Sentences with phrase «sector union like»

«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.

At stake is the power of public - sector unions like Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers (AFT) to collect forced dues — so - called «agency fees» — from non-members forced to accept their representation in at least 25 states.

Not exact matches

Firth says Canada's tightening of the screws on the financial sector is the polar opposite of the policy of the European Union, whose countries also have value - added taxes like the GST.

Ryan Miller, market analyst at Western Union Business Solutions, adds: «With similarly bloated financial sectors showing signs of stress in countries like Slovenia, Malta and Luxembourg, the message is clear: Future euro bailouts will have more - costly strings attached.»

Like Thatcherism, Sarkozyism was deeply anxious about national decline, decline caused by restrictive labour practices, high taxes, uncompetitiveness, powerful trade unions and a bloated public sector.

He calls himself an «aggressive progressive,» but, like his counterpart across the river, he has frozen taxes and taken on public - sector unions.

And just like private - sector unions, the public - sector unions will make contracts with their employer (the government) regarding a whole host of HR issues, negotiate renewal of those contracts, and potentially strike if they can't agree on a contract.

Ari Paul argues that police unions deserve not solidarity from other city unions, but rather, healthy antagonism — public sector workers like teachers should take a forceful stance against police brutality.

Public sector unions were caught flatfooted, even in traditionally blue states like Michigan and Wisconsin.

Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo has made it clear he believes the public sector unions are part of the problem, and has called for them to make «shared sacrifices» — much like they did in the 1970s.

The UK is no longer special, it used to be, while it was a member state, but it gave up all its special arrangements the day it called for article 50, economic strength post Brexit is arguably debatable, the UK is to lose its passporting rights (banks in Britain can trade on EU stock exchanges today, not once Brexit kicks in, the financial sector exports to EU weigh ~ # 35bn) and without clear trade deals, which look ever more unlikely given the simple solutions like customs union and single market do not seem to be feasible.

The unions are also highlighting the serious workplace and social problems that will accompany the enforced longer working age for public sector workers, particularly those with strenuous or demanding jobs like construction workers, cleaners, nurses, paramedics and teachers, including an increasingly frail workforce and the exclusion of younger workers from the labour market.

«On Friday we'll be hearing from Len McCluskey, the newly elected general secretary of Unite - a union like ours that represents workers in both the public and private sectors, a union that knows the importance of campaigning hard, and a union with which we will be signing a joint agreement to embed our new working relationship at every level.

The bill would also do away with a requirement that those abused in a public institution like a school must file a notice of intent to sue within 90 days of the incident occurring — something that in the past has been vehemently opposed by the public sector and powerful teachers union.

And public - sector labor groups, including the teachers unions and CSEA, have either declared a truce or largely step aside from directly knocking Cuomo has issues like less generous contracts and fights over charter schools have died away.

Public - sector labor unions like PEF were endorsing his Democratic primary opponent, the little - known Zephyr Teachout.

For years, the Republican «Long Island Nine» in the State Senate stayed out of the way when Cuomo looked to pass liberal social policies like gay marriage and gun control, and supported his fiscally conservative agenda on taxes, education, public sector unions and regulation.

by engorging the public sector and boosting pay in that world, they have created alternative careers for the likes of Simon Stevens (ex Balliol Oxford, President of the Union and Lambeth Labour Councillor), James Purnell and Tristram Hunt,

Why states like Illinois and New Jersey continually pick legal fights with public sector unions on pension benefits to begin with is a mystery, and an expensive one at that.

As an independent, non-strike union, Voice isn't like the other unions in the education sector; we represent almost everyone working in education from the teacher to the receptionist, from the lab technician to the midday supervisor.

Commentary and analysis of the Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case that will take on the question of whether public sector unions, like teachers unions, should be able to force non-members to pay fees.

The teachers unions oppose reforms like Vergara, they oppose free speech lawsuits like Friedrichs vs. the CTA, they oppose charter schools, they fight any attempts to invoke the Parent Trigger Law, and they are continually agitating for more taxes «for the children,» when in reality virtually all new tax revenue for education is poured into the insatiable maw of Wall Street to shore up public sector pension funds.

Reform proponents like Nina Rees, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools have defended the charter sector against union attacks by lifting up that Shanker «conceptualized» them.

This is crucial to the Friedrichs case because the First Amendment protects against compelled political speech, and the CTA — like many public sector unions — takes mandatory agency fees from nonmembers to cover its collective bargaining costs.

«It's my job to promote and protect New York's nonprofit sector,» Mr. Schneiderman said in a statement, «but we also have to step in to help institutions like Cooper Union when they face fiscal and governance problems.

In a statement to the New York Times, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said: «It's my job to promote and protect New York's nonprofit sector, but we also have to step in to help institutions like Cooper Union when they face fiscal and governance problems.