Sentences with phrase «said city workers»

«Just like you, we just heard about the governor's plans so we'd have to look at it, but I'm proud to say our city workers right now, every single one making no less than about 12 an hour and increasing according to our current plan,» said de Blasio.

Not exact matches

Though AlSyead says reaching Olayan's 1,000 - woman goal in 2016 is statistically impossible, she touts the company's milestones: It has hired the first - ever female worker in the Saudi city of Yanbu, for example.

Meanwhile, the hotel workers» union says it will push hotels in more cities to provide devices like the panic buttons.

As the workers said in a statement, «O'Hare workers are ready to do whatever it takes to make sure the city, their employers and the airlines listen to their concerns.»

«As older people leave the workforce, the city has been privatizing those jobs instead of bringing people back in to pay into the fund,» said Ed McNeil, special assistant to the president of Michigan AFSCME Council 25, which represents city workers.

Immigrants who avoid ICE face the possibility of exploitation by employers: A 2008 survey from the National Employment Law Project found that 51 % of all undocumented workers in New York City were underpaid by more than $ 1 per hour, and 47 % said they were required to work after sustaining an injury on the job.

In Oakland, one of the nation's most diverse cities, Jackson says he would like to see Uber hire local workers and businesses and invest in the community, including the Oakland Unified School District.

In his ruling, Rhodes said that settlement, which was key in winning the support for the plan from Detroit's two retirement systems and scores of city workers and retirees, «borders on miraculous.»

But Brad Lander, a Democratic councilman, says the city is working to help nontraditional workers in other ways.

«Since that is not to be, the city is committed to working with the state Department of Workforce Development and the Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin to assist these workers in retraining and placement in their next employment opportunity,» Soglin said.

The company collects and remits taxes on rentals in the city, but hotel workers and housing advocates say the rules do not go far enough.

You need capital, great workers and affordable space — and the city could do more to help, say Brooklyn entrepreneurs

Being in those cities «makes it easier because they already have a core group of workers that wouldn't have to relocate,» said Gad Levanon, chief economist for The Conference Board.

The camp trailers on family property of Santa Rosa contractor Michael Wolff, which serve as temporary homes for workers clearing fire debris, won't result in fines this week against Wolff, a city official said Wednesday.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Group chairman the Reverend Ian Rutherford, City Centre Minister at Methodist Central Hall, Manchester, said: «As the winter transfer window closes many workers at Old Trafford will be choosing between putting the heating on or a hot meal.

On Monday, authorities in the northern city of Tianjin said they had punished 13 medical workers for taking bribes from Dumex to recommend its infant formula.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today said he will not rely on making city workers take unpaid days off to solve a $ 30 million budget gap Mayor Richard Daley left him with for the second half of the year.

At a time when Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago's 50 aldermen are collecting annual pay increases, Daley has no business asking rank - and - file city workers to take unpaid furlough days to help balance the city's budget, a labor leader said Tuesday.

The cities of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Burbank, Calif., are among the eight to 10 employers offering the program to their workers, with hundreds of other companies expressing interest, Cohen says.

Sperm donation, the oldest and most frequently used reproductive technology, was cloaked in secrecy from the start, said Patricia Mendell, a clinical social worker in New York City who specializes in infertility issues.

When he announced the endorsement, the union's president, Bruce Both, said Meng had «pledged her support for our Union's effort to hold Walmart accountable for reckless corporate policies that effect the worker families, small business owners, and women that live in the 6th Congressional,» adding: «Our Union believes that Grace will help unify an ethnically diverse community around the most pressing issue facing our Unions membership: keeping New York City Walmart free.»

The Transit Workers Union in a statement said it «likes the idea» of a surcharge for millionaires to bolster the New York City subway system, but called the move a «long - term solution.»

«We're proud to endorse Leslie for State Senate because she's already getting to work standing up to New York City politicians and big businesses to get Southern Tier workers our fair share,» said Jake Lake, President of CWA Local 1111.

As NYC's public housing stock crumbles around them, unionized workers are fighting to hold onto perks that cost the city money and manpower, while delaying changes housing authority officials say would improve the quality of life for the 400,000 residents living in their deteriorating buildings.

