Sentences with phrase «majority of public employees»

The plan called for imposing a one - year salary freeze on the vast majority of public employees whose contracts are up for renegotiation as of April 1; holding the line on taxes; and imposing a State spending cap limiting spending growth to the rate of inflation.

The plan called for imposing a one - year salary freeze on the vast majority of public employees whose contracts are up for renegotiation as of April 1; holding the line on taxes; and imposing a state spending cap limiting spending growth to the rate of inflation.

Not exact matches

While Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo is a Democrat, he ran on a fiscally conservative platform that had more in keeping with the Senate Republicans» interests — property tax cap, public employee wage freeze, spending reductions — than the majority of Democrats (particularly those who hail from downstate) in the Senate and Assembly conferences.

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.

Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson said his 32 - member majority conference will be voting «yes» on the budget extender bill next week — even if it includes public employee furloughs, as Gov. David Paterson has threatened — because he is «not in the business of shutting downs state government.»

Judge William Conley immediately stopped the state from enforcing the absolute majority requirement in union elections and set a deadline of May 31 to return automatic dues deduction from all members of public employee unions who so choose.

The poll found that a majority of New Yorkers, 52 - 43, oppose laying off public employees, some 900 of whom are just now starting to receive pink slips in the mail, compliments of the Paterson administration.

Currently, the Commission on Public Integrity — the entity charged with policing the governor and his staff — is controlled by a majority of gubernatorial employees.

Legislators currently appoint a Legislative Ethics Commission to oversee their members; the governor appoints the majority of the Commission on Public Integrity, which oversees statewide officeholders and executive branch employees.

Well another politician who stands by a minority (the wealthy) and not the majority (the working class) when over 72 % of the public agrees we should bring back the wealth tax so we don't have to lay off Goverment employees and cut back on services such as education fire fighters law enforcement then we are not living in a Democracy.

But labor contracts for the vast majority of the state's 190,000 employees expire on March 31, giving Mr. Cuomo an opening to seek changes at a time of public unease toward government workers» benefits.

On October 11, Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo, Chairman of the Legislature's Finance and Management Committee, joined Henry Wojtaszek, President / CEO of Batavia Downs Gaming, Thurman Thomas, Hall of Fame former Buffalo Bills running back, Vice Chair of NYS Tourism Advisory Council and Batavia Downs Ambassador, Lee Zarpentine, Labor Relations Representative of United Public Service Employees Union (UPSEU), Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw and Mike Nolan, COO of Batavia Downs to announce Erie County has received $ 545,984 from Batavia Downs Gaming in the second quarter of 2017 alone.

According to the Common Core of Data, DCPS employed nearly 3,800 teachers in 2010 - 11, so even though the retirement system also includes other classes of workers employed by DCPS (certain public charter school employees are also eligible to be participants), the vast majority of DCRB's members appear to be DCPS teachers.

Then, he reverses the cherry picking process, «In fact, a majority of those polled (52 percent) side with teachers unions and educators who have been under attack as a new crop of governors — Wisconsin's Scott Walker, Florida's Rick Scott, New Jersey's Chris Christie, Ohio's John Kasich — declared war on public employees and the middle class.»

In response, Corbett and Mike Turzai, the Republican majority leader in the State House of Representatives, demanded that the city's legislative delegation vote to weaken public - employee pensions.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday, after a vote that would clear the way for a $ 26 billion measure to help states with their severe budget problems and save the jobs of tens of thousands of teachers and other public employees.

From the lawsuit: «It appears that if one is not Orthodox Jewish, like the majority of the LBOE Board Members, and is not committed to diverting public school funds to benefit the local religious schools, that individual does not get to remain as an employee in the Lakewood School District.»

What is absolutely clear is that according to the documents Perry and his private company provided the New York Board of Regents, control of Hartford's Capital Prep Magnet School was critical to his plans, not only since he would be collecting a multi-million dollar management fee for running Hartford's public magnet school but because he would be using Capital Prep to employee the majority of the members of his private company.

Although the majority of the G2 handsets will be reserved for customers, T - Mobile employees will be given an opportunity to pre-order in advance of the G2's public availability.

«What's interesting is the Twitter account at issue, the TTC had very little control — if any — over the posts that were made,» Mark Mendl, partner at Baker & McKenzie LLP, says, adding this is a new direction as the vast majority of cases out there have dealt with employee posts to social media, not posts by the general public to a company - held account.

In 2014, a slim 5 - 4 majority held that the First Amendment prohibited the collection of an agency fee from personal care providers because they were not «full - fledged» public employees.

But, the majority of large companies and virtually all public sector government employers provide an extensive employee benefits package.

Macquarie CountryWide Trust of Australia enters a definitive agreement to sell a majority interest in an 11.5 - million - square - foot U.S. retail portfolio to Global Retail Investors LLC, a joint venture of First Washington Realty Inc. and California Public Employees» Retirement System (CalPERS) for $ 1.3 billion.