Sentences with phrase «unions over wages»
To top is all off, the town is engaged in a suit with the police union over wages that is now in binding arbitration.
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Over 500 cafeteria workers at Facebook's headquarters voted to join a union to increase their wages so they can afford to live in Silicon Valley.
Critics say they suppress wages, weaken the collective bargaining authority of unions and leave workers at the mercy of employers in negotiations over pay, benefits and working conditions.
«We believe this dispute is about unions wanting to enforce their power over an external company and the wages being offered.»
The industry and construction worker unions will be required in that time period to settle a dispute over whether to pay prevailing union wages for all of the projects.
Particularly in his first term, Mangano clashed frequently with county labor unions — first over a plan to consolidate Nassau's eight police precincts into four, and later after proposing a bill to allow him to open up collective bargaining agreements to cut wages and benefits to pay for a backlog of property tax judgments.
A leaked memo written by former Unite political director boasts of the influence the union has over Labour's business, regulation and wages policies.
The hotel trades union, now led by the forceful Peter Ward, inked a contract over the summer that brought unionized maids» wages up to $ 38 an hour with free healthcare.
Erie County and union members of the Sheriff's Office have reached an agreement on a contract that raises wages by 13 percent and increases employee health insurance contributions over the five - year deal.
When the United Federation of Teachers first began to bargain collectively in the early 1960s, Albert Shanker was distressed that the New York City school board was willing to discuss only traditional issues like wages and benefits and rejected the idea of bargaining over broader policies that the union proposed, such as the creation of magnet schools.
He attributes the higher average wages of public school teachers less to union collective bargaining and more to the political clout of unions to maintain the public school monopoly over K - 12 education.
Doug Keillor, executive director of MTI, said it's not surprising many teachers unions have decided not to seek certification because elections are expensive, time consuming and the outcome is an ability to bargain only over base wages, which are tied to inflation.
Amid an atmosphere of nationwide unrest over teachers» wages, negotiations between the Volusia County teachers union and the school district have stalled once again due to disagreements over salary, dress code and workload.
Wintory himself butted heads with the American Federation of Musicians, not over wages, but when they accused him of violating what Wintory called «failed policies» with the creation of The Banner Saga OST, which ended with his leaving the union.
That concession was made in 2011 following a six - day strike — the first by government lawyers in Canadian history — in which both Quebec lawyers» unions walked off the job in protest over their wages, which were as much as 40 - per - cent lower than what provincial lawyers earned in neighbouring barometer - province Ontario.
The seeds of that discontent were sown in the aftermath of another strike that began on Feb. 8, 2011 when both the LANEQ and the Quebec Crown attorney's union (the Association des procureurs aux poursuites criminelles et pénales) took to the streets in protest over wages and working conditions.
Some of the most common are wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation, violations of the Family Medical Leave Act, violations of the Fair Employment and Housing Act, Violations of the California Family Rights Act, privacy breaches (e.g. disclosure of a medical condition to someone who did not need to know), contract breaches, unfair bargaining and / or union and labor law disputes, unpaid wages, unpaid overtime, failure to pay minimum wage for all hours worked, failure to provide proper pay stubs, failure to pay for unused vacation days upon resignation or termination, failure to pay for all hours worked within 72 hours of quitting, failure to pay for all hours worked immediately upon leaving when the employee gives fair notice or resignation to the employer, failure to keep adequate records, failure to produce employment records upon request, failure to provide wage and pay information upon hiring, misclassification of an hourly employee as an exempt employee, misclassification of an hourly employee as an independent contractor, work place bullying, sexual harassment, disparate impact, disparate treatment, class actions for failure to pay wages and over time, class actions for failure to provide meal and rest breaks, and class actions for failure to reimburse employees for expenses.
Typically, governmental bodies must validate the union as most provinces hold jurisdiction over working conditions including minimum wages, working hours, termination requirements, and general working conditions.
But Walmart would still likely face a battle from the City's labor unions and other activist groups over the low wages it pays its workers and over the amount of traffic its store might create.