Sentences with phrase «for municipal workers»

Amid the current economic uncertainty, myths are circulating about the pension programs and health insurance for municipal workers Municipal Labor Coalition Chairperson and Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association President Harry Nespoli and MLC Co-Chair and UFT President Randi Weingarten wrote in the Daily News on March 28, «These myths not only misrepresent the problems, they stand in the way of finding realistic solutions.»

The former agreed to shelve pay raises for municipal workers; the latter helped stave off bankruptcy by buying city bonds with pension funds.

Not exact matches

[74] In 2008, Corzine approved a law that increased the retirement age from 60 to 62, required that government workers and teachers earn $ 7,500 per year to qualify for a pension, eliminated Lincoln's Birthday as a state worker holiday, allowed the state to offer incentives not to take health insurance and required municipal employees work 20 hours per week to get health benefits.

The city budget passed last year included a 2.5 percent cost - of - living adjustment, and in January the de Blasio administration announced that municipal workers and those working for contracted agencies will earn $ 15 an hour by the end of 2018.

The lag would eliminate one day's pay from each two - week paycheck for 20 weeks for 4,800 white - and blue - collar workers who belong to the Association of Municipal Employees.

The New Year's Eve event will be hosted by the Association for a Better New York, Blasters, Drillrunners and Miners Local 29, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, Central Park Conservancy, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Municipal Art Society of New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York Historical Society, the New York Mets, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Transit Museum, Partnership for New York City, Real Estate Board of New York, Regional Plan Association, NYC Sandhogs Local 147, Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The taxpayer subsidy for Aetna spotlights how, while state and municipal budget constraints have forced cuts to social services and layoffs of public workers, lucrative corporate incentives continue to flow out of public coffers to politically connected companies.

Buffalo and Rochester are moving to raise the minimum wage of municipal employees to $ 15 an hour as part of Governor Andrew Cuomo's push to raise the wage floor for all workers.

Hawkins also would allow cities to institute an income tax, which is more progressive and would require out - of - city workers to help pay for municipal services they use on a daily basis when they go to work.

All the candidates also skewered the mayor for allowing all municipal workers» contracts to expire and setting aside no money for raises.

His new plan, however, would let the municipal workers receive either half the average salary or half the maximum salary for their position — minus overtime — depending on which figure is larger.

Among his top priorities for the city are creating a municipal sidewalk program to keep sidewalks clear of snow, creating a worker's cooperative to stabilize the workforce and forging collective relationships with the county and the state.

The prevailing wage is an amount set by the comptroller's office that seeks to provide pay parity between municipal workers and private contractors for doing the same job.

The mayor, whose own administration has been partially responsible for pension fund growth, now wants to require most new municipal workers to work at least 10 years, or double the current amount, to qualify for a pension, and bar them from receiving pension checks until age 65.

Under the mayor's plan, which matches a similar increase for state employees enacted by Cuomo last year, about 50,000 city workers — including crossing guards, prekindergarten teachers, custodial workers and others — would see their pay reach the $ 15 - an - hour level by the end of 2018, making them some of the country's highest paid municipal employees.

And in late 2008, just as the financial crisis began to explode, Mr. Bloomberg granted 4 percent raises for two consecutive years to the city's largest municipal workers» union, District Council 37, without extracting support for pension givebacks.

The mayor wants to require most new municipal workers to work at least 10 years, or double the current amount, to qualify for a pension, and bar them from receiving pension checks until age 65.

DEC is working alongside municipal workers and volunteers from local snowmobile clubs to open gates, complete trail maintenance, and groom trails, all to be ready for the snowmobiling season.»

John Liu's bid for comptroller received the backing of District Council 37 today, the largest municipal worker union in New York state, his campaign said.

«As president of the COBA and knowing full well of the backroom politics that has continued to plague the citizens of this state and municipal workers, I am proud to support Senator Jeff Klein for his leadership in reaching out to members of both sides of the aisle,» he told the press.

Today, in a gesture that will affect thousands of incoming city workers, Bill de Blasio signed an executive order banning this practice for municipal employers of the City of New York.

After leaving her union post in 1908 Bondfield worked as organising secretary for the WLL and later as women's officer for the National Union of General and Municipal Workers (NUGMW).

Presumptive GOP nominee Nicole Malliotakis said she'll institute a hiring freeze for all non-emergency municipal workers if elected mayor in November — and cut City Hall staffing by 10 percent...

According to Politico, United for Affordable NYC's other donors were unions with close ties to City Hall, including the United Federation of Teachers ($ 125,000), the municipal union District Council 37 ($ 30,000) and health care workers» union 1199 SEIU ($ 25,000).

In California, Florida, Washington, and Wisconsin, affiliates of the National Education Association and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees have either agreed, or tentatively agreed, to forgo competing for the bargaining rights of school workers already organized by the other.

The city desperately needs structural reform to clean up its financial mess and to ensure adequate benefits for its teachers and municipal 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).

It gets worse for the city's municipal unions, as Judge Rhodes put city workers» pensions on the potential chopping block: In -LSB-...]

The following seventeen organizations joined the amicus brief: National School Boards Association, Ohio School Boards Association, American Association of School Administrators, American Professional Society on Abuse of Children, American School Counselors Association, Buckeye Association of School Administrators, Council of Administrators of Special Education, International Municipal Lawyers Association, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of Secondary School Principals, National Association of State Directors of Special Education, Ohio Association of School Business Officials, Ohio Educational Service Center Association, Ohio Federation of Teachers, School Social Workers of America Association, and Council for Exceptional Children.

Then, Cross was caught sponsoring a new way to oversee municipal pensions for Chicago and Cook County workers.

One Ontario mom was able to find free one - on - one care for her late - speaker son after a municipal daycare helped her negotiate the bureaucracy and paperwork for the aid - worker application.

All sorts of income can potentially be tax - free, including: Auto rebates; child - support payments; combat pay; damages in lawsuits for physical injury; disability payments, if you paid the premiums for the policy; dividends on a life insurance policy, up to the total of premiums paid; Education Savings Account withdrawals used for qualifying expenses; gifts; Health Savings Account withdrawals used for qualifying payments; inheritances; life insurance proceeds; municipal bond interest; policy officer survivor payments; profits from the sale of a home, up to $ 250,000 if you're single or $ 500,000 if you're married; qualified Roth IRA and Roth 401 (k) withdrawals; scholarships and fellowship grants; Social Security benefits (between 15 percent and 100 percent are tax - free); veterans benefits; and workers» compensation.

Top: Municipal workers pick up a dump - truck - load of cat food, dog food, treats and supplies for Animals Need You on July 30, 2009.

His famous Rusakov Club, built for the Moscow Municipal Workers Union (1927 — 29), has three cantilevered wedges that suggest the teeth of a gear.

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.

Our lawyers routinely serve as defense counsel for the Vermont League of Cities and Towns Property & Casualty Intermunicipal Fund (PACIF), the leading provider of Property / Casualty and Workers» Compensation coverage to Vermont municipal entities.

The Highway Maintenance Worker is responsible for the maintenance of highways, airport runways and municipal or rural roads.

After Evangelical Press shuttered its doors, it was a municipal building housing city workers, then stood vacant for months.