Sentences with phrase «public workers labor»

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.

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Public Advocate Tish James has secured the backing of the Transport Workers Union, further boosting her labor endorsements since she announced this week...

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.

It has also found the two politicians apparently trading hats: the fiscally conservative governor, the recipient of copious developer donations and critic of public employee unions, casting himself as the champion of the workers — while the usually labor - aligned mayor finds himself fighting on the same side as REBNY.

Gov. Cuomo, backed by labor leaders including UFT President Michael Mulgrew (center), signs legislation at UFT headquarters to reduce the number of services that New York's public sector unions are obligated to provide to workers who do not pay to support those services.

The workers, who have won the backing of the Trump administration, 20 states, and numerous labor watchdogs, argue that these payments are tantamount to forced political advocacy, since the government unions affect budgetary decisions and other matters of public policy.

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.

Nearly one - in - four workers belong to a labor organization in the state, including more than 1 million public sector workers.

After all, labor, especially the public - sector unions, spends big on politics — and also supplies legions of campaign workers to help its friends and fight its enemies.

And in what is practically a rite of summer in labor - friendly Albany, there are dozens of bills to «sweeten» the pensions of public workers.

As Political Director of the New York City Central Labor Council, Carrión has forged deep partnerships among 300 local unions from every trade, occupation, and public and private sector of the New York economy, representing a wide spectrum of workers, including teachers, truck drivers, operating engineers, nurses, construction workers, electricians, firefighters, retail workers, janitors, train operators, bakers, and many more who are the face of today's workforce.

Whether it's been attacking public employee pensions, refusing to help New York's unemployed workers, or failing to stand up to the Governor when he shut down hundreds of construction jobs, there is a long line of broken promises and actions in the Senate that have targeted the labor movement.

Teachout and Wu are backed by a public workers union, while other labor groups are remaining neutral in the race for now.

Cuomo also said he has overwhelming support from unions, even though the state's AFL - CIO — a labor coalition encompassing 2.5 million workers — declined to endorse him under pressure from teachers and public employees.

Outside of some donations from groups representing public safety workers and first responders, Cuomo had received only $ 25,000 from labor unions through May of last year.

Contractors, vendors, public workers, office seekers: «Their daily First Read newsletter, with the daily schedule (for government events in New York), is basically required reading for anyone with a stake in civic life,» David Galarza, communications specialist at the Civil Service Employees Association, a New York public - sector labor union, told me.

In June, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, the wage board's chairman and a longtime Cuomo ally, said he and his fellow members clearly believed «a substantial» increase was needed to bring fast food workers up the economic ladder — despite persistent opposition from the business community, which often found itself drowned out at public hearings that served more or less as labor rallies.

There's a variety of factors why Cuomo fares so poorly in some of these districts, ranging from staunch opposition SAFE Act to his truculent relationship with public - worker labor organizations (never mind that Tkaczyk, a Democrat who narrowly won her race by 18 votes in 2012, did not cast a vote for or against the legislation considering her race had not been resolved at that point).

But that hasn't stopped public labor unions from opposing it, who say the proposal is something of a false option for younger workers.

Public labor unions in New York won a key victory in the state budget with a provision that would lessen the impact of a U.S. Supreme Court case challenging their ability to collect dues from state workers.

In the summer, and as Cuomo's feud with liberal New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio erupted into public view, Cuomo convened a wage board at the Department of Labor to study a minimum wage hike for workers in the fast - food industry.

The co-chairmen of the General Assembly's Labor and Public Employees Committee cheered the recommendation from a wage board in New York to phase in a $ 15 minimum wage for workers in large fast food chains.

Labor unions have been a reliable ally to McDonald in previous races — he often noted that he's the son of a mill worker, and knows that unionized public employees are a crucial constituent bloc.

ALBANY, NY (01/20/2009)(readMedia)-- «This rule will have a profound impact on the working lives of thousands of public employees and it will save lives,» CSEA President Danny Donohue told state Department of Labor officials today about a proposed DOL rule that would require public employers to put in place workplace violence prevention programs to protect their workers.

«The proposed delegation would make it crystal clear the Port Authority is serious about creating the condition for rapid progress with respect to labor relations and about opening a real window of opportunity, during which progress can culminate, if at all possible, through committed good - faith bargaining and executed labor agreements that benefit our workers, this agency and the public,» Cotton said before the vote.

