Sentences with phrase «paid union workers»

And he said the presence of higher - paid union workers in a job market helps boost the pay of nonunion workers.

And he says the presence of higher paid union workers in a job market helps boost the pay of the nonunion workers.

So they raised how much pay union workers got and in various measures the New Deal implemented were very favorable to unions.

Manhattan's largest development company says it was snookered into paying union workers $ 42 an hour — and a lot more for overtime — just to deliver coffee at its Hudson...

Manhattan's largest development company says it was snookered into paying union workers $ 42 an hour — and a lot more for overtime — just to deliver coffee at its Hudson Yards megaproject.

The Stella D'oro Company released comments to the sweet - toothed today to claim one reason for declining profits has been due to the high wages they pay their union workers.

It would allow developers to pay some union workers 40 percent less than average union wages.

The larger question being asked by union officials and elected officials alike is: Can a local government keep its property tax increase at or near the property tax cap, and at the same time pay its union workers with new contracts?

Not exact matches

Chuck Atkinson, president of transportation District 140 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the company's largest union, described Rovinescu's pay in a letter to the president as «a personal insult and a slap in the face to all our members.»

We have always believed that the Employment Tribunal's decision from last year October was entirely correct in saying that our GMB member clients were entitled to workers» right such as the minimum wage and holiday pay,» said Nigel Mackay, employment solicitor at Leigh Day, the firm that represented the union members.

Walt Disney Co. is finding itself in heated talks with union workers over pay and other issues as profits at the company's theme - park division soar.

More than 500 companies have expressed interest in rolling out student loan benefits to their workers next year, said Tim DeMello, founder and CEO of Gradifi, a platform that lets companies, including PwC, Connelly Partners and Western Union, pay off some of their employees» student loans.

It is the latest successful legislative push targeting union power following a Republican sweep of statehouses in 2010, and if Gov. Mitch Daniels signs the bill as expected it will make Indiana the first Rust Belt state to ban contracts that require workers to pay mandatory union fees for representation.

Those nonunion workers, therefore, still benefit from the union's actions even though the union doesn't get paid by them.

A tentative deal between the company and leaders of striking unions includes 1,400 new jobs and pay raises topping 10 percent, the company and unions representing about 40,000 workers said on Monday.

Union officials, who have vowed to fight any effort to reduce benefits to retirees and vested workers, claim the city has undermined the pension fund by outsourcing city services to workers who don't pay into the system.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC), which represents nearly 6 million British workers, said that the growing number of low - paid, self - employed workers who work irregular hours earn significantly less than conventional employees and therefore pay less tax and national insurance.

Critics say they suppress wages, weaken the collective bargaining authority of unions and leave workers at the mercy of employers in negotiations over pay, benefits and working conditions.

And the union that staged the protest is returning with the workers, who will see their pay and seniority respected by the new boss, who is decidedly not the same as the old boss.

On Feb. 1, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed a controversial right - to - work law prohibiting workers in union shops from being forced to pay union dues — less than 48 hours before Electro - Motive announced the closure of the London plant, its jobs expected to move to the Hoosier state.

Wal - Mart's critics — including a group of its workers backed by labor unions - say the retailer pays its hourly workers too little, forcing some to seek government assistance that effectively provides the company with an indirect taxpayer subsidy.

Last April, facing a Federal Court lawsuit launched by unions over the HD Mining workers, the federal government introduced reforms to the program, including removing a provision that allowed employers to pay temporary foreign workers up to 15 per cent less than the prevailing Canadian wage.

Hardly a day goes by when American unions are not attacked from some quarter: Last week, the Supreme Court weakens unions representing home care workers, one of the lowest paid and fastest growing occupations.

Right - to - work laws bar so - called «closed shops,» where workers are required to join a union and pay union dues or pay equivalent fees as a condition of employment.

Though the trend is still at an early stage, it is worth paying attention to for two reasons: unions may represent a new source of capital for your company, and unions want to invest in worker - friendly businesses and therefore may one day have the same kind of impact on private - equity deals that socially responsible investors have already had on the stock market.

Further, union workers have better benefits options, such as health insurance and paid time off.

The union and the worker denied that he had been paid by UAW.

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.

Bill Curry reports in today's Globe that, at last year's economic policy retreat, business leaders urged Finance Minister Flaherty to reduce the pay of «overpriced» Canadian workers, including through anti union right to work legislation.

But there is little or no discussion in Unions Matter of current intergenerational tensions in the union movement: the movement toward two - tier workplaces, like Air Canada's Rouge Airlines, which aims to hire new, mostly younger workers at a lower pay scale and with fewer benefits than are enjoyed by older, established workers.

Through this period, governments of all stripes in Ottawa and the provinces enacted worker - friendly legislation that promoted workplace health and safety, employment equity, pay equity and union organizing.

An exemplar was Southwest Airlines, which paid $ 355 million of its more than $ 1 billion in corporate profits last year to union and nonunion workers and managers, on top of salaries.

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.

It came as unions issued a warning over the merger saying that thousands of workers could be affected and that # 500 million of potential savings could mean job losses or cuts to pay.

The union of mechanics and ground workers recently came to an agreement with American giving its members a large pay raise.

McDonald's: Fast - food workers deserve $ 15 an hour and a union so we can pay our rent and support our families.

The plant was union under Heinz and remains union, though workers took pay cuts, he said.

«Instead of Walmart paying its workers what they deserve for their work, Walmart is merely offering to pay more — for more work,» said Randy Parraz, director of Making Change at Walmart, a campaign run by the United Food and Commercial Workers Internationalworkers what they deserve for their work, Walmart is merely offering to pay more — for more work,» said Randy Parraz, director of Making Change at Walmart, a campaign run by the United Food and Commercial Workers InternationalWorkers International Union.

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.

But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»

Ford's deal eliminates cost - of - living increases and freezes the pay of veteran workers while reducing the starting pay for new hires and stretching out the period when their wages can reach that of veteran workers, the union said.

Germany Europe's growing army of robot workers could be classed as «electronic persons» and their owners liable to paying social security for them if the European Union adopts a draft plan to address the realities of a new industrial revolution.

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

We ran into one cyclical recession in the» 70's, and the Republicans seized on it as an excuse to rig government and society for the benefit of people who are already rich, while taking away opportunities from everyone else... then they crushed the unions so that workers would never be able to get back better pay and better job security, while investors make more and more and pay less and less in taxes.

Community leaders, unions and churches are backing a call for the club to increase the pay of workers employed by contractors, such as waitresses and cleaners.

Because of the low wages they pay workers in South Africa and Latin America, treating their financial losses as tax write offs, when labor negotiations were going on and violence threatened, the companies certainly had the upper hand; the unions accepted a substantial cut in wages and benefits.

The Transport Workers» Union is pushing for new work rules and pay scales in retailing that Coles calls a «wages grab» that could add $ 300 million to its transport costs and increase grocery bills.

The unions, for their part, see it as an avenue for unscrupulous employers to avoid paying worker entitlements and cheat the tax system of billions of dollars a year.

But the union took long exception to the idea that this meant the workers would be paid less.

The latest incident to spark widespread union outcry has centred on Carlton & United's Melbourne brewery, where dozens of long - serving maintenance workers were laid off and invited to reapply for their old jobs with a new contractor on inferior pay and conditions.