Sentences with phrase «sector workers do»

Over 6 million public sector workers are not covered by Social Security, including about 1.2 million public school teachers; in 15 states, public sector workers do not pay into or receive benefits from the system.

Private sector workers don't understand why it's hard to sack someone in the public sector, says Christina Patterson in The Independent

While religious organisations have specific protections, public sector workers do not.

Recent data suggest that more than 35 percent of private - sector workers do not have access to paid sick leave.

More than one - third of private - sector workers do not have a single paid sick day, and only 13 percent of private - sector workers have paid family and medical leave.7 Furthermore, it is often the workers who can least afford unpaid time off from work who do not have access to these policies.

Danny Donohue is president of the 300,000 member CSEA — New York's leading union — representing public and private sector workers doing every kind of job in every part of New York.

Not exact matches

The Chamber of Minerals and Energy has fired back at union claims that the resources sector does nothing to train the state's workforce, but relies on migrants and poaching workers from other industri

This will help raise the wages of workers in that sector, but does nothing for jobs.

«The PRPP will not do anything to help people in the private sector close the really massive gap with public - sector workers,» he says.

Mr. Speaker, in fact, contrary to what the member just said, we do have a very good idea of what sectors those workers are working in.

A chapter of Service Employees International representing private - sector airport workers also endorsed her (Local 32), as did another AFSCME chapter representing county employees throughout the government (Local 199).

It has been really disheartening to see our media gang up on the workers and their unions with this disinformation, while doing little to criticize exorbitant finance sector and executive compensation, which even Bank of Canada governor Carney acknowledged were one of causes of the financial crisis.

The growth of independent working in PR — as consultants, freelancers and remote workers — looks to change the industry as it has done in many sectors.

Here also the workers in the dominant industrial sectors are well organized and do not feel exploited.

That is why I think it's also important we do more to support public sector workers balancing their home and work lives,» he will say.

Public sector victimization common in Ghana In Ghana, the practice where public sector workers are victimized for merely doing their work by exposing wrongs is common.

«With the public sector workers... yes, I think what we saw with head teachers writing letters home to parents in effect saying «don't vote for the Conservatives», that was the subtext,» she explains.

Gov. Cuomo, backed by labor leaders including UFT President Michael Mulgrew (center), signs legislation at UFT headquarters to reduce the number of services that New York's public sector unions are obligated to provide to workers who do not pay to support those services.

This demonstrates that most workers in the public sector do not want to lose a day's pay by striking but are being forced to do so by a minority in their union who have been wound up by the militant and ideologically - driven desires of union barons.

Both the decline in unemployment and the cuts to the public sector may have helped the Tories, who did better in seats with lower unemployment and fewer public sector workers.

But those moves will do little to alleviate public anger over the rise, which is well above the one per cent pay rise being received by public sector workers.

«They just want to frolic along and do commercials and have rallies as if there isn't a method and a means to an end to get us out of this mess,» said Paterson, who insisted one unpaid day a week isn't «the greatest sacrifice to make when the sacrifices workers in the private sector are forced to make can't be enumerated.»

UFT President Michael Mulgrew told the March 22 Delegate Assembly that a new challenge to the «fair - share» fees that public - sector unions collect from workers who don't become members could reach the Supreme Court by the fall.

In Albany County, 40 percent of workers in the private sector don't have access to paid sick days, according to an analysis by the Institute for Women's Policy Research.

Unions representing public sector workers that do not fall into one of the categories mentioned above gave Senate Democrats $ 749,442, Senate Republicans $ 362,207, and Assembly Democrats $ 824,346.

But I don't think most previous governors have had such a sour relationship with the public sector workers as this governor.»

«He confirms that the government is grabbing money from public sector workers to pay down a deficit they did nothing to create, even at a time when their pay is frozen for two years and many are facing job losses,» he said.

Unless the government does an about - turn on its plans to force public sector workers to work longer and pay more for much less pension in retirement, this first joint strike will include 750,000 public servants.

Most private sector workers in New York City do not have any access to a retirement savings program, and low - income, immigrant, minority, and female New Yorkers are disproportionately impacted.

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

A clear alternative, that does not involve throwing tens of thousands of public sector workers onto the dole — a move that would cost more than ten billion in lost tax revenue and increased state benefit payments.

YouGov also asked a series of questions about public sector pensions — 74 % of people thought that public sector pensioners got a better deal than those who worked in the private sector and 60 % of those thought they did not deserve this (predictably there was a huge difference between public and private sector workers on this question — 55 % of public sector workers thought that, yes, they did deserve better pensions than the private sector).

Public sector workers - many of whom are low paid - should not have to pay the price for a crash they did nothing to cause.

BTW, Smith, since you're always denigrating teachers and public sector workers, when are you going to grow a pair and tell us what YOU do for a living and what county YOU live in?

But ministers fear the generous final salary schemes paid out to public sector workers would deter all but the biggest firms from doing so.

Nearly three quarters, or 74 percent, of low - income private sector workers in New York City don't have access to a retirement savings plan, Public Advocate Letitia James said Thursday.

New York City private - sector workers whose employers don't offer retirement savings plans would be able to squirrel away part of their paychecks for their golden years under a city - run program Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to create.

If you want to see an assault on workers, look at what public sector unions want to do to private sector workers» paychecks to have them support their ever - increasing demands.

Most of the public will not engage in arguments about the size of the state, but public sector workers (who did not cause the current crisis) will feel its effects.

And he wants about 100,000 unionized state workers to help roll back their costs like almost every other sector of the state government is doing.

Plenty of private - sector workers have done that in the last couple of years.

Workers in the formal sector, who are desirous of venturing into farming, now have the opportunity to do so with the launch of the Virtual Farmer programme.

Workers in the formal sector, who are desirous of venturing into farming, now have the opportunity to do so with...

In today's Sun the Prime Minister attempts to drive a wedge between the public sector workers who «do a brilliant job» and the union bosses who «are ordering millions of public sector workers to strike next week — even while talks are under way.»

I have said before that I thought it was right for short - term commitments to be in line with the coalition spending plans, as changes inevitably produce disturbance to business cycles, but that doesn't prevent Labour from saying that long - term they would seek to ameliorate the concerns of public sector - workers, e.g. future pay increases would be above inflation to restore the earning power that was lost through the recession.

So George Osborne's programme does lead to more public sector workers losing their jobs but only by 30,000 over the entire time period.

And it's often middle class public sector workers who've have had their pay and pensions cut to pay for a debt they didn't create.

Other challenges, it said, included special schools, such as schools for the blind and the deaf, which were either closing down or about to do so, subvention not being released to the psychiatric hospital in Accra, nearly all statutory funds being in arrears and a significant number of public sector workers, including nurses and district chief executives employed by the government over a year ago not being paid.

Whilst our education, healthcare and voluntary sector workers strive to provide united protection, there is still much to be done to end FGM for Britons, let alone globally.

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.