Sentences with phrase «private and public sector unions»

In his 37 years of practice, he has consistently represented both private and public sector unions.

We counsel and represent private and public sector unions in all labor and employment law matters.

A coalition of business interests along with private and public sector unions have formed a coalition to back the amendment to expand non-Indian casinos.

The coalition of business groups, elected officials and private and public sector union organizations formed to back the expansion of casino gambling in New York includes a number of allies to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Not exact matches

2.Right - to - work is generally defined as a state where it is against the law for a union to be a so - called «closed shop,» requiring all employees to join a union and pay dues.The Michigan laws would make membership in a union and payment of dues voluntary and would cover both the private and public sector, except for fire and police unions.

Our Institutional Portfolio Management team is responsible for managing corporate, foundation and endowment, First Nation, multi-employer union, private and public sector pension portfolios.

As for the alleged union effect highlighted by the Frontier Centre, it is true that public sector wage settlements did somewhat exceed private sector settlements over this period, but only by a small amount, and that after a decade in which public sector settlements lagged behind.

But this year, Cuomo has sought to bolster his ties with organized labor both in the private and public sectors, with the teachers union being a major politically active constituency, especially in Democratic primary politics.

The union has also enabled Cuomo's divide - and - conquer strategy on organized labor, as he cozies up to private - sector unions while warring with public employees and schoolteachers.

Public - sector jobs make up a small percentage of the all jobs (15 % -10 %) with and even split of all union members, but the public sector has a significantly higher membership rate so it is unlikely that private / public union membership accounts for all the support that labor unions have in thPublic - sector jobs make up a small percentage of the all jobs (15 % -10 %) with and even split of all union members, but the public sector has a significantly higher membership rate so it is unlikely that private / public union membership accounts for all the support that labor unions have in thpublic sector has a significantly higher membership rate so it is unlikely that private / public union membership accounts for all the support that labor unions have in thpublic union membership accounts for all the support that labor unions have in the USA.

PCS is the largest civil service trade union with over 300,000 members working in all government departments, agencies, non-departmental public bodies and related private sector employers.

And just like private - sector unions, the public - sector unions will make contracts with their employer (the government) regarding a whole host of HR issues, negotiate renewal of those contracts, and potentially strike if they can't agree on a contraAnd just like private - sector unions, the public - sector unions will make contracts with their employer (the government) regarding a whole host of HR issues, negotiate renewal of those contracts, and potentially strike if they can't agree on a contraand potentially strike if they can't agree on a contract.

«It is on record that we have never, since the inception of this administration, had any dispute with the organized labour and I will be the first to admit that the Labour Unions in Lagos State have been most responsible and while, at the same time, being dogged in their advocacy for the promotion of the interests of workers in Lagos State, both in the public and private sector groups.

Even as the labor movement has faltered around the country, it remains strong in New York, which has the highest private and public - sector union membership of any state.

The New York State AFL - CIO is a federation of 3,000 affiliated public sector, private sector, and building trades unions throughout the state representing 2.5 million members, retirees and their families.

Union leaders have responded by arguing the government would be better advised maintaining investment in the public sector, which educates and trains its workforce, buys many private sector goods and services and provides vital infrastructure.

Cuomo has not proposed anything on the scale of Gov. Scott Walker's successful push to end union collective bargaining rights and he has formed alliances with private - sector construction unions, which tend to skew more conservative then their public - sector brethren.

The former critic of Margaret Thatcher earned glowing reviews from trade unions when his paper suggested public and private sectors should work interdependently, taking inspiration from the Olympics.

As Political Director of the New York City Central Labor Council, Carrión has forged deep partnerships among 300 local unions from every trade, occupation, and public and private sector of the New York economy, representing a wide spectrum of workers, including teachers, truck drivers, operating engineers, nurses, construction workers, electricians, firefighters, retail workers, janitors, train operators, bakers, and many more who are the face of today's workforce.

Union membership and influence has diminished but 25 unions remain significant donors to political parties (mainly the Labour Party) and the public sector is more heavily unionised than the private sector.

Private sector unions have been among Cuomo's reliable supporters, but labor sources said the endorsement was blocked primarily by NYSUT and AFSCME, a parent organization of public employee unions.

Can Cuomo lead a state with an out - of - control budget, a deadlocked, corrupt and dysfunctional government and a private - sector economy that has fallen prey to parasitical public - employee unions?

PEF is the state's second - largest public - employee union and represents approximately 55,000 public - and private - sector members, including 95 employees of the Albany County Probation Department.

In recent weeks, Cuomo has approached his traditional donors, public and private sector unions as well as a host of mega-donors and check - writers from the business elite, including uber - rich liberal activists George Soros, Agnes Gund and Bernard Schwartz, sources said.

- PCS is the UK's sixth largest union and represents civil and public servants in central government and in parts of government transferred to the private sector.

