Sentences with phrase «private sector workers get»

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In the United States last year, close to 20 percent of private - sector employees owned stock, and 7 percent held stock options, in the companies where they worked, while about one - third participated in some kind of cash profit - sharing and one - fourth in gain - sharing (when workers get additional compensation based on improvement on a metric other than profits, like sales or customer satisfaction).

That's nice for the state worker but nobody in the private sector is getting raises, let alone raises above the CPI.

«They just want to frolic along and do commercials and have rallies as if there isn't a method and a means to an end to get us out of this mess,» said Paterson, who insisted one unpaid day a week isn't «the greatest sacrifice to make when the sacrifices workers in the private sector are forced to make can't be enumerated.»

YouGov also asked a series of questions about public sector pensions — 74 % of people thought that public sector pensioners got a better deal than those who worked in the private sector and 60 % of those thought they did not deserve this (predictably there was a huge difference between public and private sector workers on this question — 55 % of public sector workers thought that, yes, they did deserve better pensions than the private sector).

He described the new pension deal for state employees as «a proper reward for a lifetime's commitment to serving the public» — yet to get the same reward, a private sector worker would have to pay a third of their salary into their pension pot.

«What the union is insisting on is a package of wages of benefits that exceed that of the private sector,» Mr. Linn said, adding that the carpenters are using a «technicality» to try and get more money than workers in the private sector.

The newly energized teachers unions appealed to the AFL - CIO for help in getting state legislatures to pass laws that put teachers on much the same footing as those in unions representing workers in the private sector.

To put it another way, most teachers are getting less from their employer than if they worked for a private - sector company where workers got Social Security and a 5 percent match on 401k contributions.

Now, only 16 % of workers in the private sector have them and that percentage is getting smaller every year.

Vinay Sharma, Human Rights Director for UNIFOR, Canada's largest private sector labour union adds, «We can't just get rid of workers that are already here.

And since only 12 % of private - sector workers get maternity leave, it's no surprise that people are turning to crowdfunding to make ends meet.