Sentences with phrase «major public unions»

$ 870 million in personnel costs plus the unknown price of new collective bargaining agreements with the county's five major public unions.

Not exact matches

Good reforms will need tough political resolve though, as public sector unions will fight major change.

Unions reacted defensively to the report, with Brendan Barber of the TUC saying the IFS had only examined one of three major changes to public sector pensions.

In its submission to the government's open public services white paper, the union identifies major problems with Mr Duncan Smith's work programme, where 33 of the 34 contracts went to large private sector providers.

But this year, Cuomo has sought to bolster his ties with organized labor both in the private and public sectors, with the teachers union being a major politically active constituency, especially in Democratic primary politics.

But ministers, currently engaged in a standoff with union officials over public sector pension changes, are unlikely to be willing to make major concessions.

Recently, the IDC Leader, Senator Jeff Klein, and the other conference members were joined by heads of the major public workers labor unions to promote bills to make it easier to join a union.

Two major state worker unions, the Public Employees Federation and Civil Service Employees Association maintain the governor can't order layoffs before Jan. 1 due to an earlier agreement.

But in his second term, which began in 2014, Mangano worked with former NIFA chairman Jon Kaiman, a former North Hempstead Town supervisor, and the five major public employee unions to end the pay freeze.

The state's teachers union is already gearing up for a major fight this budget season on education issues after Cuomo declared he wanted to end the «public monopoly» on education through a strengthening of charter schools.

Nearly every major public employees union is filing a lawsuit against the Cuomo administration over the increasing premiums for retiree health insurance.

The «day one» strategy hit major roadblocks as the public, led by an unusually aggressive Daily News campaign that included a 40,000 - signature petition, pushed back against the banning of a beloved tourist attraction that employs about 300 drivers — drivers who just happen to belong to the Teamsters Union.

While public - sector unions and some of the institutions of New York's left that they dominate feud openly with Cuomo and have pushed him to be more economically progressive, he's been able to fend off left - flank challenges with the support of the building trades and the major locals of the Service Employees International Union, 32BJ and SEIU.

In what constitutes his first major political trip, the blue - state governor who has the GOP enthralled by his face - off with the public - sector unions — and his passing of a budget with surprising ease — will travel to some of the nation's hottest political battlegrounds in the coming weeks, including a stop in presidential proving ground Iowa.

The leaders of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Assn. and the Sergeants Benevolent Assn., two major police unions, accused Mayor Bill de Blasio of failing to provide the kind of leadership necessary to bolster public support for police and said his leniency toward protesters had laid the groundwork for Brinsley's rampage.

My hunch is that even if it does get major play, the public are more critical of bankers than they are of trade unions.

With money corrupting the democratic process becoming a major issue in the United States, Suffolk Legislator Rob Trotta (R - Fort Salonga) has introduced a bill to limit campaign contributions from county contractors and public employee unions.

The anti-tax Club for Growth has endorsed Neumann in Wisconsin, and Fitzgerald played a major role in last year's legislative efforts to gut public employee union power.

There is some level of interest in the troopers deal since contracts with other major state employee unions, most notably the Public Employees Federation, will expire this year, meaning that contract talks could be starting in the next several months.

New York State's Joint Commission on Public Ethics — or J - COPE — said that the New York Civil Liberties Union has to share the identities of its major donors.

He recently approved a contract with the Public Employees Federation, a major union, that included 2 percent raises each year.

But the right to bargain collectively is offset by the law's denial to public sector unions of labor's major lever to achieve its bargaining goals — the strike.

She is expected to negotiate new collective bargaining agreements with the five major public employee unions during her four - year term.

They earlier said they planned to put in more activist Regents members amid calls by the public and New York State United Teachers, the major teachers union, to delay the process and place less emphasis on testing.

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This week at the Reporters Roundtable journalists Matt Hamilton of the Times Union and Karen DeWitt of New York State Public Radio analyze the major sticking points in budget negotiations.

