Sentences with phrase «public sector unions need»

To avoid a collision course with taxpayers, public sector unions need to upend the bipartisan consensus and put raising taxes back on the table.

Public sector unions need to get out of the cul - de-sac of traditional bargaining and get more money into public coffers.

Hard Lessons from NYC Contracts Public sector unions need to upend the bipartisan consensus and put raising taxes back on the table.

That's a lesson public sector unions need to absorb — or else «it could have been worse» may be the best they'll ever do.

Not exact matches

Good reforms will need tough political resolve though, as public sector unions will fight major change.

In part because human capital in these high quality sectors is deep and specific, so needs to be used to the full in exporting; in part because there are typically strong positive externalities to training and innovation systems from increased exports; in part because a tight fiscal policy constrains wage demands in the public sector from undermining restraint of export sector unions: these countries, as well as Japan and China for similar reasons, want no constraints on their exports through macroeconomic regulatory rules pressuring them to expand consumer demand.

Repeal of the Triborough Amendment will establish a more equitable collective bargaining system in New York's public sector, preserving basic union rights while giving local officials the tools they now lack to negotiate needed changes to costly and outmoded contracts.

So in a ballot where 50 % of members take part, public sector unions will need a whopping 80 % vote in favour before any strike action can go ahead.

Ros Altmann, an independent pension adviser who helped set up a rescue scheme for workers in crashed companies, said unions needed to recognise that final salary schemes were unaffordable in the private or the public sector.

Repeal of the Triborough Amendment would establish a more equitable collective bargaining system in New York's public sector, preserving basic union rights while giving local officials the tools they now lack to negotiate needed changes to costly and outmoded contracts.

We'll all need to know these arguments for the coming confrontation with the public sector unions.

The last thing our economy needs is a wave of disruptive action but that is what Britain's public sector unions are planning.

Again, Cuomo's plan — especially re garding the need to confront public - sector unions and other special interests — suggests that he will not be following the liberal Democratic line.

But the Trade Union Bill would impose a minimum 50 % turnout - and public sector strikes would need the backing of at least 40 % of those eligible to vote.

The Trade Union Bill would impose a minimum 50 % turnout for ballots on industrial action - and public sector strikes would need the backing of at least 40 % of those eligible to vote.

If public sector teacher unions want a higher minimum wage, this can only result in taxpayers paying for such an increase — turning the «needs of real people» into «higher taxes.»

Public sector unions are also the facilitators of authoritarianism, because every new law and every new intrusion on civil liberties is accompanied by a need for more unionized government workers.