Sentences with phrase «of public unions»

We can see the same kinds of things going on the world of public unions, as the state budgets get tighter, the states want to take away teacher benefits.

I have been unable to secure any agreement from any of the public unions as to how to come up with this $ 250 million,» Mr. Paterson said at a news conference in the Capitol.

In Cuomo, this group sees a vehicle to break the power of public unions that have dominated New York's Democrat - leaning political scene for a generation, and they and the governor are remarkably in sync.

One of the public unions, the Public Employees Federation, even endorsed Teachout in her Democratic primary bid against Cuomo.

In NY we know they're the political party of the public unions and most NY Dems in Albany gratefully take their endorsements but their talons don't spread much past our borders so they seem irrelevant, especially on the national stage where they'll play NO role as a check on Trump.

Furthermore, the vast majority of public union political activity seeks to aid the left side of the political spectrum, as the unions are closely aligned with the Democratic and Working Families parties.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Close to nine years of concessions and frustration seemingly exploded into a series of very public tantrums by union members this March.

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

But the rise of the Central State beholden to its fiefdoms (public unions, shadow Security State, military industrial complex, the sickcare cartels, etc.) has enabled the wholesale distortion not just of domestic markets but of the entire global economy.

From the «conservative» ideology, the «problem» is that the Central State, in cahoots with public unions and Corporate Overlords, grabs an ever - larger share of the national income to redistribute to reward its cronies and favorites.

Wisconsin and Ohio last year passed laws stripping most public sector unions of collective bargaining rights.

Fudge's letter was made public by the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), which represents many of the unionized grocery workers in the United States.

The union accused Canada Post of preparing to lock workers out, and creating uncertainty by warning the public to avoid the post office.

Two organizations, Canadian Union of Public Sector Employees (CUPE) and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) have publicly released their proposals on how the minimum wage should be increased in Ontario, with the CCPA proposal in particular showing some promise.

A recent Abacus Data poll, done on behalf of Public Response — an agency that works with labour — indicates that a majority of Canadians, 61 %, believe unions do a good job of protecting their members» jobs.

«It's not Goldilocks and the three bears,» wrote Canadian Union of Public Employees national research representative Keith Reynolds.

In January most large public companies adopted International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), a system already used in more than 100 countries (notably across the European Union and wide swaths of the Pacific Rim).

«Never in the history of this country has a publisher been prosecuted for presenting truthful information to the public,» Ben Wizner of the American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement.

In its FY17 union budget, the Indian government announced 250 billion rupees will be allocated toward the recapitalization of public sector banks.

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.

Indeed, that was a scenario public sector unions feared when they caught wind of the test last year, according to the Globe and Mail.

At a public meeting of labor and corporate officers last summer, Snyder said he deliberately pleaded with union leaders not to go forward with the ballot initiative.

The right - to - work drive in Michigan is the latest of a series of setbacks for labor unions in the United States, beginning in 2011, when Wisconsin's Walker pushed through the legislature limits on public sector unions such as teachers.

Public - sector unions have orchestrated a massive transfer of wealth away from the less well - off to their members, claims a new book.

A number of plan sponsors have moved to cover medical cannabis costs over the years, Zaid noted, including the University of Waterloo's student union, the Arthritis Society, Loblaw Companies Ltd., the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), and the Labourers» International Union of North Ameunion, the Arthritis Society, Loblaw Companies Ltd., the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), and the Labourers» International Union of North AmeUnion (OPSEU), and the Labourers» International Union of North AmeUnion of North America.

Closed - shop rules imposed by the carpenters» union dictate public tendering policies, and so most future municipal construction contracts can only be bid by approved union firms, dramatically reducing the number of eligible bidders.

And because they signed union cards for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, this triggered automatic union certification within the municipal government, since Ontario allows card checks in the construction industry (plus public bodies involved in construction).

