Sentences with phrase «gives union leaders»

His budget gives union leaders a choice between accepting modest cost - saving trims to their generous contracts or facing layoffs.

Not exact matches

This fall, a Facebook page gave thousands of Air Canada employees a forum to share with each other their dissatisfaction over their union leaders» negotiations, badly disrupting the collective bargaining process.

«We can't give up,» said Tabata, the union leader who watched Quevedo's truck drive by that day.

Even the teacup the Scottish Conservative leader gives me has a Union Jack on it.

The Labour leader, who faces a near - impossible balancing act whenever trade union demonstrations take place, refused to go on the march but gave an address at the end of it in which he promised to tax bankers» bonuses, build 100,000 houses and end the privatisation of the NHS.

Public employee union leaders slammed Gov. David Paterson for giving five of his staffers big raises as he pushed a furlough plan for state workers.

Given the pending decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Janus case, no union leader can really afford to alienate his or her members at this point in time.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew on April 18 gave chapter leaders and delegates a sneak preview of the union's new app that offers a simple, fast way to connect with the union and take advantage of member - only resources and discounts.

Nothing to do with us, the first thing the new leader of Labour should do is give a cast iron promise to jettison Scotland from the Union.

He demanded union party members should be given the right to choose Labour candidates in constituencies, have an «equal say» in the election of the party leader and the «right to a level playing field in the party where their views and votes count as much» as other party members.

«Francisco has been with us through our fight to give a union voice to car wash workers across New York City, and has been a leader in the Assembly in our fight to end the tip - credit — he knows that supporting our immigrant workers is what makes New York City move every day.

During his monthly press conference yesterday, Mr Blair refused to comment on the party funding review, but his support for a # 50,000 cap would not be unexpected given his efforts to cut the power of the trade unions during his time as Labour leader.

The tactics worked so well that even former Gov. George Pataki and Senate GOP leader Joe Bruno finally threw in the towel and gave the union what it wanted - in the form of billions of extra Medicaid dollars for the hospitals and nursing homes that employ 1199's members.

Given the negative and selfish rhetoric we've heard from the leaders of the various public employee unions this year when Governor Paterson has asked them to share in the general belt - tightening that so many New Yorkers have been enduring as the result of the Great Recession, one might assume that if taxpayers knew that their gift was paying the salaries of state workers, they would not be so benevolently disposed toward our program.

The health care union allied with Senate Republicans under former majority leader Joe Bruno's leadership, and frequently gave members of his conference four times as much money as it did to Democrats.

They could anger union supporters, however, given they are already wary of the new Labour leader after he mooted plans to reduce their voting influence at party conferences.

When the Republican refused to give the PBA the raises they sought, union leaders assailed Mr. Giuliani as a cheapskate — the Republican mayor was the brunt of a «zeros for heroes» campaign, and knew that when he ran for president a decade later, the PBA wouldn't dare lend their endorsement.

Last week Michael Gove gave a speech which, among other things, differentiated between opposing trade union leaders and trade union members.

Labor union leaders on Tuesday said they felt confident an appeal would garner the necessary votes, given that the Common Council voted to keep tax incremental financing for the project in the city's 2010 budget.

UKIP's Nigel Farage and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg have given their opening statements in the second of their two debates on UK's membership of the European Union.

The underlying message of what he has to say is that Labour would not be guaranteed to continue receiving the millions the union has given it if the bookies» favourite, David Miliband, is installed as leader and takes the party in a direction of which he disapproves:

UKIP's Nigel Farage and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg give their opening statements in the second of their two debates on UK's membership of the European Union.

On another, he was the leader of a 9,000 - strong public employees union with unusually high dues of $ 45 per paycheck — 50 percent higher, to be exact, than the $ 30 rate of the Correction Captains Association, for example — giving him plenty of cash to lavish on pliant politicians.

The union has given thousands to the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee and to GOP Assembly Minority Leader in the same year.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- The leader of the state's largest public employee union says the workers are willing to make financial concessions to Gov. Scott Walker but will not give up their collective bargaining rights.

