Sentences with phrase «proposeed wage freeze»

She cut spending in the budgets to below the levels of inflation plus population, strong - armed teachers and doctors into taking wage freezes.

«Circuit breakers» — in the form of a wage freeze.

First, Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak builds his whole campaign around a promise to create one million new jobs in Ontario over eight years, then one of his first campaign commitments threats  is to reduce the number of Ontario government employees by 100,000, together with a wage freeze for every -LSB-...]

«Legislated mandatory wage freeze,» demands the Ontario Progressive Conservative finance critic.

This is because of the innane way health insurance is paid for to get around wage freezes years ago, but the idea that this is the company's money makes no more sense than if the company wanted to dictate what brand of toothpaste you would buy with your salary.

Some critics worried that asking teachers to accept a wage freeze was unfair.

While Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo is a Democrat, he ran on a fiscally conservative platform that had more in keeping with the Senate Republicans» interests — property tax cap, public employee wage freeze, spending reductions — than the majority of Democrats (particularly those who hail from downstate) in the Senate and Assembly conferences.

Donohue has been very outspoken during this budget battle, issuing some memorable zingers directed at Gov. David Paterson in response to the governor's efforts to get the public employee unions to agree to concessions such as furloughs or a wage freeze that he says would help close the budget deficit.

Specifically, they oppose education cuts (76 - 22) and Medicaid cuts (64 - 32), but support reductions for state workers — from pension reform to wage freezes and furloughs — and are split on layoffs.

PEF President Ken Brynien offered conditional support for Cuomo's proposed wage freeze for public employees.

It might be tough for them to do so, especially if they're holding out hope of landing the Working Families Party line, since Cuomo's agenda includes a number of initiatives labor unions dislike — including the tax cap and a public employee wage freeze.

Members of PEF and CSEA are planning to rally against wage freezes, pay lags, and lay - offs Monday all across the state.

During an appearance on «Capital Tonight» last night, the Empire Center's EJ McMahon suggested there's a disconnect between the leaders of the state employee unions and their members and speculated that most of the rank and file would actually prefer a wage freeze over furloughs.

Souring the perception of Martins is the strange odor coming from a scheme by Deputy County Executive Rob Walker to award the county's Civil Service Employees Association $ 5 million of the $ 10 million in pay it claims it's owed in the aftermath of a wage freeze, and a guarantee of no layoffs in 2018.

ALBANY — While unionized state workers are getting hit with three years of wage freezes, and Gov. Cuomo and his top aides are taking 5 percent wage cuts, state Senate Republicans are doling out pay hikes to most of their Capitol staffers, The Post has learned.

To the extent that conservatives succeed in reducing fiscal woes to a case of runaway spending, politicians find it easier to address budget shortfalls with public sector furlough days, wage freezes, layoffs and benefit cuts than with progressive tax increases that, many economists conclude, would cause the least harm to the recovery.

The response cites previous federal cases concerning wage freezes and furloughs on the municipal level in Baltimore, New York City, and Buffalo in times of fiscal crisis.

«Such a precedent - setting alteration of NIFA's wage freeze authority would likely open the door for similar statutory modifications to the other presently governing control boards in the state, and curtail the abilities of any new control board that may need to be created in the future,» Cuomo wrote.

Levy went on to note that a number of the cost - saving measures Paterson says he supports, including the property tax cap and wage freeze for state employees (or, alternatively, layoffs), were not included in the governor's proposed budget.

Legislators who voted for the wage freeze program and followed through by turning down their raises were: Cilmi; Kate Browning (WF - Shirley); Kara Hahn (D - Setauket); Wayne Horsley (D - Babylon); and Steve Stern (D - Dix Hills), for total savings of $ 14,000.

Tom Cilmi (R - Bay Shore), who voted for the wage freeze and has turned down his raises since taking office in 2010.

