Sentences with phrase «other public employees»

Other public employee unions share in the blame for that.

The same homeowner would still have to pay hundreds of dollars more to cover higher retirement costs for other public employees.

They decided to go on strike after state lawmakers passed a bill to raise pay for teachers and other public employees by 4 percent over three years while imposing higher health care premiums.

* In the case of teachers and many other public employees compensation is somewhat «deferred,» what isn't paid monthly or yearly is paid in promise of a secure retirement.

By contrast, negotiated settlements involving other public employees appear to have resulted in more numerous pay freezes.

If the effects of this recession continue, we'll see teachers and other public employees lose many of the benefits they've worked so hard to earn.

The disclosure of teacher evaluations has been firmly supported by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but is a sensitive issue for teachers unions, who point to other public employees not having their evaluations released to either the general public or a narrowly defined portion of the populace, like parents.

Meanwhile, good government groups, such as the State Committee on Open Government, are lobbying to change the 50 - A law — claiming it has morphed into a blanket protection for police that other public employees do not enjoy, and has become a blindfold on the public.

«These concerns are also especially heightened for first responders and other public employees who require the public's complete trust that they will discharge their duties faithfully and impartially without regard to factors like a person's race, gender or sexual orientation.»

Second, the continued operation of the system is likely to expose the soft - underbelly of modern public finance — the underfunded pension plans crying out for reforms that union leaders, along with other public employees, resist.

The retirement benefits of teachers, and of other public employees, have received increased scrutiny in recent years over concerns about the fiscal sustainability of defined - benefit pension plans and the peculiar incentives they create.

At issue are disability pensions for the city's uniformed officers, which legislation had shielded from benefits cuts other public employees faced until former Gov. David Paterson vetoed the bill when it came up for renewal in 2009 — significantly cutting payouts for those joined the NYPD, FDNY and Departments of Sanitation and Correction in subsequent years and were injured on the job.

But polls suggest that Americans don't want to see teachers and other public employees stripped of collective bargaining rights.

National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel told editors and reporters at The Washington Times that Mr. Walker, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and other Republican politicians who have moved to rein in the bargaining power of teachers, firefighters and other public employees instead will galvanize working men and women nationwide.

«I don't see a solution that does not involve the teachers paying the 9 percent, which is consistent with what teachers around the country and other public employees pay.

Lastly, while teachers can generally go on strike without fear of losing any pay, since the missed school days have to be made up at the end of the year, most other public employees working year - round jobs don't have this luxury.

As the leadership of the CEA, AFT and other public employee unions continue to campaign for Dannel Malloy, they (or Malloy) still have not faced that fact that:

Indeed, following Scalia's death, the Supreme Court split 4 - 4, upholding mandatory union dues for teachers and other public employees in Rebecca Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, which had been called a «life - or - death» case for public employee unions.

And by making it more difficult to collect dues for teachers unions but not for other public employees» unions, the law discriminates against their pro — teachers union viewpoint.

Having just observed Memorial Day, a special time to honor military personnel who died while serving the United States, most Americans would probably be stunned to learn that teachers and other public employees DO NOT HAVE full First Amendment rights when working in their capacity as a public employee.

Governor Andrew Cuomo on May 31 signed into law a bill that enables public school teachers and other public employees who are honorably discharged veterans and have five years in their civilian jobs to purchase up to three years of service credit toward their pensions.

Senate Democrats have reaped $ 85,000 in election - year campaign contributions from the state teachers union since they skipped last month's vote to cut pension benefits for new teachers and other public employees.

State Senate Democrats have reaped $ 85,000 in election - year campaign contributions from the state teachers union since they skipped last month's vote to cut pension benefits for new teachers and other public employees.

Talks on a subsequent contract stalled largely because the city said it couldn't match the pattern of raises given to other public employees — of 4 percent annually — after the economy soured in 2009.

Similarly, the amount state and local governments will have to pay into the state's main pension fund for other public employees would double to nearly $ 4 billion — even if most localities opt into a borrowing scheme approved this year by lawmakers to soften the blow.

Cuomo's statement released earlier in the day on the Council 82 agreement specifically called out the unions, saying that, «If similar contract terms were adopted by New York's other public employee unions, the state could achieve the $ 450 million in savings needed to avoid the 9,800 layoffs.»

Assemblyman Danny O'Donnell, chair of the Correction Committee in his house; and Bob Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government; co-authored an OpEd urging the repeal of a law that treats police and correction officers differently from all other public employees when it comes to FOIL.

The matter pits the social networking giant against Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance over his demand for access to 381 Facebook accounts as part of his investigation into disability fraud among police officers, firefighters and other public employees.

The contract agreement with Council 82 — which Cuomo's office labeled «historic» — comes as the governor is trying to seek concessions from the other public employee unions in the state.

If similar contract terms were adopted by New York's other public employee unions, the state could achieve the $ 450 million in savings needed to avoid the 9,800 layoffs projected in the enacted budget.

And when teachers (and other public employees) have been given a choice between defined benefit pensions and defined contribution plans, the vast majority typically chooses the defined benefit pension plan.

Americans only need look at Wisconsin, where the governor and lawmakers pushed through legislation curtailing the collective bargaining rights of teachers and other public employees.

Washington — Before recessing last month, lawmakers failed to pass an omnibus $ 74 - billion debt - cutting package that includes a provision requiring Medicare coverage for new school - district and other public employees.

Furthermore, the courts should provide teachers with the same due - process requirements that every other public employee in California enjoys — but not more.

Wisconsin's curtailment of the collective bargaining rights of teachers and other public employees was undoubtedly the top education news story of early 2011.

It had been considered pointless to organize teachers, or other public employees for that matter, because it generally was (and is) illegal for public servants to go on strike.

The Vergara decision would not eliminate due - process requirements; it would just extend to teachers the same due - process rights that every other public employee in California has.

Congress acted again in 2007 to provide more loan forgiveness, creating the TEACH Grant program for teachers and the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF), which benefits teachers and other public employees.

Those are higher and more onerous and more costly than for every other public employee in California.

While a union defeat in Friedrichs could place sharp limits on the political operations of the NEA, the AFT, and other public employees» unions, the impact would be far from apocalyptic.

The CTA alone spent more than $ 50 million to defeat his measures, and the teachers were joined by the other public employee unions.

We can look to other public employees, such as members of the armed forces, who still do not have collective bargaining rights, to see how progress could have occurred without unionization.

The Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will hear a case involving the agency fees that teachers and other public employees are required to pay to unions even if they choose not to join the unions.

Is the public wrong in supporting the rights of teachers and other public employees to collectively bargain?

Five years earlier, Wisconsin had become the second state, following Connecticut, to establish collective bargaining rights for teachers and other public employees.

The rally is hosted by the West Virginia AFL - CIO on behalf of approximately 30,000 teachers, school support personnel and other public employees.