Sentences with phrase «recent public union»

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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.

One recent victory for unions was in Ohio, where in November 2011, voters overturned a Republican - led effort to place restrictions on public sector unions, similar to that in Wisconsin.

The union representing state university police officers has accused the University at Albany, where crime rates have surged in recent years, of deliberately delaying the reporting of serious incidents, including rapes, to the campus community and the public.

Senate Deputy Majority Leader Jeff Klein, one of several Democrats targeted by a recent AFL - CIO leaflet campaign for leaving a «trail of broken promises» to labor unions, is hitting back with a mailer that highlights his support for public education.

Commenting on reports of the announcements the Prime Minister will make at a Downing Street Summit today about action proposed to be taken against certain public service workers, including teachers, who fail to report sexual abuse of children and young people, Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT the largest teachers» union in the UK said: «No one can fail but to be shocked by the horrific abuse of young girls revealed by recent investigations, including the Report today on Oxfordshire.

Public statements issued in response to recent immigration legislation by groups including the British Medical Association, Royal College of General Practitioners, University and College Union, Residential Landlords Association and the UK Association of Letting Agents have each expressed a similar unease: that doctors / lecturers / landlords are not and should not be made into immigration officers.

Nonunion members and opponents of public sector unions have criticized the fees and the 1977 case, Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, broadly in recent years.

Other top lobbying spenders have consistently been on the list in recent years, including health care interests, the trial lawyers, and public worker unions.

«It will help us because the people against the convention are generally our people — the public sector unions like teachers, government workers and police» concerned the recent «radical wave could sweep a convention» and diminish or erase pension and health benefits, Schaffer said.

The New York Public Interest Research Group, unions and other groups want the Legislature to raise the maximum award from $ 5,000 to $ 6,500, since public college tuition has exceeded the maximum amount in recent Public Interest Research Group, unions and other groups want the Legislature to raise the maximum award from $ 5,000 to $ 6,500, since public college tuition has exceeded the maximum amount in recent public college tuition has exceeded the maximum amount in recent years.

parents, students, teachers and other district workers rallied Tuesday morning to counter the U.S. education secretary's recent testimony about public schools.Local teachers union president Annie Irvine...

In recent Labor Notes blog posts, Chris Brooks and Steve Downs have debated whether public sector unions faced with a «right - to - work» or open - shop situation should seek statewide legislation that would end mandatory exclusive representation.

The Buffalo Public School system is constantly negotiating union contracts with some organization, with the recent contract with the Buffalo Teachers Federation establishing a framework.

In recent weeks, Cuomo has approached his traditional donors, public and private sector unions as well as a host of mega-donors and check - writers from the business elite, including uber - rich liberal activists George Soros, Agnes Gund and Bernard Schwartz, sources said.

Dick Dadey, head of the New York - based Citizens Union, noted that while the practice is legal, this year's pitch is tone deaf to public sentiment, given the recent flurry of pay - to - pay probes.

In a blow to rival candidate Andy Burnham, who had hoped to win the support of one of Britain's main trade unions, the Unison general secretary, Dave Prentis, said Corbyn's message was resonating with public sector workers whose wages had been frozen in recent years.

His recent public spats with teaching unions and Ofsted appear to have damaged the education secretary with 57 % per cent of all voters now say he is doing a bad job with just 21 % saying he is doing well.

A recent survey of 500 professors by the union found 85 % believed for - profit providers would offer lower quality courses than public universities, if they were given the green light to expand.

We've mused a lot on CapTon in recent weeks about why fight between public employee unions and Gov. Andrew Cuomo hasn't risen to the same level of outright war that we're seeing out in Wisconsin.

Labour has become increasingly reliant upon union sources of funding in recent years, and large public sector unions maintain an influential grip on the party's power structure, including having a third of the bloc - votes for the Labour leadership election currently underway.

In recent months, he invited public - sector unions to become his partners, even sending their leaders copies of «The Man Who Saved New York,» a biography of former Gov. Hugh L. Carey, which recounts how Mr. Carey, a Democrat, teamed up with labor leaders in similar fashion in the 1970s.

In a recent op - ed published by the New York Daily News, the father of two Brooklyn public school students gives a first - hand account of just how important it is that the teachers» union and City officials come to an agreement on a new teacher evaluation deal.

ALBANY — Recent tentative agreements reached by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's negotiators and the state's two largest public employee unions will achieve an estimated $ 148 million in savings in the current fiscal year, which ends in March.

