Sentences with phrase «good union job»

It used to be that a good union job offered security and enough money to pay the bills, buy a house and car and secure a pension.

Malcolm is back at work full time with a good union job earning $ 70,000 a year as a carpenter (plus benefits and pension).

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.

«It is incumbent upon New York State to step up and protect New Yorkers, with legislation such as the Climate and Community Protection Act, transitioning into 100 % renewables with many new good union jobs, while boldly standing forward to save our communities and our salvage our future.»

At 1 p.m., Real Affordability for All, top elected officials (like NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Tish James), union leaders, workers, and local residents, will call on de Blasio to make substantial changes to his housing plan to ensure real affordability and good union jobs for residents who live in neighborhoods that will be rezoned, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

«Independent - minded people — bringing them together in such a way that we're talking about relevant things, and I believe that should be good union jobs and public schools and health care and [the] prescription crisis,» Vaid said.

Christopher Erikson, Business Manager, IBEW Local 3, said, «We need an energy transition to clean energy and we need to do it so we protect the good union jobs of those who construct, operate, and maintain power plants in this country.

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.

«As usual when these union airlines fail, such as Monarch, Air Berlin and Alitalia in recent months, their pilots all come to Ryanair seeking jobs that pay up to $ 175,000 p.a., deliver a double bank holiday weekend every week, with the best promotions record and, the best job security in Europe,» O'Leary said.

A recent Abacus Data poll, done on behalf of Public Response — an agency that works with labour — indicates that a majority of Canadians, 61 %, believe unions do a good job of protecting their members» jobs.

But only 46 % believe unions do a good job of improving their members» lives as well as the lives of others — in spite of data that proves the contrary time and time again.

«If we don't act, in the next five years we'll be saying the same things: that Greece isn't going well, that there are no jobs... that we have a new program by the International Monetary Fund and European Union to support us,» the 25 - year - old said.

One Occupy rally I stumbled across here in Toronto featured speakers from a big trade union, members of which enjoy jobs that pay relatively well, and a representative of one of Canada's aboriginal groups, whose complaints are legitimate but have little to do with having been left behind by capitalism.

The tech giant says it «did a pretty good job» replying to the European Union's concerns that it blocks competitors in web search results.

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.

«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.

But the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) said jobs at the Cobram plant, in Victoria's north, may also be affected, as well as at Longford in Tasmania.

«Our teammate, Blake (Greeslee, of East Union - Manteca) did a real good job of picking the energy up and hustling, and we all just picked up on it.»

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.

The deputy also «believed he did a good job» because he called in the location of the massacre and gave a description of Cruz's location, a top union official said.

We look forward to working with management to protect this industry — and the conditions that our union will establish — to ensure long - term prosperity and good jobs.»

«When it comes to fighting to make sure hard working New Yorkers have good paying jobs and access to quality healthcare, Scott has been in the corner of working families throughout his career,» George Gresham, the union's president, said in a statement.

The suggestion is that that Unite and other affiliated unions have accepted that Miliband and his supporters will not budge on this — and so they are making the best of a bad job.

He worked as a union organizer fighting for good jobs and respect for workers and was elected President of the Community School Board for District 6, covering Washington Heights, Inwood and West Harlem.

Union leader John R. Durso, president of the Long Island Federation of Labor, blamed the dearth of good - paying jobs on the 2007 - 09 recession, which he said wiped out the retirement savings of older workers, causing them to postpone retirement.

Most of those lucky enough to have a proper job these days would be better off expecting this from their union or an employment lawyer.

A trade union increases the power of the employees by allowing them to bargain collectively with the employer: when the employer has too much power (e.g., the only job in town), a union can «level the playing field» by controlling a large % of skilled workers and negotiate a better pay or benefits which would otherwise be denied by the employer's access to other labor sources.

The union pointed out that procuring abroad can also lead directly to job losses, as well as lost tax revenues.

Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, said, «Though deputy mayor is not just a City Hall desk job, it doesn't look good to taxpayers when she is too often at another job location, and with other staffers who didn't get Conflicts of Interest Board clearance.»

He said the union also wants to see stability in health insurance, as well as increased job training so workers can rise to better - paying positions.

Democratic elected officials aligned with the city and state teachers unions see charters as a thinly - veiled, well - moneyed effort to erode job protections for teachers.

