Sentences with phrase «including city workers»

State and local government retirees - not including city workers - received $ 7.6 billion from the state's pension fund this year, up from $ 7.2 billion the year before.

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Many people who took the survey do not have a background in technology, including Jim Symbouras, 56, a municipal worker in New York City.

This boom includes Richard Florida's people: the young, digitized, multilingual creative class workers who populate the condos sprouting on Lake Ontario's edge, drawn from other parts of the city and the rest of the province and country to where economic and educational opportunity beckons.3

In Oakland, one of the nation's most diverse cities, Jackson says he would like to see Uber hire local workers and businesses and invest in the community, including the Oakland Unified School District.

New Worker magazine, a publication that covers the future of work, created a map of coworking spaces that includes more than 150 spaces in greater New York City.

The day we spent together included a trip just outside of the city, out to the apple fields to check in on some of the migrant workers who were busy harvesting the yearly apple crop.

The business, Lessing Food Service Management, proved to be so successful that by 1920 it was serving meals to New York City workers in 20 locations — including the famous Woolworth building — from a central bakeshop and commissary.

The city of Philadelphia has decided to start collecting a 4.3 % city wage tax on visiting workers, including professional athletes, for money earned there.

From Southbank it is easy to take a short ferry ride to many points in the city, including Kangaroo Point Cliffs (another beautiful recreational area along the river) and Eagle Street Pier, a trendy riverside area full of bars and restaurants (although here you're more likely to encounter city workers having a drink after work than families).

The Chicago Food Policy Action Council and the Food Chain Workers Alliance have played a leadership role in the City's adoption of the Program by supporting the Chicago Good Food Taskforce organized by the Mayor's Office including multiple City of Chicago Sister Agencies (Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Park District, Chicago City Colleges, Chicago Housing Authority) and Departments (Department of Public Health, Department of Family and Support Services, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Aviation, and Procurement).

«Most of the larger cities have gone to the professional recreational park worker, including people with degrees in fields like forestry and urban planning.

Memo to New York City government workers dreaming of hitting the lottery: You can no longer join an office pool if other participants include your boss or subordinates, according to a Conflicts of Interest Board ruling.

Four NYC workers punished for ethics violations include a vehicle - fleet manager who admitted using an agency car to drive his mom to a Pier 1 Imports store in Freeport on Black Friday to shop for a chair, according to the city's Conflicts of Interest Board.

The union, which represents more than 70,000 workers in New York, is endorsing Schneiderman at City Hall in Manhattan this morning and has pledged to do a voter outreach campaign — including mailings, door - to - door canvassing and member mobilization — in support of Schneiderman's election.

SEIU, the Service Employees Industrial Union, has 246,080 members in New York City including 150,000 in SEIU 1199 (hospital workers) and 70,000 in 32BJ (building services including janitors).

The city budget passed last year included a 2.5 percent cost - of - living adjustment, and in January the de Blasio administration announced that municipal workers and those working for contracted agencies will earn $ 15 an hour by the end of 2018.

Mr. Halloran is one of the most colorful characters on the City Council, and his bio includes the fact that he is the leader of a local Pagan group, had a videotaped confrontation with a ticket agent, and sparked a Department of Investigations inquiry after he claimed that he personally knew of sanitation workers who deliberately sloughed off snow removal during a blizzard to protest Bloomberg administration policies (the investigation found no truth to the claims).

Before serving in the Assembly, as Chief of Staff for then - City Councilmember and current Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Brian negotiated enactment of several significant new laws, including the Domestic Worker Protection Act, promoting the rights of housekeepers and caregivers, and laws to foster the use of technology to make government more accessible and efficient.

Every previous attempt at unionization, including a general strike by New York City hotel and restaurant workers in 1912, had been crushed by the hotel owners.

Halloran said five city workers, including two Department of Transportation and three Sanitation Department employees assigned to Queens, told him the day before that they were asked by supervisors «to take their time» plowing roads because the «mayor's office doesn't care about them.»

