Sentences with phrase «unions over compensation»

New York's Gov. Paterson, by contrast, has been unwilling to risk a confrontation with teacher unions over compensation.

Not exact matches

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) decided today to launch legal action with other unions against the government over unilateral changes to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme and hold a strike ballot amongst 270,000 PCS members working for the civil service and its related bodies

Meanwhile, in school districts from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles and Seattle, teacher unions and superintendents have clashed over the use of new evaluation systems that base compensation on student test scores.

School and union leaders in the nation's largest school districts who are waging epic battles over teacher evaluation, compensation and the future of the teaching profession could learn a lesson from their colleagues in Newark, New Jersey.

The opportunities provided by due process, seniority rights, escalating compensation over the course of a career, and a secure retirement are some of the incentives of staying in the profession long term and that is why teaching professionals value them and, via very democratic processes, have their unions promote them

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.

Sample: The major objective of this study was to determine the perceived effects of the union on monetary and on non-monetary aspects of compensation over the period in which respondents to the survey had been union members.

But instead, he presided over the slide into the extinction of Cooper Union's principles and finances (while stating otherwise in the press, and capturing $ 668K in compensation in 2009, including a cash bonus of $ 175K, all of it approved by the Board of Trustees.)

By 2014, we established that normal pay including bonuses and overtime should be paid when calculating holiday pay and in 2016, we won over # 10million in compensation for blacklisted Unite the Union members.

While there are no comparable studies of the role of trade unions over the past four decades, preliminary research points both to an ongoing involvement of trade unions in workmen's compensation issues via service to their membership, and to, at times, a decided hesitancy to actively embrace the political struggles of the injured workers movement.

Our workers» compensation attorneys offer over 15 years of experienced assistance to police and corrections facility workers throughout Union County, Ocean County, Monmouth County, Middlesex County and surrounding counties.

The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) launched a judicial review after the government revised the Civil Service Compensation Scheme (CSCS) with a view to saving # 500m over three years.