Sentences with phrase «wage freeze while»

Getting a three year wage freeze while having your health costs doubled (at least) doesn't really sound like a good deal to me.

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While Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo is a Democrat, he ran on a fiscally conservative platform that had more in keeping with the Senate Republicans» interests — property tax cap, public employee wage freeze, spending reductions — than the majority of Democrats (particularly those who hail from downstate) in the Senate and Assembly conferences.

ALBANY — While unionized state workers are getting hit with three years of wage freezes, and Gov. Cuomo and his top aides are taking 5 percent wage cuts, state Senate Republicans are doling out pay hikes to most of their Capitol staffers, The Post has learned.

Gov. David Paterson this morning traded indirect barbs with PEF President Ken Brynien, all but accusing the labor leader of lying on the airwaves while defending labor's refusal to go along with furloughs, wage freezes and other cost - cutting proposals.

The governor also called on teachers to accept temporary wage freezes and to increase their share of health benefit costs while blasting school administrators for making more than he does.

While Mangano says that deal will save $ 320 million and lift a wage freeze, the control board, the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, has expressed concerns about its legality.

No. 5: Say's he's going to fight for working people and the middle class while he freezes wages and doesn't raise the minimum wage.

While the plan called for a cut of 5.5 percent to education, dropping per - pupil funding by $ 550, funding limits could be offset at the district level by increased employee contributions to health care and pension programs, and by giving local school districts other tools such as wage freezes and adjustments in salary schedules.