«This is a defining moment for the labor movement as it demonstrates what can be accomplished when we all work together, from the public sector, private sector and building trades unions, to the Central Labor Councils and Area Labor Federations,» said AFL - CIO President Mario Cilento.

Top union and business leaders say they have not witnessed so many victories for labor in decades, as the forces of public and private - sector unions came together to leave a remarkable footprint on the new $ 156 billion state budget.

After his re-election, the Cuomo administration moved to ban hydrofracking in the state and the governor has sought to bolster his relationships with unions both in the private and public sector.

Today's (5) Office for National Statistics report about pay in the public and private sectors is so flawed it is rendered meaningless, the Public and Commercial Services unionpublic and private sectors is so flawed it is rendered meaningless, the Public and Commercial Services unionPublic and Commercial Services union says.

The Cuomo campaign is very sensitive to possibly being labled «anti-union», and so is making a clear distinction between private unions that, as one source explained to me, «represent real working people», and public sector unions whose expensive contracts and pensions and refusals to agree to give - backs has labled them special interest No. 1 in many minds.

«On Friday we'll be hearing from Len McCluskey, the newly elected general secretary of Unite - a union like ours that represents workers in both the public and private sectors, a union that knows the importance of campaigning hard, and a union with which we will be signing a joint agreement to embed our new working relationship at every level.

That's a much easier lift, and one Cuomo could achieve if he gets all of the private sector unions (the AFL split is about 50 - 50, public - private).

The Public Employees Federation's Executive Board met in the Empire State Plaza today, after switching venues from the Albany Hilton, since the Hilton's owners and private sector trade unions are in a labor dispute.

While he's always kept close ties to private - sector unions, the governor is much tougher on public employee unions, including those that represent teachers and state workers.

That would be the Working Families Party, a laser - focused, hard - left - leaning coalition of militant private - sector unions, grasping public - sector unions and advantage - seeking hangers - on now masquerading as a «progressive» mainstream political party.

We are joining forces — public sector unions, private sector unions, community groups, and more — and meeting on a weekly basis, working together to fight back.

The party stated Sunday that its local members as well as a list of public - and private - sector unions, some of them among the most powerful special interests in Albany, unanimously support Cuomo's platform, which he calls the New New York Agenda.

The mayor also appointed him to his Workforce Development Board, which consists of leaders from the private sector, public agencies and unions who advise the city on its policies about job seekers, employers and adult learners.

The lineup of groups opposing a constitutional convention includes: environmental groups, gay rights organizations, New York City cops, Western New York auto industry workers, the state chapter of the National Rifle Association, every imaginable public and private - sector union, political leaders on the left and right and even a group called «Humanists of Long Island.»

Cuomo has been studiously working to lock down the support of private sector unions while eschewing the public sector organizations that seem to be included when he discussions the amorphous «special interests» that hold too much away over Albany and are driving the cost of government ever upwards.

Danny Donohue is president of the 300,000 member CSEA — New York's leading union — representing public and private sector workers doing every kind of job in every part of New York.

It said: «The union's concern about the political direction of the Government, as well as the industrial concerns over continued calls for pay restraint in the public and private sectors while inflation busts through the Government's targets.

Cuomo, who has faced criticism from public - sector unions, basked in the praise of private - sector labor allies with whom he has had a much closer relationship, and which have led a national movement for a $ 15 minimum wage.

Though there has long been friction between private - and public - sector unions, the construction trades have had reason to feel aggrieved with other unions as well.

THAT at the upcoming conventions of the National Educational Association and the American Federation of Teachers, NYSUT sponsor and support resolutions encouraging teacher unions, public employee unions, private sector unions and not - for - profit organizations to call upon their pension and retirement funds to not invest in private equity funds that are complicit in and profit from the denial of the rights to organize into a union and bargain collectively.

The UFT and NYSUT will also urge the National Educational Association and the American Federation of Teachers, along with other public and private sector unions, to avoid pension and retirement fund investments with any funds operated by Steven Klinsky.

WHEREAS millions of dollars that teachers, public employees, unionists and others in the not - for - profit sector contribute to their pensions and retirement funds are now being invested in private equity funds established and managed by Steven Klinsky, providing profits to the founder and leader of the union - busting Victory, Inc.; and

WHEREAS the private equity funds established and managed by Steven Klinsky, preeminently New Mountain Capital, solicit major investments from teacher retirement and pension funds, public employee retirement and pension funds, union retirement and pension funds and other retirement and pension funds from the not - for - profit sector; and

CIVIC CENTER — The city's biggest private and public sector labor unions have rallied behind Bill de Blasio's mayoral campaign after being splintered during the primary race, in the hopes of electing the first Democratic mayor in two decades.

Donations to the central organization formed to defeat Proposal 1 has come from public and private sector unions.