Sentences with phrase «paying union jobs»

According to Corse and Silva, wages for the non-college-educated have fallen dramatically in the United States as manufacturing work has been outsourced to other countries, greatly reducing the number of high - paying union jobs with good benefits.

The City Council is not united around the issue, either; Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito supports a ban, but many council members are worried about the loss of decent - paying union jobs if the carriages go away.

Not exact matches

«We believe that hackers have every affected person's Social Security number (s), military records and veterans» status information, address, birth date, job and pay history, health insurance, life insurance, and pension information; age, gender, race, union status, and more,» Cox wrote.

«As usual when these union airlines fail, such as Monarch, Air Berlin and Alitalia in recent months, their pilots all come to Ryanair seeking jobs that pay up to $ 175,000 p.a., deliver a double bank holiday weekend every week, with the best promotions record and, the best job security in Europe,» O'Leary said.

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.

One Occupy rally I stumbled across here in Toronto featured speakers from a big trade union, members of which enjoy jobs that pay relatively well, and a representative of one of Canada's aboriginal groups, whose complaints are legitimate but have little to do with having been left behind by capitalism.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In rejecting an arbitrator's report Wednesday that recommended a healthy pay hike, the Chicago Teachers Union indicated it will push for a deal that gives members greater job security and a say in how the longer school day plays out next year.

«Unions are striking despite generous pay and extraordinary pensions arrangements - but they need to start focusing on quality of service, productivity and jobs,» head of economics and social policy Matthew Oakley said.

Equally or perhaps more dangerously for Corbyn, he'd be on the wrong side of a Unite union which backed him to the hilt and serves as a Praetorian guard but is unlikely to sit back quietly if the jobs — and union subs — of the thousands of well - paid skilled workers it represents went down the Swanee with Trident.

Southampton city council has become the first big local authority to ask its workers to take a pay cut or lose their jobs, triggering a row with unions.

The NASUWT union is taking on pension reforms, pay and conditions and increasing job insecurity.

Tens of thousands of teachers across the north - west will be taking strike action today (Thursday 27 June) as a further step in the NASUWT and NUT teacher unions» dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over pay, pensions, working conditions and jobs.

Cuomo did call for some things that will be unpopular with public employee unions (freezing pay, creating a Tier VI in the pension fund, reducing the size of state government — a move that will undoubtedly necessitate job cuts, but he makes no mention of that I can find in «The New NY Agenda: A Plan for Action»).

The company had the capital commitments to purchase the facility and pay to lift the deed restrictions, and also said it intended to keep the facility's nearly 200 union jobs, a pledge that helped win the backing of 1199 SEIU, the powerful health care union that maintains close ties to Mayor Bill de Blasio and to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

«When it comes to fighting to make sure hard working New Yorkers have good paying jobs and access to quality healthcare, Scott has been in the corner of working families throughout his career,» George Gresham, the union's president, said in a statement.

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.

It is trade union members that would pay with their jobs for a Tory government that would cut immediately and strangle the economic recovery at birth.»

The union yesterday (24) started balloting more than 250,000 of its members in civil and public services for a national strike over cuts to jobs, pensions and pay: www.pcs.org.uk

Over a million public sector workers are set to take industrial action against the government in a series of rows over pay, pensions, jobs, conditions and spending cuts, according to union figures.

Alicia Glen, Mayor Bill de Blasio's deputy mayor for housing and economic development, told the City Council today that obligating developers who receive the controversial 421a tax break to pay construction workers prevailing wages could result in 17,000 badly - needed below - market apartments not getting built — and argued that the demand for low - cost housing trumps the call for union jobs.

Gov. Cuomo told an AFL - CIO meeting Monday that he wants to «pay more for union jobs because the government shouldn't pay a poverty wage.»

Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working for Fujitsu have voted in favour of an offer to end a dispute over jobs, pay and pensions.

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

He said the union also wants to see stability in health insurance, as well as increased job training so workers can rise to better - paying positions.

