Sentences with phrase «protect public unions»

In the dead of night, the Legislature adopted language that aims to protect public unions» political power from a likely US Supreme Court ruling.

Not exact matches

A recent Abacus Data poll, done on behalf of Public Response — an agency that works with labour — indicates that a majority of Canadians, 61 %, believe unions do a good job of protecting their members» jobs.

If you care to believe the Hofstra University study on the matter there is more abuse percentage wise in our own public schools than there ever has been in the Catholic Church.Not justifying it but you must remember that our public schools have laws and unions that are protected by the laws of our very own government.

The Oregon chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union supported maintaining the ban on religious clothing in public schools, arguing that it protected students from improper religious influence.

CNN's coverage is a good example (seeNavarrette's eye - popping statement that unions «protect teachers from public demands for... a better education for our children.»)

PCS is a campaigning union, with a central focus on protecting public service jobs, services and issues affecting the civil service.

But although Cuomo has railed against he belief that the public education system has grown to become more about protecting the administrative bureaucracy and less about educating kids, the focus of his wrath has been the teachers unions and not — so far, anyway — superintendents, who I'm sure are breathing a sigh of relief.

Mulgrew said the work the union and its members did to help shape the state budget should help protect New York City public schools from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her privatization agenda.

«Reducing such public subsidies to trade unions is a practical way that councils can save money, to keep council tax down and protect frontline services for local residents - including union members themselves.

May 2018: NYS AFL - CIO Pres. Mario Cilento on the new NYS law that increases access to and protects union membership in NYS public sector workplaces.

Paladino was protecting the public's interest when he disclosed in a newspaper story secret details about contract talks with the Buffalo teacher's union — information he received during School Board's confidential executive session, his attorney said.

A campaign arm of the rebranded, left - wing group ACORN is spending hundreds of thousands to help Democrats win control of the state Senate and protect traditional, union - controlled public schools.

'' «notes the threats to the future of the Royal Mail and welcomes the conclusion of the Hooper Report that, as part of a plan to place the Royal Mail on a sustainable path for the future, the current six days a week universal service obligation (USO) must be protected, that the primary duty of a new regulator should be to maintain the USO, and that the Government should address the growing pensions deficit; notes that modernisation in the Royal Mail is essential and that investment must be found for it; endorses the call for a new relationship between management and postal unions; urges engagement with relevant stakeholders to secure the Government's commitment to a thriving and prosperous Royal Mail, secure in public ownership, that is able to compete and lead internationally and that preserves the universal postal service; further notes the Conservatives» failure to invest in Royal Mail when they were in power in contrast with Labour's support for both Royal Mail and the Post Office; and notes that legislation on these issues will be subject to normal parliamentary procedures.»

Writing in an open letter to Brown in 2011, Donnelly accused the governor of submitting new contract agreements that «protect the well - paid public employee unions, even at the cost of students, public safety, and jobs.»

It is our failures in social policy, to provide council housing, to protect workers» (and trade union) rights, and to do enough to combat low pay and job insecurity that are the root cause of public concern about immigration.

In his opening remarks, Paladino's lawyer Dennis Vacco said Paladino was protecting the public's interest by publicly disclosing secret information from the School Board's closed - door meeting about contract talks with the teacher's union.

The IDC warned the convention could do «tremendous damage» from repealing constitutionally protected pensions for public workers and repealing prevailing wage laws that require even nonunion contractors with the state to pay union wages and benefits.

DNC spokesman Michael Tyler said the party's national platform «repeatedly and unequivocally states, the Democratic Party is staunchly committed to making it easier for workers, public and private, to exercise their right to organize and join unions, to increasing the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, to protecting collective bargaining, to strengthening workplace protections, and to investing in infrastructure that uses American products and provides good - paying jobs for American workers.»

While he is proud that he has many more public safety union endorsements than Melinda Katz, he doesn't need to create the illusion of experience protecting Queens residents — his is real,» said Andrew Moesel, spokesperson for the Vallone campaign.

Buffalo School Board Member Carl Paladino was protecting the public's interest when he disclosed in a newspaper story secret details about contract talks with the Buffalo teacher's union — information he received during School Board's confidential executive session, his attorney said Thursday.

The New York Civil Liberties Union says transgender students are often harassed in public schools across the state and education officials have failed to carry out a legislative mandate to protect them.

The speech promised reforms of trade unions, to «protect essential public services against strikes».

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The Union is very pleased to hear that HBO is doing the right thing now, but it is disappointing that we had to take such public measures to ensure compliance with our contracts and protect our background actors.

The unions are perceived to be standing in the way of badly needed reforms, protecting incompetent teachers, and putting up barricades to prevent the erosion of pension benefits the public can no longer afford.

