Sentences with phrase «public workers got»

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Gurley says an intitial public offering is the best way for startup founders who get venture capital rounds to protect themselves and their own workers.

In my last post I noted a recent memo from a higher - up at the Department of Justice, trying to intimidate public service workers who want to get involved in the current election campaign.

And, who knows, it may even include things like improved labour laws, improvements to public health care and education that actually mean it about the public part, requiring the Workers Compensation Board to get serious about the compensation part of its mandate and, yeah, an effort to get off the energy price rollercoaster.

Since it's open to the public and private pools are very expensive, getting a membership is goig to work out nicely for the workers of the financial district that enjoy swimming.

The overall goal is to get babywearing educators to think outside the box of working with babywearers, and for nurses and public health workers to see the compelling statistics about why they want to get a babywearing education and bring it to their hospital / office.

Don't Leave Your Laptop Unattended in Public Places: These days it is an everyday sight to see workers sitting in Starbucks, Panera, the airport, or the public library to get some workPublic Places: These days it is an everyday sight to see workers sitting in Starbucks, Panera, the airport, or the public library to get some workpublic library to get some work done.

Democrats can't win when their only message is higher taxes and more spending that just make everything more expensive at a time when nobody's getting raises except the public union workers.

Donohue, who heads the second largest state workers union in New York, is a tough - talking sort, and has never been shy about expressing his opinions about the governor in public, particularly when he feels his members are getting the short end of the stick.

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.

«The party must be careful about the implications of the failure to break through in Scotland, among public sector workers and in seats with large numbers of ethnic voters Main Cameron spent # 111 getting every extra Conservative vote»

But the governor will get pushback from the state worker unions if he tries to balance the budget solely through state agency cuts and consolidations, says Public Employees Federation President Ken Brynien.

But plans to scrap important initiatives to get young people into work, abolish key public bodies and throw public sector workers on the dole will only worsen the fragile economic situation.

Whatever the economics, the reality is that we can not get some public sector workers to come to our region.

Under the nominal spending trick, public sector workers have been getting pay rises fthe whole time.

I thought he wanted to get rid of underperforming public sector workers.

Perez - Williams said she would get to work immediately by creatively utilizing city workers, from police department to the department of public works, to better respond to the needs of the poor and children.

«The way to build a stronger economy and fairer society, where everyone has opportunity to get on in life, is not to punish public sector workers outside of London and the south east.»

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

«Many businesses on the East End, including in my North Fork legislative district, rely on public transportation to get workers to their jobs, especially during the summer season,» Mr. Krupski said in a press release issued this week.

At a subsequent rally, he said the state is subsidizing big fast food restaurants like McDonald's to the tune of $ 700 million a year — in part by providing health care coverage and other public assistance to its workers — and called for New York to get out of the «hamburger business.»

This, the 12 labour unions and the public sector workers have kicked against the new system citing various reasons, including claims that workers will pay double charges should they get their salaries through the e-zwich platform.

Cuomo insults the legacy of his late father, liberal icon Mario Cuomo, by claiming that businesses paying the minimum wage «steal» $ 2 billion from taxpayers because their workers can get government subsidies, according to Empire Center for Public Policy President E.J. McMahon.

YouGov also asked a series of questions about public sector pensions — 74 % of people thought that public sector pensioners got a better deal than those who worked in the private sector and 60 % of those thought they did not deserve this (predictably there was a huge difference between public and private sector workers on this question — 55 % of public sector workers thought that, yes, they did deserve better pensions than the private sector).

Many of the public sector workers who got laid off were women.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is no «veritable Gumby» on getting a new, less - generous pension tier for future public workers.

«I totally get the frustration,» he said, nodding his head sympathetically to a public sector worker.

«Public sector workers are being asked to work a bit longer and pay a bit more, but they will continue to get a guaranteed pension which is index - linked and inflation - proofed,» Mr Maude added.

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Buffalo Niagara will never climb out of poverty as long as women make less than men, minorities can't get business and fulltime workers need public aid just to survive.

He described the new pension deal for state employees as «a proper reward for a lifetime's commitment to serving the public» — yet to get the same reward, a private sector worker would have to pay a third of their salary into their pension pot.

Public sector pensions are just one of the ways in which public sector workers get more rewards for working fewer Public sector pensions are just one of the ways in which public sector workers get more rewards for working fewer public sector workers get more rewards for working fewer hours.

Mr. Cuomo used his power over the decennial redistricting process to win some victories in March: He was able to get lawmakers, who wanted him to sign the gerrymandered legislative maps they had drawn, to agree to curb pension benefits for future public workers, to create a more rigorous system for evaluating schoolteachers, and to take the first step toward legalizing a significant expansion of casino gambling.

«It's outrageous that, at time when public sector workers have had their salaries either frozen or rise only slightly, politicians could be getting a salary increase of 18 %.»

He says if the governor tries as hard to get campaign finance reform passed as he did to achieve legalization of same sex marriage and a new lowered benefit pension tier for public workers, then the bills can become law this year.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

A candidate, for instance, might promise pay hikes for public workers or tax breaks for select groups, knowing he'll get their political support.

The federal lawmaker said: «From the first day I got to the Senate, I advocated for lower wages and allowances for public officials and a higher minimum wage for the Nigerian worker.

At that hearing, outraged House members demanded — and got — swift corrective action at facilities where epic sloppiness had endangered scores of workers and potentially the general public.

«These are not workers who go on strike at the drop of a hat; it takes a lot to get them into a situation where they feel they need to take action,» says Anthony Keenan, a spokesman for the CSIRO Staff Association, which is affiliated with the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU).

Analysts say it's a good public relations move to get out in front of demands to share the tax break with workers.

Many fast - food workers make so little that they rely on public assistance to get by, even as profits at many franchises have nearly doubled in recent years.

But when railroad station worker Carl gets into a public relations mess with a customer, he asks his wife to get the influential Owens to use his juice to help him get back his job.

The fact that the very high - tech companies that represent America's economic future have to look abroad for workers with the needed skills is a chilling sign that we have to get our act together when it comes to public education.

That prepping has taken her all over the world: working as a research assistant for an author in Venice, Italy; getting a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Cambridge in England; helping on an archeological dig of Ancient Tiberias in Israel, where she unearthed a stack of ninth - century vases; working in Iraq as a public diplomacy officer and conducting research for generals; raising money for schools in Afghanistan for Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (R - OH); traveling to China to learn about how children of migrant workers access education; learning Arabic.

Francisco is a first - grade student in the Bronx whose mother (a social worker with a graduate degree) is desperate to get him out of the New York City public schools and into a charter school; she applies to Harlem Success Academy where he is one of 792 applicants for forty places.

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This included mental health centers, social workers and even public works departments, which sped up snow removal to make sure kids got to class.

We need to get past discussions of size and start talking about the most effective ways to ensure retirement security for all public sector workers.

We believe a community is healthiest when benefits are shared widely among its people, and that there are certain essentials our public systems must get right in areas such as quality education for all and employment opportunities for disadvantaged workers.

ALL Public Sector Defined Benefit pension Plans should be hard frozen (ZERO future growth) for the future service of CURRENT workers, and replaced for Future service with a 401K - style Defined Contribution Plan with an employer (meaning Taxpayer) «match» comparable to what Private Sector workers typically get from their employers....