Sentences with phrase «labor agreement»

The result was a unique glimpse at bids both with and without project labor agreements.

Why don't developed countries sign freedom of labor agreements with each other?

The new labor agreement will give companies more flexibility in terms of hiring and firing workers.

It would be the first labor agreement between the two sides since the last one expired 12 years ago.

Pilot Schools: Small schools with under 500 kids, they can also obtain waivers from labor agreements.

He also touted labor agreements that he says will save the state more than $ 42 billion over 20 years, a smaller state government and lower rate of state spending.

Many developers have had disagreements with unions over project labor agreements — a collective bargaining contract that ensures the use of union workers on a project.

«Studying the feasibility of a Project Labor Agreement for projects such as this is common and governed under an Executive Order that has been in effect since 1997,» spokeswoman Heather Groll told Politico.

The Office of General Services, however, said the use of Project Labor Agreements in such cases is a common practice.

All provisions of labor agreements continue to apply.

In another email, Aiello and Howe celebrated Percoco's success in getting a midlevel official to back off the demand for a potentially costly labor agreement at the state - funded Syracuse hotel.

Anthony Simon, general chairman of the United Transportation Union, left, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Thomas Prendergast, right, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo share a collective hand shake after a tentative labor agreement for the Long Island Rail Road was reached.

- Remove a potentially - costly labor agreement requirement from an Inner Harbor parking lot project in Syracuse.

The notice says the state's Office of General Service is studying whether it will require a project labor agreement on the $ 50 million redevelopment plan, and that if a PLA is deemed necessary, the winning bidder would need to sign on.

The SBCTC supports project labor agreements as a means of assuring good wages, benefits and conditions for workers, and the efficient and timely completion of construction projects of the highest possible quality.

But the city still faces challenges, including reaching labor agreements with the other municipal unions, obtaining anticipated health insurance savings and closing future budget gaps, according to an analysis released today by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

You would have to read your contract (which I assume you have done already) and perhaps the «convention collective» which is the collective labor agreement which is specific to the company's field of work.

She has more than 10 years of experience negotiating labor agreements, arbitrating both interest and grievance cases, and advising clients on labor and employment issues.

«The state has already completed a Project Labor Agreement which will save over $ 450 million in labor costs, and three international deisgn and construction teams are already competing to build a bridge with a useful life of over 100 years to serve generations of New Yorkers,» Cuomo wrote in the letter.

More than a year and a half after its most recent contract expired, New York's second - largest state worker's union has reached a tentative three - year labor agreement with the Cuomo administration.

The city will reduce unnecessary design costs and will capitalize on labor agreements forged with construction unions to reduce costs further, Jason Post, a spokesman for the mayor, explained.

In one of those alleged schemes, Percoco purportedly took a $ 35,000 bribe to get ESDC to pay a company for the construction of a parking lot in Syracuse even though the project didn't have required labor agreements in place.

«The politically potent union has standing labor agreements with all three of the casino projects that got the green light from the Gaming Facility Location Board.»

Further, it incorporates the impacts of contractually obligated costs related to current labor agreements and benefits as well as those approved for unrepresented and managerial / confidential employees via Board Resolutions 2016 - 39 and 2016 - 40 this past September.

Three weeks since it was announced, a new and potentially historic labor agreement between Newark public schools and their teachers union will finally go to a ratification vote tomorrow.

Going forward, unions could provide stronger leadership by pressing to institutionalize elements that support teacher - academy programs — such as stipends for teacher - academy instructors and incentives like Virginia Beach's guaranteed future employment — within local labor agreements.

While this is not a routine or inconsequential budget development, it is understandable given the fact that a historically unprecedented long - term labor agreement was finalized within a few days of the presentation of the Executive Budget.

If a market still exists for the Twinkie, Ding Dong and Ho - Ho after the liquidation decision then Hostess can simply sell the brands and recipes to another company with a different labor agreement and the dance begins again.

In addition, Mulally negotiated a landmark labor agreement with the United Auto Workers in 2009 that eased onerous work rules and introduced a 50 percent lower wage for new factory hires.

Alpha Natural Resources Inc. is asking a bankruptcy judge to let it slash retiree benefits and tear up existing labor agreements with its mine workers union, warning that its survival Continue Reading

We haven't had an NBA labor agreement in decades that didn't at least go down to the very last minute.

For the first time in nearly five years, major labor agreements were recently reached covering public sector workers in New York City.

When Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his first labor agreements with New York City unions this spring, he was sharply criticized for granting long - awaited wage increases in exchange for promises of unspecified though sizable savings on health care expenses.

One saw Percoco allegedly take a $ 35,000 bribe to get ESD to pay a company for the construction of a parking lot in Syracuse, despite the fact that the project lacked the necessary labor agreements.

At 1:30 p.m., the Committee on Higher Education will meet to discuss a resolution to increase State funding to CUNY, and to reach a fair labor agreement with the University's faculty and staff in the 2016 - 17 NYS Executive Budget.

The complaint alleges that in 2014 COR Development went through an Albany - based lobbyist to help them avoid a state - mandated labor agreement that would have them pay more to construction workers on a state - funded project in Syracuse.

About 40,000 Verizon Communications workers represented by two unions walked off the job this morning after a union - imposed 6 a.m. deadline for new labor agreement passed.

On Dec. 2, the Governor's Office of Employee Relations, which oversees labor agreements for state workers and keeps personnel records, denied a request by the Times Union to obtain records of Kaloyeros» job status at SUNY Poly and whether or not he has filed a grievance against SUNY.

«The proposed delegation would make it crystal clear the Port Authority is serious about creating the condition for rapid progress with respect to labor relations and about opening a real window of opportunity, during which progress can culminate, if at all possible, through committed good - faith bargaining and executed labor agreements that benefit our workers, this agency and the public,» Cotton said before the vote.

But efforts to restructure costly public - sector labor agreements in New York State often run into a statutory brick wall known as the «Triborough Amendment.»

Many of the Republicans running for governor have promised to reopen labor agreements and wring concessions from state workers.

And professors at CUNY, who have gone without a raise or a new contract for six years, found their efforts to secure funding for a new labor agreement thwarted once again.

Then at 2:30 p.m., Brown will announce the signing of a project labor agreement aimed at expanding opportunities at the Northland Corridor project for community residents.

So, multiple governor's staff members and higher - ups at the agency Empire State Development didn't want a «peace labor agreement» to get in the way of Cor's construction.