Sentences with phrase «when public workers»

We have legislation that is not very clear in Iceland about when public workers, the bureaucrats in the system, have a duty to report or a duty to be silent.

Experts acknowledge that when a public worker's speech creates actual disruptions on the job, bosses should have the ability to mete out discipline.

Not exact matches

The program stoked public anger when some Royal Bank of Canada employees complained their IT jobs were being handed to temporary foreign workers.

Concerns about BYOD first became a matter for public discussion in 2010 when workers began bringing their personal smartphones to work, and used them to become more efficient at their jobs.

Meagher said that when she previously worked at a high - tech public relations firm, she was one of the oldest workers.

Van Parijs and Vanderborght trace the political roots of guaranteed basic income to England in the late 18th century, when Prime Minister William Pitt proposed to replace the country's poor law, which channeled public generosity through gruesome workhouses, with cash supplements to low - wage workers.

Motown took a step closer to bankruptcy last week when the state - appointed fix - it man called on bondholders and public workers to accept steep cuts.

In the same way that the energy industry today is mistakenly identified with «Big Oil» (Exxon, Chevron, et al.), when it is in fact conducted predominantly by smaller independent companies most readers will have never heard of, modern capitalism is not largely the purview of Apple and Walmart, but rather of small, privately owned businesses with less than one hundred employees providing services or products the public wants or needs in order to support the families of the owners and provide jobs for their workers.

When most of our current pedagogical practices were developed more than a century ago, the essential economic purpose of public schools was to produce industrial workers who were fast and reliable when assigned repetitive mechanical or clerical taWhen most of our current pedagogical practices were developed more than a century ago, the essential economic purpose of public schools was to produce industrial workers who were fast and reliable when assigned repetitive mechanical or clerical tawhen assigned repetitive mechanical or clerical tasks.

So when a group of health - care workers and advocates from the Mississippi Breastfeeding Coalition asked her in January to join their movement to lobby the Legislature to allow women to breast - feed at work and in public, she jumped at the opportunity.

«Vested interests are trying to create a wedge between public and private sector workers, when in reality they have common cause on this.

Democrats can't win when their only message is higher taxes and more spending that just make everything more expensive at a time when nobody's getting raises except the public union workers.

The row began over the weekend when shadow chancellor Ed Balls said a future Labour government would retain the coalition's pay squeeze on public sector workers.

Gov. David Paterson this morning lambasted public employee unions for making an issue of the $ 42,000 worth of raises he granted — and subsequently rescinded — to five members of his own staff at a time when he was pushing for a furlough for state workers.

Donohue, who heads the second largest state workers union in New York, is a tough - talking sort, and has never been shy about expressing his opinions about the governor in public, particularly when he feels his members are getting the short end of the stick.

When Zephyr Teachout, then a little - known Fordham Law School professor, challenged Cuomo in a primary four years ago, one of the state's largest public workers unions, PEF, endorsed her, while NYSUT decided to sit out the governor's race entirely, declining to pick a favorite.

Raising the minimum wage, helping small businesses, and strengthening workers» rights are all backed by a majority of the public when they don't know these policies are Labour's.

Even when public employees» relatively decent pensions and health coverage are included, their total compensation still lags behind workers in private industry.

When this Conservative government bans public sector strikes (FFS Vince Cable is in favour of banning private sector strikes), or when they go in heavy handed against public sector workers striking to protect their livelihood then I will like to see you explain how «liberal» this Conservative governmentWhen this Conservative government bans public sector strikes (FFS Vince Cable is in favour of banning private sector strikes), or when they go in heavy handed against public sector workers striking to protect their livelihood then I will like to see you explain how «liberal» this Conservative governmentwhen they go in heavy handed against public sector workers striking to protect their livelihood then I will like to see you explain how «liberal» this Conservative government is.

Ministers are hoping to minimise the number of redundancies by not replacing public sector workers when they retire or leave their jobs.

In this climate of austerity and the need for public sector cuts, when so many are worried about the possibility that nurses, teachers and other such essential workers will be forced out of work as government tightens its belt, it is worth noting that # 2.8 billion of taxpayers» money was spent on consultancy fees in 2005 - 06 alone.

Issues mentioned in the flyer included the Senators failure to: Stand up to the Governor when he shut down hundreds of construction jobs; Stand up to the Governor when he violated public employees contracts; Reform our broken economic development system; Enact a farm workers bill of rights; Increase the state's unemployment benefit.

Whether it's been attacking public employee pensions, refusing to help New York's unemployed workers, or failing to stand up to the Governor when he shut down hundreds of construction jobs, there is a long line of broken promises and actions in the Senate that have targeted the labor movement.

