Sentences with phrase «government union jobs»

Not exact matches

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

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.

During this period the Government of Alberta introduced a $ 15 minimum wage; appointed a gender - balanced Cabinet; replaced a system of regressive flat taxes with a progressive income tax system; laid out a responsible fiscal plan that rejected austerity; implemented an ambitious jobs plan; reformed the royalty system; ended predatory lending practices while strengthening the credit union system and ATB, Alberta's publicly - owned bank; and implemented a climate change leadership plan — among many other important reforms.

Unions, working with employers, have come along way to making these workplaces safer over the past 30 years, but there's much more work to be done - particularly as we discover the toll these types of jobs take on workers mental health and as the Conservative government moves closer and closer to total industry self - regulation (something that puts all Canadians at risk).

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.

The Australian Council of Trade Unions argued the government's industry policy was «achieving nothing other than massive job losses and the decimation of the local manufacturing industry».

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.

More than 200 UK jobs have been saved after a campaign by the Public and Commercial Services union forced government contractor Hewlett Packard to abandon plans to offshore work to India.

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.

Unite, Britain's biggest union, says Britain's return to recession and the government's disastrous budget is proof that George Osborne is not up to the job.

Cuomo did call for some things that will be unpopular with public employee unions (freezing pay, creating a Tier VI in the pension fund, reducing the size of state government — a move that will undoubtedly necessitate job cuts, but he makes no mention of that I can find in «The New NY Agenda: A Plan for Action»).

It is trade union members that would pay with their jobs for a Tory government that would cut immediately and strangle the economic recovery at birth.»

Maybe the news hasn't gotten to orange county, but Scott Walker has turned a bloated state government, anti-jobs union thug culture, and impending insolvency of the state's finances into a job - creating, pro-economic development, growing economy.

Over a million public sector workers are set to take industrial action against the government in a series of rows over pay, pensions, jobs, conditions and spending cuts, according to union figures.

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.»

The strike starts a six - week programme of protests by the union's members working in environment and forms part of a civil service - wide campaign over the government's imposed cuts to pay, pensions, jobs and working conditions.

The government's plans to increase the sanctions on benefit recipients will do nothing to alleviate poverty without the creation of more jobs with decent pay, the Public and Commercial Services union says.

Nevermind requiring anyone to have to pay a union shop fee in a government job is illegal.

Unskilled workers from outside the European Union will be banned from taking jobs in the UK for the «foreseeable future», the government confirmed today.

«This coming year is going to be one of the most challenging years for the trade union movement - and public sector trade unions in particular - as the coalition government seeks to make the public sector and its workforce pay for the crisis, through cuts to jobs, services, pay and pensions.

The Labour government came under fire from unions at this week's TUC in Brighton for failing to address the «massacring of manufacturing» in Britain, which has seen 1.5 million manufacturing jobs lost since they came to power in 1997.

Coastguard staff overwhelmingly believe the government's latest attempt to cut their jobs and close stations will put the public at risk, the Public and Commercial Services union announces.

Nick Robinson thinks Alan Johnson will be missed: «Alan Johnson was picked for the job because the former postman who rose to be his union's leader and then a cabinet minister could connect with the working class voters Labour had lost touch with and yet was a Blairite who worried about government spending too much.

«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.

Documents obtained by the Times Union earlier this year indicated a state administrative law judge determined that Reid «willfully and intentionally misrepresented the facts» when he collected the unemployment benefits while being paid $ 30,000 a year for his government job.

Mahoney is also expected to talk about county government jobs, including a reduction in the number of employees, union negotiations and a pilot program for summer jobs for Syracuse teens.

Shockingly, the cabinet papers also show that the Tories were willing to go as far as declaring a state of emergency and deploying the Army in order to gain victory over the striking miners and the unions — confirmation that it was a central tenet of government policy to regard tax - paying, law - abiding colliery workers, locked in struggle to defend their jobs and their way of life, as (to use that awful phrase of Margaret Thatcher's) «the enemy within».

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.

While the government is claiming that any underspend would be re-invested quickly, unions are furious at the figures - arguing that the money could have saved at least some of the 22,300 jobs cut last year.

HCR spokeswoman Charni Sochet told the Times Union that Aiello's arrangement — grad school in New York City, and a full - time government job in Albany — was not unusual.

Mr Cruddas, who has trade union backing and turned down a job in Gordon Brown's government after coming third in Labour's deputy leadership contest, said he was considering joining the race but was keeping all options open.

Dick Dadey, the executive director of Citizens Union, a government watchdog group, had criticized Mr. Blake on Friday after his Hilltop job was announced.

In March 2000, European heads of governments and of states agreed in Lisbon that by 2010, the European Union (EU) should become «the most competitive and dynamic knowledge - based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion.»

Republican governors, however, say that limiting union strength not only helps keep down government costs, but can also help create new jobs.

Commenting on the delay, Mary Bousted, general secretary of the ATL teaching union, told TES: «This government and Ofqual appear to be incapable of doing the very job they are required to do.

Wilshaw added: «If a head demands a course of action not because it is in the best interests of the children but because he or she is eager to please the council, the union, the government and, yes, even Ofsted, then they are not doing their job.»

Unfortunately, protecting the jobs and salaries of government teachers - no matter how ineffective they may be - is the main goal of unions.

The two men share vastly different backgrounds and overall educational beliefs, leading the LA Weekly to characterize the election as a reform vs. union battle for the heart of the Democratic Party and the Los Angeles Times to call it «a prime example of the strange rift in education, in which liberal Democrats are sharply divided on such issues as charter schools, job protections for teachers, the authority of the federal government in schools and the value of standardized test scores.»

Teachers» unions - long - term opponents of Sats tests - would say the government has already been doing a good job of that on its own.

Unions have warned it could result in tens of thousands of job losses, and this week the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) told George Osborne the funding pressures were putting the government's education programme in jeopardy.

«It's the job of the judiciary to act as a check and balance on the legislative and executive branches of government,» union President Joanne McCall said in a statement about the appeal.

Self - Help Aid: Low cost student loans that accrue interest while in college from the federal government, private loans from banks and credit unions or on and off campus jobs.

The president faces equally strong pressure from industry, the Canadian government, many Republicans and some Democrats in Congress, local officials and union leaders, who say the project will create thousands of jobs and provide a secure source of oil that will replace crude from Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and other potentially hostile suppliers.

A BIG blue - collar union has broken ranks and says it can not support the Gillard government's carbon tax package because of the «total absence» of a jobs plan for the struggling Latrobe Valley.

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That concession was made in 2011 following a six - day strike — the first by government lawyers in Canadian history — in which both Quebec lawyers» unions walked off the job in protest over their wages, which were as much as 40 - per - cent lower than what provincial lawyers earned in neighbouring barometer - province Ontario.

The government has also set aside $ 150 million to subsidise courses for union members to take selected courses through the NTUC - Education and Training Fund, improve the National Jobs Bank, and work with private placement firms to deliver better job matching services for professionals.

Higher wages sought by U.S. unions and higher taxes levied by the federal government have raised the cost of manufacturing in this country, Powell says, sending many jobs overseas in a process known as «offshoring.»

of my union buddies thought I was naive, stupid, and counter-productive to their vision of making the current job last indefinitely in order to prolonge their hold on same... («Brian, slow down... this is a government contract job (cost plus), you're pissing off the guys because you're doing too much... making them look bad to the so - called «government efficiency inspectors»... who wandered around filling out papers as they did so).