There is no shortage of major problems on the horizon: a $ 2 billion city budget deficit, more than 100 municipal labor unions clamoring for raises, the need to maintain public safety while easing up on stop and frisk.

On 16 September, the Confederation of Spanish Scientific Societies, the Conference of Spanish University Chancellors, Investigación Digna, the Federation of Young Investigators, and two major trade unions demanded in a public statement that the government bring civil research spending back to the 2009 level of 0.6 % of gross domestic product — the average in Europe — by 2016.

In addition to hearing a major case involving public - employee unions, the U.S. Supreme Court may face a wide range of disputes of keen interest to the education community.

Since NEA officials announced their intentions at the union's annual meeting in New Orleans last month, however, they have garnered little public support from other major education groups.

As a September showdown neared, their coalition included the major teacher unions and public education associations, People for the American Way, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and several Jewish organizations, among others.

With his massive plan to enroll half of all LA Unified's students into charter schools, billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad is threatening major disruptions at LA Unified, cementing his role as Public Enemy No. 1 to many district and local union leaders.

The Chicago Teachers Union will put on a major public relations blitz today, with a rally in Springfield and a speech by President Karen Lewis in Chicago.

After all, the concerns that handed former governor Arnold Schwarzeneggar's first major defeat — the slew of propositions that would have addressed pension reform, budget reform, teacher tenure rules and other issues that would have kept our state on an even economic keel — were thrown asunder by the public sector unions who now OWN this state.

Rockford Public Schools and CEC partnered on new approaches to collaboration and collective bargaining, stakeholder engagement in major initiatives, and relationship building among the teacher union, administration and the Board of Education.

Republicans are leery of these two major teacher unions because in electoral politics they mostly favor Democrats, the party that has shown greater support for public schools.

Provide the public a more detailed understanding of the major discussion points between our union and district leaders

Broad has become a major target of teacher unions for his efforts nationwide to reform public schools through charters and an academy that trains executives to run them.

It's sooner rather than later that the U.S. Supreme Court is getting another crack at overruling a major decision on public - employee union fees for non-members-should it choose to do so.

Unfortunately, it would appear that the union's mindset will be a major obstacle to both constructive talks and positive change in the Chicago Public Schools.

The California Teachers Association apparently thinks it scored a major legal victory last week when a federal judge in Santa Ana dismissed a lawsuit challenging the public teachers union's collection of fees from nonmember teachers for both collective bargaining purposes and political activity.

Education policy circles are filled with people who think the schools are in desperate need of major reform, but who also believe that collective bargaining and unions are necessary components of public education (and work life generally)-- and they know the two sets of beliefs are in tension.

By Fordham's own, constant admission, most states have cruddy standards, and one major reason for this is that special interests like teachers» unions — the groups most motivated to control public schooling politics because their members» livelihoods come from the public schools — get them neutered.

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«We're seeing in the last year or so that the silver bullets are starting to lose their luster — charter schools, merit pay and mayoral control,» said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers and a major figure in the country's debate about the role of teachers» unions in public education.

The solution is that the leadership of the two major teacher unions, and all of the others committed to public education, should be retreating from their support of the Common Core and its associated testing scheme.

In response to the growing number of charters, who now enroll 1 in 10 of the state's public school students, teachers unions have launched a major campaign to demand greater transparency in the financing and operations of charter schools, as well as to limit their expansion in the state.

They have long been at war with the teachers» unions as they battle for better schools and better services and have advanced a systematic attack on teachers» unions all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States, which will hear a case, Janus v. AFSCME, this month that could deal a major blow to public - sector unions nationwide.

The CEA's endorsement means that the leadership of all of the major public employee unions in Connecticut have thrown their support behind the candidate who has pledged that he will not propose or accept any tax increase during this second term, despite the fact that Connecticut is facing a $ 4.8 billion budget shortfall over the next three years.While Connecticut's millionaires continue to celebrate the fact that they have been spared the need to «sacrifice» by being required to pay their fair share in taxes, Malloy's policies will ensure massive increases in local property taxes for the middle class and widespread cuts in local education budgets.