Cuomo has said in his campaign that he would take on special interests including public worker unions to cap local property taxes and reduce state spending and other measures that the labor - backed Working Families Party has fought since 1998.

Public labor members rallied Monday in Albany as the Supreme Court heard the opening arguments of Janus v. AFSCME, a case that challenges automatic union dues paid by public - sector woPublic labor members rallied Monday in Albany as the Supreme Court heard the opening arguments of Janus v. AFSCME, a case that challenges automatic union dues paid by public - sector wopublic - sector workers.

Republican Sen. Bill Larkin on Friday announced he had received the backing of five labor organizations in the state, including the two largest public workers employee unions.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has had an uneasy relationship with some public - sector labor groups during the early years of his administration, blasted the case in similar language this week when speaking at a convention for the Transport Workers Union in Las Vegas.

The union represents about 50,000 workers and is the second largest public - workers labor group in the state.

In an effort to minimize a rebellion from organized labor and the left during the governor's election last year, Cuomo made promises to workers and their organizations that he would raise the minimum wage to $ 10 an hour for public employees.

There was a time when public union workers had real clout, when legislators — before the county executive system took effect in 2009 — shook in their boots at the prospect of labor unrest.

In addition to his stepmother's work as public advocate, his father Victor Gotbaum was a labor leader in the city and his mother was a social worker and a teacher.

This same Howie, a second shift UPS worker near Syracuse proposes a state funded WPA jobs program to employ unused labor to meet community needs in public works and services.

The New York State Department of Labor Wage Board held its third public hearing in downtown Buffalo Thursday to determine whether there should be a sub-minimum wage increase for tipped workers.

But labor contracts for the vast majority of the state's 190,000 employees expire on March 31, giving Mr. Cuomo an opening to seek changes at a time of public unease toward government workers» benefits.

The lawsuit alleges that those restrictions also impair the ability of public workers to associate with labor unions and to express concerns of mutual interest with their employers.

The Public Employees Federation is floating the idea of some so called tweaks to the tenets of the rejected labor contract, including, perhaps charging more for health care on a sliding scale based on the amount of a worker's pay.

The 2015 session ended in June without agreement after powerful public labor unions weighed in, saying they were concerned it would apply to all public workers, not just policymakers.

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

«We need to enhance workers rights and support cooperatives and public enterprises that distribute the fruits of labor according to work, not ownership,» Hawkins said.

The Public Employees Federation, the second - largest state workers union, has broken with its fellow members of the public sector arm of labor to enodrse AG Andrew Cuomo for govPublic Employees Federation, the second - largest state workers union, has broken with its fellow members of the public sector arm of labor to enodrse AG Andrew Cuomo for govpublic sector arm of labor to enodrse AG Andrew Cuomo for governor.

The governor convened a wage board that eventually led the state's Department of Labor to increase the minimum hourly rate for fast food workers, arguing that the industry should be singled out because many of its employees also receive public assistance.

Officials with Local 371 and the Public Employees Federation, the state's second - largest public labor union, said they are forming a coalition to convince state leaders to review the Justice Center's effects on the workers who are investiPublic Employees Federation, the state's second - largest public labor union, said they are forming a coalition to convince state leaders to review the Justice Center's effects on the workers who are investipublic labor union, said they are forming a coalition to convince state leaders to review the Justice Center's effects on the workers who are investigated.

To begin to reverse New York's most unequal distribution of wealth and income in the nation, Hawkins said the public bank should have an entrepreneurial division to develop worker cooperatives in which profits are distributed more equitably according to labor contribution, not capital ownership.

Under New York law, a Wage Board, composed of business, labor and public representatives, has the power to propose a raise for any occupation where pay is judged to be too low to support the health or «adequate maintenance» of its workers.

THAT NYSUT establish a task force which shall include member - participants in each of the public retirement systems, including the retirement plan trustees, if applicable, to discuss possible methods, including legislation, to harness and use public pension plan resources to improve poor labor practices and to provide workers the right to organize and bargain collectively in enterprises controlled by private equity funds, as well as other corporate interests; and

Workers at all of the nation's other public universities likewise come under the labor laws of their respective states.