Sentences with phrase «union dues even»

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While an MP might owe his or her place in parliament, or even cabinet, not due to patronage from above, but because he was an NUM MP, or had backing from the public sector unions, or the London Labour Party etc, s / he could enter into those discussions pre-vote from a position of real stregnth.

Even if a person drops his union membership, he still has to pay the exact same amount of dues through an agency shop fee.

The case, known as Janus v. AFSCME, was brought by Mark Janus, a public employee in Illinois who is challenging his state's policy of requiring that he pay union dues to the Illinois branch of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees even though he does not want to be a member.

«Gov. Cuomo is trying to circumvent a Supreme Court case before it's even decided to trap public employees into paying union dues,» he said.

-- Includes language to pre-emptively respond to a looming Supreme Court decision that most observers expect will weaken public employee unions by letting state workers decline to pay dues even if they benefit from the union's efforts.

On Feb. 26, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Janus v. AFSCME, a case that boils down to the question of whether public - sector unions have a right to collect dues from workers they bargain on behalf of, even if they are not union members.

Moskowitz also spoke about the perceived failings of the public school system, saying even the most talented teachers «are really working with their hands tied behind their backs and their feet tied together,» due to teachers» union restrictions.

Even though the effect may in practice be less due to changing conditions, Blocken hopes that his findings will convince the UCI, the international cycling union, to change the rules for following team cars.

The National Education Association expects to lose about 20,000 dues - paying members next year, and the union could lose even more revenue in the future if the Supreme Court strikes down its ability to collect agency fees from teachers who choose not to join the union.

The union highlights that a large number of staff don't feel they can be open about their sexuality due to concerns about the response of pupils and parents, meaning many are not even open with colleagues.

For those of us who cover the nation's education crisis, it is easy to joke about the ranting and raving of some defenders of traditional public education, who have what they consider to be clever names for charter schools and impugn the motivations of reformers with wealth (even as they defend teachers unions who bring in $ 622 million every year through dues collected forcibly from teachers who may or many not even support their aims).

In other words, the union has spent millions of dollars in dues it hasn't collected yet, some of which will be paid by people who might not even be members yet.

That's something even principals have a hard time with, due to union contracts.

Many teachers don't even realize that they are in (and paying «unified» dues to) three different unions.

It makes an already difficult situation that much worse when union officers who are charged with and paid with member dues to enforce the contract in every school have allowed and even tacitly encouraged these actions.

Even if every union staffer is a saint, their belief in their cause gives them a constant incentive to err on the side of higher compulsory dues.

Janus wants the Supreme Court to overturn its 1977 decision in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, a case brought by a Detroit public school teacher who challenged a Michigan law that required him to pay agency fees to the Detroit Federation of Teachers (in an amount equivalent to the union's dues), even though he refused to join the union.

Several of the conservative justices hinted during opening arguments that they might use the case to overturn a four - decades - old precedent that requires workers to pay dues if they benefit from a union's collective bargaining work, even if they don't officially join the union.

Even more troubling is the fact that a good portion of her union dues goes to support harmful educational policies.

More teachers are being denied a pay rise due to the Government's performance related pay (PRP) system, according to a joint survey by the NUT and ATL teacher unions published today, making it even harder for schools to recruit teachers.

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A union comprised of freelance game programmers, each paying a certain amount of dues, could set salary rates for hiring in game companies and negotiate on behalf of workers — even in studios with only one or two hired team members.

Will keep an eye for more news, I really like my PS3, but my experience got totally ruined due to the fact that even though I am living in European Union I still need to import most of the games I play....

In other words, even if someone disapproved of the union and / or what it was doing or stood for, they nevertheless could be forced to pay dues — if they wanted a job.

Sixty - three per cent also voted to continue the strike even though the LANEQ had entirely depleted its $ 8 - million war chest (half of it loans that are being repaid through an already - activated increase in union dues to three per cent from 0.75 per cent of members» salaries) and strike pay was reduced to zero from a high of 60 per cent of members» weekly salaries at the start of the strike.