts, an anti-union organization that is part of lobbyist Rick Berman's family of front groups, received $ 1.55 million between 2007 and 2010 from the Bradley Foundation and spent heavily to support Walker and smear teachers unions with an anti-union website during the 2011 fight over public sector collective bargaining rights.

As the fight continues over the monetization of private information, the European Union will soon step into the ring with its new General Data Protection Regulation — a robust set of requirements aimed at guarding the personal information of all EU citizens.

Santorum claims the USA is the shining star on the hill, but while in Europe gays can enter civil unions which are providing the same legal protection and rights as normal weddings the USA is fighting over this and call this an attack on family values.

Pentagon documents refer to fighting a nuclear war «over a protracted period» and argue that American nuclear forces «must prevail and be able to force the Soviet Union to seek earliest termination on terms favorable to the United States.»

Bullied and bludgeoned by weeks of intense public debate over a longer school day, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis fought back Friday by filing an unfair labor practices complaint against Chicago Public Schools leadership and accusing Emanuel of trying to intimidate her in a profanity - filled tirade recently at City Hall.

Let Dave take them to court and fight it out, same as he's forcing the unions to do over the furloughs.

Further proof of my assertion not long ago that education is developing into a serious sticking point between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver came in the form of a statement from the governor that blames «Assembly - led» legislation passed in 2010 for the current fight between the teachers unions and school districts over the creation of teacher evaluation systems.

Unfortunately, the governor's laudable efforts will be squandered if he gets drawn into a narrow fight with the unions over details, like points and weighting percentages in teacher evaluations.

The union has been heavily involved in policy battles at the state Capitol over the past year, weighing on the fight against both the soda tax and wine - in - grocery stores (both dead for the time being).

«Over the past year, city workers and their unions have had to fight major battles to protect rights that we fought hard to win as well as to preserve the vital safety - net services we provide to an ever - growing clientele.

Mulgrew said that it was clear that the union was right and the mayor was wrong in the fight over layoffs.

There are also raw, long - term battles being fought on new fronts: The teachers» unions, for instance, hate Cuomo's proposed tax breaks for private schools, and the governor disdains the unions» power over public schools.

The police unions have been fighting this issue since New York's top court, the Court of Appeals, in 2006 unanimously affirmed a police commissioner's power over disciplinary matters.

Barbara Bowen, a CUNY English professor who is president of the Professional Staff Congress, the union that represents 25,000 CUNY faculty and staff, said she was happy to see the governor acknowledge the need for money to cover the retroactive raises that the union has been fighting for but was worried over the $ 485 million cut in state spending for CUNY.

The latest was Cuomo's statement to the Associated Press that he stands with the police and firefighter unions in their fight with the de Blasio administration over pension costs.

In part due to fights over charter schools, unions have spent significantly more helping Democrats than Republicans in the past couple of Senate elections, the largest partisan battleground in the state, but as recently as 2012, the reverse was true.

New York State United Teachers President Karen Magee, whose union fought bitterly with the governor over the initial proposals, calls it a «momentous development.»

The union's targeting of Miner - who spoke at a Fight for $ 15 rally in February at a Syracuse church - shows the no - holds - barred fight going on over the proposed minimum wage hike as the state's top political leaders are negotiating whether it will be included in the state buFight for $ 15 rally in February at a Syracuse church - shows the no - holds - barred fight going on over the proposed minimum wage hike as the state's top political leaders are negotiating whether it will be included in the state bufight going on over the proposed minimum wage hike as the state's top political leaders are negotiating whether it will be included in the state budget.

But with the seat open this year, some observers believe the union will opt to stay on the sidelines and see how the race, which could prove crucial in the fight over who controls the chamber, plays out.

One of those testifying is PEF President Ken Brynien who led off his testimony with a joke highlighting the union's take on the ongoing fight over layoffs and taxes on millionaires.

But while the public were convinced of the need for some cuts following a recession, they are far less likely to be convinced by the need for a protracted and ideological fight over restricting union rights.

Instead, Cuomo framed the debate over the tax abatement, which is expected to pick up when state lawmakers return to Albany next month after an extended break, as a union battle for them to fight over the prevailing wage.

The distinction in disability pensions was created by former governor David Paterson as a cost - saving measure in 2009, and has become a flashpoint in a broader feud between de Blasio and the city's police and fire unions — one that Cuomo has seized on as he and the mayor fight over a host of other issues.

