Sentences with phrase «with legislative pay raises»

This year, both Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos have expressed a willingness to consider per diem system reforms along with legislative pay raises.

Even this year, when a number of lawmakers threatened to disrupt his annual State of the State address with protests over the governor's refusal to go along with legislative pay raises, Cuomo didn't plead with them or negotiate.

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Cuomo announced he wants a legislative pay - raise commission to be created consider a two - tiered compensation system for lawmakers, with those without outside income making more.

A source with knowledge of the talks earlier today said a legislative pay raise commission — which is opposed by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — was out of the budget framework.

Negotiations over a state legislative pay raise are set to go down to the wire next week with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature facing off in a game of political hardball.

As for whether the budget would be late, Cuomo suggested lawmakers would not be deserved a pay raise — to be decided by a pay commission with a mix of executive, judicial and legislative appointees — if a spending plan is not approved in a timely fashion.

As such, he may see pay raises as a bargaining chip with legislative leaders.

A legislative committee has scheduledFive groups of unionized state workers that negotiated their pay raises with Gov. Scott Walker's administration are poised to receive the same 1 percent raise that non-union workers got in July.a meeting to vote on proposed contracts for five smaller Wisconsin unions.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office, meanwhile, has communicated to the legislative leadership in the two houses that a pay raise would be off the table next year if a budget isn't approved by the April 1 deadline, according to a source with direct knowledge of those conversations.

Many lawmakers are in no hurry to work with the governor, still holding him responsible for blocking their first legislative pay raise in nearly 20 years last fall.

Ethics in government, big money political corruption, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's culpability, yea or nay on legislative pay raises, are all part of one big sticky ball of garbage with so many points of contact between individuals and issues it's impossible to tease them apart.

But it is politically embarrassing, and anything law enforcement comes up with, whether actionable or not, will keep the issue in the headlines and remind voters for months of a seamy arrangement that looks suspiciously like an end run around legislative pay raises for a chosen few.

Legislative pay raises are deeply unpopular with voters.

Furthermore, I agree with the Times Union that if a pay raise is provided by the Special Commission on Legislative, Judicial, & Executive Compensation Commission, the Legislature will most likely not lift a finger to stop it («Be Honest on Pay Hike», Aug. 1pay raise is provided by the Special Commission on Legislative, Judicial, & Executive Compensation Commission, the Legislature will most likely not lift a finger to stop it («Be Honest on Pay Hike», Aug. 1Pay Hike», Aug. 17).

(Texas) With a statewide strike among Oklahoma teachers looming, lawmakers in Texas signaled this week that increasing teacher pay — possibly by tying raises to performance — will be a priority during the next Legislative session.