Sentences with phrase «school employee unions»

School employee unions see it differently.

School choice battles incite bitter resistance from one of the largest, most politically potent and well - financed set of economic interests in the nation: public school employee unions.

This ratio of staff to students has gone up by 70 percent since 1970, swelling the ranks of the public school employee unions to about 4.5 million people.

If the president goes ahead with his plan to spend billions more on public schooling, he'll be driving this country deeper into dept for no good reason at all... unless of course you consider swelling the ranks of the public school employee unions a good reason.

I've tried to negotiate with the school employee unions who oppose this bill, but we're just not going to come to an agreement.

It's easy to see why public education supporters, including public school employee unions, are intrigued by charters.

«[The passages] are not in tune with our morals and our culture,» says Debbie Meaux, president of the Louisiana Association of Educators, a school employees union.

Not exact matches

Under union contracts, park district employees are not required to work on holidays, so that most activities cease when schools are closed, when kids have time on their hands.

Some schools operate «independent» school meal programs, meaning that school meal program staff are employees of the supervisory union or school district, and program costs are paid directly by the SU or SD business office.

«The massive number of teacher layoffs, school closings, cuts to academic programs and extracurricular activities could have been worse had districts not tapped into reserve funds or worked hard to negotiate contract concessions with their employee unions.»

Both PEF, a union of white - collar state employees, and ESPA contributed $ 10,300 each to Tkaczyk, a school board member in Duanesburg, according to the 24 - hour filings on the Board of Elections website.

A majority of SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry union employees want school President Quentin Wheeler's contract terminated.

Those unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of public school employees, spent a combined $ 1.1 million lobbying Albany in 2017.

«Now they have rolled over for Andrew Cuomo, the latest son seeking to inherit his father's former office, who refuses to make Wall Street and the rich pay their fair share of taxes, who intends to make war with the public employees union, supports expanding the financial waste of charter schools and wants to impose caps on public spending.

Kermit the Frog: who refuses to make Wall Street and the rich pay their fair share of taxes, who intends to make war with the public employees union, supports expanding the financial waste of charter schools and wants to impose caps on public spending.

«The contract with the teachers» union expired in October 2009, while contracts with the union for principals and other school administrators and District Council 37, the city's largest public employee union, expired in March 2010.

The database includes every public employer on the Island - from the Village of Baxter Estates in Nassau, which has one active employee in the pension system, to the Brentwood Union Free School District in Suffolk, the largest on Long Island, with 2,987 employees in the system.

Three UFT employees earned more than city Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina's 2017 salary of $ 233,430 — including union boss Michael Mulgrew, who nearly cleared $ 300,000 in compensation ($ 299,119).

Public employee unions were angry with the governor for reducing pensions benefits for new workers, and teachers were upset over a property tax cap, which impacts school budgets, and test - based evaluations.

One example being the Roman Catholic Diocese of NY in connection with the local Catholic high school John S. Burke; see letter entitled «Union Breaking Tactics: http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090222/OPINION/902220304 (for another example of Catholic intimidation regarding unionization of employees at a local hospital see: http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081024/BIZ/810240363).

As I wrote in my DN column this morning, the teachers and the public employee unions aren't sold on Cuomo — largely due to proposals that are unpopular with the leadership like spending and property tax caps, wage freezes and support for charter schools.

But School districts face rising costs for employee health care, pensions and annual longevity, or «step» raises for teachers that are built into most union contracts.

Paterson BOE looks to save $ 17M on employee medical insurance The city school board is changing the medical insurance it provides to its 4,000 employees — a move that the district says will save $ 17 million next year, but one that the teachers» union has called risky.

Irwin's campaign disclosure form reads like a «who's who» of big union players, including max - out contributions from AFSCME, the California School Employees Association, the California State Council of Laborer's PAC, the California Teachers Association, Los Angeles County Firefighters Local 1014, SEIU United Long Term Care Workers Local 6434, Service Employees International Union Local 1000, the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California and the United Nurses Associunion players, including max - out contributions from AFSCME, the California School Employees Association, the California State Council of Laborer's PAC, the California Teachers Association, Los Angeles County Firefighters Local 1014, SEIU United Long Term Care Workers Local 6434, Service Employees International Union Local 1000, the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California and the United Nurses AssociUnion Local 1000, the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California and the United Nurses Association

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about parking amnesty in Albany grades being changed by employees in Saratoga Springs High School.

