Sentences with phrase «state workers vote»

And why should state workers vote out the union?

«I think a lot of state workers voted for me.»

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The Republican - led Mississippi Senate voted 31 - 17 to pass House Bill 1523, otherwise known as the «religious liberty» bill, states that public employees, businesses, religious organizations and social workers will not face repercussions for denying services to people based on «sincerely held» religious beliefs.

The GOP voted in a bloc against the last extender, which included Gov. David Paterson's controversial state worker furlough plan that has since been blocked by US District Court Judge Lawrence Kahn and is headed for a hearing on May 26.

After a passionate debate, the state Senate voted early Tuesday morning to reject a bill that would have required employers to pay workers for some hours that they did not work.

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

Bloomberg has backed several measures that Republicans in the chamber put to a vote this year, including a new, less generous pension tier for incoming state workers.

The Democratic Party is no longer the center left party, the patriotic party, and the pro worker party of John F. Kennedy, or Franklin D, Roosevelt, it is now the party of George Mcgovern, community organizers, hippies, free traders and globalists, dumb college students, flag burners, advocates for the legalization of all drugs and the banning of all firearms, and those who think that rural America is full of dumb idiots who are not enlightened enough to understand the benefits of free trade, who believe in the stupid idea of the nation state or stupid to not vote Democratic.

More than half of voters, forced to choose between the three, named David Cameron as the best Prime Minister, 17 points ahead of Ed Miliband, who led only among Labour voters and social group E (state pensioners, casual workers and those dependent on benefits — the group that is also least likely to vote).

But it has been said that the Americans are likely to vote for the experienced Mrs. Clinton, who was once an aide worker, former First Lady, a Senator and a Secretary of State in the Obama administration, and Nana Addo, knowing the influence the American elections has on the Ghanaian one, is clearly distancing himself from Mr. Donald Trump, who is being described as belligerent, anti-black, anti-Islam, anti-Mexico, among others.

ALBANY — The state Senate last night voted to close the bankrupt New York City Off Tracking Betting Corp., narrowly refusing to approve a bailout plan that would have saved the jobs of 800 workers.

The union's rank - and - file last year initially voted down a labor agreement forged between PEF's leadership and the administration, leading Cuomo to threaten mass layoffs of state workers unless a second, revenue - neutral contract was approved.

Political watchers and other pundits, had projected Americans to vote for the experienced Mrs. Clinton, who was once an aide worker, former First Lady, a Senator and a Secretary of State in the first Obama administration, and Nana Addo, knowing the influence the American elections had on the Ghanaian one, clearly distanced himself from Mr. Trump, who ahead of the American election, was described as belligerent, anti-black, anti-Islam, anti-Mexico, among others.

While Higgins routinely votes against trade agreements — arguing they are often too broad, too vague and skewed against the American worker — he acknowledged the Buffalo area would likely suffer if the United States did not have a trade agreement with Canada.

The morning after lawmakers approved a new, cost - saving pension tier for yet - to - be-hired state workers, much of official Albany was sleeping in following the marathon overnight session of debates and votes.

In a vote on Monday on one of the grand larceny charges, Ms. Hines, a retired state worker, said the panel had voted 8 to 4 to acquit all three defendants.

On Wed., July 22, New York's Wage Board voted to approve a $ 15 minimum wage for fast - food workers in chain restaurants.The state's acting labor commissioner, Mario Musolino, has 45 days to act on the wage board's recommendation.

About 500 white - collar state Thruway Authority workers will vote in coming weeks on a long - awaited contract proposal — one that includes, for the first time, health insurance co-pays, sources say.

Members of the state's second - largest public workers union have voted to approve a three - year contract with the state, the leaders of the Public Employees Federation announced Wednesday evening.

«Everywhere you turned, you saw a lawn sign, a car magnet or a button urging a «No» vote — a sign that NYSUT, and labor, remains a strong force in New York state fighting to protect workers from wealthy special interests.»

At a meeting Monday with a group of influential labor leaders representing some of the state's powerful unions, including 1199 SEIU, 32BJ, the Hotel Trades Council and the Communications Workers of America, Cuomo said he couldn't pass a budget with campaign finance reform because of Senate opposition, and pressed the leaders to rein in the restive members of the Working Families Party, who vote on the party's endorsement.

«The 250,000 nurses and healthcare workers of 1199SEIU throughout New York State call on Senate Republicans to allow a vote on Mayor de Blasio's proposal for universal pre-K.

He explained that the end of percentage salary payment to workers in Kogi State would end as soon as he was voted in and taken oath of office.

State officials set a deadline of midnight Tuesday to shut down the system's betting parlors and lay off its 900 workers — some of whom watched the vote from the Senate's galleries.

When Governor Paterson announced that, in order to save money, he would add a one - day - a-week furlough for 100,000 state workers to the next emergency budget bill, legislators had a choice: vote for the bill and pass the furloughs they opposed, or vote against it and shut down state government.

Democrats then boycotted the rest of the voting, including bills Cuomo had championed to expand the states DNA data base and to create a new public worker benefit tier.

