Sentences with phrase «state worker concessions»

But in order to find $ 450 million in state worker concessions — either through benefit reductions or layoffs — the process would not include the commission.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed $ 450 million in state worker concessions, which was approved in the final budget.

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``... While they may not be receiving pay until a budget it reached, they certainly are not offering to make any concessions that would affect their wallets... and they are all making double, sometimes triple, what an average state worker is paid.»

Paterson said union refusals of concessions have left him no choice but to withhold pay raises from 120,000 state workers and push for furloughs.

But it's increasingly unclear how far the Legislature will actually be able to go to restore the cuts sought by Cuomo, particularly when it comes to the concessions he plans to seek from state workers whose contracts expire as of April 1 (the same day the budget is due).

Early this year, Teamsters Local 72, which represents state Thruway Authority workers, filed an unfair labor complaint alleging its members were improperly threatened with layoffs if they failed to make concessions during contract talks.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who pushed for the savings in his Feb. 1 budget address, has said he would seek the concessions from unions or would push for up to 9,800 state worker layoffs.

Cuomo has made it clear state workers are going to feel significant pain this year, perhaps facing the loss of up to 15,000 jobs, unless their union leaders agree to concessions in the upcoming contract negotiations.

The statement comes as the Cuomo administration has started to send out pink slips to nearly 3,500 state workers in the wake of the union rejecting a labor agreement that includes deep concessions.

The decision - maker on management's side was Governor Andrew Cuomo, who had demanded the concessions from state workers and was insisting that we follow suit.

For about three years, the MTA — following a pattern that Cuomo's administration sought from unions throughout the state — demanded that LIRR workers accept a five - year pact with three years of wage freezes and several other concessions.

Many of the Republicans running for governor have promised to reopen labor agreements and wring concessions from state workers.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- The leader of the state's largest public employee union says the workers are willing to make financial concessions to Gov. Scott Walker but will not give up their collective bargaining rights.

Not even in office yet, New Jersey Gov. - elect Chris Christie already says he will want concessions from the state's 75,000 workers, and will not be bound by Corzine's no - layoff pledge.

ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson said on Tuesday that he would seek legislative approval to begin furloughing state workers one day per week, saying that the refusal by their unions to reopen their contracts or accept other concessions on pay and benefits amid New York's fiscal crisis left him little choice.

by James McGinnis Bucks County Courier Times Seventy days into the state budget stalemate, Gov. Tom Wolf is offering major concessions to Republicans in Harrisburg, including a 401 (k)- style pension plan for new state workers, John Hanger, secretary of planning and...