Given the negative and selfish rhetoric we've heard from the leaders of the various public employee unions this year when Governor Paterson has asked them to share in the general belt - tightening that so many New Yorkers have been enduring as the result of the Great Recession, one might assume that if taxpayers knew that their gift was paying the salaries of state workers, they would not be so benevolently disposed toward our program.

Noel DiGerolamo, second vice president of Suffolk's Police Benevolent Association, which has about 5,000 members, said public - sector workers are being blamed for ballooning pension costs when Wall Street investment houses are the true culprits.

«From running digital campaigns in support of striking McDonalds workers to making viral videos highlighting Tory cuts to public services with the CWU and the TSSA - we believe Labour is strongest when trade unions and member organisations work together closely.

«He confirms that the government is grabbing money from public sector workers to pay down a deficit they did nothing to create, even at a time when their pay is frozen for two years and many are facing job losses,» he said.

When workers in the private sector are facing pay restraint, a 1 % average limit on annual increases is necessary to minimise public sector job losses.

When Mitch Daniels became Indiana governor, he also stripped collective bargaining rights from public workers, but in an even less democratic way than Walker sought to.

City Council members Oliver Koppell and Annabel Palma may cause an uproar in City Hall, when they propose a bill that guarantees a wage of at least $ 10 for workers of development projects that have received more than $ 100,000 in public subsidies.

«Millions of public sector workers would (in the short term) face redundancy and the dole queue or massive reductions in real spending at a time when their homes would be under threat.»

GMB general secretary Paul Kenny said the claim was unacceptable at a time when thousands of public sector workers were having pay rises capped at three per cent.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has had an uneasy relationship with some public - sector labor groups during the early years of his administration, blasted the case in similar language this week when speaking at a convention for the Transport Workers Union in Las Vegas.

«Its recommendations demonstrate, once again, the value of an independent review body process, particularly when public service workers, including teachers, are facing a hostile Government and unnecessary and unjust pay restraint.

BTW, Smith, since you're always denigrating teachers and public sector workers, when are you going to grow a pair and tell us what YOU do for a living and what county YOU live in?

There was a time when public union workers had real clout, when legislators — before the county executive system took effect in 2009 — shook in their boots at the prospect of labor unrest.

The Prime Minister yesterday told public sector workers strikes were «wrong» at a time when discussions were ongoing, pointing out that their retirement funds are costing every household in the country # 1,000 a year and must be reformed.

Blame William Hague for his spineless comments when British jobs were on the line at the Total oil refinery, blame David Cameron for not saying he'd abandon the Lisbon Treaty, and blame George Osborne for talking about public spending cuts at a time when only public sector workers are working.

And then there's Cuomo's economic platform — which, by the way, the W.F.P. signed onto in 2010 when it was begging Cuomo to endorse it — of a property - tax cap, reducing pensions for new public workers and cutting taxes, including some measures targeted at major banks and people with million - dollar estates.

«It's outrageous that, at time when public sector workers have had their salaries either frozen or rise only slightly, politicians could be getting a salary increase of 18 %.»

Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, warned the public of rushing to judgment when viewing footage of any police action, specifically calling out the commissioner for publicly commenting on the video of the March 17 arrest of 27 - year - old postal worker Glenn Grays.

Back in 2008 when MORI reviewed their methodology after wrongly showing Ken Livingstone ahead in the London mayoral race, they discovered they had too many public sector workers in their telephone samples and started weighting according to it (quite drastically, it's sometimes a case of almost halving the number of public sector workers).

Mr Barber's latest attack on the government comes as his organisation prepares for the «TUC Day of Action» on November 30th when up to three million workers will take part in stoppages, meetings and rallies in protest over the government's decision to cut public sector pensions.

While the scientists sparred, workers at Syngenta's atrazine plant in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, stole the spotlight when their cancer rates became public.

The row blew up late last year when the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) began a public consultation on setting new limits for working with the dust, which is a major hazard for construction workers, causing serious lung disease.

Research involving the University of Southampton has shown that male public sector workers receive a short, positive boost to their job satisfaction when a political party which they support takes control after an election.

But when railroad station worker Carl gets into a public relations mess with a customer, he asks his wife to get the influential Owens to use his juice to help him get back his job.

Similarly, when it came to the idea that the feds needed to force states to act, we wrote «Prodding public sector institutions to set goals, monitor performance, and then reward excellence and address mediocrity has been a signal success for reformers on both the left and the right... Sensibly structured accountability systems encourage self - interested workers to take goals seriously, focus on outcomes, and employ all the levers at their disposal to produce those outcomes.

The fact that the very high - tech companies that represent America's economic future have to look abroad for workers with the needed skills is a chilling sign that we have to get our act together when it comes to public education.

Across the board, in every country studied, what they found was that women retain the literacy skills they learned as young girls in school — even when they attended lowquality schools only for a couple of years — and then use those skills later, as mothers, to understand and connect with public health information disseminated through the media and through healthcare workers.