Sentences with phrase «how public unions»

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Two organizations, Canadian Union of Public Sector Employees (CUPE) and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) have publicly released their proposals on how the minimum wage should be increased in Ontario, with the CCPA proposal in particular showing some promise.

New figures from Eurostat, the European Union statistical agency, show just how the issue has rocketed into the public consciousness.

A new book, Pension Ponzi: How Public - sector Unions are Bankrupting Canada's Health Care, Education and Your Retirement, highlights another instance.

Yet our government would have us agree to sweeping economic agreements like CETA and the TPP without providing us any facts at all, just empty slogans about how wonderful things will be after we sign on,» says Larry Brown, national secretary - treasurer of the National Union of Public and General Employees and co-chair of the Trade Justice Network.

«Yet it is clear we are in a new era of farm policy where multiple objectives should be delivered from the public purse and we welcome the opportunity to ask the public and industry how they want to continue to support farmers when the UK leaves the European Union.

The 43 pages amount to a complete overhaul of how Britain is run, with rail, mail and parts of the energy sector nationalised, an enhanced role for trade unions and a substantial increase in public investment - or a dangerous spending spree, in Tory parlance.

The NYC $ 15 million dollar subsidizing of union reps shows how hard it is to challenge public employee union leadership.

Considering this percentage in an auditorium full of Oxford students and faculty, who had specifically come to attend a lecture on the European Union, one can get an idea of just how strong the interest there is among the European public.

In spite of the public employee unions» legal actions to block the furloughs from going into effect on May 17, state agencies are already preparing for how the one - day - without - pay plan will play out.

A speech drafted for the Queen in the event of war with the Soviet Union has been released to the public, revealing a remarkable insight into how the British state thought it could prevent panic in the event of nuclear conflict.

In a letter to the state Public Employment Relations Board, DOE officials said the union recently refused to negotiate details of the evaluations until questions of how it would be implemented were answered — which they claim violates state bargaining law.

Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union, said: «Public leaders» meetings on ethics reform are so necessary to ensure that big effective solutions are considered, negotiated, and agreed to, as New Yorkers wait to see how our state's political leaders propose preventing the growing problem of corruption.»

Dick Dadey of Citizens Union said revelations by Thompson's mom about his deteriorated mental state in his final three months made it «important for the public to know how prosecutorial decisions were made during this period.»

The problems with Lee became public in a 2014 Times Union report that detailed how Kent and Garcia allegedly sought to have the spending questions investigated internally rather than turning it over to the Rockland County District Attorney.

The fact is that the European Union issue is more important than any of that, because it's about the decision of whether you want your laws made in Brussels and that march towards ever - closer union, or whether you want our country to make its own laws, our politicians to make the laws in this country, for us to be able to determine our immigration policy, to decide how we're spending our public mUnion issue is more important than any of that, because it's about the decision of whether you want your laws made in Brussels and that march towards ever - closer union, or whether you want our country to make its own laws, our politicians to make the laws in this country, for us to be able to determine our immigration policy, to decide how we're spending our public munion, or whether you want our country to make its own laws, our politicians to make the laws in this country, for us to be able to determine our immigration policy, to decide how we're spending our public money.

As public service broadcasting goes, yesterday's 20 - minute interview was pretty uninformative except in the way it showed how horribly confusing the European Union issue has become.

Republicans like Christie's fiscal conservatism, and how the pugnacious governor was on the front lines in battling public employee unions.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he spoke with Vice President Mike Pence about how the White House can implement pieces of the Republican governor's contentious policy that all - but eliminated public sector unions in the state.

Union contracts affect how public policy is set, according to the states.

It was later revealed several public employee unions had come forward to raise questions about how the amendment could impact their leadership.

How is Andrew Cuomo going to cut the public employee union pension deals that are bankrupting New York State?

At 12:30, Rep. Tonko will address a group of 100 engineering students and faculty members about his background as an engineer and how he applies his training to his current job in public service, then conduct a short Q&A session with students, Olin Building Atrium Union College, 807 Union Street, Schenectady.

Stark predictions of how public sector workers could lose tens of thousands of pounds under the government's pensions plans are shown in an online pensions calculator created by the Public and Commercial Services public sector workers could lose tens of thousands of pounds under the government's pensions plans are shown in an online pensions calculator created by the Public and Commercial Services Public and Commercial Services Union.

