Sentences with phrase «with public workers»

Teachout was able to run a stronger - than - expected turnout in rural and upstate areas based on in part an active environmental campaign opposed to hydrofracking and Cuomo's strained relationship with public workers unions.

Cuomo feuded with public workers unions like the New York State United Teachers, the Public Employees Federation and the Civil Service Employees Association.

DiNapoli is close and quite popular with the public workers unions whose pension fund he manages and Cuomo, as governor, was preparing to do battle with state workers over a less generous contract, threatening layoffs in the process.

Cuomo has been at odds with public workers on several fronts, pushing for a cap on local property tax increases and reducing pensions for new employees.

Hawkins, who performed best in the Capital Region where Cuomo went to war with public worker unions early in his term, said he isn't so sure the anger is going to be there again in 2018.

Not exact matches

Business advised workers to stay at home with some roads inaccessible and public transport operating a limited service.

The source said the pay cap was brought in to «deal with the mess we inherited from Labour» and acknowledged the «hard work and sacrifice» made by public sector workers, saying jobs had been protected and the deficit reduced by three quarters.

However, with technology - based education initiatives likely to see a reduction in federal and state funding in the coming years, the public sector will likely not have the resources to step in and help bridge the gap between a lack of skilled workers and unfilled jobs.

«The PRPP will not do anything to help people in the private sector close the really massive gap with public - sector workers,» he says.

Combine that with public - sector salary disclosure laws and workers who report their earnings anonymously to online databases compiled by Glassdoor.com and Monster's Salary Wizard, and it starts to seem like the paycheque is becoming less of a secret than it once was.

The problem lies less with layers of government and excessive numbers of government workers providing services than with the generous salaries and benefits of those who are on the public payroll.

The Liberals are unlikely to make any final decision on drug testing until the Supreme Court of Canada rules on its legality in a case between Suncor and workers at its Alberta oil sands operation, said Troy Winters, senior health and safety officer with the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

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.

«We'd like to see all health care facilities pay their workers a living wage, and we'd like to see the current mantra that all new infrastructure be build with public private partnerships revisited.

David Robinson, in his capacity as trade and education consultant for Education International, a global union federation claiming to represent 30 million teachers and other education workers, met with WTO negotiators during the ministerial to discuss potential impacts on public education.

Tesla factory workers this year began a public campaign with the UAW to unionize the plant to improve wages and working conditions.

The newly elected Progressive Conservative government in Manitoba has moved quickly to cement its anti-worker bona fides with the radical right - wing by making it more difficult for non-union workers to join a union, and by opening up bidding on large scale public construction projects to non-union companies.

Though most associates remained on the job, many credit the event with being the public launch of the low - wage workers» movement.

Under Finance Minister Nicolas Marceau's plan, the PQ seeks to create jobs, avoid tax hikes, further exploit Quebec's natural resources and rein in government spending, such as pushing for «fair» agreements with physicians and public - sector workers during upcoming contract negotiations.

The negotiation of a «fair» agreement for taxpayers with Quebec's 430,000 public workers, whose payroll absorbed 59 per cent — or $ 37.3 billion — of government spending in 2013 - 14.

As to the FAQ released specifically for investors and workers, Joshua Waldbeser, of counsel with Drinker Biddle & Reath, opines that DOL's intentions «appear to be not just limited to educating investors about the fiduciary rule generally, but also to address some very specific misunderstandings, and to influence public perceptions» about the rule.

Portugal has addressed its public debt problem — the deficit was 9.3 % of GDP in 2009 — with a 5 % pay cut for public sector workers earning more than $ 1,500 a month and an increase in VAT.

Ms. Redford quickly proved those believers wrong with deep funding cuts to colleges and universities and attacks on public sector workers and their collective bargaining rights.

I'll be speaking at the second one, at 10:45 in the same room, along with the national leaders of NUPGE (representing provincial workers) and CUPE (representing municipal workers) about the contribution of public workers to greater equality by improving the lives of marginalized Canadians — the unemployed, the homeless, single parents, recent immigrants, senior citizens, and others.

Eroding pension plans by shifting risk onto vulnerable employees and retirees with limited ability to absorb income cuts is quite in keeping with the Harper government's determination to lower the boom on public sector workers and improve the profitability of their corporate friends in the private sector.

With the layoff of tens of thousands of workers, the quality and accessibility of public services are compromised.

Well, we could start with a systematic and sympathetic approach to mental ill - health among federal public workers.

