Sentences with phrase «public workers»

This year, the group focused its resources on the new, cheaper retirement tier for public workers.

The leadership of the state's largest public workers union says the proposal also raises questions and uncertainty for local government employees.

That plan offered drastically smaller payments now but required higher payments in future years, when a new set of public workers with less substantial pensions are expected to retire.

The groups are filing a federal lawsuit against the governor's plan to strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights.

The case challenges whether unions can collect what are known as agency fees from public workers who do not choose to join the labor organization.

He's already sought concessions from teachers, prison guards and other public workers — who fear more bad news awaits.

For federal public workers, there seems nowhere to go but up.

After reducing pensions for new public workers, the administration hasn't taken a serious crack at other long - simmering issues that business groups say drive up costs.

Besides eliminating collective bargaining, the spending plan also forces public workers to pay more for their pensions and health care.

There is nothing Democratic about selecting education leaders through low - turnout elections overwhelmed by public worker money.

The measure does include some safeguards to protect the state's more than one million retired public workers.

The plan saves $ 83 billion over 30 years, but is opposed by the state's major public workers unions.

The teachers retained their solidarity, and won a 5 percent pay raise for all state public workers.

Unlike most elementary and secondary teachers, many early childhood teachers aren't public workers and aren't eligible to participate in their state's teacher pension plan.

But unions representing public workers have come under increasing pressure around the country.

Federal public workers got involved in campaigns all across the country, and an unprecedented number ran for office.

Public workers didn't cause the recession but we'll get to fund the tax breaks for those who did.

It also would require public workers to pay more toward their pensions and health insurance.

You must prove that you are an approved public worker, and you may obtain various types of financing.

He said he planned to fix a state budget deficit by forcing higher benefit costs onto public workers and eliminating nearly all of their collective bargaining rights.

That process was changed under the law that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for most public workers and required them to pay more for their health insurance and pension benefits.

This would save taxpayers more than $ 2 billion and is far preferable to mass layoffs of public workers and teachers.

The seemingly flush conditions of the pension funds led legislators in most states to substantially improve retirement benefits for public workers, including teachers.

Public worker unions are beginning to launch a series of television ads opposing the new, less generous pension tier for future state workers.

They would cut spending more aggressively than proposed to date by, among other things, radically reducing retirement benefits for newly hired public workers.

The measure does include some safeguards to protect the state's more than 1 million retired public workers.

Well, we could start with a systematic and sympathetic approach to mental ill - health among federal public workers.

The UFT's example helped to spark unionization among other civil servants, from about 5 percent of public workers in the early 1960s to 43 percent today.

A case that was heard Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court and will be decided later this year could have a big impact on public worker unions in New York.

The state's largest public workers union on Thursday formally endorsed Republican Sen. Sue Serino in her re-election bid for a second term.

As a union of professionals dedicated to children, the UFT is deeply disappointed in Governor Cuomo and the Legislature for their agreement to penalize future public workers around the state for the mistakes made by Wall Street.

He also has to find funds for the state's cash - starved public worker pension system.

We have legislation that is not very clear in Iceland about when public workers, the bureaucrats in the system, have a duty to report or a duty to be silent.

The labor groups want to reframe a debate that they believe has overemphasized service cuts and cast public workers as selfish and overpaid.

Cuomo has been at odds with public workers on several fronts, pushing for a cap on local property tax increases and reducing pensions for new employees.

American women are offered 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which exempts companies with fewer than 50 paid employees, but in 2011, only 11 percent of private sector workers and 17 percent of public workers reported that they had access to paid maternity leave through their employer.

According to the article, at least 238 firefighters, teachers and other career public workers who were near retirement age accused your company of providing bad advice that drained their retirement savings.

Recently, the IDC Leader, Senator Jeff Klein, and the other conference members were joined by heads of the major public workers labor unions to promote bills to make it easier to join a union.

Cuomo celebrated Veterans Day by announcing a deal to let public workers obtain additional pension credits for military service.

Gov. Cuomo announced a deal Wednesday to let public workers obtain additional pension credits for military service — after recently vetoing a similar bill.

They are the leadership this state needs, that public workers need, and that the citizens of the state of New York deserve.»

«Taxpayers are ultimately responsible for backing public pension benefits and paying public worker salaries.

The Democratic - led Assembly and Republican - controlled Senate passed a new, less generous pension tier for yet - to - be-hired public workers.

But by leaping in to defend public workers, the president risks alienating swing voters in those states and nationwide who are sympathetic to GOP governors perceived as taking on special interests to cut spending.

An outside review of New York's $ 150 billion pension fund for public workers shows it fixed ethical problems that led to a «pay - for - play» scandal.

«The governor's onerous proposal will pick the pockets of front - line public workers and undermine their retirement security without providing any short term savings,» Donohue said.

Walker's proposal, which passed the Republican - controlled Legislature despite massive protests and all 14 Senate Democrats fleeing to Illinois for three weeks, targeted only public workers and exempted most fire and police officers.

«Beguiling all my sad soul into smiling» when I glanced at the paper outside my chamber door on the second day of the new year was the headline «Public Workers Facing Outrage as Budget Crises Grow.»

By attacking public workers, they can demonize «big labor» and «big government» at the same time, while deflecting attention from the more logical target of Middle America's rage: the irresponsible Wall Street traders, whose risky, high - profit business practices brought down the economy, and the lax regulators who let them get away with it.