Sentences with phrase «pay union labor»

The city's major developers, represented by the Real Estate Board of New York, have balked at Mr. Cuomo's insistence that 421a projects pay union labor rates.

Not exact matches

It will also have to negotiate increased pressure on labor costs, with unions having called for a strike on Feb 22 to support demands for a 6 percent pay increase.

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.

While contractors with specialized skills may be able to negotiate with a company individually in order to obtain good pay and benefits, lower - skilled contractors have little power to negotiate on their own and are not covered under the federal labor laws that allow employees to come together in unions.

The 2002 law, usually called McCain - Feingold, banned the broadcast, cable or satellite transmission of «electioneering communications» paid for by corporations or labor unions from their general funds in the 30 days before a presidential primary and in the 60 days before the general elections.

He said the pay rule approved today is mainly of interest to certain activist groups such as labor unions.

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 focus on labor peace — a lie former Commissioner and current Commissioner Emeritus Bud Selig loved to mention — helped bring the players here: There was too much union attention paid to veterans and the money they were already getting, and the money they would get once they hit free agency.

A coalition of labor unions, religious groups, and others are urging Governor Cuomo and the legislature to close what they say are loopholes in the law that protect large corporations from paying their fair share of taxes.

Harry Nespoli, chairman of the city's labor coalition, suggested letting New York apply some of the $ 400 million of unused cash from the union health - insurance fund to pay for teachers who would be fired under the mayor's $ 65.7 billion spending plan.

During his time as a radio announcer at WNEW, Justin jumped into labor activism and served as shop steward where he represented and defended the interests of his fellow employees and advocated to get all union members retroactively paid for decades of overtime work on weekends and overnights.

Union leader John R. Durso, president of the Long Island Federation of Labor, blamed the dearth of good - paying jobs on the 2007 - 09 recession, which he said wiped out the retirement savings of older workers, causing them to postpone retirement.

A trade union increases the power of the employees by allowing them to bargain collectively with the employer: when the employer has too much power (e.g., the only job in town), a union can «level the playing field» by controlling a large % of skilled workers and negotiate a better pay or benefits which would otherwise be denied by the employer's access to other labor sources.

Gov. Cuomo, backed by labor leaders including UFT President Michael Mulgrew (center), signs legislation at UFT headquarters to reduce the number of services that New York's public sector unions are obligated to provide to workers who do not pay to support those services.

FPI joined the rally, where ordinary tax payers, elected officials, community organizations and labor unions called for a 0.5 % New York State tax on stock buyback trades, which would mean corporations using their federal tax cuts simply to benefit their shareholders would have to pay a small New York State tax on... (read more)

Labor unions and non-profit developers are on opposite sides of a bill now in the state legislature that would require developers to pay construction...

At that time, the one - time liberal darling who took on Lieberman over the Iraq War drew the wrath of labor unions for his reservations about a bill mandating employers provide paid sick leave.

Two labor unions, 32BJ and SEIU Local 200 United, are poised to launch an on - line advertising campaign in hopes of pushing a bill through the Legislature that would force public utilities to pay prevailing wages and provide health care benefits to their contract employees.

The poll of 400 likely voters in the newly drawn 24th District was paid for by House Majority PAC, a Super PAC supporting Democratic House candidates, and the SEIU, a national labor union.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Several labor unions say that more than $ 400,000 in contributions by Walmart since 2001 helped bring about the creation of an unusual taxpayer - paid subsidy last month to help employers offset a higher minimum wage in New York.

With every city municipal labor contract having expired during the Bloomberg administration, unions are expecting new contracts and significant amounts of retroactive pay.

Particularly in his first term, Mangano clashed frequently with county labor unions — first over a plan to consolidate Nassau's eight police precincts into four, and later after proposing a bill to allow him to open up collective bargaining agreements to cut wages and benefits to pay for a backlog of property tax judgments.

The average pay hike exceeded contractual raises for Nassau's union employees negotiated under labor deals reached in 2014 after a three - year wage freeze.

From legislation that allows union dues to be deducted from state taxes to the Fight for 15 to funding for the Murphy Institute School of Labor, to the nation's strongest paid family leave program, Governor Cuomo has proven, in his two terms, to be the most effective Governor this state has had, and is moving New York forward.»

The influential labor union 32BJ on Wednesday endorsed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's bid for a third term this year, citing his push for a paid family leave program and a $ 19 minimum wage for airport workers.

