Sentences with phrase «pension and health care»

He also says municipal leaders are struggling with fast rising pension and health care costs, a shrinking property tax base and declining state aid.
First, our labor costs are too high — less because of salaries, more because of the rising costs of pensions and health care.
If schools are opposed to «mandated» costs such as pensions and health care for their employees then just come out and say so.
The goal should be pensions and health care systems for government workers that are more like those in the private sector.
Even when districts do try to achieve this balance, some costs like pensions and health care can actually increase, becoming more concentrated and dependent on the funding of students who remain.
He later fought for pension and health care benefits for retirees at State Universities Annuitants Association, a not - for - profit organization.
As CMD reported in August 2013, Peabody Energy and Arch Coal had spun off part of their operations in West Virginia in order to avoid «legacy liabilities» owed to retired workers: «a fancy word for the earned retirement pensions and health care obligations of the men and women who toiled in underground mines for decades building Peabody's wealth.
GM has only made a dent in the total liabilities that it faces in pension and health care (active and retiree).
Q. Would you please describe the steps being taken to address the increasing pension and health care costs the district must budget for so that it will not have to continue to cut teaching positions and increase class sizes each year for the foreseeable future?
That's the amount of future liabilities owed by NYSUT to the union's staff members, primarily for pension and health care costs, according to a report recently filed by the union.
Republicans, however, argue the legislature is within its rights to change laws, particularly after the current contract with the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition on pensions and health care benefits expires in 2022.
But in recent years, Mr. Bloomberg has talked increasingly about the dangers of rising pension and health care benefits.
McKinney says he would re-open contracts and seek concessions from state employees to make pension and health care costs more affordable.
He would try to reopen state employee pension and health care contracts, in place till 2022, for more concessions; Mr. Foley would not.
The law would require that about $ 30 million be saved by the state by July 1 through increased pension and health care contributions.
Municipalities have complained of fiscal stress due to stagnant tax bases and aid (Cuomo's budget holds municipal aid money flat) as well as rising expenses driven by pensions and health care.
The buyout gives us another opportunity to remind voters that part - time county legislators, if they remain in office long enough, get a state pension and health care benefits on top of their generous pay.
Such analysis is especially important, given the impact of an ageing population on economic growth, and government revenues and spending, especially for public pensions and health care.
Trump can put a little more money into the pockets of coal executives, the ones trying to escape pension and health care obligations to retirees even as they hoover up bonuses.
He successfully organized New York City subway workers in the 1930s, and then secured contracts for them that — for the first time — granted them weekends off, pensions and health care coverage.
For most of the past decade, surging pension and health care costs have forced school leaders to make hard choices between cutting programs or asking voters to approve local tax increases.
But next year's overall budget of $ 298.8 million represents an increase of $ 700,000, or 0.23 percent, largely because of rising pension and health care expenses, she said.
Baynes calls Detriot's bankruptcy filing «a cautionary tale» for both the state and local governments, adding the similarities for upstate cities include the shrinking tax base and increased public service costs combined with built - in pension and health care spending.
The last item has the eternal ire of education groups, who say it will unfairly hurt school, and point to mandated cost - drivers such as pensions and health care placed on schools.
Cuomo himself has said he woudn't want to commit a state bailout to cities that face growing pension and health care obligations.
Many other municipalities, finding their budgets strained by soaring pension and health care costs, are resorting to layoffs and service cuts to balance their budgets — or to try to bring unions back to the bargaining table.
The mayors presented facts about escalating pension and health care costs in charts and graphs last month to state officials who met in Syracuse.
Like other Upstate cities, Syracuse faces budget deficits as the cost of pensions and health care climb and tax revenues remain flat.
Union leaders say they would make pension and health care concessions if they can keep their bargaining rights, but Walker has refused to compromise.
But fat pension and health care benefits make perfect sense to union leaders — especially when the union runs the health care insurance plan, as is the case in Milwaukee.
The Center on Reinventing Public Education has a new report out this week that makes clear that the financial challenges facing such districts arise from irresponsible labor contracts, failure to reduce semi-fixed costs in response to enrollment loss, and rigid and unsustainable pension and health care commitments.
This trend coincided roughly with a teacher hiring boom here in the United States, meaning these changes happened despite districts» employing more teachers, and it's likely to continue as states and districts continue to feel the pressure from unfunded pension and health care promises, which totaled $ 1.38 trillion at last count.
You can judge for yourself, but I'd like to think that Randi and I managed to have a serious but civil debate about whether teachers are under attack, teacher pensions and health care, the new unionism, teacher evaluation, teacher pay, and the rest.
In the US teachers unions have negotiated pension and health care benefits considerably better than the average benefits available to graduates working in private industry (where fixed benefit pensions hardly exist any more).
Gov. Scott Walker's announcement Friday to curtail union bargaining and require pension and health care contributions from public employees upped the ante in a debate over K - 12 education funding.
But when you throw in very generous pension and health care benefits, a teacher's total compensation package in the Golden State is over $ 100,000 per annum.
The drama of teachers taking forced and unexpected retirements to protect pensions and health care is being played throughout Wisconsin.
Consistently, bankruptcy courts have paid out CEO bonuses while allowing companies to ditch pension and health care obligations, and there's every reason to expect this could happen for Arch as well.
A new opportunity has arisen for a Maintenance Engineer to work the night shift, where you will be earning a salary of # 30,000 to # 35,000 per annum, plus excellent benefits that includes pension and health care.
Silver wants to exclude from a cap some government costs — such as pension and health care costs — meaning town governments and school districts would only apply the tax limit to other parts of their budgets, like payroll or equipment, according to Brian Sampson, of Unshackle Upstate, a group that supports the tax cap.
On the cost of pensions: Astorino said Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner is right when she says the biggest uncontrolled costs in local government are in employee pensions and health care.
When Arbetter explained what she was asking about — mandated spending being items like pension and health care costs — Serino said greater Medicaid costs should be assumed by the state from the county level.
The city's budget comes due in the summer, but Miner already has said the city will run out of money in the next few years — even without the tax cap — because of sharply rising pension and health care costs.
«We spend the bulk of our money on pensions and health care and special ed services,» said Borges.
Here, in a nutshell, is the fiscal challenge for Syracuse: Since Miner took office, the cost of pensions and health care for city employees has increased by $ 22 million a year.
Twenty - seven percent of state funding LAUSD receives goes to paying pension and health care costs before factoring in teacher salaries, school supplies and textbooks.
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