Sentences with phrase «used union money»

Former union leaders at the Rensselaer County jail used union money to pay tens of thousand of dollars in donations, bar tabs, strip - club outings and boxing events.

Not exact matches

With banks refusing in recent days to accept the latest restructuring plan, May's senior ministers met around the clock, under pressure from the Labour Party and unions not to use taxpayer money to prop up the failing company.

Banks are less keen to use the firm's digital currency XRP, but earlier this year two money transfer firms, MoneyGram and Western Union, announced projects involving the cryptocurrency.

On February 13, it emerged that the international money transfer giant Western Union has also been conducting tests using Ripple technology.

It means we will be able to use that money to invest in our priorities at home, such as housing, schools and the NHS, and it means the days of paying vast sums to the European Union every year are coming to an end.

One of the basic ideas is to let people easily invest in ICOs with improved safety and transparency using any money service — i.e., fiat money, debit card, credit card, BTC, ETH, PayPal, West Union, etc..

In a bid to make the platform more flexible and convenient for traders across the globe, the YesOption broker allows its customers to deposit money into and withdraw from their trading accounts using an array of payment processors, such as Neteller, Credit Cards, Western Union and Wire transfer.

Choosing credit could still benefit you for other reasons, but if you use a small regional bank or credit union, you might be able to save the merchant some money by entering your PIN.

Money owed to the players was, in part, used to create these new teams, which in turn created more jobs for members of the Players Union.

The Labour leader used an article for the Sun on Sunday newspaper to accept his proposed switch in the way Labour is funded via the trade unions will «cost us money».

With the Roberts Supreme Court already apparently reconsidering past precedents with an eye toward treating corporate and union donations as free speech, a federal appeals court has now ruled on behalf of Emily's List that nonprofits can use functionally unbounded «soft money» to finance their election - year activities.

and in doing so the Court protected the use of unlimited amounts of money by corporations and unions into election campaigns.

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.

But several aspects of the plan — including the use of $ 25 million in taxpayer money to turn public property into a stable for the private carriage industry, the move to curtail the pedicab industry, the loss of carriage driver jobs and the resulting shuttering the current stables on the West Side — have aroused considerable opposition from various corners, most recently from 68 owners of horse carriage medallions, who blasted their union for agreeing to the deal.

Over the past few years more and more unions have been paying less and less money into the labour party and in fact using the political levy for themselves.

With the money and muscle of labor unions, Democrats are less likely to need to use government staff for minor party petitioning than Republicans.

Thurrock Council uses taxpayer's money to fund union representation.

Yet often the same councils are continuing to use Council Taxpayers money to fund the salaries of trade union officials.

There is no questioning that Greece is part of the European Union, only that is it part of the Eurozone (countries using $ as their money).

As Igwebike Dominic, assistant general secretary of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), which has been fighting the privatisation programme, puts it: «Can you imagine a landlord sells their property to someone else, and then uses the money from the sale to paint, furnish and upgrade the house for the new owner?

In 2006, the Times Union published several stories about questionable use and misuse of member items, government money handed out by legislators.

While denouncing income inequality, he was determined to harvest big bucks from unions and private firms that had business before the city, and then to use that money to carry out his «progressive agenda.»

And union money needs to be banned to the same time, let's not use a band - aid solution on a major wound.

Taxpayer groups have responded that district cash surpluses have to be carefully monitored, lest the money be used to grant employee unions unreasonable raises.

COBA members — some of whom have sued to claw back the $ 20 million — asked Judge Oetken in May to force Seabrook to reimburse the union for any union funds he has spent on his defense thus far and to block him from using any more of their money to defend himself.

The committee, which includes the Real Estate Board and the Business Council of New York, has been asking executives and companies to pledge money, to finance a campaign of advertising and advocacy to counter the kind of advertising campaign that unions have used effectively to blunt previous cost - cutting attempts by governors.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about red light cameras in Albany and a Halfmoon developer who is using a loophole to funnel donation money to State Senator Kathy Marchione.

During nearly two and a half hours of questioning, several Republican legislators asked whether the tax money — a projected $ 530 million a year — would be used to help the city resolve open labor contracts with over 100 unions.

Use outside money from political campaign committees or unions or well - heeled donors to finance ads and rallies to build support.

Among those phone calls were several on Dec. 3, 2014, the day when prosecutors say Percoco pressured a state agency to rescind its decision to require Cor Development to sign a union agreement in return for using state grant money.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

When contacted, the state president of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, Mr. Bunmi Ajimoko, while commending the Federal Government for the initiative, advised the state government not to divert the money to other use.