After leading the fight for increasing the minimum wage for fast food workers, Kirk Laubenstein with the Coalition for Economic Justice says it's exciting the facility is on the city's East Side.

«As the son of blue collar workers and a lifetime educator, it is an honor to serve New York City's 1.1 million children as Schools Chancellor,» said Carranza.

He said the city needs «a new, comprehensive approach that builds needed affordable housing citywide, while also offering construction workers good middle - class wages and benefits.»

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said Wednesday that Parkside Construction underpaid more than 500 construction workers at jobsites around the city.

City officials said the budget reserves are relatively high, at $ 5.25 billion, and de Blasio said that he's instituting a partial hiring freeze for certain managers and administrative workers.

He called Paterson's maneuver a «mistake,» and said the state would «do the right thing» by uniformed workers, describing the current state of New York City officers» benefits as «blatantly unfair.»

Halloran said five city workers, including two Department of Transportation and three Sanitation Department employees assigned to Queens, told him the day before that they were asked by supervisors «to take their time» plowing roads because the «mayor's office doesn't care about them.»

«A lot of people think the deal that has been negotiated by the city is too rich for developers and doesn't do enough for workers,» Cuomo said.

«This report demonstrates the need to address long term housing costs, develop opportunities for middle class workers, and to help create a New York City that middle class families continue to seek out as a place to call home,» Quinn said.

Councilmember Lander said the district needed someone like Sikora who would «fight for progressive values in government, try to win a more equal city, address the challenges of climate change, make sure the rights of workers are respected, address the issues of health care on the policy level, and fight in the neighborhoods to improve our schools and make them better.»

Choe said he was honored to receive the backing of the Teamsters, who represent more than 24,000 workers in a variety of industries across New York City.

«This practice enables the city to circumvent civil service rules, report fewer city workers than are actually working for city departments, and opens the possibility that federal grant funds could be used inappropriately to offset the cost of city operations,» the ABO report said.

MIDDLETOWN — An increase in workers» compensation insurance premiums and pension costs for city employees will make it tough for Middletown to develop a 2014 budget, Mayor Joseph DeStefano said.

Mayor John Tkaczyk said a second day of testing showed the absence of Coliform, the bacteria that was found in water samples late last week, prompting the boil water notice and since then, city workers have been treating the water aggressively to clear up the system.

Robinson said he wants to pursue programs and initiatives that will help those in similar situations to his own, like promoting homeownership for city and state workers who rent in Albany.

City leaders said they will take a strong look at the allegation that sanitation workers intentionally avoided plowing side streets in Queens.

Warren says her city has already laid off workers and consolidated services, now, she says, state lawmakers need to start adding funding this year to Assistance for Municipalities or AIM aid, to address her city's inequities.

He says eliminating the processing center will not only displace workers (who might go to Manhattan, but also could end up being transferred anywhere within a 50 - mile range of New York City), it will delay delivery of mail to the entire borough, hurt local businesses around the plant who won't have those 271 customers anymore and increase pollution with the increased truck traffic.

The deal received a mostly positive response from Council Parks Committee Chair Mark Levine, who said in a statement, «I am thrilled that the City Council has restored funding for gardeners and maintenance workers — saving 150 vitally needed jobs, and protecting a critical resource for parks in low - and moderate - income neighborhoods.

In a meeting at the Labor Temple on Third Street, both candidates said they wanted to reach an agreement, while also saying they supported efforts to contain health care insurance costs, including kick - starting the work of a six - year - old city committee that has been sporadically studying potential consolidation of health insurance coverage among the city's unionized workers.

Ms. Simon said Mr. Lander, a progressive power broker in the City Council, backed Mr. Sikora because because the WFP endorsed Mr. Sikora, a member of the Communication Workers for America, first.

Cuomo says the restructuring board could also provide political cover for local government leaders who need to make unpopular decisions, like laying off workers in order to consolidate services, or reducing the number of city councilmembers or supervisory boards.

In his testimony, Mr. Fuleihan said the administration would fight for savings in city workers» health care costs, but otherwise refused to discuss how he would fund the retroactive pay hikes many unions are demanding, in addition to regular raises.

Sounding very much like a campaign missive, it said, «Albany's homeowners, renters, businesses and workers deserve nothing less than a City Hall committed to fiscal competency and equity.»

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.