Sentences with phrase «help private sector workers»

Cutting public sector pensions won't help private sector workers — it will just make everyone poorer in retirement.

With a slim majority of all union workers employed in the public sector, the conservative class war amounts to dragging unionized public employees down to the level of contingent no - benefits workers before they can leverage their power to help private sector workers raise their own workplace standards.

Not exact matches

«The PRPP will not do anything to help people in the private sector close the really massive gap with public - sector workers,» he says.

The result: Now down to representing only 7 % of private - sector workers, America's unions and collective bargaining are no longer able to provide workers the power they need to redress workplace injustices or achieve a fair share of the economic growth they help generate.

Ros Altmann, an independent pension adviser who helped set up a rescue scheme for workers in crashed companies, said unions needed to recognise that final salary schemes were unaffordable in the private or the public sector.

Northwell Health, the state's largest private - sector employer, is examining worker schedules and helping to arrange carpools for 378 employees who live on Long Island and work at its Manhattan hospitals, which have a total workforce of 3,995, according to Barbara Osborn, a spokeswoman for Northwell, which is based in New Hyde Park.

The newly energized teachers unions appealed to the AFL - CIO for help in getting state legislatures to pass laws that put teachers on much the same footing as those in unions representing workers in the private sector.

According to the piece, public employee union leaders and community organizations gathered in Washington, D.C. in 2014 and came up with a 3 - point plan: use the bargaining process as a way to challenge the relationships between government and the private - sector; work with community allies to create new, shared goals that help advance both worker and citizen power; and recognize militancy and collective action will likely be necessary if workers and citizens are to reduce inequality and strengthen democracy.

It is a crime that many people in the private sector making 40 - 80k without a good pension are being asked to help federal workers retire at extremely young ages.

Over the past two years, the historic investments my administration has made in clean and renewable energy research and technology have helped private sector companies grow and hire hundreds of thousands of new workers.