Sentences with phrase «for union jobs»

Gov. Cuomo told an AFL - CIO meeting Monday that he wants to «pay more for union jobs because the government shouldn't pay a poverty wage.»

Alicia Glen, Mayor Bill de Blasio's deputy mayor for housing and economic development, told the City Council today that obligating developers who receive the controversial 421a tax break to pay construction workers prevailing wages could result in 17,000 badly - needed below - market apartments not getting built — and argued that the demand for low - cost housing trumps the call for union jobs.

This nationalist discourse — Bob White declaring that he would «wrap the fucking flag» around himself to fight for union jobs — contrasted with an American localism that was ineffective in marshalling political support to stem the tide of rust.

Not exact matches

Gillian Thomas, senior staff attorney at American Civil Liberties Union Women's Rights Project, says that in order to create safer spaces for women, individuals in leadership positions must do a better job of setting a good example.

* Most thorny issue is job security for nearly 700 workers - union (Recasts, adds comments from Korean government, GM)

Ty Trippet, a spokesman for Bloomberg LP, where no group of employees has ever voted to join a union, responded via email: «Even after repeated warnings, the employee refused to do his job and repeatedly behaved in an unprofessional manner.

Labor unions have pushed for approval of the pipeline, saying it would create thousands of construction jobs, while environmentalists opposed it because it would increase greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's oil sands.

Criticisms of the 1099 employment model, they say, are rooted in nostalgia for an age when blue - collar jobs came with lifelong union guarantees and fat pensions.

Traditionally, unions have fought hard to improve wages, benefits, hours of work, pensions, health and safety, job security and training for their members.

Yet even if the Britain loses access to the European Union's single market, many firms have lowered their estimates for job losses in London, meaning the city will likely remain Europe's financial center.

The union was seeking assurances about bonuses and severance packages for the factory employees who will be out of jobs when the plant closes before the end of this year.

For their part, liberals worry the free trade agreements will cost the U.S. jobs and might weaken unions.

The decision to outsource production will cost nearly 150 highly qualified jobs and the destruction of a modern production location in Geneva just for a short - term increase in profitability,» a spokesman for the Unia trade union said.

Despite comments suggesting that the Canadian Auto Workers and other unions are to blame for the loss of jobs at Electro - Motive and elsewhere, in reality their power has greatly declined.

A good graph of job distress for the U.S. is here: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/not-yet-worse-than-1982/ What I find exasperating is when economists decide that unemployment is a micro problem, and blame unions for high wages, governments for providing high social wages, and the unemployed for not accepting lower wages.

And with her immediate job done at the police officers» union, it was time for Do to go home to California to see her brother.

Those jobs need to be protected and Canada needs to do more to make that happen, said union leader Ken Neumann, Canadian national director for the United Steelworkers, in a statement Tuesday.

The Fight for $ 15 began in 2012 when two hundred fast - food workers walked off the job to demand $ 15 / hr and union rights in New York City.

Peter Rossman, a spokesman for the IUF, an international association of unions in the food industry, says Heinz workers are nervous, though its factory jobs have so far gone untouched.

Bank of America will relocate up to 125 jobs from Britain mostly to Ireland as it prepares for Britain's exit from the European Union, according to a corporate filing.

Certain matters discussed in this press release are forward ‐ looking statements, including that Everstream Energy Capital Partners, North Sky Capital and New Energy Capital are planning to invest more than $ 67 million in a fund to support utility ‐ scale projects in Central and Southern California developed by SunEdison; that the projects will generate over 320,000 MWh of electricity annually, and create hundreds of jobs or up to 250,000 hours for California electrical and construction union workers.

The deal is expected to lead to some job cuts and is likely to face tough questions from politicians in Scotland where there is increasing pressure for a second independence referendum after Britain's vote to leave the European Union.

Some banks lowered the estimates for jobs they need to move as they consider more carefully how much of their operations they will need in the European Union if Britain loses access to the bloc's single market, the survey found.

In his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump flicked at a lie about the US coal industry that he began telling early on the campaign trail: that there was a «war on coal,» that coal's jobs will return, that regulations by the Obama administration are responsible for its ills, and that the measures he has taken in office can reverse its fortunes.

Friday's developments escalated the war of words between the small but vocal union and the outspoken Clement and set the stage for a job action that could last into the fall.

FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Corp. are desperate for talented workers and offering bonuses of up to $ 25,000 to fill jobs in...

«I think this is the best of both worlds - out of the single currency, out of the no - borders agreement, out of an ever - closer union, but in the things that work for Britain, that give us jobs, that give us security, that give us the ability to make sure we have a stronger and safer world.

We ran into one cyclical recession in the» 70's, and the Republicans seized on it as an excuse to rig government and society for the benefit of people who are already rich, while taking away opportunities from everyone else... then they crushed the unions so that workers would never be able to get back better pay and better job security, while investors make more and more and pay less and less in taxes.

Groomed by the American system for some job like the one he holds — high school at Roxbury Latin, undergrad at Yale (and president of Yale's prestigious Political Union in his last year there), law school at Harvard — he belongs to a type of quiet and careful civil servant that Caesar Augustus would have recognized.

There are certain key jobs that should be sought: teaching in schools of education, serving as organizers in unions, as lawyers and doctors for the poor, as clergy in various kinds of churches, as city planners, as journalists.

Following a consultation period, First Milk said it had to proceed with the move, which threatened up to 231 jobs, despite pleas for Asda to rethink from trades union Unite.

WORKERS at the struggling Rosella plant have been given assurances about their jobs for Christmas, a union says, but there are no guarantees yet.

The latest incident to spark widespread union outcry has centred on Carlton & United's Melbourne brewery, where dozens of long - serving maintenance workers were laid off and invited to reapply for their old jobs with a new contractor on inferior pay and conditions.

The Australian Meat Industry Council and the Meat Industry Employees» Union have accused the government of subsiding foreign workers who compete directly with Australian meatworkers for jobs with its five - year commitment to an initiative, Managing Abattoir, Training and Exchange of Skills, or MATES.

About 350 McCains workers will walk off the job on Wednesday amid claims by the union its members are being denied requests for holidays made months in advance.

Though Tellem does not blame the union for consenting to the escrow tax — «Billy Hunter did a remarkable job of holding the players together for as long as he did» — he believes the union should consider decertifying in three years and taking the owners to court.

Money owed to the players was, in part, used to create these new teams, which in turn created more jobs for members of the Players Union.

That he was forced to get a job working for the local newspaper union in between matches to make ends meet.

According to a report by mlssoccer.com's Sam Stejskal, former New York Red Bulls sporting director Ali Curtis and current Philadelphia Union sporting director Earnie Stewart have interviewed for the United States Men's National Team general manager job.

It means moldovans will have the right to travel around european union without visa and search for the jobs here in the UK.

I supported my first husband for a while but when he got a union job, he made a lot more than I did.

You say, «for the record, feminism did not strip those traditional - minded men from their jobs or fates — technology, job outsourcing, the decimation of unions, the Great Recession, etc., etc, did a lot more damage then the fact that women want to work (unless you want us to be «gold - diggers»)

And, for the record, feminism did not strip those traditional - minded men from their jobs or fates — technology, job outsourcing, the decimation of unions, the Great Recession, etc., etc, did a lot more damage then the fact that women want to work (unless you want us to be «gold - diggers»), make as much as men do (which we still don't), be educated (you want a smart woman, right?)

In rejecting an arbitrator's report Wednesday that recommended a healthy pay hike, the Chicago Teachers Union indicated it will push for a deal that gives members greater job security and a say in how the longer school day plays out next year.

OAK FOREST — For the first time in the history of the Oak Forest Park District, employees will have representation on salary, benefits and job security after the board of commissioners approved a contract Tuesday night between a Chicago union and district workers.

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Unite is among those unions that have consistently called for an economic alternative based around investment in jobs and communities in order to grow the nation back to financial health.

Equally or perhaps more dangerously for Corbyn, he'd be on the wrong side of a Unite union which backed him to the hilt and serves as a Praetorian guard but is unlikely to sit back quietly if the jobs — and union subs — of the thousands of well - paid skilled workers it represents went down the Swanee with Trident.

A trial court in Rensselaer County has thrown out a union challenge to a pair of programs started by Cuomo — the Empire and Excelsior Service fellowships — that recruits young professionals and those just getting out of school, to work at high level jobs in state government for two year periods.

At 11:30 a.m., low - wage tenants and workers and members of Real Affordability for All and building and construction unions call for real affordable housing and good union jobs from NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, City Hall Park, near Broadway and Park Place, Manhattan.