And Cuomo has signaled a shift to the right,
proposing wage freezes and tax caps and promising to take on the unions.
PEF President Ken Brynien offered conditional support for Cuomo's
proposed wage freeze for public employees.
NYSUT is big enough so that its active «no» vote on Cuomo would make it difficult for him to hit the threshold necessary to get the AFL endorsement, especially if the public employee unions, which are not pleased with the AG's
proposed wage freeze and other parts of his «New NY Agenda» plan, also decided to oppose him.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
Two weeks after the
wage freeze was imposed, Mayor Anthony Masiello introduced a budget that
proposed turning over all city parks to Erie County.
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.
... as drafted, the
proposed legislation not only sets the stage for across the board
wage freezes and restrictions on individual salary movement within range, but is also broad enough to allow for compensation reductions as well as a host of changes to non-compensation provisions of collective agreements.