Sentences with phrase «veto over any reforms»

This is because those rules were long ago written into labor contracts, giving public employee unions a veto over any reforms.

The multi-layer decision - making structure, while faithful in its way to American federalism, mainly serves nowadays to pull schools apart in response to funding and regulatory streams emanating from different levels of government, to foster bureaucracy, confusion, and tension and, maybe most importantly, to give every level a functional veto over reforms initiated at any other level.

Not exact matches

Vilified by the left, major showdowns over the 1832 Great Reform Act and 1909 «people's budget» fed calls for abolition, ending in the chamber's veto power being taken away in 1911.

But just how much sway Mann, and the presiding three - judge panel, will have over the process will depend in part on whether Governor Andrew Cuomo follows through on his original promise to veto the legislature's lines or instead reaches some sort of compromise with the legislature by which he signs off on their lines in exchange for promises of redistricting reform in the future.

Grayling will take on responsibility for the Government's constitutional reforms including the further devolution of powers to Scotland and legislation to give English MPs a veto over England - only laws at Westminster.

A veto doesn't produce reform and we will be back here in ten years arguing over the same issue as we have been for past 45 years.

Various options exist, such as removing the veto power over secondary legislation (as recommended by various groups, including the 2000Royal Commission on Lords reform), and further codification of restrictions on the Lords» financial powers.

«Advocates for police reform have every right to expect a seat at the table... but no advocate should ever have veto power over the legislative agenda of the New York City Council,» Torres continued.

Will the NEA and the AFT continue to exert veto power over education reform?

We have a Democratic Governor proclaiming, with pride, that he will veto any «education reform» bill that doesn't give that same Commissioner the ability to take over 25 schools, fire the staff, ban collective bargaining and turn the schools over to some group of unnamed third - party entities who will then be exempt from Connecticut's laws on bidding and the use of consultants.