Sentences with phrase «union protected jobs»

Yet, consider that 88 percent of our children get K - 12 education in public schools and that 70 percent of the teachers in these schools have union protected jobs.

Not exact matches

The NDP needs to regain the union vote as it tacks back to the left and will likely oppose much of the deal unless it is radically changed to protect Canadian jobs, something no one here has signalled.
A recent Abacus Data poll, done on behalf of Public Response — an agency that works with labour — indicates that a majority of Canadians, 61 %, believe unions do a good job of protecting their members» jobs.
Those jobs need to be protected and Canada needs to do more to make that happen, said union leader Ken Neumann, Canadian national director for the United Steelworkers, in a statement Tuesday.
Meeting yesterday (Tuesday) with Michael Fallon, Minister of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the union urged the minister to press for assurances that UK jobs would be protected before giving the green light to the merger.
The Trade Union Movement has always sought to get Britain working whilst helping to create, protect and safeguard jobs in addition to improving terms and conditions.
Perverse economic incentives: Incarceration has become big business, from prison unions protecting lucrative jobs, to companies being given monopolies within the prison system (Until the FCC stepped in, there were instances of charging over $ 1 a minute for calls).
The new union label is here and it's time you learn more about how these yellow and blue labels can protect your job.
We look forward to working with management to protect this industry — and the conditions that our union will establish — to ensure long - term prosperity and good jobs
PCS is a campaigning union, with a central focus on protecting public service jobs, services and issues affecting the civil service.
It's the job of union leaders to protect their lowest performing members.
«It is incumbent upon New York State to step up and protect New Yorkers, with legislation such as the Climate and Community Protection Act, transitioning into 100 % renewables with many new good union jobs, while boldly standing forward to save our communities and our salvage our future.»
Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «The NUT is left with no option but to take action to protect the well - being of our members and restore their rights to do their job thoroughly and propUnion of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «The NUT is left with no option but to take action to protect the well - being of our members and restore their rights to do their job thoroughly and propunion, said: «The NUT is left with no option but to take action to protect the well - being of our members and restore their rights to do their job thoroughly and properly.
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).
Cuomo's veto of a bill that would have protected teachers at risk of losing their jobs for two years is being described as everything from a case of «angry sour grapes» to «strange» to «a brave and good move» by teachers, union leaders, administrators and reform advocates.
De Blasio's nonprofit took in $ 200,000 from a food - service union on the same day a mayoral ally in the City Council submitted legislation to protect the union workers» jobs.
At a forum hosted by the Greater Syracuse Labor Council, AFL - CIO in Syracuse Wednesday, the three candidates running in the Democratic primary for New York's 24th Congressional District said the strength of labor unions have been decimated in recent decades and argued for tougher federal legislation to protect them and other domestic jobs.
The Mangano administration recently transferred more than 40 county employees from political jobs to competitive union positions that would protect them from being fired if a new county executive takes office in January, Newsday reported Monday.
The issue of Walmart boils down to one thing, protecting union jobs.
The union is going to protect incompetent workers — that is their job
Writing in an open letter to Brown in 2011, Donnelly accused the governor of submitting new contract agreements that «protect the well - paid public employee unions, even at the cost of students, public safety, and jobs
It is our failures in social policy, to provide council housing, to protect workers» (and trade union) rights, and to do enough to combat low pay and job insecurity that are the root cause of public concern about immigration.
DNC spokesman Michael Tyler said the party's national platform «repeatedly and unequivocally states, the Democratic Party is staunchly committed to making it easier for workers, public and private, to exercise their right to organize and join unions, to increasing the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, to protecting collective bargaining, to strengthening workplace protections, and to investing in infrastructure that uses American products and provides good - paying jobs for American workers.»
«The Royal Mail needs management and unions to have a relentless focus on turning it into an efficient, modern postal company, protecting as many jobs as possible and providing customers with the services they need.
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.
Unions are built to protect their members» jobs and pensions, regardless of performance.
The question assumes, as in the case of a food - standards specialist for the state of Oregon whose job was eliminated amid tensions with her boss, that the worker isn't protected by a union contract or as a member of a group shielded from employment discrimination based on race, sex, or other protected classes.
But they may also recognize — with reminding by their own unions — that they are all enmeshed in a big collective - action problem, and that they should vote in their home districts to protect one another's jobs and interests.