It's one of the biggest concerns among lawmakers and public employee unions as well as advocates for school districts, hospitals and other public services.

The UFT, which represents teachers at three Victory charter schools in New York City, has cited Victory management at the New York State Public Employment Relations Board for firing educators for union activity, coercing employees to withdraw their union support and discriminating against employees who are union supporters.

In contrast, delegates at the NEA convention voted down the leadership's recommendation to allow private school employees to join the union, although they did approve membership for workers in private preschools.

As Terry Moe documents in his recent book, Special Interest, for decades the politics of school reform have been dominated by the education establishment, the collection of teachers unions and other school employee associations derisively called the «blob» by reformers.

Together, the unions represent about 2.2 - million school employees.

Washington — In a survey conducted two weeks before the Environmental Protection Agency's June 30 deadline for the completion of school inspections for friable asbestos, the Service Employees International Union found that «it was impossible to determine» how many schools would meet the deadline.

New Jersey has been ordered to restore funds for urban schools, while in Florida a class action brought by the state's teachers union seeks to protect state employee pensions from the budget knife, a fresh field of litigation.

When the district had sufficient funds prior to 2011, it agreed to a series of wage increases for union employees, added remedial summer - school classes, reduced class sizes, operated underutilized buildings, and devoted extra resources to improve poorly performing schools.

Anthony Schell, a Spanish teacher at Baltimore's Mergenthaler Vocational - Technical High School, protests the idea of employee furloughs at a Jan. 28 rally organized by the city teachers» union.

Many of these employee unions get engaged in school affairs.

For with unions so powerful, employee interests are given far more weight in personnel and policy decisions than warranted, and school boards are partially captured by their own employees.

Washington — Negotiations that could lead to stricter federal controls on asbestos in school buildings are scheduled to begin this week, as the Environmental Protection Agency and a union representing school - maintenance employees attempt to settle a lawsuit over the issue.

The agreement to meet reflects a new «sense of urgency» about the need to clean up cancer - causing asbestos in the nation's schools and to ensure that the job is done safely, said William K. Borwegen, health and safety director of the Service Employees International Union.

With major financial backing from the National Education Association, California's largest teachers» union has launched an initiative to organize employees in hundreds of charter schools in the state.

The coalition is more than teachers unions and includes school boards, administrators, PTAs, and noncertified employees represented by several different unions, including the Service Employees International Unioemployees represented by several different unions, including the Service Employees International UnioEmployees International Union (SEIU).

The proposal freed school districts to adjust employee work assignments without negotiating with the teachers union and promised to make objectives like merit pay, scheduling revisions, and tenure reform far more attainable.

The same path could have been taken with public school employees without the political distortions that public employee unions introduce by virtue of having their interests represented on both sides of the bargaining table.

If you combine the campaign spending of all those entities it does not match the amount spent by the National Education Association, the public - sector labor union that represents some 2.3 million K — 12 public school teachers and nearly a million education support workers (bus drivers, custodians, food service employees), retirees, and college student members.

Management had to operate within the framework of the district's collective bargaining agreements with its union employees, and teachers were allowed to transfer to other schools within the district if they wished.

Initially a union of teachers, it grew to represent secretaries, paraprofessionals and other school employees.

She previously served as Vice President for Certified Employees with Education Austin, the union representing over 3,000 employees in the Austin Independent School DistricEmployees with Education Austin, the union representing over 3,000 employees in the Austin Independent School Districemployees in the Austin Independent School District (AISD).

The Los Angeles Unified School District and the union representing 48,000 teachers and certain other employees announced an agreement last week on a 2.5 percent wage increase.

The justices declined without comment April 30 to get involved in the battle between the seven unions representing Buffalo school employees and the Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority, which was created in 2003 to address what the New York state legislature declared was «a severe fiscal crisis» in the city.

The state teachers union and others oppose them because they hire nonunion employees and divert money from traditional public schools.

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