The lawmakers who endorsed the wage freeze but accepted raises were: Calarco; Sarah Anker (D - Mount Sinai); Lou D'Amaro (D - North Babylon); DuWayne Gregory (D - Amityville); Tom Muratore (R - Ronkonkoma); Jay Schneiderman (I - Montauk); and William Spencer (D - Centerport).

In that case, renewed short - term borrowing can provide another impetus for the kind of state - imposed wage freeze that accompanied past fiscal «emergencies» in New York City and Buffalo.

Tom Barraga (R - West Islip), who voted against the wage freeze along with three other Republicans and one Democrat, has said lawmakers already had made appropriate sacrifices with the lag payroll.

They were also speaking out against a wage freeze proposed by the center.

Nassau's financial control board is objecting to proposed state legislation that would allow the county's union employees to get contractual step increases — salary hikes based on years in the job — even during a wage freeze.

Gov. David Paterson this morning traded indirect barbs with PEF President Ken Brynien, all but accusing the labor leader of lying on the airwaves while defending labor's refusal to go along with furloughs, wage freezes and other cost - cutting proposals.

The governor also called on teachers to accept temporary wage freezes and to increase their share of health benefit costs while blasting school administrators for making more than he does.

He's entering the fray from a strong position — President Obama ordered a wage freeze for federal workers in November, and many other governors are grappling with the same issue in order to breach their own budget gaps.

The Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority imposed a controversial wage freeze in April.

Two weeks after the wage freeze was imposed, Mayor Anthony Masiello introduced a budget that proposed turning over all city parks to Erie County.

Fields, 64, who has been endorsed by the union in past elections, angered the organization earlier this year with her proposal that teachers across the state reopen their contracts and agree to a wage freeze to help close the state budget deficit.

«Wage freezes, layoffs, and givebacks have been all too common.

Getting a three year wage freeze while having your health costs doubled (at least) doesn't really sound like a good deal to me.

In Nassau, officials attributed the historically high overtime costs to staffing needs after a wave of officers retired in recent years and were not immediately replaced as the county negotiated new labor contracts following a three - year wage freeze.

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.

Democratic legislative spokeswoman Lauren Corcoran - Doolin said minority staffers declined to take raises during the wage freeze.

«Upon lifting the wage freeze we took the opportunity to re-evaluate some employees» salaries and made increases where it was deemed appropriate or when someone had taken on new responsibilities,» she said.

With New York facing a similarly large $ 10 billion deficit in early 2011, the new governor locked in a three - year wage freeze on base salaries for 66,000 members of the Civil Service Employees Association.

The governor negotiated a contract with the Public Employees Federation that included a three - year wage freeze and furlough days, along with givebacks for health care.

And Cuomo has signaled a shift to the right, proposing wage freezes and tax caps and promising to take on the unions.

A source close to the mayor said: «It is impossible to justify spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers money on pensions at a time of severe public sector cuts and wage freezes.

Cuomo has assumed $ 450 million worth of workforce savings in his 2011 - 2012 executive budget and has instituted a wage freeze (something he pledged to do during the campaign in his «New NY Agenda»).

Former Gov. David Paterson tried that, too, seeking concessions like wage freezes and furloughs, only to be met with lawsuits.

I was the first candidate to talk about wage freezes, caps on spending and local property taxes, and redistricting reforms, and am glad to see that other candidates are embracing many of the same policies.

Nassau's financial control board has pushed off for at least a week approval of proposed new union contracts that would lift a three - year wage freeze.

The governor announced earlier this month that Council 82 agreed to cuts in health care benefits, wage freezes and additional concessions that avoided layoffs.

As I wrote in my DN column this morning, the teachers and the public employee unions aren't sold on Cuomo — largely due to proposals that are unpopular with the leadership like spending and property tax caps, wage freezes and support for charter schools.

PEF voting down the contract, which included a multi-year wage freeze and furloughs, by a wide margin, it was announced earlier.

But Kaiman acknowledged the wage freeze doesn't cover raises for new job titles.