Sentences with phrase «municipal workers»

The prevailing wage is an amount set by the comptroller's office that seeks to provide pay parity between municipal workers and private contractors for doing the same job.

Most state and local municipal workers younger than 65 are limited to $ 30,000 a year if they return to the public payroll.

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.»

The mayor, whose own administration has been partially responsible for pension fund growth, now wants to require most new municipal workers to work at least 10 years, or double the current amount, to qualify for a pension, and bar them from receiving pension checks until age 65.

ALBANY — Tax returns for New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli show the sole trustee for the $ 152 billion pension fund for state and municipal workers received almost $ 9,000 from investments and interest on top of his $ 146,838 state salary in 2012.

John Liu's bid for comptroller received the backing of District Council 37 today, the largest municipal worker union in New York state, his campaign said.

Rangel has the Harlem political machine he has built over the last four decades and union support from 1199 / SEIU Healthcare Workers East and DC 37, the city's largest municipal workers union, to help him drive voters to the polls.

Employees of NYC's violence - plagued jails system topped the list of municipal workers pulling in loads of overtime, but the highest earners were largely maintenance workers rather than uniformed officers.

New York City agencies fielded 1,312 complaints of sexual harassment by municipal workers against their colleagues from July 2013 through 2017, substantiating 221 of them, new data released Friday reveals...

New York voters should force the de Blasio administration to sock away more money to cover municipal workers» future health costs, which are now more than $ 90 billion, a legislator said Monday.

[amNY] • Mike Bloomberg is not exactly kind to the city's parkers (who can forget «Stop griping»), but at least he's fair: The mayor's annoyed with municipal workers who whip out government car placards in non-emergency situations, and wants to kill the perk.

More than $ 1.9 billion of the $ 3.4 billion the city claims to be saving in healthcare spending on municipal workers over four years is coming from budgetary gimmicks, new documents...

More than $ 1.9 billion of the $ 3.4 billion the de Blasio administration claims to be saving in healthcare spending on municipal workers over four years is coming from budgetary gimmicks, new documents show.

I'll be speaking at the second one, at 10:45 in the same room, along with the national leaders of NUPGE (representing provincial workers) and CUPE (representing municipal workers) about the contribution of public workers to greater equality by improving the lives of marginalized Canadians — the unemployed, the homeless, single parents, recent immigrants, senior citizens, and others.

As the chief executive officer of OMERS Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Ontario municipal workers» pension fund, Ruffolo presides over a $ 200 - million fund that's offering big money to startups that just might become megaplayers with the scale and global reach of BlackBerry.

On a field near Pier A in Hoboken, to which Borsellino had moved his charges, a young woman in Lycra stretched, watched by municipal workers scraping melted candle wax from a railing.

As far as the intangibles that Torres refers to, surely he isn't suggesting that the existing municipal workers provide such astounding services in the community centers that they are truly irreplaceable.

Specifically, she called on state leaders to impose an emergency salary freeze on public employees, including municipal workers; to enact pension reforms that cut expenses; and to require arbitrators to weigh the impact on taxpayers when resolving disputes between the city and its unions.

Thousands of NYC municipal workers will be eligible for up to six weeks of paid parental leave under an executive order signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The average raise of the 475 employees in the Mayor's Office was 6.7 percent, but two - thirds of staffers received the standard 2.5 percent bump given to DC37 municipal workers.

Presumptive GOP nominee Nicole Malliotakis said she'll institute a hiring freeze for all non-emergency municipal workers if elected mayor in November — and cut City Hall staffing by 10 percent...

The city's municipal workers earned an average of $ 69,124 last year — but the cost to taxpayers reached an eye - popping $ 106,743 because of skyrocketing fringe - benefit expenses, according to a report...

David Cross makes his directorial debut with a comedy about a paranoid municipal worker named Dave, his The Voice obsessed 19 year old daughter, a wannabe teenage rapper and their neighbours in a small, working - class town in New York.

While it is true that the current economic crisis might require some collective sacrifices on the part of many New Yorkers, the Manhattan Institute's E. J. McMahon is wrong to target municipal workers» pensions for so - called reforms.

This letter will also be sent to other labor related media outlets as well as to the other major municipal workers» unions to express our outrage at the UFT's ineptitude and corruption to our union brothers and sisters across New York City.

The council represents Wisconsin municipal workers.

While federal and provincial leaders debate how to solve the pension crisis during meetings in Whitehorse this week, an interesting proposal has been suggested by the head of Ontario's municipal workers pension plan: let anyone join a government employee pension plan.

Top: Municipal workers pick up a dump - truck - load of cat food, dog food, treats and supplies for Animals Need You on July 30, 2009.

His famous Rusakov Club, built for the Moscow Municipal Workers Union (1927 — 29), has three cantilevered wedges that suggest the teeth of a gear.

Getting the water taps flowing, the lights back on, and kids back in mended classrooms is a quid pro quo for restoring some livelihoods, especially for municipal workers and the service sector, even if it does not put fruit back on the coconut trees.

The mayor wants to require most new municipal workers to work at least 10 years, or double the current amount, to qualify for a pension, and bar them from receiving pension checks until age 65.

«They include council members from New York City and Yonkers and elsewhere — municipal workers who decided to defraud the very people they were appointed to serve, party officials that thought nothing of skewing and election and broke the law to do it, Bharara pointed out.

And in late 2008, just as the financial crisis began to explode, Mr. Bloomberg granted 4 percent raises for two consecutive years to the city's largest municipal workers» union, District Council 37, without extracting support for pension givebacks.

Public - employee unions like the teachers, police and municipal workers have all fought givebacks.

Many people who took the survey do not have a background in technology, including Jim Symbouras, 56, a municipal worker in New York City.

You also have state and municipal workers, teachers with very rich pensions.

The city budget passed last year included a 2.5 percent cost - of - living adjustment, and in January the de Blasio administration announced that municipal workers and those working for contracted agencies will earn $ 15 an hour by the end of 2018.

Third and most gratuitously, the bill grants New York City's employees four hours a year of breast cancer screening leave (expanding a policy that already covers all other state and municipal workers).

All the candidates also skewered the mayor for allowing all municipal workers» contracts to expire and setting aside no money for raises.

His new plan, however, would let the municipal workers receive either half the average salary or half the maximum salary for their position — minus overtime — depending on which figure is larger.

Whether through the County's municipal workers» compensation program, providing planning and technological assistance or municipal grants, Marc is always there to provide help and listen.»

The WRS covers state workers, teachers and most municipal workers.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg proposed sweeping changes on Wednesday to New York's costly pension system, seeking to save billions of dollars by fundamentally altering long - established rules that have awarded generous retirement benefits to municipal workers and have deepened the city's financial hole.

«As president of the COBA and knowing full well of the backroom politics that has continued to plague the citizens of this state and municipal workers, I am proud to support Senator Jeff Klein for his leadership in reaching out to members of both sides of the aisle,» he told the press.

The former agreed to shelve pay raises for municipal workers; the latter helped stave off bankruptcy by buying city bonds with pension funds.

After leaving her union post in 1908 Bondfield worked as organising secretary for the WLL and later as women's officer for the National Union of General and Municipal Workers (NUGMW).

Late Friday, City Hall for the first time provided a tally of sexual harassment complaints against municipal workers between mid-2013 and late 2017.