Sentences with phrase «teacher wage freezes»

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Her reputation as a conciliator was part of her appeal during the 2013 leadership contest, a skill she's used to make peace with public school teachers angry over wage - freeze legislation and appointing herself agriculture minister to mend fences with communities upset over decisions to cancel the slots - at - racetracks program and the installation of industrial wind turbines.

She cut spending in the budgets to below the levels of inflation plus population, strong - armed teachers and doctors into taking wage freezes.

Some critics worried that asking teachers to accept a wage freeze was unfair.

The governor also called on teachers to accept temporary wage freezes and to increase their share of health benefit costs while blasting school administrators for making more than he does.

Fields, 64, who has been endorsed by the union in past elections, angered the organization earlier this year with her proposal that teachers across the state reopen their contracts and agree to a wage freeze to help close the state budget deficit.

As I wrote in my DN column this morning, the teachers and the public employee unions aren't sold on Cuomo — largely due to proposals that are unpopular with the leadership like spending and property tax caps, wage freezes and support for charter schools.

2004: The Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority enacts a wage freeze just months before the teacher contract expires.

The superintendent has called for salary cuts from teachers of 5 to 13 percent and a wage freeze through 2017.

Rumore has estimated the wage freeze and court ruling cost the typical teacher $ 81,805.

Prior to the April voting, Gov. Chris Christie urged Jersey residents to reject budgets if local teachers did not agree to wage freezes.

In fact, many of these other teachers lived in districts that were increasing tax levies by just one and two percent (and where teachers were taking wage freezes!).

They lived in districts that were increasing tax levies by one and two percent (where teachers were taking wage freezes!)

Of course, the problem is even where teachers have agreed to a wage freeze you have increasing costs — without additional state aid — those extra dollars will have to come from the local property tax which is much more unfair for the middle class than raising money through the income tax (assuming you don't let the millionaires off the hook like the Governor did).