Their mission is to protect the jobs of teachers in the regular public schools, and real technological change — which outsources work to distant locations, allows students and money to leave, substitutes capital for labor, and in other ways disrupts the existing job structure — is a threat to the security and stability that the unions seek.

Unionized collective bargaining might also have addressed those issues, but it would have been done mostly behind closed doors and would have been accompanied by provisions to protect the narrow interests of the unions at the expense of the public interest.

The film, which included interviews with Michelle Rhee, Bill Gates, and the economist Eric Hanushek, among others, made the central points that public education was failing, that resources don't matter, and that the best ways to fix the national crisis of low test scores were to expand the number of privately managed charters, fire ineffective teachers, and weaken the unions that protected them.

For years, a lot of money, time, and energy have gone into a national campaign to discredit teachers unions by saying they protect bad teachers and do nothing to add value to our system of public education.

Surely, calling on a Democratic firm is a maneuver to protect the group from the charge that these are right - wingers intent on destroying public - sector unions.

Capitalism is driving business practice into the public sector and the days of Unions protecting the rights of everyone are all but gone.

And in a public education world where the unions have typically been able to protect even the lowest - performing teachers, that kind of quality upgrade seemed doable only because the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had offered the city a grant that required the union to cooperate in return for a huge injection of funds into the school system.

A nearly $ 6 billion infusion from Proposition 30 and a Democratic supermajority in the Legislature are a welcome pre-holiday gift to public education from voters, but it also could set the stage for battles between those laboring for education reform and suddenly fortified unions protecting teacher interests.

Yet, consider that 88 percent of our children get K - 12 education in public schools and that 70 percent of the teachers in these schools have union protected jobs.

But for politicians who have targeted educators and their unions, it is much easier to rally public opinion around the fabrication that it's about protecting underperforming teachers.

Educators now understand what a truly democratic and revitalized teachers union, working arm in arm with parents and students, can do to protect public education in New York City,» Kit Wainer public school teacher and MORE member, said.

He protected state and local public employment through the stimulus package but his Race to the Top education program was anathema to teachers unions.

Our lost faith in public education has led us to other false conclusions, including the conviction that teachers unions protect «bad apples.»

This is crucial to the Friedrichs case because the First Amendment protects against compelled political speech, and the CTA — like many public sector unions — takes mandatory agency fees from nonmembers to cover its collective bargaining costs.

The teachers at the public schools are mostly great, but there are a sizable minority of obvious turkeys that the unions are hell - bent on protecting.

To their critics, the failure to pass voucher legislation has been a matter of defending the state's constitution, and protecting public education from the efforts of school privatizers and union - busters, like the DeVos» and the Republican legislators they have funded with millions in cash contributions over the years.

However, because standardized testing is a matter of public concern, a local speaking as a union, or an individual member speaking as a parent or citizen, about educational concerns over standardized testing, for instance, in a letter to the editor or in a statement to the Board of Education, is protected by the U.S. Constitution at least so long as they are not encouraging other parents or students to opt out from a test.»

As a public sector union, we work to protect our members» rights, opportunities, and benefits.

A number of leaders are calling on states to secede from the union once again — at least as it applies to the national environmental laws that are designed to protect public health and save money.

129 In the third place, as regards the argument that the disclosure of documents relating to the ACTA could only have reinforced the public interest with regard to international relations and avoid controversy arising from the leaked publication of certain proposals, it should be noted that, while it is true that the purpose of Regulation No 1049/2001 is to ensure maximum transparency by giving the fullest possible effect to the right of public access to documents of the European Union (recital 4 of the regulation), it nevertheless provides exceptions to the right of access to protect certain public or private interests, and in the present case, the public interest as regards international relations.

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The AHRA protects individuals from discrimination by the Alberta government or persons in Alberta's private sector based on a number of grounds, including on the basis of physical disability or mental disability, and in respect of the following activities: notices (including newspaper ads, posters, publications, etc.); goods, services, accommodation or facilities customarily available to the public; employment practices or employment advertising; tenancy; and membership in a trade union.

Unions have been at the forefront of struggles to preserve and protect health care, education and other important public services.

To summarize, the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour challenged Saskatchewan's Public Service Essential Services Act (PSESA) and the Trade Union Amendment Act, which came into force May 14, 2008, alleging both pieces of legislation violated section 2 (d) of the Charter, which protects freedom of association and expression.

The AHRA protects Albertans from being discriminated against on the foregoing basis in respect of notices (including newspaper ads, posters, publications, etc.); goods, services, accommodation or facilities customarily available to the public; employment practices or employment advertising; tenancy; and membership in a trade union.