He said, «Leaders are going to protect union member job interests come hell or high water, even if these lead them to do things that are bad for kids or for schools.»
Their mission is to protect the jobs of teachers in the regular public schools, and real technological change — which outsources work to distant locations, allows students and money to leave, substitutes capital for labor, and in other ways disrupts the existing job structure — is a threat to the security and stability that the unions seek.
«Teachers get burned out, but with the union contract they felt well - protected, and they just weren't putting everything into their jobs,» she said.
It's the job of union leaders to protect their lowest performing members.
How is it that the unions manage to protect preposterous arrangements like lifetime job security and seniority - based layoffs while forcing students to attend schools that everyone knows are failing?
Unions have ensured teachers are among the most well - compensated, vacationed, and job - protected workforces in the country, all without true concern for what best helps students.
Unfortunately, protecting the jobs and salaries of government teachers - no matter how ineffective they may be - is the main goal of unions.
Given the reality that the current appeals process all but protects failing teachers from losing their jobs (fewer than one percent of teachers sent to the infamous «rubber rooms» under the city's current agreement with the AFT ever lost their jobs no matter how deserving), one can easily understand why Mayor Michael Bloomberg is rightfully opposing the union's demand.
And there is an obvious structural hurdle facing the insurgents: like all unions, teachers» unions exist to protect their members, creating a natural conflict between, say, maintaining job security for everyone and implementing measures that differentiate based on performance or create real accountability for results.
In Michigan, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, it is important to note that the unions» efforts are — not surprisingly — simply an effort to protect its members» jobs and perks.
The call for Duncan to quit originated with the California Teachers Association, which was particularly outraged at Duncan's support of a recent court that struck down job protections in the state that are fiercely protected by the unions.
Teachers unions exist to protect their members» jobs, pay and benefits (if not necessarily education quality), and if the political environment of the day is OK with the status quo, why start walking?
Couey should have been removed from the classroom years ago, but teachers» union rules protected his job at the expense of students» safety.
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.
Her focus is on education, where the teachers unions have blocked meaningful reforms for years; protecting bad teachers from being terminated, promoting based on seniority instead of merit, taking over local school boards with hand - picked, union - financed candidates, attacking charter schools, prioritizing teacher compensation and job security over student achievement, and pushing a social agenda in front of academic fundamentals.
The radical leadership of teacher unions like American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten are fighting a desperate rearguard action to protect the cushy status quo of de facto jobs - for - life for that fraction of incompetent teachers who (in the words of one union representative) «shouldn't even be pumping gas.»
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«It's my job to promote and protect New York's nonprofit sector,» Mr. Schneiderman said in a statement, «but we also have to step in to help institutions like Cooper Union when they face fiscal and governance problems.
In a statement to the New York Times, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said: «It's my job to promote and protect New York's nonprofit sector, but we also have to step in to help institutions like Cooper Union when they face fiscal and governance problems.
James Slevin, President, Utility Workers Union of America Local 1 - 2, said, «As a union leader who represents thousands of workers currently employed in New York's energy system and whose livelihoods depend on those jobs, I am very concerned about protecting their jobs and addressing climate change which affects my members, their families and their communiUnion of America Local 1 - 2, said, «As a union leader who represents thousands of workers currently employed in New York's energy system and whose livelihoods depend on those jobs, I am very concerned about protecting their jobs and addressing climate change which affects my members, their families and their communiunion leader who represents thousands of workers currently employed in New York's energy system and whose livelihoods depend on those jobs, I am very concerned about protecting their jobs and addressing climate change which affects my members, their families and their communities.
Christopher Erikson, Business Manager, IBEW Local 3, said, «We need an energy transition to clean energy and we need to do it so we protect the good union jobs of those who construct, operate, and maintain power plants in this country.
With the Obama Administration willing to sacrifice jobs and economic development for some perceived environmental legacy, it is time for unions to abandon the historic allegiance to the Democrat Party and realize that it is the Republicans who advocate for policies that protect the jobs in construction, manufacturing, mining, and energy — all well - paying positions that are often filled by union members.
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