Sentences with phrase «many of the public sector employees»

This includes changing daylight savings time, cutting working hours of public sector employees and urging residents to scale back on their use of electricity.

Every year — part of the legacy of former Ontario Premier Mike Harris — the Ontario government must publish a list of public sector employees who make more than $ 100,000 — the so - called Sunshine List.

Additionally, the Public Sector Pensions Commission recently estimated that a huge 94 per cent of public sector employees are still on unsustainable defined benefit schemes, compared to just 11 per cent in the private sector.

I spoke this afternoon with former LG Richard Ravitch, who has years of experience as a budget reformer, and he sounded not quite sold on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed Tier 6 plan, nor was his thrilled about the demonizing of public sector employees that is taking place as elected officials all over the country struggle with varying degrees of fiscal meltdown.

Don't forget that Labour have a large «captive constituency» in the shape of many of the public sector employees and those dependent on the state.

Strikes are already being threatened by a number of unions, including those representing British Airways cabin crew, Royal Mail staff, and a number of public sector employees, including the BBC.

However, this dynamic would cause the quality of all public sector employees to decline — a trend not supported by the data.

This landmark decision strikes down Saskatchewan's essential services legislation, which prevented a wide range of public sector employees from striking.

For example, in New Brunswick, while Francophones represent approximately 33 % of that province's population, 32 % of public sector employees used French as a language of work.

Not exact matches

The State Government's role in regional Western Australia was recognised in Perth this week when two of the year's StateWest Achievement Awards were won by public sector employees working in fields that service predominantly regional areas.

Unifor will initially represent more than 300,000 workers across roughly 20 sectors of the economy, primarily in manufacturing, communications and transportation, as well as some public sector employees in the health, education and transit sectors.

2.Right - to - work is generally defined as a state where it is against the law for a union to be a so - called «closed shop,» requiring all employees to join a union and pay dues.The Michigan laws would make membership in a union and payment of dues voluntary and would cover both the private and public sector, except for fire and police unions.

Only about half of public - sector employees get top - ups, as do roughly one in five parents who work for corporations — usually big firms in competitive fields.

Exactly how many jobs that translates into at not - for - profit organizations, public sector employers and small businesses with 50 or fewer employees won't be known until the end of the year.

The summary of their stats for Ontario, in the 11 - year period, 1998 to 2009, was as follows: Private sector: Arbitrated settlements: 28 (50,828 employees) average annual increase: 2.5 % Non-arbitrated settlements: 1,877 (1,658,929 employees) average annual increase: 2.5 % Public sector: Arbitrated settlements: 407 (282,903 employees) average annual increase: 2.5 % Non-arbitrated settlements: 2,842 (2,875,878 employees) average annual increase: 2.7 % This says nothing, of course, of the base from which those increases were granted, particularly after the public sector austerity in Ontario during the Public sector: Arbitrated settlements: 407 (282,903 employees) average annual increase: 2.5 % Non-arbitrated settlements: 2,842 (2,875,878 employees) average annual increase: 2.7 % This says nothing, of course, of the base from which those increases were granted, particularly after the public sector austerity in Ontario during the public sector austerity in Ontario during the 1990s.

The Saskatchewan Party government announced a 3.5 % wage reduction to public sector employee compensation in last year's budget, amounting to a projected savings of $ 250 million, but that plan does not appear in this year's budget.

In part, this difference reflects the higher proportion of public - sector employees covered by enterprise agreements, as enterprise agreements have generally been yielding higher wage outcomes than other wage - setting streams.

Bill 4: An Act to Implement a Supreme Court Ruling Governing Essential Services introduced by Labour Minister Christina Gray lifted the ban on strikes by all public sector employees in response to a Supreme Court of Canada ruling in 2015.

Eroding pension plans by shifting risk onto vulnerable employees and retirees with limited ability to absorb income cuts is quite in keeping with the Harper government's determination to lower the boom on public sector workers and improve the profitability of their corporate friends in the private sector.

Some folks have no pensions; some have a defined contribution plan, which depends on the market; others, including most public employees and more than half of the private - sector ones have a defined benefits plan — you get a guaranteed pension based upon years of service.

Kuwaiti oil sector employees sit in a shaded area on the first day of an official strike called by the Oil and Petrochemical Industries Workers Union over public sector pay Continue Reading

American women are offered 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which exempts companies with fewer than 50 paid employees, but in 2011, only 11 percent of private sector workers and 17 percent of public workers reported that they had access to paid maternity leave through their employer.

