Sentences with phrase «sector unions spent»

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With infrastructure spending priorities and upcoming negotiations with public - sector unions, improving the budgetary outlook by $ 4 billion per year for two consecutive years would seem a Herculean task.

The Center for Union Facts, an anti-union organization that is part of lobbyist Rick Berman's family of front groups, received $ 1.55 million between 2007 and 2010 from the Bradley Foundation and spent heavily to support Walker and smear teachers unions with an anti-union website during the 2011 fight over public sector collective bargaining rights.

The 43 pages amount to a complete overhaul of how Britain is run, with rail, mail and parts of the energy sector nationalised, an enhanced role for trade unions and a substantial increase in public investment - or a dangerous spending spree, in Tory parlance.

«The «big society» is a con, dreamt up by his so - called experts who have never spent a day working in the sector,» public sector union Unite's national officer Rachael Maskell said.

Over a million public sector workers are set to take industrial action against the government in a series of rows over pay, pensions, jobs, conditions and spending cuts, according to union figures.

It was not the kind of budget that Gordon Brown would have given — full of spending on public services aimed at propitiating the public sector unions... Alistair Darling may have delivered the budget but Lord Mandelson is its co-owner.»

This, together with the public sector pay freeze, will hit the government's spending plans and trade union members.

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.

Oh, and the public - sector unions would be able to continue their campaign ground operations, which are of inestimable value, even as challengers would have to pay for every boot on the ground, eating into their spending cap.

Labour, trade unions and some economists argue that by drastically cutting spending in the public sector the government is preventing demand in the economy, just when international markets become more and more volatile.

More than 200,000 public sector jobs have already been axed or are now on the line since the massive spending cuts began, research from GMB union showed today.

Cuomo spent his first term attacking public sector unions, undermining funding for public hospitals and pursuing an education deform agenda that funded charter schools, pushed high - stakes testing and undermined public schools.

At the same time, Mr. Cuomo has signaled that he is ready to fight, and has vowed to avoid the fate of his predecessors, who have endured millions of dollars in withering television advertisements from public - sector unions seeking to forestall cuts to state spending.

More than 200,000 public sector jobs have already been axed or are now on the line since the massive spending cuts began, research from GMB union showed on Sunday.

A very good source tells ConHome that the unions have as much as # 25m to spend on campaigns to oppose cuts in the public sector workforce and in public sector pay.

Just as liberals complain about the «one percent» corrupting our politics through unlimited campaign financing, so too do public sector unions thwart the public will by buying off officeholders with their own lavish spending and political muscle.

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.

But when more money is spent on the recall elections than on the entire state legislative campaign last year, most of it coming from public - sector unions opposed to Gov. Scott Walker's successful effort to abolish collective bargaining, the politics are clearly national.

Teachers are particularly vulnerable at a time when so few private sector workers have union benefits, and when there's so little political will for improving education by spending more on it.

The documents also discussed «Operation Angry Badger,» described by the New York Times as «a plan to spend $ 612,000 to influence the outcome of recall elections and related fights... in Wisconsin over the role of public - sector unions.»