Sentences with phrase «use union dues»

As a litigator he argued the Lavigne case in the Supreme Court of Canada, which upheld the constitutional validity of the Rand (agency) formula and (contrary to U.S. jurisprudence) confirmed the right of unions to use union dues for political causes.

Not exact matches

Under the changes due to be introduced on January 13, surcharge fees will be eliminated for payments including those made on American Express credit cards, Paypal and Apple Pay, going further than a European Union requirement to eliminate fees for consumers using Visa and MasterCard cards, the ministry said.

Rosen did not name the countries where Facebook was deploying the software, but he said it would eventually be used worldwide except in the European Union due to sensitivities, which he declined to discuss.

Tesla said employees were terminated en masse due to performance issues, though some workers have argued they were cost - cutting layoffs or used to punish union supporters.

There is no binding mechanism at the global level to hold corporations accountable for violating these measures (although there are instruments such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child that give them weight in international law and are being used to remind governments of their responsibilities, and there have also been some attempts at European Union level to hold corporations to account for activities in third countries, with little success due to lack of satisfactory reporting mechanism).

With over 200 non-union hotels planning to open their doors in our city in the next few years we must use the resources the membership provided in the dues referendum and continue to focus all of our energy on making our union one that represents as many workers in the hotel industry as possible.

The first is affiliated supporters, which consist of individual trade unionists who have indicated that they wish their party affiliation fees (funded from the political levy, a small sum of money in addition to normal union dues and used for political campaigning) to be paid directly to the Labour Party rather than via their trade unions as they have historically been.

Although the European Union's (E.U.) Restriction on the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS) went into effect in 2006 — effectively banning new electronics (pdf) that contain certain levels of lead, cadmium, mercury and other toxic chemicals — lead has been difficult to phase out due its versatility.

Furthermore, the collection of union dues directly from teacher paychecks, a common practice in many school districts, augments teacher power by generating resources that can be used in political campaigns for school board, state, and national elections.

Proposed ballot initiatives on teacher tenure and the political use of union dues qualified last week for the next statewide elections in California.

The California law allows individual teachers to request a refund of the portion of their dues that is used to help elect candidates, lobby for union - sponsored legislation, or financially assist like - minded groups.

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For over forty years, unions have collected hundreds of millions of dollars in membership dues each year and used that money to elect friendly politicians and lobby for policies that favor the growth of unionism.

Today, Sean Higgins of the Washington Examiner turned his attention to the Employee Rights Act (ERA), specifically its provision requiring unions to get opt - in permission before using member dues for political purposes.

(I wonder how many teachers, most of whom are forced to pay union dues, are happy to see a part of their paychecks used to subsidize Weingarten's European grandstanding.)

Several of the conservative justices hinted during opening arguments that they might use the case to overturn a four - decades - old precedent that requires workers to pay dues if they benefit from a union's collective bargaining work, even if they don't officially join the union.

While a full - time member's dues money can be used to finance the $ 37.6 million that AFT spent on lobbying and other political activities in 2015, an agency fee payer's dues cover representational operation costs, which cost the union $ 73.8 million.

Other education - related items include: giving school administrators flexibility in teacher hiring and retention; restrictions on school bathroom use for transgender students; and prohibiting the use of taxpayer dollars to collect union dues, which would impact teachers.

Tornillo was ultimately charged with using over $ 650,000 of union dues on personal expenses.

This landmark case challenges the ability of unions to collect dues from employees who may not wish to be a part of the union or object to the use of their dues on issues which they fundamentally disagree with.

I don't need my union dues going to an organization that blindly supports the democrat label regardless of whether or not those who use the democratic label are actually democrats.

Americans of all political preferences would rise up against such tyranny if their rights were squelched by corporations, yet teachers unions have been legally trampling the free - speech rights of teachers throughout our nation for decades through forced dues used to fund their one - sided political agendas.

His observations during that campaign of the power and influence of the unions in our state led him to found the Education Alliance, a group dedicated to assisting independent school board candidates as well as authoring, qualifying, and chairing the 1998 Proposition 226, which would have required unions to receive permission to use their members» dues for political purposes.

A long ignored law in California which stipulates that a teacher's evaluation must be based at least in part on how well her students perform on state tests should help, but due to the teachers unions» hardcore stance against using student performance to measure teacher effectiveness, the conflict to replace LIFO will be a bloody one as well.

GM also announced it will use about $ 1.2 billion of the new funds to prepay in full the 7 - percent notes (including accrued interest) held by the CAW's Union Health Care Trust that are due in installments through 2018.

Due to this discrepancy, banks and credit unions use APR and APY for different purposes in their marketing.

This category covers an array of possible expenses, including cellphone minutes used on work calls, union dues and miles driven for work meetings at a rate of 55.5 cents per mile.

While you are allowed to deduct union dues and initiation fees paid to the union, you are not permitted to deduct payments or contributions used to pay for sick, accident or death benefits.

Future consumption in OECD European countries is expected to be greater than shown in Figure 11 due to recent EU plans to increase the proportion of renewables in total energy use to 20 percent by 2020 (European Union, 2007).

Due to concerns about the «non-additionality, environmental merit, cost - effectiveness and competitive distortions of HFC - 23 credits» the European Union agreed to ban the use of HFC - 23 credits from the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) starting in 2013.

But then we should not have exemptions because of religious beliefs such as refusing to pay union dues because of religious beliefs conflicting with purposes for which dues are used.