Some State Police officials said they believe Freilich has held onto his non-union job through four governors, and at a time when many state workers are facing the loss of their jobs, because top state officials and their political advisers believe Freilich can marshal votes in Jewish communities known for voting in unison behind candidates recommended by their religious leaState Police officials said they believe Freilich has held onto his non-union job through four governors, and at a time when many state workers are facing the loss of their jobs, because top state officials and their political advisers believe Freilich can marshal votes in Jewish communities known for voting in unison behind candidates recommended by their religious leastate workers are facing the loss of their jobs, because top state officials and their political advisers believe Freilich can marshal votes in Jewish communities known for voting in unison behind candidates recommended by their religious leastate officials and their political advisers believe Freilich can marshal votes in Jewish communities known for voting in unison behind candidates recommended by their religious leaders.

By Matt Pommer Old divisions among Democratic legislators bubbled up during the recent votes on new labor contracts for more than 35,000 unionized state workers.

The two largest state worker unions have already settled on new contracts with givebacks, though one of them, the Public Employees Federation, had to hold a second vote, after the agreement was initially voted down.

NEW YORK CITY — A state wage board has voted, unanimously, to raise the minimum wage for restaurant workers to $ 15 an hour.

A legislative committee has scheduledFive groups of unionized state workers that negotiated their pay raises with Gov. Scott Walker's administration are poised to receive the same 1 percent raise that non-union workers got in July.a meeting to vote on proposed contracts for five smaller Wisconsin unions.

Not to mention, that just minutes before these same clowns voted to furlough 100,000 State Workers throwing the lives of workers and their families into chaos and the State into an out of control spiral dWorkers throwing the lives of workers and their families into chaos and the State into an out of control spiral dworkers and their families into chaos and the State into an out of control spiral decline.

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, Hon Opeyemi Bamidele, has appealed to Ekiti workers to vote for the candidate of the...

In July, New York's wage board voted to approve an increase in the minimum wage for the state's fast food workers.

As the Journal's Jacob Gershman reports, lawmakers voted Monday to furlough 100,000 state workers for a single day next week, marking perhaps the first time that the governor's lame - duck status proved to be an asset as Albany's wrangling battle budget battle continued.

In New York State, Howie Hawkins, a UPS worker running on the Green Party ticket and calling for a $ 15 minimum wage, a ban on fracking, and calling for a «Green New Deal,» received 175,000 votes, or 5 % of the total.

Toulouse Oliver's campaign website stated support for establishing a statewide ethics commission to make the state offices more transparent and accountable, protecting voting rights through expanding voting hours and training for poll workers, and helping local businesses.

«We need a vote as soon as possible so that workers do not continue to fall through the cracks,» Aldebol stated.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in 2016 proposed a package of electoral reforms that would include the automatic voter registration for anyone who deals with a state agency, same - day registration, early voting, and unified statewide training standards for poll workers.

Yet just a few months later, Cuomo convened a state wage board, which, in July, voted to raise the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 by the end of 2018 in New York City.

A state Wage Board has voted to phase - in an increase in the minimum wage for fast food workers to $ 15 an hour, making New York the first state in the nation to increase the wage for a single segment of the work force.

«They appear wondering whether the votes they delivered yesterday would restore light, revive dead industries, complete the uncompleted ones, give hundreds of thousands of unemployed graduates employment, pay arrears of salary to workers and guarantee regular payment of salary; whether their votes will make water to flow again in their unused and rusted water pipes, reduce dust on our roads, revive our education and health sectors and so on,» he stated.

Last week the Public Employees Federation, which represents white collar state workers but is part of the American Federation of Teachers, voted to endorse Teachout.

A special panel created by Governor Andrew Cuomo voted Wednesday to raise the minimum wage for fast - food workers in the state to $ 15 by 2021.

While thanking the workers and pensioners for «the awards and laurels that you have kindly conferred on me and also for your votes of confidence and endorsement for another term in office», the governor reiterated his administration's commitment to their welfare, urging them to remain steadfast and approach their duties with zeal and commitment «so that collectively, we can build the Enugu State of our dreams».

But Vote Leave campaigner Gisela Stuart said the EU had been a «disaster» for UK workers and noted the high unemployment levels in eurozone states.

In contrast, members of the opposition and numerous independent media sources highlighted among other things the poor quality of indelible ink — the first time it was used in a Malaysian election — which could be washed off almost immediately, early voting for servicemen and civil servants, state domination of media and repression of independent journalists, and perhaps most troubling of all, the mobilization by Barisan Nasional of foreign guest workers to vote in key constituencies.

The Madison teachers union is cited for its role in helping organize last spring's massive protests at the state Capitol in response to Walker's efforts to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public workers, as well as other legislation including strict voter ID requirements that are likely to limit voting by college students, the elderly, the poor and immigrants.

If that happens, many Democrats fear Mr. Pelto will be a potential «spoiler,» that he could throw the gubernatorial election to the Republicans in a close race by siphoning off votes from disenchanted schoolteachers and state workers that otherwise might grudgingly go to Mr. Malloy.

Just the other day Connecticut made national headlines by voting to raise their minimum wage to $ 10.10 / hr, which gives a full time worker $ 21,000 a year in pre-tax income, in one of the most expensive states in the country.