Sentences with phrase «union workers whose»

There are particular questions here about the fate of union workers whose pay and benefits are set by multi-year collective bargaining agreements and public sector workers whose pay is set by law.

Not exact matches

Most of us don't think of Air Canada as a singing - and - dancing kind of brand, and the musical workers didn't look like the same angry people whose unions seem endlessly at war with the airline.

Those who choose to become employed in unionized workplaces — that is, workplaces whose workers democratically voted to form a union — must contribute through dues towards the benefits (i.e., better salaries and working conditions) of belonging to that union.

It is considered a bit of a faux pas to point this out, but what we are talking about in part is a Democratic president, a largely Democratic professional administrative class in Washington, and an IRS whose workers belong to a union whose political action committee gave roughly 95 % of its political contributions last year to Democrats.

Flynn, a businessman from Hunter, is being backed by the Transport Workers Union, a national labor organization, whose international president, John Samuelsen, (also FORMER president of TWU Local 100 here in New York), said in a statement to be released by Flynn's campaign that the candidate is «a leader who understands that the economic security of families must be the highest priority of Congress, and that unions are a necessary partner in that mission.»

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

«Ironically,» he said, «the provision preemptively limiting worker rights and benefiting the unions could not have made it into the budget without agreement of Senate Republicans — whose slender working majority has been targeted by campaigns funded largely by NYSUT and UFT,» the state and local teachers unions.

Arthur Cheliotes, whose union, the Communication Workers of America, is backing Liu, said after the board's ruling that it would only serve to motivate Liu's supporters.

De Blasio was joined at the rally by members of the health care workers» union, SEIU 1199, which has endorsed his campaign, but whose political director has also spoken positively about Quinn's work on behalf of St. Vincent's.

She already has support from three influential labor unions — the Communications Workers of America, the New York State Nurses Association and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union — whose local leaders joined her on stage, along with about half a dozen City Council members.

Zimmerman, whose union job focuses on child - care workers, said could not stay on the sidelines this year.

Henry, whose union has endorsed Clinton, said they've discussed the issue with her and that she supports a $ 15 hourly wage for fast - food, home - care and child - care workers.

In a blow to rival candidate Andy Burnham, who had hoped to win the support of one of Britain's main trade unions, the Unison general secretary, Dave Prentis, said Corbyn's message was resonating with public sector workers whose wages had been frozen in recent years.

DiNapoli is close and quite popular with the public workers unions whose pension fund he manages and Cuomo, as governor, was preparing to do battle with state workers over a less generous contract, threatening layoffs in the process.

A representative group of workers from Unite, Britain's largest union, whose companies have been sold off by the John Lewis Partnership, will protest against the decision at the partners» meeting this Monday morning.

An appellate court upheld a high - level fellowship program started in 2014 by Cuomo that drew the ire of public workers unions, whose leaders said it circumvented the system of civil service promotions.

And while the budget does not increase salaries for union workers, it does include pay raises for elected officials, including Supervisor Scott Russell, whose salary will see the biggest increase — a 10 percent hike to $ 101,000.

A party for those whose priorities include the Welfare State, workers» rights, trade unionism, the co-operative movement, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation rather than environmentalism, fair taxation, full employment, public ownership, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, civil liberties, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, economic patriotism, balanced migration, a realist foreign policy, and a base of real property for every household to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.

The raises come as the administration heads toward contract negotiations with the Public Employees Federation, a union of 54,000 white - collar state workers whose current agreement expires on April 1.

«It represents progress,» said Korn, whose union group represents 600,000 teachers and other school workers on the Island and statewide.

The coalition will be spearheaded by New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, a liberal advocacy organization whose backers include CSEA, formerly the Civil Service Employees Association, the largest union of state workers, and New York State United Teachers, the statewide teachers» union.

Figueroa, whose union represents Khan and other airport workers, said that the incident should alarm all New Yorkers and Americans.

The staff are union workers with job security, not property managers, whose job security requires keeping costs low and profits high for absentee landlords.

To the millions of employees whose unions are its members, the AFL - CIO is the pre-eminent crusader for the American worker.

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.

Befitting his daytime job as a labor historian at Cornell University, Salvatore even manages to provide a strong look at how unions such as the United Auto Workers often discriminated, both internally and in municipal politics, against the black workers whose interests they purported to repWorkers often discriminated, both internally and in municipal politics, against the black workers whose interests they purported to repworkers whose interests they purported to represent.

So how do the government unions, whose leaders run to the left of the average worker, get away with spending dues dollars on candidates and causes that so many of its members revile?

Non-profit organizations that don't qualify include labor unions, partisan politics or religious organizations whose workers are involved in religious instruction, services or proselytizing.

Toward the end of 2014 and into 2015, Berman, Newt Gingrich, and various Berman front groups began pushing Congress to pass the so - called «Employee Rights Act,» a bill whose seven provisions are designed to further weaken unions and make it even harder for workers to organize.

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 commuWorkers 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 commuworkers 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.

In its decision, Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v. United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 401, 2013 SCC 62, the Supreme Court weighed the collective rights of a union's freedom of expression under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms against the rights of individuals whose personal information was collected, used and disclosed without consent by the... [more]