As a former union organizer, I know the critical role that labor has played in building the middle class and creating good jobs.

The Teamsters union representing the drivers panned the proposal and the Central Labor Council reiterated their opposition to the bill, arguing that the horses are treated well already and 300 drivers would lose their jobs.

Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «The NUT is left with no option but to take action to protect the well - being of our members and restore their rights to do their job thoroughly and propUnion of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «The NUT is left with no option but to take action to protect the well - being of our members and restore their rights to do their job thoroughly and propunion, said: «The NUT is left with no option but to take action to protect the well - being of our members and restore their rights to do their job thoroughly and properly.

Cuomo's veto of a bill that would have protected teachers at risk of losing their jobs for two years is being described as everything from a case of «angry sour grapes» to «strange» to «a brave and good move» by teachers, union leaders, administrators and reform advocates.

His recent public spats with teaching unions and Ofsted appear to have damaged the education secretary with 57 % per cent of all voters now say he is doing a bad job with just 21 % saying he is doing well.

«Unions and the working poor have opportunities to come together and create a society where everybody has an opportunity for a good, solid - paying Living Wage job and everybody has an opportunity to reap the benefits of the social programs that are administered by government and particularly by the State of New York,» Peoples - Stokes explained.

«The MTA could have come into these talks with a more realistic position, and they may have done better... It's just an amateurish job from the beginning by the MTA,» said Wilner, who expected the agreement would be an easy sell to the eight affected LIRR unions» members.

As CalWatchdog.com's Chris Reed argued, «That is good news for those considering taking on public employee unions in 2016 with ballot measures putting limits on government pensions or scrapping state laws allowing teachers to receive lifetime tenure after less than two years on the job.»

Despite the Government extolling the virtues of people working longer, older teachers, particularly women, feel under - valued and are often pressurised to leave their jobs well before their pension age, the Annual Conference of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has heard today.

This is actually the town where so many businesses have their European headquarters, where so many jobs have been created and I think it's a very good place to start the conversation we need to have over the next four months about whether Britain stayed in the European Union.»

While the state is looking, of course, for good - paying jobs, Zemsky said the incentive package will not require any of those positions to be earmarked for union members.

Look at how many people change unions during the course of their career because one union is doing a better job than others.»

well lets just hope they cover it correctly... that it was the courage of the 1ST elected offical Oliver Koppell, FED UP NORTHERN BRONX DEMOCRATS in Bedford Park & Norwood along with help from «YES» outside and YES Inside Union Residents... that did the job NOT BEN FRANKLIN NOT JERFFRET DINOWITZ WHO COULD HAVE SOLVED THIS PROBLEM IN THE FIRST PLACE BY FOLLOWING CARL HEASTIE ORDERS BUT THE RESIDENTS OF BEDFORD PARK, NORWOOD, KINGSBRIDGE, The NorthWest Bronx Democrats, Desiree Pilgrim Hunter Yorman Nunez, Doug Cunningham, Margret Groake, George Diaz, Sallie Caldwell, Chris Padilla, Jeffiner Jones, Anthony Rivieccio AND MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY RESIDENTS THAT HAVE THANK GOD LIBERATED THEMSELVES will this be in the norwood news?

Writing in an open letter to Brown in 2011, Donnelly accused the governor of submitting new contract agreements that «protect the well - paid public employee unions, even at the cost of students, public safety, and jobs.»

That leaves Rumore well aware that some people want him out of the job, if for no other reason than so they can step in and lead the state's second - largest — and politically influential — teachers union.

Acknowledging he may have a job to convince the unions, he joked: «Getting on Len McCluskey's good side?

DNC spokesman Michael Tyler said the party's national platform «repeatedly and unequivocally states, the Democratic Party is staunchly committed to making it easier for workers, public and private, to exercise their right to organize and join unions, to increasing the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, to protecting collective bargaining, to strengthening workplace protections, and to investing in infrastructure that uses American products and provides good - paying jobs for American workers.»

MaryEllen Odell, the Putnam County Executive, agreed with Day about the rollout of Cuomo's mandate: «There» s a very good possibility with the implementation of shared services and consolidation, there may be at the same the unions pushing back and saying, «well what about our jobs?»