Sentences with phrase «many other public employees»

The disclosure of teacher evaluations has been firmly supported by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but is a sensitive issue for teachers unions, who point to other public employees not having their evaluations released to either the general public or a narrowly defined portion of the populace, like parents.

State Senate Democrats have reaped $ 85,000 in election - year campaign contributions from the state teachers union since they skipped last month's vote to cut pension benefits for new teachers and other public employees.

Talks on a subsequent contract stalled largely because the city said it couldn't match the pattern of raises given to other public employees — of 4 percent annually — after the economy soured in 2009.

By contrast, negotiated settlements involving other public employees appear to have resulted in more numerous pay freezes.

The same homeowner would still have to pay hundreds of dollars more to cover higher retirement costs for other public employees.

Similarly, the amount state and local governments will have to pay into the state's main pension fund for other public employees would double to nearly $ 4 billion — even if most localities opt into a borrowing scheme approved this year by lawmakers to soften the blow.

Cuomo's statement released earlier in the day on the Council 82 agreement specifically called out the unions, saying that, «If similar contract terms were adopted by New York's other public employee unions, the state could achieve the $ 450 million in savings needed to avoid the 9,800 layoffs.»

Assemblyman Danny O'Donnell, chair of the Correction Committee in his house; and Bob Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government; co-authored an OpEd urging the repeal of a law that treats police and correction officers differently from all other public employees when it comes to FOIL.

The matter pits the social networking giant against Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance over his demand for access to 381 Facebook accounts as part of his investigation into disability fraud among police officers, firefighters and other public employees.

The contract agreement with Council 82 — which Cuomo's office labeled «historic» — comes as the governor is trying to seek concessions from the other public employee unions in the state.

Governor Andrew Cuomo on May 31 signed into law a bill that enables public school teachers and other public employees who are honorably discharged veterans and have five years in their civilian jobs to purchase up to three years of service credit toward their pensions.

They decided to go on strike after state lawmakers passed a bill to raise pay for teachers and other public employees by 4 percent over three years while imposing higher health care premiums.

And when teachers (and other public employees) have been given a choice between defined benefit pensions and defined contribution plans, the vast majority typically chooses the defined benefit pension plan.

Americans only need look at Wisconsin, where the governor and lawmakers pushed through legislation curtailing the collective bargaining rights of teachers and other public employees.

Second, the continued operation of the system is likely to expose the soft - underbelly of modern public finance — the underfunded pension plans crying out for reforms that union leaders, along with other public employees, resist.

The Supreme Court is poised to deal a sharp blow to the unions that represent millions of teachers and other public employees, announcing Thursday it will consider striking down the mandatory fees that support collective bargaining.

Wisconsin's curtailment of the collective bargaining rights of teachers and other public employees was undoubtedly the top education news story of early 2011.

The retirement benefits of teachers, and of other public employees, have received increased scrutiny in recent years over concerns about the fiscal sustainability of defined - benefit pension plans and the peculiar incentives they create.

The Vergara decision would not eliminate due - process requirements; it would just extend to teachers the same due - process rights that every other public employee in California has.

Congress acted again in 2007 to provide more loan forgiveness, creating the TEACH Grant program for teachers and the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF), which benefits teachers and other public employees.

Those are higher and more onerous and more costly than for every other public employee in California.

While a union defeat in Friedrichs could place sharp limits on the political operations of the NEA, the AFT, and other public employees» unions, the impact would be far from apocalyptic.

The Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will hear a case involving the agency fees that teachers and other public employees are required to pay to unions even if they choose not to join the unions.

But polls suggest that Americans don't want to see teachers and other public employees stripped of collective bargaining rights.

Is the public wrong in supporting the rights of teachers and other public employees to collectively bargain?

Five years earlier, Wisconsin had become the second state, following Connecticut, to establish collective bargaining rights for teachers and other public employees.

The unions representing teachers and other public employees in California rose to power in the 1970s, and have never been recertified.

The rally is hosted by the West Virginia AFL - CIO on behalf of approximately 30,000 teachers, school support personnel and other public employees.

The case also became a battle over the power of teacher unions to preserve protections that are not always available to other public employees.

By a 61 percent to 39 percent margin, they voted to repeal a law to gut collective bargaining rights, making clear that educators and other public employees have a basic right in a democracy to band together and pursue their interests.

The Best Not all was lost in 2011, however, as average voters took a stand in Ohio, in support of teachers unions and other public employees.

The Worst In 2011, Republican governors in Ohio and Wisconsin sought to severely curtail the ability of teachers and other public employees to bargain collectively.

And, although we've been somewhat insulated to date, we have not been altogether immune from the wave of national hostility toward teachers and other public employees.

It's about time teachers and other public employees had both.

Other public employee unions share in the blame for that.

Turn parents against their children's teachers and other public employees.

Today, Wisconsin is again at the forefront of a union battle - this time in Republican Gov. Scott Walker's effort to cut his state's budget deficit in part by curtailing collective bargaining for teachers and other public employees.

If the effects of this recession continue, we'll see teachers and other public employees lose many of the benefits they've worked so hard to earn.

In a case that could cause chaos for teacher unions and other public employee unions, the Supreme Court heard arguments this week from a handful of California teachers who say they should not be required to pay for services provided by unions they haven't joined.

The loss of most collective bargaining rights for teachers and other public employees would almost certainly mean more frequent walkouts and strikes, she said.

National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel told editors and reporters at The Washington Times that Mr. Walker, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and other Republican politicians who have moved to rein in the bargaining power of teachers, firefighters and other public employees instead will galvanize working men and women nationwide.

«I don't see a solution that does not involve the teachers paying the 9 percent, which is consistent with what teachers around the country and other public employees pay.

The book, which has glowing endorsements from Joel Klein and Michelle Rhee, comes as teachers and other public employees are under siege from Republican governors in Wisconsin, Indiana, and elsewhere.

The American Federation of Teachers represents 1 million teachers, school staff, higher education faculty and other public employees.

California is one of twenty - three states that forces teachers and other public employees — even those who have expressly opted out of union membership — to pay several hundred dollars in union fees every year.

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.

CIR is representing ten California teachers and the Christian Educators Association International in a landmark effort to re-establish the right of individual teachers and other public employees to decide for themselves whether to join and support a union.

Elected officials, the courts and John Q. Public are supporting worker freedom these days; teachers unions and other public employee unions are on the run.

Indeed, following Scalia's death, the Supreme Court split 4 - 4, upholding mandatory union dues for teachers and other public employees in Rebecca Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, which had been called a «life - or - death» case for public employee unions.

Teachers unions have used state power to entrench themselves in our political system, extracting compulsory fees to buy influence with lawmakers, who then allow unions to abuse their power at the expense of teachers and other public employees.