Sentences with phrase «union jobs because»

Gov. Cuomo told an AFL - CIO meeting Monday that he wants to «pay more for union jobs because the government shouldn't pay a poverty wage.»

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Labor unions have pushed for approval of the pipeline, saying it would create thousands of construction jobs, while environmentalists opposed it because it would increase greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's oil sands.

The Fed appeared to be nearing another hike in June, but held off because of a weak U.S. jobs report and worries about the possible impact on financial markets of the then - pending British vote on whether to leave the European Union.

Some individuals are already being censured and others have lost their jobs because of their public commitment to marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

We have a great relationship with them and the union was very supportive because we stressed that we didn't want to eliminate jobs.

The deputy also «believed he did a good job» because he called in the location of the massacre and gave a description of Cruz's location, a top union official said.

«I don't see why we should be penalized because of somebody else's aggression,» said Lenwood McKoy, president of Transport Workers Union Local 225, after the Monday press event, at which union members held up signs that read, «Don't kill union jobs.&rUnion Local 225, after the Monday press event, at which union members held up signs that read, «Don't kill union jobs.&runion members held up signs that read, «Don't kill union jobs.&runion jobs.»

The union is highlighting the role played by private security officers (10 of the 24 32BJ members who perished held that job), who the ad says serve as the public's «eyes and ears» because they're often first on the scene of emergencies.

«I love infrastructure dollars because it's an investment in the future and because it creates new jobs, union jobs,» Maloney said.

«Hilary strongly supports Jeremy's call in Brussels today for the UK to remain in the European Union because of the jobs, growth, investment and workers» rights it has given us.»

Just yesterday, Cuomo was at Tryon talking about the «ridiculous» waste of keeping an empty facility open because state law requires a long lead time prior to closing it down (largely to protect union jobs).

Sources have informed me that the real issue here is the trade unions, which like the idea of the SUNY empowerment plan because it will likely lead to jobs (unlike the professors union, which I don't think is a supporter of this plan).

Nick Robinson thinks Alan Johnson will be missed: «Alan Johnson was picked for the job because the former postman who rose to be his union's leader and then a cabinet minister could connect with the working class voters Labour had lost touch with and yet was a Blairite who worried about government spending too much.

Look at how many people change unions during the course of their career because one union is doing a better job than others.»

That's because members of other unions, including the Public Employees Federation, may have previously been in CSEA or another union before switching jobs or gaining promotions.

Speaking on LBC 97.3, the Prime Minister said: «The Barroso thing did annoy me because frankly, his job is to serve the members of the European Union and the British Conservatives in the European Parliament are an important party.

This request comes as the County is still calculating savings from early retirees, who are not required to state their intention to retire until early October, the fact that County Executive Picente is looking to work with unions to freeze wages for this coming year, and because of the need to plan for appropriate job losses in the event that the wage freeze proposal is not accepted.

In a split with Gov. Paterson, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday he won't ask municipal unions to take a wage cut to save jobs because he'd prefer to have a smaller...

Asked whether Labour was the party of soft Brexit, Mr Watson told BBC Newsnight: «Yes, you have seen Keir Starmer's statement, we think that being part of the customs union and the single market is important in those transitional times because that is the way you protect jobs and the economy.

But because fringe benefits — not yet important on the American job scene — were unregulated, unions started seeking insurance and other benefits in lieu of pay hikes and some employers began offering them as hiring inducements.

Wilshaw added: «If a head demands a course of action not because it is in the best interests of the children but because he or she is eager to please the council, the union, the government and, yes, even Ofsted, then they are not doing their job.»

Of course, the latter survey doesn't indicate whether teachers are ambivalent because the unions aren't fighting hard enough against policy changes affecting job security or because they're fighting too hard to defend poor performers.

The powerful California Teachers Association has appealed the judge's decision, and teachers unions across the country are arguing that teachers deserve job protection because principals rate almost all of them as effective.

Because technology stands to have enormous impacts on jobs and money, the teachers unions find it threatening.

