Sentences with phrase «funding as a bargaining»

We strongly urge state lawmakers to stop using school funding as a bargaining chip to extract concessions in budget negotiations.

Not exact matches

While Bond King Bill Gross, founder of world's largest bond fund PIMCO, is going deep into California and New York munis, claiming the returns are still the best in the market despite the headline risk, even the discussion of bankruptcy as a bargaining chip has caused some to fear bond market hysteria.

I plan: 5 % — swing for the fences 10 % — save for big blue chip bargain buys that pop up throughout the year 10 % — VNQ, other than our primary residence, I have no exposure to RE, so this should help with that 15 % — VXUS, international index exposure 60 % — VTI, total stock market index (as I get older, I will be also adding BND or a bond fund, but at 32, I'm working on building equities!)

Also making the cut was the iShares MSCI Brazil Capped ETF (EWZ), which had inflows of $ 518 million, as bargain buyers lept into the fund after last week's plunge.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

wenger should consider draxler or pedro (who i personally think would be value for money replacement and gives you the same qualities as corzola and at 27 would be around for his peak) if you sell corzola for # 10 - 12 million then pedro only cost about # 10 million once you take off the selling funds that's a bargain for a quality replacement, draxler would be a more expensive and long term replacement.

The duo characterized their proposal as a «grand bargain» that would silence the concerns of detractors — mainly, the Senate Republicans — that a public campaign finance system would be too expensive and should not be funded with taxpayer dollars.

Educators also voiced concern that the governor will use the «fiscal stabilization fund» money as a bargaining chip, by allowing legislators to distribute those funds without providing any additional cash beyond that already on the table.

I'm proud that our Governor sees the state as «One New York» and shares a vision with the Independent Democratic Conference to save our taxpayers from irresponsible tax policy in Washington, to pass the DREAM Act to help students achieve their full potentials, to protect our unions and collective bargaining and to fund sorely needed repairs to the MTA without delay.

THAT NYSUT establish a task force which shall include member - participants in each of the public retirement systems, including the retirement plan trustees, if applicable, to discuss possible methods, including legislation, to harness and use public pension plan resources to improve poor labor practices and to provide workers the right to organize and bargain collectively in enterprises controlled by private equity funds, as well as other corporate interests; and

The guidebook also offers an extensive treatment of the sector's most challenging policy issues, including inequitable funding levels, acquiring suitable facilities, and human - capital obstacles such as inflexible rules on certification and collective bargaining.

Lily serves as the Vice President of Educational International for the North America and Caribbean Region, pursuing a common course of action on issues like collective bargaining, raising student achievement, and adequate funding that resonate around the world.

Editor's Note: The question put was as follows: In order to seek to persuade the Secretary of State for Education to protect pay and working conditions in all state funded schools and increase presently inadequate funding levels to improve and protect pay and working conditions through national collective bargaining are you prepared to take discontinuous strike action?

Abood allows agency fees, so long as the fees are limited to the portion of membership dues used solely for collective bargaining, and are separated from funds used for political purposes.

Evers earlier this year praised Walker's budget proposal, but until now the two have been at odds over how much money the state and property taxpayers should send to schools, the expansion of taxpayer - funded vouchers and on Walker's signature piece of legislation known as Act 10, which nearly eliminated collective bargaining for public school teachers and resulted in massive membership losses for the state's largest teachers union, which has heavily backed Evers.

But since the 1960s, successful efforts by teachers» unions to pass state laws forcing districts to bargain with them, along with school funding lawsuits and property tax reforms such as California's Proposition 13, have led to states taking a more prominent role in all aspects of education.

In other words, private non-profit «entities» receive public funds to operate public charter schools with permission to operate outside of various state and local laws, such as limited or no requirements for teacher certification and collective bargaining; but only if they met State educational goals.

After spending hundreds of millions on lobbying, these groups were able to persuade tea - bag and conservative Republican governors and legislatures to repeal collective bargaining for teachers, limited bargaining rights for others, dramatically expanded funding for charter schools or otherwise undermine what most would describe as the American public education system.

The school district is in contract negotiations with its labor groups, and UTLA asked the school board to join its call for more state funding as part of its bargaining proposal.

Independent firms tend to offer fewer funds or segregated account models than the banks do, and stick to a particular investing style, such as value investing (buying good companies at bargain bin prices) or growth - at - a-reasonable-price (GARP).

The defendants further contended that «the unions understood and accepted this bargain... Because the unions accepted this bargain, and because for most of the 17 funds at issue, fees charged to plan participants by the «retail» class were the same as the fees charged by the «institutional» class, net of the revenue sharing paid by the funds to defray the plan's recordkeeping costs, defendants argue that investment in the retail share classes was prudent.»

As for equity mutual funds, they have been no bargain either.

I've discarded 3i Group — as I suspected, it's external fund management / fees simply mitigate a bloated expense structure, so it's best to consider it separately as a PE fund at an attractive 38 % discount (though, there's plenty of similar London listed bargains available).

The bargaining committee compromised (as did the University) and did so on the basis where the union now freely and candidly acknowledges that the data indicates that there will be sufficient monies in the capped funds available to achieve the stated objectives.

In addition, the reform enacted by the Government in 2015 also restricted the use of CIG (Wage Guarantee Fund) which was largely requested for by the Unions during the bargaining processes within reorganisations: this restriction has indeed entailed a change in industrial relations as the Unions are no longer able to ask the employer to use this cushioning system in a significant number of situations — as it happened in the past — as a matter of negotiation.