Furthermore, 20 % of those workers must be residents from one of 16 high - poverty zip codes, several of which are in the City of Buffalo but which also include areas of Cheektowaga, Farnham, Lackawanna, and Wales Center.

Hawkins» platform includes tax reform that would create a city income tax, anti-poverty initiatives, state - supported worker co-ops for poor and working - class people, public ownership of utilities and desegregation of schools and housing.

So let us today remember all those who died, including the British citizens and the heroic public service workers, the 343 New York City firefighters.

But the city still will be in the red $ 2 billion next fiscal year, even with $ 1 billion in new cuts, including 1,300 workers lost through layoffs and attrition.

Albany participants include workers from area McDonald's, Wendy's, Boston Market and other fast - food restaurants; city crossing guards; Saint Rose College and Siena College adjunct professors; health care workers; UAlbany students; community groups and labor unions.

Along with the expanded NYPD headcount, the budget includes funding for six - day library service around the city, parks workers, senior citizen services, a city bail fund, and other key items that were negotiated over the past months.

In Brooklyn, Menchaca, a former top aide to Council Speaker Christine Quinn and before that to Borough President Marty Markowitz, has the support of Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, powerful unions, including SEIU 1199, which represents healthcare workers, 32BJ, representing building services employees, and the Hotel Trades Council, as well as the city's Central Labor Council.

In a meeting at the Labor Temple on Third Street, both candidates said they wanted to reach an agreement, while also saying they supported efforts to contain health care insurance costs, including kick - starting the work of a six - year - old city committee that has been sporadically studying potential consolidation of health insurance coverage among the city's unionized workers.

As Political Director of the New York City Central Labor Council, Carrión has forged deep partnerships among 300 local unions from every trade, occupation, and public and private sector of the New York economy, representing a wide spectrum of workers, including teachers, truck drivers, operating engineers, nurses, construction workers, electricians, firefighters, retail workers, janitors, train operators, bakers, and many more who are the face of today's workforce.

Mayor Bill de Blasio already has the endorsement of several city unions, including the sanitation workers, Mulgrew noted.

There are also questions around whether Cuomo will include a proposal and dedicated funding for paid family leave, something that de Blasio recently moved on for some city employees and called on the state to pass for all workers.

The workers in the city include office assistants, custodial workers and lifeguards.

The non-binding budget resolution included such IDC asks as a provision to create an independent monitor to oversee the troubled New York City Housing Authority, diverting more than $ 400 million in city sales tax money to the MTA, and creating a secure choice savings account that would allow workers with no retirement savings plan to set aside money in a fund run by the stCity Housing Authority, diverting more than $ 400 million in city sales tax money to the MTA, and creating a secure choice savings account that would allow workers with no retirement savings plan to set aside money in a fund run by the stcity sales tax money to the MTA, and creating a secure choice savings account that would allow workers with no retirement savings plan to set aside money in a fund run by the state.

Endorsements include: Sen. Bill Perkins (District 30, Harlem) Sen. James Sanders, Jr. (District 10, Queens) New York City Councilman Rafael Espinal (District 37 in Brooklyn) New York City Councilman Jumaane Williams (District 45 in Brooklyn)(Apr. 17, 2016 at Prospect Park rally) New York City Councilman Ritchie Torres (District 15 in Central Bronx)(Apr. 18, 2016) Director, Producer, Actor Spike Lee (Feb. 23, 2016) Activists Erica Garner and Shaun King Working Families Party (announced Dec. 8, 2016) Transport Workers Union Local 100 (announced Apr. 13, 2016)

Early Endorsements include: Burt Cohen, former New Hampshire Senate majority leader (reported by Seven Days on May 26, 2015) Emily Hague, at - large Keene City Council member (announced June 6, 2015) Dudley Dudley, longtime Democratic activist; Executive Councilor in the 1970s (reported July 3, 2015) New Hampshire Postal Workers Union (announced Sept. 19, 2015) IBEW Local 490 in Concord SEIU Local 560 in Hanover (both announced Oct. 31, 2015)

Under the mayor's plan, which matches a similar increase for state employees enacted by Cuomo last year, about 50,000 city workers — including crossing guards, prekindergarten teachers, custodial workers and others — would see their pay reach the $ 15 - an - hour level by the end of 2018, making them some of the country's highest paid municipal employees.