Second, how to strengthen public support in many countries for the European Union.

The Times Union reported Wednesday members of the Republican - controlled Senate were briefed on the outlines of a bill, but a rift emerged between the Senate and Gov. Andrew Cuomo over how to ensure a proposed Joint Commission on Public Ethics will be made bipartisan.

How does a public - sector union work?

The deals show how little juice is left for public sector unions trying to deliver using traditional tools at the bargaining table or in the political arena.

The real problem remains however as to how exactly the arguments can be got across to the public when the media, and particularly the tabloids, are determined not to give a fair hearing to potential strikers, but will seize the opportunity to demonise the unions (and the Labour Party too) as wreckers or worse.

Sheriff Russo «should have to explain to the public what the fiscal justification for this program would be,» county resident Siobhan Burke said on Wednesday night, raising concerns about somewhat vague comments the sheriff made to the Times Union last month about how funding from ICE «could offset the cost» of holding more federal detainees.

No matter how much I like the message or the platform, all I can see the Democrats doing is continuing to transfer tax payer money to the public employee union thugs.

In recent months, he invited public - sector unions to become his partners, even sending their leaders copies of «The Man Who Saved New York,» a biography of former Gov. Hugh L. Carey, which recounts how Mr. Carey, a Democrat, teamed up with labor leaders in similar fashion in the 1970s.

DC - 37, a union that represents thousands of municipal employees working in public hospitals and has donated heavily to Democrats, took the lead in lobbying for it, arguing that changing how the money was distributed was a matter of fairness.

although jack straw said that the link could be broke in 1995, when the only opposition to the public trusting labour agian was how the unions had behaved in the late 70's early 80's, the right of the party, would never sever teh link, as laobur need union money, and as for far left unions leaving well it's upto them

In a recent op - ed published by the New York Daily News, the father of two Brooklyn public school students gives a first - hand account of just how important it is that the teachers» union and City officials come to an agreement on a new teacher evaluation deal.

In the many responses to Gov. Cuomo's efforts to introduce formal and public teacher evaluation, teachers, union leaders and educational leaders have offered little but delaying tactics, such as more study is needed or how about conducting small trials.

Government emails first published by the Times Union in February 2016 showed that several agencies engaged in months of internal debate about how to handle the situation — and whether to tell the public.

Funny how there are no articles saying the «Unions force public employees to pay dues whether they want to participate in the Union or not».

A consistent and legitimate criticism levelled at the Union with Scotland has been the cost to the British taxpayer of the inherited Barnett formula, but the impending Scotland Act should make Scotland accountable for its own public spending and crucially, how it raises it.

The report contains this interesting graph on how the unions have become a public sector phenomenon in recent years:

I have been unable to secure any agreement from any of the public unions as to how to come up with this $ 250 million,» Mr. Paterson said at a news conference in the Capitol.

«Public leaders» meetings on ethics reform are so necessary to ensure that big effective solutions are considered, negotiated, and agreed to, as New Yorkers wait to see how our state's political leaders propose preventing the growing problem of corruption,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

Ahead of tonight's first Europe debate between Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage how do the public stand on the European Union?

As Mr. Hawkins rolled through positions directly affecting public workers, calling Common Core «a test - and - punish regime,» responding to a question about how to pay for the new Tappan Zee Bridge by saying a greater priority should be given to public transportation, and urging the creation of a State Bank to avoid having to go to Wall Street for financing of capital projects, it seemed like he stood for much of what they and their unions would like to see implemented.

This is just a total cave to the unions,» he said last week when asked about the plan, arguing that the public has a right to know how public teachers perform.

A report from the Union of Concerned Scientists came out this February called Heads They Win, Tails We Lose: How Corporations Corrupt Science at the Public's Expense.

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Instead of mainly focusing on the bloody fight between the Union and Confederate soldiers on the battlefields, or how the fighting affected the public, the film personalized the respected leader.

If you are a public - sector employee, you will suffer no tax increase at all — no matter how costly your health insurance — if the deal made behind closed doors between Democratic leaders in Congress, the White House, and powerful union officials goes through.

Educational researcher Gerald Bracey, author of Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered, writes in Stanford magazine that «NCLB aims to shrink the public sector, transfer large sums of public money to the private sector, weaken or destroy two Democratic power bases — the teachers» unions — and provide vouchers to let students attend private schools at public expense.»