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Governor Cuomo is promising police and firefighters in New York City a better deal on their disability benefits, as a budget watch dog group warns against the proliferation of end of session bills that give union workers more benefits.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is promising police and firefighters in New York City a better deal on their disability benefits, as a budget watch dog group warns against the proliferation of end of session bills that give union workers more benefits.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is promising police and firefighters in New York City a better deal on their disability benefits, as a budget watch dog group warns against the proliferation of end of session bills that give union workers more benefits.

Not exact matches

For six days, more than 200 union workers and their families camped out here to protest what they considered an egregious injustice.

More than 500 companies have expressed interest in rolling out student loan benefits to their workers next year, said Tim DeMello, founder and CEO of Gradifi, a platform that lets companies, including PwC, Connelly Partners and Western Union, pay off some of their employees» student loans.

J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents more than 670,000 workers in the executive branch, took a swing at the agency in ink: «We believe that the Central Personnel Data File was the targeted database, and that the hackers are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to one million former federal employees,» he wrote in the letter dated Thursday, which Fortune obtained.

Another example: In 2010 the United Autoworkers and the United Food and Commercial Workers unions spoke out in favour of the U.S. - South Korea Free Trade Agreement, arguing that it would «grow more jobs.»

Crafting a common framework for two unions covering disparate industries and more than 300,000 workers will inevitably create tensions.

Meanwhile, the hotel workers» union says it will push hotels in more cities to provide devices like the panic buttons.

Contrary to what many claim to believe, the union representing workers at Zellers stores in Calgary, Alberta, believe that corporations (or businesses more generally) are in fact persons, morally and legally.

The layoffs involved more than 400 employees represented by a United Steel Workers local union, reported WAJR, a...

More broadly, concerns about trade and its impact on workers figured large in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and in Britain's referendum vote to leave the European Union, a free - trade bloc.

Finally, a growing number of union leaders are abandoning the futile efforts to achieve incremental reforms of the current ossified and defunct labor law and instead are calling for opening up labor law to encourage and protect workers who experiment with these and other more fluid and varied activities free from reprisals.

Businesses say they like right - to - work laws because they make it more difficult for unions to organize workers and raise wage and benefit costs.

Unions said in a statement more than 500 Amazon workers at the Piacenza site in northern Italy had agreed to strike following a failure to negotiate bonuses with the company.

But Prime Minister Callaghan then urged that the government make further concessions to the unions, including «exemptions from the 5 per cent pay limit, tighter price controls and extension of the principle of «comparability,» under which public sector workers could expect more money.

And reams of social science research show that strong unions do much more than that: They bolster regional economies, increase democratic participation, and even strengthen the social safety net for non-unionized workers.

An exemplar was Southwest Airlines, which paid $ 355 million of its more than $ 1 billion in corporate profits last year to union and nonunion workers and managers, on top of salaries.

The newly elected Progressive Conservative government in Manitoba has moved quickly to cement its anti-worker bona fides with the radical right - wing by making it more difficult for non-union workers to join a union, and by opening up bidding on large scale public construction projects to non-union companies.

«Instead of Walmart paying its workers what they deserve for their work, Walmart is merely offering to pay more — for more work,» said Randy Parraz, director of Making Change at Walmart, a campaign run by the United Food and Commercial Workers Internationalworkers what they deserve for their work, Walmart is merely offering to pay more — for more work,» said Randy Parraz, director of Making Change at Walmart, a campaign run by the United Food and Commercial Workers InternationalWorkers International Union.

But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»

Certain matters discussed in this press release are forward ‐ looking statements, including that Everstream Energy Capital Partners, North Sky Capital and New Energy Capital are planning to invest more than $ 67 million in a fund to support utility ‐ scale projects in Central and Southern California developed by SunEdison; that the projects will generate over 320,000 MWh of electricity annually, and create hundreds of jobs or up to 250,000 hours for California electrical and construction union workers.

Unions, working with employers, have come along way to making these workplaces safer over the past 30 years, but there's much more work to be done - particularly as we discover the toll these types of jobs take on workers mental health and as the Conservative government moves closer and closer to total industry self - regulation (something that puts all Canadians at risk).