We argued that there should be an increase of employee contributions to all unfunded public sector pension schemes by a third.

Some public sector teachers who spoke to this reporter on condition of anonymity could not fathom why the government can not keep good faith with its employees but will allow itself to be criticized in certain situations that could have been avoided.

American's have been brainwashed to think public sector unions are a problem... in reality — facing greater income inequality it is time for private sector employees to fully understand the benefits of collective bargaining!

At the same time, the myth of the overpaid public employee is being used to undermine a range of progressive priorities, from financial reform to job creation bills like the Local Jobs for America Act, which would boost the economy by preserving public services and public sector jobs.

Scapegoating public employees is an insidious way of dividing public and private sector workers who share common interests.

At its heart, the scapegoating of public employees is an insidious way to divide public and private sector workers who share many of the same interests.

The 1977 case, Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, allows public sector unions to require non-union members to pay a fee for the services provided to all employees regarding contract negotiations and administration.

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.

Cuomo has also made it clear organized labor — particularly the public employee unions, but also the health care sector — will be in the crosshairs during the budget battle, so WFP isn't going to have the easiest time of it next year.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo today signed legislation to expand unlimited sick leave benefits for public sector officers and employees who developed a qualifying health condition as a result of their heroic response to 9/11 rescue, recovery, and clean - up efforts at World Trade Center sites.

Malliotakis is, for a Republican elected official, unusually supportive of public employees and public sector unions.

Public employee benefit costs in New York are incredibly out of line with those in the private sector, and impose enormous pressure on state and local government budgets.

The Trump administration sought to undermine public - sector labor unions with a brief submitted on Dec. 6 in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

We created thousands of jobs, with employees paying P.A.Y.E taxes to government and the sector impacted other industries - media and entertainment; advertising and public relations; professional practices; small and medium enterprises (even micro enterprises); and telecommunications enhanced overall economic productivity.

The former Teamster was an ally of ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and found a surprising opponent in Mr. de Blasio — a friend of the minority - dominated service sector and public employee unions — who said he believed building the most affordable housing possible was more important than making sure developers paid union wages.

Private sector unions have been among Cuomo's reliable supporters, but labor sources said the endorsement was blocked primarily by NYSUT and AFSCME, a parent organization of public employee unions.

Can Cuomo lead a state with an out - of - control budget, a deadlocked, corrupt and dysfunctional government and a private - sector economy that has fallen prey to parasitical public - employee unions?

PEF is the state's second - largest public - employee union and represents approximately 55,000 public - and private - sector members, including 95 employees of the Albany County Probation Department.

Much of my work is traditional investigative reporting, usually the type described as CARR or «computer - aided research and reporting» where I go online to obtain records, access databases and run numbers, often to fact - check public sector employees.

One of his major goals since taking office three years ago has been to trim the county workforce and relieve taxpayers of the burden of the unusually high «legacy costs» associated with public sector employees.

«Isn't this part of a much bigger issue which is there is growing anger in what she calls the court of public opinion not just about the pension and renumeration of what are now public sector employees but about other public sector fat cats including senior civil servants and dare I say it ministers about their very lavish and generous pension?»

Under our Right to Provide, tens of thousands of public sector workers will be able to turn your department, your ward, your team into an employee - run coop, with a contract to your parent public service.

«On behalf of the over 300,000 active and retired public and private sector employees across New York State who make up the CSEA, we're pleased to endorse Sue Serino for state Senate, and confident she will stand with the working people to make New York a better state.

Glaser says health - care benefits are «out of alignment» with private sector, as well as other states and federal benefits, and noted that there had been 14 percent increase in pay for public employees over the years.

Even as he made a concession to one of his longtime sparring partners — public sector employees — Cuomo took a jab at his main rival in the state Democratic Party: NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.

State associations of government employees, which had not been especially active politically, began to forge affiliations in the 1960s with public sector unions such as AFSCME and the Service Employees Internationemployees, which had not been especially active politically, began to forge affiliations in the 1960s with public sector unions such as AFSCME and the Service Employees InternationEmployees International 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.

Each year we grow stronger,» said Henry Garrido, Executive Director, DC 37, AFSCME, one of the largest unions of NYC public sector employees.