The Liberals are unlikely to make any final decision on drug testing until the Supreme Court of Canada rules on its legality in a case between Suncor and workers at its Alberta oil sands operation, said Troy Winters, senior health and safety officer with the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

The ECB must be aware of this and accepting of the risk that the stand - off could lead to the publics in the peripheral nations rebelling against the notion of a European union.

In a public letter and interview in early October, the president of the Oakville local, Dave Thomas, said a deal similar to the one approved at GM would likely be rejected in Oakville, where 5,000 of the union's nearly 7,000 Ford employees work.

The contribution agreements apply to the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Pension Plan, Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan, Ontario Public Service Employees Union Pension Plan, and Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan.

Elliot Schrage, Facebook's vice president for communications and public policy, and David Ginsberg, its director of research, said in a blog post on Monday that the company had made «real progress» in dealing with hoax stories and sham accounts since the 2016 election and the campaign, known as Brexit, to withdraw Britain from the European Union.

But Prime Minister Callaghan then urged that the government make further concessions to the unions, including «exemptions from the 5 per cent pay limit, tighter price controls and extension of the principle of «comparability,» under which public sector workers could expect more money.

Barack Obama's administration pushed for the Trans - Pacific Partnership, again over the objections of labor unions, this time joined by many public health groups.

Few Albertans would shed tears or anxiously grip the edges of Grandpa Dwayne's wheelchair to hear of money - saving efforts to transfer cafeteria, security or pillowcase - folding duties to outside companies — and few outside of union halls will stand to applaud Notley if she highlights this level of public service job preservation.

I suggest, for a start, that people boycott the BC Chamber of Commerce membership (which includes all the oil and energy corporations), plus several (but not all) banks and credits unions, several public utilities, and other corporations and service providers.

There are particular questions here about the fate of union workers whose pay and benefits are set by multi-year collective bargaining agreements and public sector workers whose pay is set by law.

Our models include the Bank of North Dakota and public banks in other countries, which have put public money, such as property, income, sales and business taxes, fees and fines, to work for the public good, in cooperation with community banks and credit unions.

That opportunity is to attract or retain the business of public pension funds and union related funds (which control approximately $ 3 trillion in assets), the institutional leaders in the shareholder empowerment movement, which are shifting their portfolios away from high cost, actively managed mutual funds and hedge funds to low cost indexed funds, the kind of funds that the top 10 largest mutual fund advisors dominate in terms of market share.

With respect to union and public pension fund sponsorship of Rule 14a - 8 proposals, for example, Roberta Romano observes that:

Investors are not particularly skeptical of proposals by unions and public pensions, but appear to view proposals by individual «gadfly» shareholders as value - destroying.

 This issue has a number of pieces on issues of inequality, including: Rising inequality is hurting our economy Labour rights, unions and the 99 % Canadian economy bleeding jobs; public sector cuts to intensify Recession and cuts hit Aboriginal and -LSB-...]

Good labour relations in education and positive working relationships between provincial governments and teacher unions are a critical ingredient in the relative success of our public education system.

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In 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that circumventing DRM on game devices may be legal under some circumstances, limiting the legal protection to only cover technological measures intended to prevent or eliminate unauthorised acts of reproduction, communication, public offer or distribution.

Over the past decade, it has funded the right's assault on labor unions, climate scientists, public schools, economic regulations, and the very premise of activist government.

The Center for Union Facts, an anti-union organization that is part of lobbyist Rick Berman's family of front groups, received $ 1.55 million between 2007 and 2010 from the Bradley Foundation and spent heavily to support Walker and smear teachers unions with an anti-union website during the 2011 fight over public sector collective bargaining rights.

In their rush to pass anti-labour laws that would force the province's largest union into a new contract and increase penalties public sector unions that enter illegal strikes, could Premier Alison Redford «s Government also be infringing on the free speech rights of ordinary Albertans?

IG Metall's campaign follows a 6.3 per cent pay increase over two years secured for 2m public sector workers last month by Ver.di, the services union, after weeks of stoppages.