Sentences with phrase «strip public employees»

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- After focusing for weeks on his proposal to strip public employees of collective bargaining rights, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker prepared Tuesday to unveil full details of his two - year budget plan, which...

The conference plans to back measures that would strip public employees convicted on corruption charges of their pensions, as well as new regulations for the use of campaign funds.

Ante is raised in Wisconsin as GOP cuts collective bargaining rights: Wisconsin Senate Republicans used what Democrats are calling «the nuclear option» Wednesday night, manuvering to pass a controversial bill stripping public employee unions of collective bargaining rights.

In 2011, after a fierce public battle, Gov. Scott Walker and the state Legislature passed Act 10, which stripped public employee unions of most of their collective bargaining rights.

Not exact matches

Wisconsin is poised to strip collective bargaining rights from most of the state's 175,000 public employees in the boldest step by a new Republican governor and Legislature to solve budget problems by confronting organized labor.

Harvard is «reviewing» reports that University employee Eric Clopper made anti-Semitic comments and stripped to the nude during a public performance he gave in Sanders Theatre Tuesday evening.

Not everyone was so happy to see the Wisconsin governor, who shot to national prominence for stripping his state's public employees of collective bargaining rights and subsequently passing controversial «right - to - work» laws.

Seventy - seven percent of those polled said the pension stripping should apply to all state employees - not just elected officials - who are convicted of crimes that relate to their public jobs.

A Siena Research Institute poll in May found 77 percent of voters wanted all state employees, including legislators, to be stripped of their public pensions when convicted of crimes related to their public jobs.

«Stripping pensions from legislators - as well as any state employee - convicted of a crime related to their public jobs is an issue that has the overwhelming support of New Yorkers,» Greenberg said.

He said he would vote again this year to pass a bill that allows the state to strip pension payments from all state officials and employees who are convicted of crimes related to their public duties.

«You feel punched in the stomach,» said Ms. Parker, a high school science teacher in Madison, Wis., where public employees» two - week occupation of the State Capitol has stalled but not deterred the governor's plan to try to strip them of bargaining rights.

Madison, Wisconsin (CNN)- Wisconsin's Republican - led state Senate passed Gov. Scott Walker's proposed restrictions on collective bargaining for public employees Wednesday, getting around a Democratic walkout by stripping financial provisions from the bill.

Thousands of angry public employees descended on the Wisconsin state Capitol in 2011 to protest Gov. Scott Walker's plan to strip away their collective bargaining rights.

If the public employee unions do not quickly find a way to give back, they will be stripped of their dues paying members and financially destroyed.

During a session that saw the leaders of both houses arrested, we failed to advance an agreed - upon bill to strip pensions from public employees convicted of corruption crimes.

But polls suggest that Americans don't want to see teachers and other public employees stripped of collective bargaining rights.

He believes and maintains regularly that it's necessary to strip a certain category of employees, public employees in this state, of collective bargaining rights.»

He spoke out against the governor's successful push to strip most public employees of collective bargaining rights, and Evers has also advocated for significant increases in school funding — both by increasing state aid to schools and by allowing local school districts to raise additional revenue through property taxes.