Sentences with phrase «over union officials»

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«Government officials will engage in the negotiations over the weekend in an effort to help reach a tentative labor agreement between the company and the union by 5 p.m. Monday,» GM said in a statement.

Both European Union officials and investors have raised concerns over corruption and asked Romania to increase transparency.

His successor, Ron Mock, was named six months before he took over, and Leech spent a lot of time introducing Mock to the province's government officials and teachers» unions (two important stakeholders for OTPP) to make sure they were comfortable with him.

In the weeks leading up to the event, the three signatories squabbled over the shape of the union, amid ill - concealed concerns among Kazakhstani and Belarusian officials that Russia seeks to dominate the union.

The European Union's leading members are at loggerheads over how to react to Washington's tariff threats, with Germany urging conciliation and France advocating a harder line, according to senior officials.

In contrast, trade union officials surveyed by the Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training (ACIRRT) have revised down their forecasts for inflation by around 1/2 of a percentage point over the next year and now expect inflation of around 3 per cent over the next two years.

Recent surveys of financial market economists and union officials both point to a decline in inflation expectations over the past three months.

A survey of trade union officials, conducted by ACIRRT (Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training) following release of the June quarter CPI, gave a median inflation forecast of 2 per cent over the year to June 1999, rising to 3 per cent over the year to June 2000 (Table 8).

Kuwaiti oil sector employees sit in a shaded area on the first day of an official strike called by the Oil and Petrochemical Industries Workers Union over public sector pay Continue Reading

According to the European Union's official statistics agency GDP increased by 0.3 % quarter over quarter compared to expectations of a 0.4 % quarter over quarter increase in growth.

Trade union officials surveyed by the Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training (ACIRRT) still expect inflation to be 3.0 per cent over the year to mid 2004.

Then again, services like CarAmigo can expand all over the European Union as well, yet Belgian government officials have created their own set of rules without waiting for the EU's decision.

There are just over ten official pro-life societies in 125 educational institutions in the United Kingdom; this is hardly going to be effective for combating the vehemently pro-abortion policies of the National Union of Students and of individual Student Unions.

As the Chicago Board of Education prepares to approve a 2011 - 12 budget Wednesday, school officials and the teachers union are battling publicly over related issues of withdrawn raises and the mayor's push for a longer school day.

As principals got a better sense this week of their school's budget for the coming year, officials with the Chicago Teachers Union and privately run charter schools — which rarely agree on anything — both sounded an alarm over the effects of potential funding cuts.

But ministers, currently engaged in a standoff with union officials over public sector pension changes, are unlikely to be willing to make major concessions.

McNicol's surprise departure after seven years at the helm led to former Unite union official Jennie Formby taking over.

To help keep them afloat, # 22m of public money has been given to them to this year, while another # 277m will be injected over the next four years — figures that only emerged after Private Eye trawled through the obscure Official Journal of the European Union, which requires publication of such payments by member states.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's office did an abrupt about - face Wednesday over plans to use the Queens Detention Complex as an additional Department of Corrections training facility, after receiving sharp criticism from the correction officers» union and key Queens officials, who say they were never briefed on the decision.

A longtime union official who is now retired, Gomes said, «I've been in quite a few strikes over the years.»

At the time, he was the last remaining statewide elected official who had supported civil unions over marriage for gay couples.

Over the past few weeks, a series of loosely related public corruption investigations coordinated by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara have spilled into public view, with targets including high - ranking New York Police Department officials, the union representing city jail guards, and the political fundraising activities of several people with ties to New York City's mayor.

Pat Purcell, a top official of United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500, said the organization sent Mr. Levy a letter a week ago demanding he refund the $ 5,200 its political action committee gave him over the last two years.

Also at 11 a.m., World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein joins over 500 union construction workers and ublic officials, business leaders and representatives from the local community at a topping out ceremony for the 1,079 - foot tall 3 World Trade Center tower, Manhattan.

Over 400 international election observers — including officials from the United States and the European Union — were deployed across the country to monitor voting, the tallying process and part of the post-election period.

«The union workers received far more increases over the last few years than elected officials,» he said.

Since he made those comments during an interview with the Daily News editorial board, Cuomo has reiterated his intentions to battle unions over education reforms, most recently with a letter he sent to state education officials outlining what appeared to be his second - term schools agenda, including questions about firing teachers, extending the probationary period before tenure and boosting the charter school sector.

The fight over Cuomo's education agenda will resume Thursday morning with a rally attended by Mulgrew, other union advocates and elected officials who will call on the state to fulfill its Campaign for Fiscal Equity obligations.