The unions have gotten public support from Cuomo, who is engaged in a series of fights with the mayor, most notably over the future of the 421 - a tax break program, which expires later this month.

A fight over disability pension benefits escalated on Friday, with the de Blasio administration defending its proposal and police and fire unions and members of the City Council claiming it short - changes uniformed workers, forcing them to choose between a better line - of - duty pension or a higher cost - of - living increase after retirement.

The fight over Cuomo's education agenda will resume Thursday morning with a rally attended by Mulgrew, other union advocates and elected officials who will call on the state to fulfill its Campaign for Fiscal Equity obligations.

Fights over to what extent the county is responsible for paying the full cost of employees» health care have sprung up recently after heated negotiations between the Astorino administration and the Civil Service Employees Association, CSEA — a union representing the county's public sector workers — failed to produce a compromise, including a contract offer that the union rejected earlier this month.

Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch sent a letter Friday to the governor asking that he intervene in a fight with de Blasio over a union push to provide newer cops the same disability benefits as older ones.

Errol Louis discussed Mayor de Blasio's fight with the city teachers» union over paid parental leave, with the Monday Consultants Corner: Suri Kasirer, Stu Loeser, Richard St. Paul and Leticia Remauro.

And public - sector labor groups, including the teachers unions and CSEA, have either declared a truce or largely step aside from directly knocking Cuomo has issues like less generous contracts and fights over charter schools have died away.

The U.F.T. has led the union - driven fight against Cuomo's education reforms, organizing a series of emergency meetings and forums over the last month.

WBFO's Eileen Buckley reports the leader of the Buffalo teachers union is ready to fight against an outside receiver taking over B.U.I.L.D.

The leader of the Buffalo teachers union is ready to fight against an outside receiver taking over B.U.I.L.D. Academy.

He and union leaders have been fighting over the fact that the law firm he founded represents people suing the city and bringing cases before the board.

TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- A week ago, Wisconsin Republicans thought they'd won the fight over the state's polarizing union rights bill.

The head of the Unite union Len McCluskey has accused the Labour party of «picking the wrong fight» over the selection of a by - election candidate in Falkirk.

Ed Miliband is refusing to back down in his fight with Labour's biggest union backer over its influence in the party.

The governor did not mention charter schools, but Cuomo took a shot at teachers and their unions, who he's been at odds with over school policy, saying the teacher's fight is not about education.

Perhaps the biggest and most bitter fight within Labour is set to be that over the question of Trade Union influence.

«Our party has always been a broad church, and despite my principled differences with Jeremy over many issues of defence, foreign policy and national security, I agreed to serve on his front bench because of the mandate he was given, his assurances that honesty and difference were welcomed, and due to the many areas we agreed wholeheartedly on such as fighting the vicious Tory trade union bill - which I was proud to lead our work on - cuts to tax credits and tackling climate change.

The state Comptroller has largely sided with the unions in the fight over a pension reform package approved in all night session March 15th.

But after fights over everything from Mr. Sharpton's visit to City Hall to the wording of an autopsy report, it's not a question of whether Mr. de Blasio will clash with police unions again — but when, and over what.

«We fight for unions and the reforms that reduce the power of big money over our elections.

Following both as they team up and try to rally enough parents to take over the school and turn things around, the film becomes a sort of mums - on - a-mission movie, with Jamie and Nona leading the fight to free their government - failed children from the tyranny of the teaching unions once and for all.

But he failed to keep his national testing program on the fast track he laid out in his 1997 State of the Union Address, and he still could lose the larger fight over whether to create the assessments at all.

He voiced an argument made by union supporters through the fight over Senate Bill 5 (and the similar battle in Wisconsin over public sector union rights): All employees want is the right to bargain; they are more than willing to make concessions during these difficult times.

These fights would serve as catharsis for beleaguered unions — opportunities to release resentment over testing, evaluation, NCLB, VAM, and more.

Over the long haul, the dire condition of disadvantaged kids in failing urban schools will prompt more and more of today's liberal opponents of choice - notably the civil - rights groups and many urban Democrats - to begin representing their own constituents on this issue, leaving the teacher unions to fight their battles alone.

One faction, existing in both unions, wants to man the barricades, fight over every inch of territory, and take no prisoners.