A union is launching legal action on behalf of more than 1,800 Monarch airline workers who lost their jobs after the firm went into administration.

We ran into one cyclical recession in the» 70's, and the Republicans seized on it as an excuse to rig government and society for the benefit of people who are already rich, while taking away opportunities from everyone else... then they crushed the unions so that workers would never be able to get back better pay and better job security, while investors make more and more and pay less and less in taxes.

The new legislation was suggested by the Solidarity trade union in a bid to ensure workers can spend more time with their loved ones.

The results of a survey conducted by trade union reveals 85 per cent of shop workers oppose Belfast City... More

Many experiments with worker participation in North America and Europe have been initiated in response to the demands of labor unions for more control over the introduction of new technology.

Finance Sector Union national secretary Julie Angrisano noted the bank's billion - dollar profits and asked why the bank wasn't doing more more to reskill existing workers.

«There's little point extracting more of Australia's gas if it's just going to end up on a ship to Asia,» said Daniel Walton, national secretary of the Australian Workers» Union, which wants «a guarantee the gas stays here».

Hostess, its lenders and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union agreed to mediation at the urging of Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain of the Southern District of New York, who advised against a more expensive, public hearing regarding the...

Improving relationships with the union representing food service workers and working with the union to offer useful training to food service personnel and support services (e.g., transportation and child care) to help make training more accessible and affordable.

Around 11,000 businesses are now owned in whole or part by their employees, involving 10 million workers — three million more than are members of private sector unions.

Equally or perhaps more dangerously for Corbyn, he'd be on the wrong side of a Unite union which backed him to the hilt and serves as a Praetorian guard but is unlikely to sit back quietly if the jobs — and union subs — of the thousands of well - paid skilled workers it represents went down the Swanee with Trident.

Democrats can't win when their only message is higher taxes and more spending that just make everything more expensive at a time when nobody's getting raises except the public union workers.

Conducted by the Retail Action Project, a community organizing group co-founded by the union RWDSU, the survey of more than 110 people on 14 CUNY campuses — or one - quarter of all CUNY food service workers — reported numerous instances of what it says are workers being served «a steady diet of low wages, few benefits, precarious schedules and labor violations.»

Cuomo stuffed a $ 1.5 million line item into his election - year budget to create a new «School of Urban and Labor Studies» at the CUNY that will offer more courses to union workers and other students wanting to learn about labor issues.

The union, which represents more than 70,000 workers in New York, is endorsing Schneiderman at City Hall in Manhattan this morning and has pledged to do a voter outreach campaign — including mailings, door - to - door canvassing and member mobilization — in support of Schneiderman's election.

Manhattan's largest development company says it was snookered into paying union workers $ 42 an hour — and a lot more for overtime — just to deliver coffee at its Hudson...

Despite determined resistance by the owners of these hotels, after tough fights the even more determined workers secured the right to be represented by the union of their choice, the New York Hotel Trades Council, AFL - CIO.

The provision will apply to union workers, with the only exceptions being any whose contract has a more generous paid family leave provision.

Learn more about what it takes to be a union organizer fighting for the rights of hotel and gaming workers across New York and Northern New Jersey.

Unions warned that thousands more workers depended on the plant.

More than a year and a half after its most recent contract expired, New York's second - largest state worker's union has reached a tentative three - year labor agreement with the Cuomo administration.

Manhattan's largest development company says it was snookered into paying union workers $ 42 an hour — and a lot more for overtime — just to deliver coffee at its Hudson Yards megaproject.

The unions say the outcome could affect more than 5 million government workers in 24 states and the District of Columbia.

Britain's top earners should «contribute a little bit more» so public sector workers can have «decent pay», the head of a trade union told Good Morning Britain.

More than seven months after Republican Gov. John Kasich signed it into law, Ohioans have repealed SB 5, the anti-union legislation that would curb collective bargaining rights for 350,000 public workers and gut the political power of public - sector unions.

Teamsters Local 237, a union that represents more than 30,000 government workers in the city and parts of Long Island, has thrown its support behind Heidi Harrison Chain, one of five Democratic candidates vying for Melinda Katz's (D - Forest Hills) Council seat.

UFCW Local 1500 is one of the area's largest and most active labor unions, representing more than 23,000 workers.