And in an era of diminished political clubs and county Democratic organizations, the WFP has filled the vacuum as a vote - pulling apparatus, paying canvassers and mobilizing members of labor unions to knock on voters» doors.

Construction labor unions, meanwhile, were buoyed by Cuomo's support for reviving the 421a tax abatement by using a subsidy to pay for a prevailing wage component.

Union labor pays better wages!

Two Syracuse - area developers — Cor Development's Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi — are accused of paying Percoco $ 35,000 in exchange for help Percoco gave them on various state matters, including getting reversed a «costly arrangement» involving union labor on a Syracuse project and state money for a $ 15 million film studio outside Syracuse that ended up being a flop.

LaBarbera's argument also sent mixed - signals on how much of an impact the wage requirements will have if union labor held onto a majority of the market to begin with (meaning that those jobs were likely paying prevailing wages anyway).

Prosecutors, though, say evidence will show that Percoco was still a powerful force within the governor's office during that period and that he exerted that influence to help those paying him by getting the Empire State Development agency to reverse a decision regarding use of union labor that greatly benefited the Syracuse developer.

Mr. Bloomberg's assiduous courting of labor paid political dividends: after getting virtually no labor support in his first campaign in 2001, he picked up dozens of union endorsements in his third - term victory in 2009.

However, union leaders Wednesday promised to continue their fight in federal court, where they will challenge the constitutionality of suspending pay increases for workers with valid labor contracts.

Should all labor unions agree to pay up to 25 percent of their health care costs, officials estimate annual savings of $ 26 million.

Public labor members rallied Monday in Albany as the Supreme Court heard the opening arguments of Janus v. AFSCME, a case that challenges automatic union dues paid by public - sector workers.

If the tab for retroactive pay grew large enough to risk breaking the city budget, even labor - friendly politicians would balk — and unions would have to accept concessions.

In Westchester County, where all eight labor contracts have expired, the executive, Robert P. Astorino, a Republican, has sought to have union members pay a share of their health care costs.

Last year, Kink earned $ 183,000 as a union «supervisor» — and in each of the last two years he has been one of the 15 highest - paid of nearly 700 UFT employees the union lists on US Department of Labor filings.

«Beginning in 2009 and continuing up to the filing of this complaint, the Debi Rose Campaign provided false and misleading documentation to the CFB in an effort to both obfuscate, and conceal, «in kind» campaign contributions, and coordinated campaign goods and services provided by various labor unions for which «fair market value» was neither paid, or accurately reported,» the complaint said.

State Senator Jeff Klein is embroiled in a «pay for play» scandal, after offering to sell union bosses «chairmanships» at $ 50,000 a pop on the newly created Senate Labor Advisory Council.

An earlier poll in mid-July paid for by the House Majority PAC and national labor union SEIU, showed Maffei leading Buerkle, 44 percent to 40 percent, with 11 percent undecided.

«It is not acceptable for developers to get a billion - dollar - a-year tax break while paying workers low wages and creating little to no affordable housing,» said Paul Fernandes, executive director of the New York City and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Corporation, an organization of unions and contractors.

Whether the speaker's resistance to paid sick leave will ultimately pose a stumbling block for the city's major labor unions, which take care of issues like this as part of their contract negotiations with management, is unknown.

Labor unions are core allies of the Assembly Democrats, and also consistently support raising taxes to pay for expanded spending for health care and education.

Lee Davis, a union representative for SEIU Local 200, said Perez Williams helped his workers settle a pay dispute with a bus company while she was working as a labor attorney for the state.

EAST HARLEM — With a lineup of some of the top labor leaders in the state and city behind him, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an array of union support Monday for a tax increase on the wealthy to pay for his signature universal pre-K plan.

He called on Walker to better articulate what his vision is for the future of state employees and whether he wants Wisconsin to become a right to work state where labor unions can't force employees to be members, or to pay dues, as a condition of employment.

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.

The union's repeated threats to strike over pay and pension issues in recent weeks have evolved into a labor - led fight against Rauner's anti-union agenda, and a call for new revenue amid a state budget impasse that has jeopardized social service programs and public universities.

Handed to union officials by Congress in the National Labor Relations Act, monopoly bargaining gives union kingpins the leverage to herd workers into unions and then force them to pay union dues.