Sentences with phrase «service sector workers»

Data from the National Skills Coalition found that «skill gaps among U.S. service sector workers are a significant challenge that often prevents people from achieving their full potential.

A draft presidential memorandum at the end of the document that could be used to order the review of NAFTA orders the report to pay «extra consideration to the effects such a policy change may have on the middle class, manufacturing and service sector workers, and foreign direct investment into the United States.»

But an order was included that demanded such a report pay «extra consideration to the effects such a policy change may have on the middle class, manufacturing and service sector workers, and foreign direct investment into the United States.»

Not exact matches

The debate is particularly fraught in the service sector, where fast food workers have organized and protested for higher wages this year.

Cohen is also at the center of a huge debate unfolding right now about raising the minimum wage, and the low pay of service workers in the restaurant industry, where employment has increased 72 percent since 1992, compared to job growth of 22 percent in higher - paying private sector employment over the same time period.

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).

While traditionally in lower - profit and lower - value industries such as food, retail, and other services, worker cooperatives are now on the upswing in high - tech and other business sectors (http://www.isthmuseng.com/inWisconsin) and are converting existing small businesses to this model (http://institute.coop/workers-owners and http://institute.coop/resources/successful-cooperative-ownership-transitions-case-studies-conversion-privately-held).

On average, solar installation workers — the industry's biggest sector — earn a median wage of $ 21 per hour, while solar designers earn $ 27 per hour and sales, marketing and customer service professionals earn $ 29 per hour.

Further to my earlier post showing that the public / private sector pay gap is mainly due to more equal pay for women in service jobs, Â a recent piece from Canadian Public Policy by Hou and Coulombe shows that the pay gap between Canadian born racialized workers and non racialized workers exists almost entirely in the private sector and not in the public sector.

IG Metall's campaign follows a 6.3 per cent pay increase over two years secured for 2m public sector workers last month by Ver.di, the services union, after weeks of stoppages.

Cutting government services — either temporarily in a shutdown, or permanently through spending reductions — can disrupt a broad range of commerce and hit American workers and businesses tied to the public sector.

Patrick Colford concludes by saying: «The New Brunswick Federation of Labour will be looking for political party's platforms to include commitments for improving labour laws so that all workers are entitled to paid sick leave, investing in public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting pay equity legislation that covers the private sector.»

Liaison indicates that labour shortages are most pronounced among skilled workers in the non-residential construction and resources sectors, and in parts of the business services sector.

Industrial robots have replaced human workers in the manufacturing sector, self - service checkouts have replaced retail employees, and pretty soon more traditional white - collar workers will find themselves under pressure from technology.

The food service industry employs most of the country's minimum wage workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and within that sector fast food jobs are typically among those that pay the lowest hourly rates.

While traditional heavy industry is declining, the service sector (made up of office workers and computer operators, fast food and restaurant workers, health care workers, bookkeepers, optical workers, and building custodians, among others) is rapidly expanding.

Since then agriculture, which employs more than 60 percent of the country's population, has stagnated, but the services sector has grown as corporate demand has increased in Europe and America for India's software engineers and English - speaking back - office workers.!

The board found the profile of Australian workers was evolving, with more «white - collar» workers becoming contractors and self - employed in sectors such as management consultancy and financial services.

He chose not to go to university and instead started work as union organiser representing public sector workers in local authorities and the health service.

Ethical culture overlaps with the public - service ethos: for reasons that are blandly uncontroversial (everyone wants better standards of service - quality and delivery) but also partisan and contentious (better standards in a fiscally - straightened world need to come at higher cost to public - sector workers and lower cost to tax - payers) this leads the standards agenda into highly - contested territory.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) wants to speak to businesses in the service, manufacturing and construction sectors about their experiences of health and safety in relation to the employment of young workers (18 and under).

A series of strikes in the culture and heritage sector opens with walkouts by British Library workers on Thursday (16) and Friday (17), the Public and Commercial Services union announces.

We will give public sector workers a new right to form employee - owned co-operatives and bid to take over the services they deliver.

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.

The law, which was hammered out as part of this year's state budget talks, limits the free services that New York's public - sector unions must provide to workers who opt not to join the union.

In the past few months, the leaders of all the public sector unions threatened a mass strike of three million workers over pensions, while this week the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union balloted members on industrial action over civil service job cuts.

