Sentences with phrase «union givebacks»

A school source said Gural's plan was rejected, and the board voted to impose tuition, because the offer didn't cover the entire deficit; it was contingent on union givebacks and substantial fund - raising.

All budget options are said to be on the table, including property tax increases above the tax cap, some union givebacks (but not a giveback of their contractual salary increase), and a return of the so - called «nuisance taxes,» including the Real Estate Transfer Tax and the Income Tax Surcharge.

Even during the 2010 campaign, some unions — including CSEA — withheld support from Cuomo, thanks all his talk of public employee pay freezes, union givebacks and government spending reductions.

Not exact matches

The contract comes about seven months after New York's second - largest state worker union, the white collar Public Employees Federation, reached its own three - year deal with 2 percent annual raises, no increases in negotiated health - care premium sharing and no givebacks.

Later this week he's expected to meet with union leaders about potential layoffs and contract givebacks.

And in late 2008, just as the financial crisis began to explode, Mr. Bloomberg granted 4 percent raises for two consecutive years to the city's largest municipal workers» union, District Council 37, without extracting support for pension givebacks.

The President of the Public Employees Federation, Ken Brynien, says he's drawing a line in the sand with Governor Cuomo, and has asked the governor not to expect more givebacks from state worker unions.

The head of a major state worker union is warning Governor Cuomo not to ask state workers for more givebacks in the new state budget.

Brynien lost after pushing through a contract with givebacks; the alternative would have been layoffs of less - senior union members.

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.

As one state worker put it when his union was asked to ratify contract givebacks in 2011: «We have Triborough... why do this to yourself?»

The President of the Public Employees Federation, Ken Brynien, says he's drawing a line in the sand with Gov. Cuomo, and has asked the governor not to expect more givebacks from state worker unions.

The head of a major state worker union is warning Gov. Cuomo not to ask state workers for more givebacks in the new state budget.

While insisting that state's economic challenges required employee givebacks, the administration ignored all union ideas, big and small for saving money and improving government operations.

He said he hopes the fiscal crisis will inspire 1199 and other unions to negotiate real savings, just as municipal unions agreed to big givebacks that helped save New York City during the 1970s fiscal crisis.

That was a giveback that PEF and another major union, the Civil Service Employees Association, agreed to under the threat of layoffs.

In recent years, he's issued dire warnings of impending fiscal doom, called for givebacks by city unions and warned of the impact of too many off - the - tax - rolls non-profit properties in the city.

Legislator Philip Soskin said this year's budget had «make believe» efficiencies projected into it which the legislature needs to compensate for including $ 17.7 million in projected givebacks from the workers union.

Under the so - called Triborough Amendment, most teachers continue getting raises even after a contract expires - which gives the unions little incentive to consider givebacks at the bargaining table.

Therefore, they say, it's pointless to talk about reopening union contracts and asking for givebacks when the contracts are expiring anyway.

Union leaders consider job security a core value, and they know they can save positions by offering givebacks.

Never mind that he balanced the state's budget his first year in office by giving wealthier New Yorkers a free ride while forcing massive givebacks from state public - employee unions, and came back for more the following March by inflicting Tier 6 on future employees, in municipalities as well as those joining state agencies.

Gov. Paterson and the state's two biggest labor unions reached a deal yesterday to avoid layoffs and employee givebacks in exchange for buyouts and more modest retirement benefits.

Unions in any industry are loath to contemplate givebacks.