«What the union is insisting on is a package of wages of benefits that exceed that of the private sector,» Mr. Linn said, adding that the carpenters are using a «technicality» to try and get more money than workers in the private sector.

Bafoeg recipients who agree to spend two semesters studying in Germany will be free to use Bafoeg money to finance studies in any European Union country.

Scam victims who were conned into using Western Union to wire money to fraudsters may be able to get at least some of their money back.

Never send money to anyone you just met using Western Union, even if they are in the US, UK or Canada.

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Bonds refuses to be a member of the players union because he doesn't feel he gets enough money to have his likeness used in video games and other such things, so therefore he's not in the game.

Unions slam free schools plan as an «irresponsible use of public money» ahead of tomorrow's Budget

Included in the PowerPoint: Macroeconomic Objectives (AS Level) a) Aggregate Demand (AD) and Aggregate Supply (AS) analysis - the shape and determinants of AD and AS curves; AD = C+I+G + (X-M)- the distinction between a movement along and a shift in AD and AS - the interaction of AD and AS and the determination of the level of output, prices and employment b) Inflation - the definition of inflation; degrees of inflation and the measurement of inflation; deflation and disinflation - the distinction between money values and real data - the cause of inflation (cost - push and demand - pull inflation)- the consequences of inflation c) Balance of payments - the components of the balance of payments accounts (using the IMF / OECD definition): current account; capital and financial account; balancing item - meaning of balance of payments equilibrium and disequilibrium - causes of balance of payments disequilibrium in each component of the accounts - consequences of balance of payments disequilibrium on domestic and external economy d) Exchange rates - definitions and measurement of exchange rates - nominal, real, trade - weighted exchange rates - the determination of exchange rates - floating, fixed, managed float - the factors underlying changes in exchange rates - the effects of changing exchange rates on the domestic and external economy using AD, Marshall - Lerner and J curve analysis - depreciation / appreciation - devaluation / revaluation e) The Terms of Trade - the measurement of the terms of trade - causes of the changes in the terms of trade - the impact of changes in the terms of trade f) Principles of Absolute and comparative advantage - the distinction between absolute and comparative advantage - free trade area, customs union, monetary union, full economic union - trade creation and trade diversion - the benefits of free trade, including the trading possibility curve g) Protectionism - the meaning of protectionism in the context of international trade - different methods of protection and their impact, for example, tariffs, import duties and quotas, export subsidies, embargoes, voluntary export restraints (VERs) and excessive administrative burdens («red tape»)- the arguments in favor of protectionism This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talked about.

Money currently spent on rewarding teachers for valueless credentials could be used to increase starting salaries, a policy goal espoused by nearly all interested parties, from education reformers to teachers unions.

When a 2008 initiative, Measure 10, which would have banned the use of tax money for campaigns or lobbying and restricted political contributions by government contractors was defeated, its committee chair Jim Anderson noted, «We'll be able to prepare accordingly next time, knowing that the real opposition to ethics reform in South Dakota is NEA union officials back east.»

In «The Long Reach of Teachers Unions: Using money to win friends and influence policy,» featured in the Fall 2010 edition of the Education Next journal, Antonucci also reveals that teachers unions have become a force in matters beyond education policy, including weighing in on domestic policy issues such as taxation, healthcare, gay marriage and redistriUnions: Using money to win friends and influence policy,» featured in the Fall 2010 edition of the Education Next journal, Antonucci also reveals that teachers unions have become a force in matters beyond education policy, including weighing in on domestic policy issues such as taxation, healthcare, gay marriage and redistriunions have become a force in matters beyond education policy, including weighing in on domestic policy issues such as taxation, healthcare, gay marriage and redistricting.

The catch: The money can be used only if the teachers union and governor reach a deal to put the state's 171,000 public school students back in class for six remaining teacher furlough days this school year and 17 next school year.

There are too many money laundering tricks that unions can use for the bill to be truly effective.

I'm confused by the deplorable tactic that the teachers unions are using to perpetuate the myth that charter public schools are stealing money from traditional public schools.

Ms. Anderson, 43, used some of that money to establish merit - based pay in a teachers» contract that was hailed even by national unions as a groundbreaking compromise.

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.

It used to be, the teachers union leader told the crowd, that it didn't take much to win a school board race: a short statement in the election handbook, a little money for some mail and the shoe - leather to knock on doors and talk to voters.

Ian Leaver from the National Union of Teachers said: «We oppose free schools because we believe it is taxpayers money that is being used to fund private education.