Speaking as the union meets in Brighton for its annual conference, and a day after delegates voted to ballot a quarter of a million civil and public servants for a strike over cuts to jobs, pensions and pay, Mark said:

The strike starts a six - week programme of protests by the union's members working in environment and forms part of a civil service - wide campaign over the government's imposed cuts to pay, pensions, jobs and working conditions.

The government's plans to increase the sanctions on benefit recipients will do nothing to alleviate poverty without the creation of more jobs with decent pay, the Public and Commercial Services union says.

Nevermind requiring anyone to have to pay a union shop fee in a government job is illegal.

«If you want a job that pays a decent wage, gives you the chance to get on in life, live independently and enjoy your work, then join a trade union.

«This coming year is going to be one of the most challenging years for the trade union movement - and public sector trade unions in particular - as the coalition government seeks to make the public sector and its workforce pay for the crisis, through cuts to jobs, services, pay and pensions.

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).

«Unions and the working poor have opportunities to come together and create a society where everybody has an opportunity for a good, solid - paying Living Wage job and everybody has an opportunity to reap the benefits of the social programs that are administered by government and particularly by the State of New York,» Peoples - Stokes explained.

Documents obtained by the Times Union earlier this year indicated a state administrative law judge determined that Reid «willfully and intentionally misrepresented the facts» when he collected the unemployment benefits while being paid $ 30,000 a year for his government job.

Shockingly, the cabinet papers also show that the Tories were willing to go as far as declaring a state of emergency and deploying the Army in order to gain victory over the striking miners and the unions — confirmation that it was a central tenet of government policy to regard tax - paying, law - abiding colliery workers, locked in struggle to defend their jobs and their way of life, as (to use that awful phrase of Margaret Thatcher's) «the enemy within».

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

«At the same time that the Energy Company was paying Percoco's wife and the union president's daughter tens of thousands of dollars per year for low - show jobs, Kelly repeatedly sought Percoco's assistance in advocating on the Energy Company's behalf to various State officials, and the union president advocated directly to Percoco regarding the union's support for the Energy Company's proposed New York power plant and submitted a letter from his union, addressed to Governor Cuomo, setting forth the union's support for the plant,» the letter submitted by prosecutors states.

More than a quarter of a million civil and public servants in the Public and Commercial Services union will start voting this week in a national strike ballot over cuts to pensions, jobs and pay.

While the state is looking, of course, for good - paying jobs, Zemsky said the incentive package will not require any of those positions to be earmarked for union members.

Writing in an open letter to Brown in 2011, Donnelly accused the governor of submitting new contract agreements that «protect the well - paid public employee unions, even at the cost of students, public safety, and jobs.»

Hector Figueroa, the president of SEIU 32BJ, a union of building services workers, said, «We... applaud Speaker Quinn for negotiating a bill that will give more than a million workers paid sick days and provide hundreds of thousands more with an assurance that they won't have to choose between taking their child to a doctor and losing their job.»

It is our failures in social policy, to provide council housing, to protect workers» (and trade union) rights, and to do enough to combat low pay and job insecurity that are the root cause of public concern about immigration.

DNC spokesman Michael Tyler said the party's national platform «repeatedly and unequivocally states, the Democratic Party is staunchly committed to making it easier for workers, public and private, to exercise their right to organize and join unions, to increasing the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, to protecting collective bargaining, to strengthening workplace protections, and to investing in infrastructure that uses American products and provides good - paying jobs for American workers.»

Clearly it is undoubtedly the former, as it is directly affecting the job and pay prospects of a base of union members that is predominantly and increasingly concentrated in the public sector.

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

WE at our jobs are asked to absorb more medical coverage costs, so, why can't you negotiate with the unions and try to do the same... with pensions too... I really detest that WE have to help pay for increases to pensions when ours are at a standstill... and why can't our representatives have a freeze on their wages when many companies are laying off?