Sentences with phrase «onto public workers»

He said he planned to fix a state budget deficit by forcing higher benefit costs onto public workers and eliminating nearly all of their collective bargaining rights.

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Eroding pension plans by shifting risk onto vulnerable employees and retirees with limited ability to absorb income cuts is quite in keeping with the Harper government's determination to lower the boom on public sector workers and improve the profitability of their corporate friends in the private sector.

As NYC's public housing stock crumbles around them, unionized workers are fighting to hold onto perks that cost the city money and manpower, while delaying changes housing authority officials say would improve the quality of life for the 400,000 residents living in their deteriorating buildings.

A clear alternative, that does not involve throwing tens of thousands of public sector workers onto the dole — a move that would cost more than ten billion in lost tax revenue and increased state benefit payments.

And then there's Cuomo's economic platform — which, by the way, the W.F.P. signed onto in 2010 when it was begging Cuomo to endorse it — of a property - tax cap, reducing pensions for new public workers and cutting taxes, including some measures targeted at major banks and people with million - dollar estates.