Sentences with phrase «for city workers»

The benefits bill for city workers is expected to go from $ 3.8 billion this year to $ 5.9 billion in 2016.

And through it all, the pension costs for city workers — particularly for police officers and firefighters, who can retire early and draw on those pensions for decades — kept going up.

The minimum wage for city workers at businesses with 11 or more employees increased to $ 11 - an - hour Saturday and will rise incrementally to $ 15 by Dec. 31, 2018.

After cutting back on public benefits like library hours and reducing pay for city workers, it is now looking at selling municipal water to a private corporation for a gain of around $ 50 million.

In June 2012, San Jose mayor Chuck Reed convinced a seventy - to - thirty majority of his city's voters to endorse changes to pension and retiree health care plans for city workers.

A group of active and retired Chicago city employees and four unions that represent them — AFSCME Council 31, the Chicago Teachers Union, the Illinois Nurses Associations and Teamsters Local 700 — filed suit today in Cook County Circuit Court to overturn Senate Bill 1922 (Public Act 98 - 0641), legislation to sharply reduce pension benefits for city workers and retirees who participate in the Municipal Employees Annuity and Benefit Fund (MEABF).

The proposed $ 100.8 million budget will spend millions on police and fire pensions as well as a 3 percent pay raise for city workers.

That fix calls for a tax hike on city residents, forces workers to keep paying into a broken system and does nothing to change the way the city runs retirements for its city workers.

Make no mistake: this bill is bad for city workers and taxpayers, and will only perpetuate the problem.

The restaurant is located in Liverpool Street, just a stones throw away from trendy Shoreditch, which makes Inito a perfect retreat for city workers wanting a change from their usual grab and go sandwiches, and for those wanting to catch up with friends and loved ones over a casual dinner.

At 9:30 a.m., NYC Councilman Mark Treyger holds a press conference to urge the administration to negotiate a paid parental leave program for city workers, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Quinn also took the opportunity to voice her support for pension reform for city workers, which Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been lobbying Albany to pass.

De Blasio announced a $ 15 minimum wage for city workers on Jan. 6, 2016 — two days after Cuomo announced the wage increase for SUNY workers.

Most also oppose layoffs for city workers, although those polled supported both furloughs and wage freezes.

There were many reasons for city workers to be angry on June 16 as they rallied at City Hall to «Save Our City» from devastating budget cuts, but for classroom teachers perhaps the biggest fear was of being «excessed» — as in being placed on the Absent Teacher Reserve list.

«The mayor claims there is no more money for schools, nothing for city workers» raises, and day care slots are being cut,» he said.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew tells the City Council that if tax breaks for corporations, developers and private - equity firms hadn't increased so much since the mayor took office, there would be billions of dollars to spend on schools and wages for city workers.

The legislation would jack up the fines for people who use bogus placards, and create penalties for city workers with legitimate placards who misuse them.

It took another 18 days for city workers to uncover Langley's smothered body.

It's drifting in a stretch of the Regent's Canal, in a peaceful, newly designed park for City workers.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce on Wednesday he plans to raise the minimum wage for city workers to $ 15 an hour by 2018.

In June of 2012, a majority of San Jose, CA voters approved changes to pension and retiree health care plans for city workers.

[Read our preview, with a deep dive into the issue of pay for city workers and workers at city - funded nonprofits: Hearing to Examine Pay for Workers Serving City's Most Vulnerable.]

In the U.S., California, Rhode Island and New Jersey have enacted paid paternity leave programs, and several large cities (Boston, Seattle, Austin and others) have provided paternity leave for their city workers.

It's back to square one for Chicago pensions: last month a city judge ruled unconstitutional a pension law that would have reduced benefits for city workers.

Miner was the first mayor in New York to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 for all city workers, and she spoke last month at a rally for the statewide wage hike.

Most of the councilmembers who spoke also thanked the mayor for raising the wage for city workers.

«The only way to protect pensions for our City workers — including our police officers, firefighters, teachers, sanitation workers, and correction officers, is to reform the system so we can afford it,» he said.

Both James and Stringer attended the rally; New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a gubernatorial rival, was not present but has committed to increase the minimum wage for city workers to $ 12 by year's end — following a faster schedule than Cuomo.

On Tuesday, during an interview on NY1, a reporter asked de Blasio if he was prepared to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 for city workers.

De Blasio, and some his Democratic supporters in the State Senate, maintain the city should have the autonomy to raise taxes on its highest earners, as part of the mayor's broader plan to fund universal pre-K, and that the city should also have the authority to raise the minimum wage for city workers.