Sentences with phrase «of municipal workers»

«There's been a tendency to take the solution out of the hide of the municipal workers, the tax payers and the people who use city services,» said Brodsky.

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.

Not exact matches

That included backing from two chapters of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees representing county workers at Miami International Airport (Local 1542) and in the county's trash - hauling department (Local 3292).

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.

Unable to obtain municipal funding, it declared bankruptcy last month, leaving a lot of parents up in the air and 12 child care workers unemployed.

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.

The lag would eliminate one day's pay from each two - week paycheck for 20 weeks for 4,800 white - and blue - collar workers who belong to the Association of Municipal Employees.

The New Year's Eve event will be hosted by the Association for a Better New York, Blasters, Drillrunners and Miners Local 29, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, Central Park Conservancy, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Municipal Art Society of New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York Historical Society, the New York Mets, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Transit Museum, Partnership for New York City, Real Estate Board of New York, Regional Plan Association, NYC Sandhogs Local 147, Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Every time a municipal union worker is threatened with replacement, we are warned of imminent disaster.

The taxpayer subsidy for Aetna spotlights how, while state and municipal budget constraints have forced cuts to social services and layoffs of public workers, lucrative corporate incentives continue to flow out of public coffers to politically connected companies.

Buffalo and Rochester are moving to raise the minimum wage of municipal employees to $ 15 an hour as part of Governor Andrew Cuomo's push to raise the wage floor for all workers.

Hawkins also would allow cities to institute an income tax, which is more progressive and would require out - of - city workers to help pay for municipal services they use on a daily basis when they go to work.

Among his top priorities for the city are creating a municipal sidewalk program to keep sidewalks clear of snow, creating a worker's cooperative to stabilize the workforce and forging collective relationships with the county and the state.

Plaintiff Mark Janus, an Illinois state worker who declined to join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, argues in his lawsuit that the payments he's compelled to pay the union violate his First Amendment rights.

County Association of Municipal Employees President Daniel Levler said he's opposed to any contribution based on the percentage of health costs, which would hurt lower paid workers the most.

Under the mayor's plan, which matches a similar increase for state employees enacted by Cuomo last year, about 50,000 city workers — including crossing guards, prekindergarten teachers, custodial workers and others — would see their pay reach the $ 15 - an - hour level by the end of 2018, making them some of the country's highest paid municipal employees.

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.

Flanked by Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority tenants in front of the Marine Drive complex where he lives Wednesday afternoon, the retired construction company owner and worker says he is not going to quit as a BMHA tenant commissioner and won't abandon the Council campaign.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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Today, in a gesture that will affect thousands of incoming city workers, Bill de Blasio signed an executive order banning this practice for municipal employers of the City of New York.

In terms of unions, Mr. Espaillat has the backing of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and the Transit Workers Union Local 100, while Mr. Rangel has won endorsements from all three of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employee unions: DC 37, DC 1707 and the Civil Service Employees Association.

The Citizens» Budget Commission's Carol Kellerman expressed alarm over the size of the city's municipal workforce, which now exceeds 327,000 workers and which has grown by 9 percent since January 2014, when de Blasio took office.

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).

During her speech, the speaker blasted the Washington - installed fiscal control board that she said is destroying unions, workers» rights and the public higher education system in the interest of disposing of its crippling municipal debt.

Mayor Bloomberg let the municipal unions know that he will settle contracts with them if they agree to two conditions: 1) no retroactive wage increases; and 2) workers would have to agree to contribute to the cost of their health care benefits.

According to Politico, United for Affordable NYC's other donors were unions with close ties to City Hall, including the United Federation of Teachers ($ 125,000), the municipal union District Council 37 ($ 30,000) and health care workers» union 1199 SEIU ($ 25,000).

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...

And in a widely circulated news video documenting Zika control efforts in Brazil, El - Sabaawi was troubled by footage of a municipal government worker apparently «wandering around with a bunch of guppies and basically just introducing them in ditches.»

Cities are full of young workers, but singletons who spend long hours at the office end up with no time to meet other people, said Wu Xiuping of the Beijing Municipal Women's Federation.

In California, Florida, Washington, and Wisconsin, affiliates of the National Education Association and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees have either agreed, or tentatively agreed, to forgo competing for the bargaining rights of school workers already organized by the other.

In an initiative now being piloted in six cities across the country, communities are working to redesign their municipal systems and form new citywide partnerships so that everyone — elected officials, nonprofit leaders, healthcare professionals, social workers, parents, business owners, and educators — takes on the responsibility of supporting children and closing the opportunity gap.

A group of active and retired Chicago city employees and four unions that represent them — AFSCME Council 31, the Chicago Teachers Union, the Illinois Nurses Associations and Teamsters Local 700 — filed suit today in Cook County Circuit Court to overturn Senate Bill 1922 (Public Act 98 - 0641), legislation to sharply reduce pension benefits for city workers and retirees who participate in the Municipal Employees Annuity and Benefit Fund (MEABF).

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 solutionmunicipal 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 solutionMunicipal 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 following seventeen organizations joined the amicus brief: National School Boards Association, Ohio School Boards Association, American Association of School Administrators, American Professional Society on Abuse of Children, American School Counselors Association, Buckeye Association of School Administrators, Council of Administrators of Special Education, International Municipal Lawyers Association, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of Secondary School Principals, National Association of State Directors of Special Education, Ohio Association of School Business Officials, Ohio Educational Service Center Association, Ohio Federation of Teachers, School Social Workers of America Association, and Council for Exceptional Children.

Larry Weinberg and Joseph Hunt, general counsel of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and general president of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers AFL - CIO, respectively, both saw their pay double as well.

Starting in 2016 Virginia will require social workers, teachers, and other municipal employees to pay 5 percent of their salaries into their pension plans.

Iowa recently passed an Act 10 - inspired law with similar policies affecting public - sector workers and their unions.1 Other states and members of Congress are considering enacting such policies, and with its ruling on Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the U.S. Supreme Court may act to weaken public - sector unions and teachers» ability to collectively bargain.2

We will be at the City Hall Rally supporting our brothers and sisters of all municipal unions and workers everywhere.

Two other unions, the SEIU (Service Employees International Union, which has more than one million government workers) and Afscme (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees), spent another $ 2 million.

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

The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) is one of those big pension funds you hear about, providing sweet defined benefit pensions to government workers, and buying up companies and assets to help fund those pensions.

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.

All sorts of income can potentially be tax - free, including: Auto rebates; child - support payments; combat pay; damages in lawsuits for physical injury; disability payments, if you paid the premiums for the policy; dividends on a life insurance policy, up to the total of premiums paid; Education Savings Account withdrawals used for qualifying expenses; gifts; Health Savings Account withdrawals used for qualifying payments; inheritances; life insurance proceeds; municipal bond interest; policy officer survivor payments; profits from the sale of a home, up to $ 250,000 if you're single or $ 500,000 if you're married; qualified Roth IRA and Roth 401 (k) withdrawals; scholarships and fellowship grants; Social Security benefits (between 15 percent and 100 percent are tax - free); veterans benefits; and workers» compensation.

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.

Nobody goes in those kennels but the kennel workers,» Adams says, noting that the municipal shelter is typically so full of animals and understaffed that employees are hard - pressed to provide enrichment.

I once spent a week sketching in Cartagena, Colombia, and got to know many of the city's municipal workers: a security guard at the Plaza de San Pedro Claver; the trash men who swept the streets; a coffee vendor named Wilmet.