Sentences with phrase «handed over the unions»

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In an ongoing dispute over electricity rate changes proposed by the crown corporation last November, the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union, Local 378, says that BC Hydro is using an accounting slight - of - hand to mask the real financial toll of unrealistically low electricity prices.

But the former Soviet Union gave neoliberals a free hand in turning land and natural resources over to insiders and slashing taxes on them — while imposing a stiff «flat tax» on labor's income.

At Google, she had her hands full with the European Union's battle with the search giant over limiting the power of its services.

The only extraordinary thing about the tape, released over two months after the talk, is how long the union took to realize what a weapon it had in its hands.

More people died at their hands than the aztecs sacrificed over a 50 year period 7) The fall of the soviet union was more an economic fall than anything, and this is the first time I have ever heard the election of a pope had anything to do with it.

A file of evidence claims bundles of cash of up to $ 40,000 were handed over to members of the Caribbean Football Union by the two men at meetings in Trinidad earlier this month.

A few moves later, when his defeat was complete, Sebastian limply shook hands with the boy who had beaten him, a sandy - haired kid from a central Ohio suburb, shuffled his way through the cavernous convention - center ballroom where a thousand heads were bowed over chessboards, and slunk back to Union B, the windowless conference room down the hall that was his chess team's temporary home.

The man who took on Rupert Murdoch, who took on the City, who took on the trade unions who handed him victory over his brother.

Higher education minister Bill Rammell said yesterday's final offer of a 13.1 per cent pay increase over three years was rejected by union leaders «seemingly out of hand».

Abutia Development Union, (ADU), an association of committed citizens of Abutia Traditional Area in the Volta Region, is asking the government to hand over management of the Kalakpa Game Reserve to the Traditional Authority over what they describe as the failure of the Forestry Commission to make good use of the reserve.

The Government has so far suffered a series of humiliating defeats at the hands of the Lords over the EU Withdrawal Bill — with peers backing plans to remain part of a customs union with the EU and to give Parliament more say over the final Brexit deal.

Ed Miliband has had his hand forced by the recent Falkirk scandal regarding the union's influence over candidate selections to publically acknowledge the need to overhaul the highly charged relationship.

With Conservative MPs pressuring Miliband over his inability to gain the upper hand against the unions, observers are noting the issue is unlikely to go away quickly.

In the first six months of the year the unions handed over # 5m compared to # 1m from only 29 individual donors, three of whom gave # 750,000.

GOPers were furious over what they viewed as heavy - handed lobbying by Bloomberg and his team as they tried last week to kill the governor's union - favored compromise bill to limit the public release of teacher evaluations, insiders say.

In their last act before their Easter break, Assembly members have passed emergency legislation laying claim to all powers over devolved matters that are currently in the hands of the European Union.

Citi News can confirm that the vehicles handed over to the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) in 2016 on hire purchase by the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre [MASLOC], have been left at the mercy of the weather.

As the presidency stick is handed over to Luxembourg, there is a clear answer: the number of advances in scientific career development during the Dutch presidency of the European Union (EU) has stopped at zero.

So the pledge by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to heed public opinion when naming celestial bodies is in - keeping with the zeitgeist — even if its hand was forced by the good - natured outcry over its earlier decision to ignore a bid, led by Star Trek star William Shatner, to name a Plutonian moon «Vulcan» (see «Official planet namer listens to voice of the people «-RRB-.

Universal's «Breaking In» stars Union as a single mother who travels to her recently deceased father's Malibu mansion to settle his estate, only to find herself in a ferocious battle to save her children from four criminals who invade the house and kidnap them, demanding she hand over the contents of her father's safe.

A bill in the Ohio legislature that would hand Cleveland's mayor broad control over his city's beleaguered public schools is a shoo - in for passage, several school officials, lawmakers, and union leaders say.

Harding praised Moe's efforts to talk about union incentives and behavior, accepted the notion that test scores are useful measures of learning, and suggested we can all «put our heads in our hands over the state of [teacher] contracts.»

In Florida, where the affiliate the NEA controls with the AFT is battling fiercely with Gov. Rick Scott and reformers unified under Scott's predecessor (and rival), Jeb Bush, the union gave $ 250,000 to progressive outfit Florida Watch Action, and handed over $ 500,000 to the state affiliate's Public Education Defense Fund.

From the sounds of it, Duncan has just handed teachers unions throughout the country virtual veto power over future Race to the Top grants.

(Interestingly, the teachers unions are biting the corporate hand that feeds them: Gates has given the NEA and AFT over $ 20.7 million in grants since 2008.)

... Throughout this long period, we have been repeatedly frustrated by the gulf between the clear and present need, the burning desire of parents to have more control over the schooling of their children, on the one hand, and the adamant and effective opposition of trade union leaders and educational administrators to any change that would in any way reduce their control of the educational system.

Those days are gone — the only connections are the campaign checks the unions hand over to the Democratic Party.

Amabilia Villeda, the leader of the Padres de 24 Parent Union leading the effort, handed Superintendent John Deasy some of the signatures she'd been gathering over the last nine months in a door - to - door campaign.

Over the past five election cycles, the American Federation of Teachers has handed the Democratic Governors Association more than $ 5.5 million in money that was earned by America's teachers and given to their union with the intention that the funds would be used to support candidates and promote policies that support teachers and enhance public schools.

Her focus is on education, where the teachers unions have blocked meaningful reforms for years; protecting bad teachers from being terminated, promoting based on seniority instead of merit, taking over local school boards with hand - picked, union - financed candidates, attacking charter schools, prioritizing teacher compensation and job security over student achievement, and pushing a social agenda in front of academic fundamentals.

The signatures of more than 18,000 concerned EU citizens were personally handed over to Ambassador Poul Skytte Christoffersen at the Danish Embassy in Brussels by HSI EU Director Dr. Joanna Swabe, along with the clear message that Denmark's whaling policies should be firmly aligned with the principles and provisions of the European Union.

It is perhaps indicative of the key role the Court has played in European integration that the European Union's opening hand on the protection of citizens» rights has argued for the full jurisdiction of the Court of Justice over the agreement.

He added of 2015 - 16: «On the one hand we had an M&A boom in developed markets during calendar 2015, while on the other hand clients also had to contend with a slowdown in China, the collapse of oil and commodity prices and rising uncertainty over the UK's referendum on whether to leave the European Union.»

On the one hand, the Bill abolishes the obligation for labour unions to provide the Minister of National Revenue annually with certain financial information for public disclosure, particularly information concerning any transaction over $ 5,000.

And when the company finally hands the records over - three months later - the union won't let the grievance see the records.

In June, the European Union handed out its biggest ever fine (2.42 billion euros) to Google for prioritizing its own shopping services over those of its rivals in its search results.

My experience has been amazing with home union so far starting from finding the right property, inspection, closing, rehab and then handing over for asset management.