The union that represents 85,000 city doorman and other service workers, including building porters and handymen, has a new leader.

«Raising the city's living wage — and expanding it to include thousands more workers — will spur economic activity and growth while lifting working families out of poverty,» Councilwoman Debi Rose (D - North Shore) said.

The Wall Street Journal reports Schneiderman's re-election campaign has purchased $ 1 million worth of advertising time with broadcast TV stations in New York, Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, New York's five biggest media markets; his endorsers include labor unions such as the powerful United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500 with 23,000 members in New York City, on Long Island, and in Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties.

Arroyo was reelected to the City Council in 2013 despite three of her campaign workers getting charged with forging almost 100 signatures on her primary ballot petitions, including Derek Jeter's and Kate Moss's.

To prevent the impending lapse of mayoral control over New York City schools, the state Legislature and Governor Andrew Cuomo passed a two - year extension Thursday as part of a larger omnibus bill, which included a pension enhancement for certain uniformed workers, special recognition for former Governor Mario Cuomo, and several benefits for upstate areas.

In the interim, the deal will be revised to include more financial protection for the city and stronger local - worker hiring requirements.

The union, which represents 90,000 freelancers, consultants, independent contractors, temps, part - timers, and self - employed workers in New York state — including 80,000 in New York City — named priority candidates as well as general endorsements.

The donation came less than two months after workers at certain busing companies, including one owned by Mr. Lodde's firm, had gotten an unprecedented windfall from New York City government: a $ 42 million grant pushed through by Mayor Bill de Blasio to raise wages at low - paying private bus companies with city contraCity government: a $ 42 million grant pushed through by Mayor Bill de Blasio to raise wages at low - paying private bus companies with city contracity contracts.

CSEA's Nassau membership includes 8,700 county employees and 16,000 town, village, city and school district workers.

The lineup of groups opposing a constitutional convention includes: environmental groups, gay rights organizations, New York City cops, Western New York auto industry workers, the state chapter of the National Rifle Association, every imaginable public and private - sector union, political leaders on the left and right and even a group called «Humanists of Long Island.»

The bill, which Bloomberg vetoed last month, would boost wages for building service workers, including custodians and security guards, in 41 large buildings where the city leases the majority of space.

Bloomberg announced a package of reforms to the pension system, including a proposal to hike the retirement age for new non-uniformed city workers to 65 years.

The Summit on Latinos was a multi-coalition effort supported by NYC's Latino elected officials including Speaker of City Council Melissa Mark — Viverito; Council Members Ydanis Rodríguez, Carlos Menchaca, the city's top academic institutions the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, the Jaime Lucero Mexican Studies Institute at CUNY, the CUNY Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, and community organizations such as the Hispanic FederatCity Council Melissa Mark — Viverito; Council Members Ydanis Rodríguez, Carlos Menchaca, the city's top academic institutions the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, the Jaime Lucero Mexican Studies Institute at CUNY, the CUNY Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, and community organizations such as the Hispanic Federatcity's top academic institutions the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, the Jaime Lucero Mexican Studies Institute at CUNY, the CUNY Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, and community organizations such as the Hispanic Federation.

His campaign has amassed a number of endorsements, including that of former Mayor David Dinkins and Harlem state Sen. Bill Perkins, as well as the New York City Principals» Union and District Council 37, which includes city parks workers, school workers and social service workCity Principals» Union and District Council 37, which includes city parks workers, school workers and social service workcity parks workers, school workers and social service workers.