There will be a growing substitution of technology for labor and thus a steep decline in the number of teachers (and union members) per student; a dispersion of the teaching labor force, which will no longer be so geographically concentrated in districts (because online teachers can be anywhere); and a proliferation of new online providers and choice options, attracting away students, money, and jobs.

Teachers» unions ought to be supporting efforts to raise the standards for tenure because it makes the job protections following tenure more legitimate.

And other major industries actually did collapse — «Big Steel,» for instance — in large part because their unions never got the message that it was bad for them to have those jobs move to Korea or Brazil.

Rhee said she didn't have a problem with teachers unions because in the end they are doing their jobs.

Unions fight as hard as they do because they have one priority — preserving their jobs and increasing their pay and benefits.

The bad teachers know the reason they keep their jobs is because of the union.

The corporate reformers have done a good job of persuading the media that our public schools are failing because they are overrun by bad teachers, and these bad teachers have lifetime tenure because of their powerful unions.

The most damaging area of privatization for organized labor is education, because the unions lose serious money when teachers take jobs in non-unionized, non-public schools.

Albert Shanker, the head of the AFT from 1974 to 1997, believed that teachers» unions should be affiliated with the AFL - CIO in part because teachers could do a much better job of educating students if educators were part of a coalition that fought to reduce income inequality, and provide for better housing and health care for children.

But both for the sake of student achievement AND union jobs, the board should consider making changes because the trend lines are stark.

Diaz (of the parent union) sees the opposition as «more of a staff - support type of a movement» — because no matter which petition comes to fruition, Desert Trails teachers will have to reapply for their jobs.

As for the motivations of crappy teachers — do they suck because they aren't capable of teaching or because they don't care, are burnt out, don't like children (at least poor, minority children), or are unmotivated because they know that their union and its ridiculous contract will protect their jobs no matter what they do — I don't know.

Since 2005, women's incomes have grown more than five times faster than their male counterparts — 11.6 per cent compared to 2.2 per cent — likely because of more higher - paying union work for women, while men lose manufacturing jobs, said Doug Norris, chief demographer at Environics Analytics.

«I have no regrets about taking the job or about the leadership that I have exercised because Cooper Union is an extraordinary place,» Mr. Bharucha said.

A BIG blue - collar union has broken ranks and says it can not support the Gillard government's carbon tax package because of the «total absence» of a jobs plan for the struggling Latrobe Valley.

So when Dix nixed expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline that ships oil from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C., ostensibly because of environmental concerns (and to win back environmental New Democrats who were leaking — if not gushing — into the Green camp), his campaign may have run aground, and his comments may have angered members of the B.C. and Yukon Territories Building and Construction Trades Council, who were counting on the union jobs that the project would create.

Keyword Tip: «scaffold injury attorney» — you might want to add some info about «unions», because scaffold injuries are usually from union jobs.

Because the unions often elect to announce their strike dates days before walking off the job, travel insurance companies may not cover plans purchased after the announced dates.

I must be honest and say that I was not overly pleased because I had to pay a higher rate of interest than my straight - laced, union member neighbours with their guaranteed jobs and gold - plated benefits.

of my union buddies thought I was naive, stupid, and counter-productive to their vision of making the current job last indefinitely in order to prolonge their hold on same... («Brian, slow down... this is a government contract job (cost plus), you're pissing off the guys because you're doing too much... making them look bad to the so - called «government efficiency inspectors»... who wandered around filling out papers as they did so).

I have been around for many many years I have saw brokerages like this come and go which is fine BUT I also know that many agents have boycotted listing from these brokerages or making there listings second choice, I am not saying that agents are right in doing that but i think many people can uderstand that we as agents work hard for money as do people do in thier jobs, but when city workers or constrution workers, police ect are asked to cut or modify there pay there unions leaders and brother fight and picket because they work hard for there pay they fight for increase they fight for better working condtions but we as agents fight each other we do nt banned together like everybody else does.