Dromm says he was surprised to see a union official there, watching over them.

De Blasio - allied union leaders and elected officials sent out over a dozen statements pouncing on Dean Skelos after the Senate Republican Leader told reporters Monday he would not allow a vote on de Blasio's proposed tax hike to fund his pre-K program.

Mr Corbyn has been hit by a string of rebellions over Labour's Brexit policy, with around 60 of his MPs bitterly opposed to the party's official position that leaving the EU should also mean quitting the single market and customs union.

UPDATE: Johnson released a lengthy statement in response to the AFL - CIO attack, noting he has been a «strong supporter» of a property tax cap and charter schools, was «proud» to support Tier V — «a move that will save Long Island taxpayers $ 8.5 billion and save this state $ 35 billion over the next three decades» — and has been urging teacher and public sector unions to sit down with elected officials to «hammer out revised wage agreements that reflect the current economic reality.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio — who has in recent months faced anger from police union officials and some rank - and - file cops over his NYPD reform agenda — touted the murder - free stretch this evening.

«Linda's been a tremendous public servant for over 15 years, both as a local elected official in Plainfield and as a Union County Freeholder,» Union County Democratic Chairman and 22nd district Sen. Nick Scutari.

State officials will spend most of 2016 paying an estimated $ 100 million tab for last year's settlement of a long - running federal lawsuit by unions over Gov. John G. Rowland's 2003 layoff of more than 2,000 state workers.

The MP for Falkirk, Eric Joyce, has accused Unite union officials of acting arrogantly and irresponsibly in the row over the selection of a Labour candidate in the seat.

Paul Brown, who has fielded criticism over the failure of trade unions to recruit more minorities, said it was «unfathomable» why city officials wouldn't do more to implement the law.

Teacher union leaders, school administrators and state officials harmonized last week over a proposed teacher evaluation system.But Tuesday when Gov.Dannel P. Malloyannounced plans to reduce red tape and to «empower local school districts» — steps that...

Fog obscures the fireworks over the Empire State Plaza during the official tree lighting ceremony on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015, in Albany, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)

At a press conference this morning, David Cameron's official spokesman has expressed confidence from within Downing Street for reaching a deal with the unions over public sector pensions by the end of the year.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Anticipating a «feeding frenzy» over New York state's $ 5 billion windfall, a dozen public officials, union leaders and contractors gathered this morning at Syracuse City Hall to advocate spending all of the money to repair roads, bridges, water pipes and other infrastructure.

And that giving continued after the election was over, with many of the same unions having another opportunity to donate to elected officials.

But President Obama made paid leave a centerpiece of his State of the Union last year, and over the past year he has deployed labor secretary Tom Perez and senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett to states across the country to meet with officials to discuss ways to advance city and state legislation to create paid leave programs.

So the pledge by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to heed public opinion when naming celestial bodies is in - keeping with the zeitgeist — even if its hand was forced by the good - natured outcry over its earlier decision to ignore a bid, led by Star Trek star William Shatner, to name a Plutonian moon «Vulcan» (see «Official planet namer listens to voice of the people «-RRB-.

There is also the not unimportant matter of the need to communicate to people all over the globe the complexities of American life, thus contradicting the deliberate «pro-American» falsifications spread by the US film and music industries, media and government (see the delusional State of the Union address), as well as its «anti-American» counterpart abroad (which portrays a contented, prosperous population solidly backing official chauvinism and militarism).

President Reagan's campaign on behalf of merit pay, now more than eight weeks old, has thrown the leadership of the National Education Association (nea) off balance and has provoked a debate within the organization over the issue, recent events and interviews with union officials suggest.

So here, in this collection, I have drawn from various sources and experiences over time and around the world, ideas from inspectors and their reports, leadership training course tutors and candidates, school improvement ambassadors, union officials, faculty leaders, headteachers and principals in all their guises, governors, government officials, civil servants, councillors, parents, students, current, aspiring, ex and retired teachers, in the public, private, Academy, Charter, free, not - for - profit, voluntary and charitable sectors.

A bill in the Ohio legislature that would hand Cleveland's mayor broad control over his city's beleaguered public schools is a shoo - in for passage, several school officials, lawmakers, and union leaders say.

Because she did not receive an official response from the Soviet government, she was surprised last June when she began to get postcards, drawings, and letters from people all over the Soviet Union.

The Boston Teachers Union reached an agreement last week with city officials on a new salary schedule for teachers, breaking an eight - month deadlock over how to finance the education reforms the contract promises.