Local parties and trade unions chose Grenfell Tower, rail services, growth and investment, public sector pay, workers» rights, the NHS, housing and social care as the eight topics for full debate and votes, with Brexit motions failing to win the necessary backing.

Following the submission today of the NASUWT response to the Department for Education consultation on «Proposed Increases to Contributions for Members of the Teachers» Pension Scheme», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Coalition Government should tell the public the truth about why it is seeking to raid the pensions of millions of ordinary public service workers and why it is taxing public sector workers who are acting responsibly by trying to save for their retirement.

Ministers need to show public sector workers — and the people who rely upon those services — that they are serious about finding a way forward.

Conference asserts that public sector pensions are a significant element of the remuneration package for five million public service workers and are, therefore, a substantial part of pension provision in the UK.

«This change represents nothing more than naked raiding of public service workers» pensions to make them pay the price for the greed and recklessness of the financial sector.

New York City adopted a paid sick leave law several years ago and now proponents are trying to marshal support for a similar measure in Albany County — which would extend a privilege enjoyed by state workers and lawmakers to the private sector, where part - time and service - industry workers are especially unlikely to have the same perk.

She is able to draw on wide - ranging experience and knowledge, having represented workers in the service and communications sectors (notably fighting for rights for call centre workers and agency workers), manufacturing and basic industries.

Contractors, vendors, public workers, office seekers: «Their daily First Read newsletter, with the daily schedule (for government events in New York), is basically required reading for anyone with a stake in civic life,» David Galarza, communications specialist at the Civil Service Employees Association, a New York public - sector labor union, told me.

Pay freezes and below - inflation pay rises have reduced public sector workers» pay by 20 % since the coalition came to power in 2010, public sector pensions have been attacked and public services have been slashed across the country.

Under our Right to Provide, tens of thousands of public sector workers will be able to turn your department, your ward, your team into an employee - run coop, with a contract to your parent public service.

Across the public sector - in the civil service, education, local government and health - unions representing around one million public sector workers have already either rejected or refused to sign up to the government's «heads of agreement» offer.

The union says the government's slash and burn approach to tackling the budget deficit will mean vital public services are axed, hundreds of thousands of public sector workers will be thrown out of work, and those that remain will have their pay and pensions cut.

The main civil servants» union, the Public and Commercial Services union, which took joint strike action on 30 June, has described Labour leader Ed Miliband's refusal to support public sector workers taking action over cuts in their pensions as «a slap in the face».

Stark predictions of how public sector workers could lose tens of thousands of pounds under the government's pensions plans are shown in an online pensions calculator created by the Public and Commercial Services Union.

Any move to introduce regional pay for public sector workers would be resisted, the Public and Commercial Services union says.

«I can look you in the eye and say public service pensions will remain among the very best... much better, indeed, than for many private sector workers.

Fights over to what extent the county is responsible for paying the full cost of employees» health care have sprung up recently after heated negotiations between the Astorino administration and the Civil Service Employees Association, CSEA — a union representing the county's public sector workers — failed to produce a compromise, including a contract offer that the union rejected earlier this month.

The Pontypridd MP told the Guardian: «I was more than frustrated: I was furious that we were sitting there with a Tory Government that has imposed swingeing cuts on public services, on tax credits, on universal credit, that have smashed women and public sector workers the length and breadth of Britain, and we are taking lectures from them about social justice and economic fairness.

These commitments include a national living wage for public sector workers, electrification of the transport network and a «National Care Service».

«Vital services that we all rely on and public sector workers should not be sacrificed to some sorry game of political chess.

«It is not acceptable that New York continues to seek cuts in mental health programs, facilities and services,» said CSEA President Danny Donohue, representing mental health workers in state local, and private sector health care settings.

Wages have been depressed, with the Bank of England saying the semi and unskilled services sector has seen two per cent pay falls for every 10 per cent increase in immigrant workers.

Public sector workers have their pensions protected, even if another provider takes over the service, under «fair deal» rules agreed by Labour in the late 1990s.

Casualties of the Chancellor's budget The battles lines have been drawn in the government's first budget, and public sector workers, the vital services they provide, and the poor, sick and vulnerable people who depend on them, are in the firing line, writes Dave Prentis, general secretary of UNISON, for Channel 4 News.