The relatively benign economic years of the recent past have meant the unions have not had to fund much strike pay and the coffers of the public sector unions, in particular, are overflowing.

And while, on average, the construction workers earn more than their union brethren in the public sector, they have the rankling perception that government unions have not shared in their recent suffering.

His participation was heatedly discussed during a recent meeting in Puerto Rico of the Public Employees Conference, a coalition of government employee unions in the state.

The report contains this interesting graph on how the unions have become a public sector phenomenon in recent years:

Thomas Mungeer, the president of the Troopers Public Benevolent Association, cited the Attorney General's recent push for the release of records relating to the Attica prison riot as part of the reason why the union threw its support behind Cahill, a top aide to former Gov. George Pataki.

Ministers say this will ensure strikes are the result of «clear, positive and recent decisions» by union members as well as ensuring that disruption to essential public services has a democratic mandate.

A mantra in recent years has been to blame the teachers» unions for many of the problems that beset public education.

A recent study conducted by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), one of the world's largest teacher unions, found that many U.S. school districts routinely practice social promotion, despite public policies — and sometimes laws — meant to prevent it.

Unions have welcomed the additional # 1.3 bn offered by the DfE in July but a recent Public Accounts Committee session heard that the efficiencies to free up this money have yet to be made.

Although a recent union election cast doubt on the durability of the arrangement, Cincinnati has become the first public school district in the country to scrap the traditional salary schedule in favor of a system that pays teachers according to their classroom performance.

In a recent survey by Public Agenda, more than 80 percent of teachers said that without unions, they would be vulnerable to the vagaries of school politics, and their salaries and working conditions would be much worse.

In this video, Terry Moe discusses his recent book on teacher union power, Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools, with Eric Hanushek.

Judging by a recent survey, a plurality of the American public and an equally large share of teachers oppose forced union payments.

parents, students, teachers and other district workers rallied Tuesday morning to counter the U.S. education secretary's recent testimony about public schools.Local teachers union president Annie Irvine...

The union's repeated threats to strike over pay and pension issues in recent weeks have evolved into a labor - led fight against Rauner's anti-union agenda, and a call for new revenue amid a state budget impasse that has jeopardized social service programs and public universities.

In a recent piece, Bob Peterson, who doubles as a 5th grade teacher, sounded alarm bells, writing, «If Teachers Can't Make Their Unions More Democratic and Social Justice - Minded, Public Ed Is Doomed.»

As a Chicago Public Schools teacher, I would like to address some of the omissions and misconceptions in the Tribune's recent editorial («Tantrum Day: When teachers ditch their students») calling for teachers to reject the Chicago Teachers Union's call for a day of action on April 1.

On the most obvious level, teachers unions are taking a pounding because Republicans have gained power in recent state elections, and the GOP has a strong partisan interest in undermining public - employee unions, which provide troops and treasure to the Democratic Party.

In the wake of recent rebellions by teachers and other public education advocates that have been taking place in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Arizona, the teachers» unions in Florida have been largely silent on getting involved, mostly reminding education professionals that we can not strike here due to the deal we made with the Florida Legislature in 1968 that exchanged our right to collectively bargain for our right to strike.

Much has been said in recent months about the growing power of public sector unions in American government and their coercive effect on sustainable fiscal management, but nowhere in the nation is the power of public sector unions more destructive and unrivaled than in California.

As interest continues to build for his recent book, Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools, Terry Moe is on the pages of today's Wall Street Journal with a great op - ed examining how continued advances in internet - based learning will ultimately diminish the power of...

A recent AP story shows just how much public employee unions want to put every issue in the conceptual basket of collective bargaining.

Mathews also may have gotten a jolt if he saw a recent post on the CTA website in which the union informs us that Tony Thurmond, their candidate for California Superintendent of Public Instruction, will be holding a tele - town hall on May 9th.

However, salary issues have caused contention in recent years between teachers» unions and public watchdog groups.

The Young Alumnus Award was established in 2003 to recognize recent alumni who have provided exemplary volunteerism and public service to The Cooper Union Alumni Association.

His most recent curated projects include Zach Rockhill's reconstruction of Allan Kaprow's «Fluids» at The Cooper Union as part of Performa 07; «Performa TV» with artist Ronnie Bass, a 24/7 live video broadcast that served as an open, public platform for artists and organizers of Performa 07; «Beyond The Pale» at Moti Hasson Gallery (2007); and «Salad Days» at Artists Space (2006).

On Friday night, Mr. Lanier will give a free public lecture at Cooper Union, drawing on his recent book, «Who Owns the Future?»