Sentences with phrase «municipal labor»

A looming issue for the next mayor are the currently expired municipal labor contracts.

The overarching Municipal Labor Committee is expected to meet in the coming days to make a decision on the medical benefits portion of the U.F.T. deal.

A coalition of New York City municipal labor unions is launching a radio ad Thursday called «We Count.»

The union representing the carriage drivers, Teamsters Local 553, has received support from the city's Municipal Labor Council as well as from Vinny Alvarez, president of the New York City Central Labor Council, and the Working Families Party.

With every city municipal labor contract having expired during the Bloomberg administration, unions are expecting new contracts and significant amounts of retroactive pay.

Amid the current economic uncertainty, myths are circulating about the pension programs and health insurance for municipal workers Municipal Labor Coalition Chairperson and Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association President Harry Nespoli and MLC Co-Chair and UFT President Randi Weingarten wrote in the Daily News on March 28, «These myths not only misrepresent the problems, they stand in the way of finding realistic solutions.»

Stringer also gave de Blasio a nod for identifying how he will pay for $ 13.6 billion over the next four years to settle municipal labor contracts with the city's work force.

«How can a mayor go four years — an entire mayoral term — without resolving a single municipal labor contract?»

The city has more than 150 outstanding municipal labor contracts to settle, which de Blasio acknowledged will present a challenge for his administration.

He suggested in his speech that Mr. de Blasio, a liberal Democrat, would be irresponsible if he did not demand concessions from municipal labor unions, whose leaders are perceived as being close to the mayor - elect.

The de Blasio administration has said it believes that deal, which includes small raises and back pay, will serve as a template for ongoing negotiations with the nearly 150 other municipal labor unions working on expired contracts.

A leading player in the field of education law and municipal labor relations in the state of Connecticut, Berchem Moses PC, has more than 30 years of experience representing the interests of public, private and charter schools throughout the state.

Besides her work with the teachers union, Weingarten has been chair of New York City's Municipal Labor Committee, which coordinates negotiations for the city's many public - service unions.

Without the offset of the 18 percent wage hike included in the deal realized through health care savings negotiated by the administration with the UFT and Municipal Labor Council, which represents all city employees, this agreement «could increase future budget gaps to levels that would be more difficult for the city to deal with, especially during another downturn,» Moody's warned.

MIDTOWN — Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned the city's municipal labor unions Tuesday that they should be prepared to signficantly manage expectations as they prepare to sit down and negotiate new contracts with soon - to - be-mayor Bill de Blasio.

They're cutting back capital spending programs and downsizing the municipal labor force, so we're going to suffer economic shrinkage.

Harry Nespoli of the Municipal Labor Committee shot back that «There is not enough time for the Mayor to do anything,» since «he is leaving, then he'll be gone and no one will be accountable.»

«When you privatize services, you're undercutting the municipal labor force, and then something is lost and you can't measure it in dollars and cents.»

Ms. Ferreras nonetheless acknowledged «many uncertainties» in the plan, including, most notably, unresolved labor contracts with nearly every one of the city's municipal labor unions, which could cost the city as much as $ 7 billion to settle, according to some estimates.

In New York City, allies of Mr. Bloomberg have organized such groups to lobby for the mayor's proposals on congestion pricing, charter schools and other issues, often in opposition to the municipal labor unions.

The Municipal Labor Committee, Make the Road New York, the Coalition for the Homeless, New York Communities for Change, the Alliance for Quality Education, the New York City Central Labor Council, the UFT, Citizen Action and NYSUT.

The Municipal Labor Council's steering committee approved the measure, 20 to 2, with only the heads of the detectives and firefighters unions dissenting.

The official, Harry Nespoli, chairman of the Municipal Labor Committee, an umbrella group of unions, said that Mr. Bloomberg had become «a dictator» and that «the mayor has set back labor relations 40 years.»

The agreement incorporates $ 98.4 million in healthcare savings agreed upon with the Municipal Labor Committee.

The administration presented it to the Municipal Labor Committee, which represents some 300,000 city workers.

The demands, made in a meeting between city chief labor negotiator Jim Hanley and the Municipal Labor Committee, set the stage for a war with newly enraged labor leaders that would play out in Albany, which must sign off on pension - policy changes.

Mayor Bloomberg threw down the gauntlet yesterday before the city's municipal labor unions, demanding massive, wide - reaching reforms in the pension system — including a call to stop workers from racking up overtime just before retirement to pump up their taxpayer - funded nest eggs.

The Municipal Labor Committee, an umbrella group of New York City unions, voted in support of a proposal championed by de Blasio that the mayor says will generate $ 3.4 billion in health - care savings.

The Municipal Labor Council has endorsed a plan to secure $ 3.4 billion in health care savings, plus an additional $ 1 billion from the health stabilization fund, from FY 2015 — FY 2018, which would offset a portion of the cost of implementing the pattern for all municipal bargaining units.

The agreement with the Municipal Labor Committee secured an unprecedented $ 3.4 billion in permanent, guaranteed health care savings — the first major reduction in health care costs in the City's history.

These costs will be partially offset by resources previously set aside by the city in its labor reserve ($ 3.5 billion), and by a total of $ 4.4 billion in new resources that are expected to become available as the result of an approved agreement between the city and the Municipal Labor Committee, which represents the city's unions.

The Municipal Labor Committee is an umbrella group representing 99 unions covering more than 300,000 New York City employees.

The Municipal Labor Committee, including the UFT, launched a radio ad on June 11 urging community groups, union members and all New Yorkers to attend the «Save Our City» rally on June 16 and protect New York City from devastating budget cuts.

The Strong Economy for All Coalition includes the Coalition for the Homeless, the Alliance for Quality Education, Make the Road New York, New York Communities for Change, Citizen Action, the Municipal Labor Committee, New York State AFL - CIO, Local 32BJ, 1199 Communications Workers of America and the UFT and its state affiliate, New York State United Teachers.

«We're looking to sit down and see if we can come up with some ideas that can save everybody money,» said Harry Nespoli of the Municipal Labor Committee.

«He was an honest broker,» Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers and former chairwoman of the Municipal Labor Committee, a coalition of unions representing New York civil servants, said in a phone interview.

The carpenters have sued the city last year in State Supreme Court in Queens, and both the Municipal Labor Committee, which negotiates health care deals for city unions, and Transport Workers Union Local 100, which negotiates its contracts with the state, have filed amicus briefs on behalf of the carpenters» union.

«If they get away with this with the carpenters, they will try this on everybody,» said Harry Nespoli, chairman of the Municipal Labor Committee, a coalition of about 150 city unions, and head of the Uniformed Sanitation Men's Association.

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.

For 10 years, Weingarten chaired New York City's Municipal Labor Committee, an umbrella organization for the city's 100 - plus public sector unions, including those representing higher education and other public service employees.

For 10 years, while president of the UFT, Weingarten chaired New York City's Municipal Labor Committee, an umbrella organization for the city's 100 - plus public sector unions, including those representing higher education and other public service employees.

Today, June 12th 2012, MORE joins with all union workers of the Municipal Labor Committee in demanding a fair contract now.