The Deputy Leader wants to scrap the «one member one vote» system used for electing Labour leaders, and restore the old «electoral college» which gave an equal say to party members, trade unions and Labour MPs.

Arguably, they will only be able to donate a comparable proportion of their discretionary funds as the percentage of members that opted into affiliation, but even then this would give several millions pounds of leverage to individual union leaders.

Yesterday Ed Miliband gave a landmark speech about Labour's relationship with the union movement, but it is Nick Clegg who will determine whether this boldest of gambles pays off for Labour's leader.

The union leaders urged members to remain steadfast in compliance with the earlier directive given to sustain the nationwide strike until further instructions were issued by JOHESU.

Others believe the city and its leaders should have planned better for the new contracts given to every city union.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan gives Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins a hug at this year's first day of session at the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

This takes the power out of the hands of out of touch union leaders and gives it to ordinary members.

But the Labour leader declined to give details of what might happen to the unions» voting strength at party conference and in future leadership elections

Miller, the county commissioner of human resources, said AFSCME leaders are giving up a good deal for their members by agreeing to a lump - sum payment for 2016 and erasing negotiated agreements already reached between the union the county administration on a multitude of issues.

«Until we realise that giving «votes» to the leaders of public sector unions, whose methods derive from southern Italy, no UK voter will regard the Labour leader as legitimate.»

A new method of electing Labour's leader - the electoral college, which gives unions, party members and MPs / MEPs a third of the votes each, abolished in favour of one member, one vote

The Conservatives say Ed Miliband is «too weak» to take on the unions and the proposed changes will make no difference, adding: «All he has done is give the union barons even more power to buy Labour's policies and pick Labour's leader.»

This gives union general secretaries the power to write large cheques and defend having significant representation on the party's governing National Executive Committee, the votes at party conference, the choice of party leader as well as local selections.

Sources close to Jeremy Corbyn have made it clear he will oppose a push by his deputy Tom Watson to give MPs and unions more power over the choice of future Labour leaders.

These days union leaders give politicians their money and not openly hold them accountable for their failure in protecting the rights and benefits of America's middle class.

February 28, 2012 • European Union leaders gather at the end of the week, but have delayed a decision on whether to build a bigger financial firewall after giving Greece another bailout.

The U.S. Department of Labor has asked a federal court to order a new election of officers for the Washington Teachers Union, alleging that irregularities marred the vote that gave the District of Columbia union its first elected officials since an embezzlement scandal toppled its leaders in Union, alleging that irregularities marred the vote that gave the District of Columbia union its first elected officials since an embezzlement scandal toppled its leaders in union its first elected officials since an embezzlement scandal toppled its leaders in 2002.

Union leaders like Weingarten may have picked up some of the rhetoric of these advocates» views and given them time and space to be heard, but thus far at least do not seem to have adopted their views wholesale.

Likewise, many of the ideas we regard today as education reform's conventional wisdom - linked standards and assessments, consequences for poor performance, testing new teachers, paying some teachers more than others, and charter schools - were given prominent public voice by a teacher union leader, the late Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers.

The problem, of course, is that plenty of us are skeptical of the nice words — because we feel like unions have generally not stepped up on this score and because union leaders like Mike Mulgrew in New York and Karen Lewis in Chicago are declaring «war» on reformers and giving no indication they've gotten Randi's memo.

As teacher - contract negotiations proceed this spring, union leaders across the country report that the reform movement is giving a new legitimacy to their longstanding efforts to improve salaries and working conditions, and that in some districts teachers have made startling gains in these areas.

Mike Antonucci gives Weingarten's comment an historical perspective, enumerating high - sounding teacher union leader's past proclamations which did nothing to change the moribund status quo.

The ensuing media glare made it tougher for the United Federation of Teachers to defend problematic practices, gave the union leadership reason to seek a deal that would staunch the bad publicity, and consequently put district leaders in a stronger bargaining position.

The union gave $ 200,000 to Al Sharpton's National Action Network even though the civil rights leader is a strong supporter of charter schools.

In fact, leaders in APA's interviews indicated that, «attending TURN together and learning about examples of PAR in other districts gave both the district and the union a common focus.