My goal would be to both ensure that those who depend on the program are protected, while also balancing the growing cost of Social Security with other pressing priorities — from programs for children, the vulnerable, public investments, and shoring up our education and worker retraining systems.

While some economists cheer the corporate moves to keep the economy expanding, and consumers benefiting, others see the corporate givebacks as public - relations maneuvering to curry favor with workers, consumers and the Trump Administration.

The railroads treated their workers in a shameful fashion, justice was unknown in dealing with the workers, and the public remained indifferent to their plight.

All of us fret and kick against the steel bands of institutionalism; the teacher against the grading system, the social worker against the artificiality created by the very fact of his being a professional representative of the state commissioned to deal with human needs, the worker something of whose very life is «bought» against the employer, and the sensitive employer who buys that portion of that life against the system, the public official against the role which political necessity assigns to him.

In addition, there are in nearly every congregation employers who have alcoholics in their businesses or plants, workers who know of untreated alcoholics in their unions, professional people with alcoholics among their clients or patients, public schoolteachers and opinion molders who through social prestige, political leadership, or involvement in the mass media help to create new images of public problems.

Public prayer or church worship is the way in which we unite with others in expressing dependence on this Love, opening ourselves to it, and willing cooperation with it as «fellow - workers with God.»

The founder, Adam Smith, had a rather cheerful view of human economic activity, especially in societies in which strong moral foundations guide public behavior and free, competitive markets reward with better profits and higher wages those producers and workers who make good decisions.

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.

Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines two months ago, and with hundreds of thousands of people still homeless, some aid workers fear the public...

The overall goal is to get babywearing educators to think outside the box of working with babywearers, and for nurses and public health workers to see the compelling statistics about why they want to get a babywearing education and bring it to their hospital / office.

Of course, if Nestlé and Danone are serious about wanting to have a positive impact on public health then there is something they can do that won't require lavishing money on health workers: they can market their breastmilk substitutes in accordance with the minimum standards.

American women are offered 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which exempts companies with fewer than 50 paid employees, but in 2011, only 11 percent of private sector workers and 17 percent of public workers reported that they had access to paid maternity leave through their employer.

The city had just built the Thorp Public School on the south side of Grace, making Schorsch's homes seem a good place to raise kids, and the price nicely accorded with a blue - collar worker's pay stub.

LCGB in collaboration with Safely Fed Canada, are pleased to announce a training day on 4th December in Islington, North London, for commissioners and frontline workers from Public Health, Local Resilience Forums, emergency planners, infant feeding leads, health visitors and midwives working with vulnerable populations and refugees, and all other interested parties including peer supporters, on Protecting Infants in Emergencies in the Developed World.

LCGB in collaboration with Safely Fed Canada, are pleased to announce a training day on 4th December in Islington, North London, for commissioners and frontline workers from Public Health, Local Resilience Forums, emergency planners, infant feeding leads, health visitors and midwives working with vulnerable populations and refugees, and all other interested parties including peer supporters, on Protecting Infants in Emergencies in the... Read More

LCGB in collaboration with Safely Fed Canada, are pleased to announce a training day on 4th December in Islington, North London, for commissioners and frontline workers from Public Health, Local Resilience Forums, emergency planners, infant feeding leads, specialist health visitors and midwives working with vulnerable populations and refugees, and all other interested parties including peer supporters, on Infant and Young... Read More

That's why, as with most strikes in the public sector, who backs down most will not depend on a direct conflict between workers and management as to who can inflict or sustain most pain; too many members of the public would be caught in the crossfire and both sides» reputations would suffer unacceptably.

Up to two million public sector workers are striking over their pensions today, as union leaders» impasse with the government continues.

«The shadow chancellor has wrapped up public sector cuts, public sector pay freezes, a rise in retirement age and reduced pension rights in warm words that will ring hollow with Britain's army of public sector workers.»

That's why he should be asking what exactly is going on with Solar City Riverbend and how it is possible that — with no public announcement — SUNY Research Foundation approved Solar City's request to cut the number of factory workers to only 500 from the original 1,460.

Instead it had an impact in 2017, according to Yougov, who say the Tories had a 16 point lead over Labour with private sector workers, which flipped to May's party trailing Corbyn's by 5 points with those in the public sector.

«I came out on streets today because I feel the government reforms are not adequately engaging in dialogue with various workers in the public sector.

«With the public sector workers... yes, I think what we saw with head teachers writing letters home to parents in effect saying «don't vote for the Conservatives», that was the subtext,» she explaWith the public sector workers... yes, I think what we saw with head teachers writing letters home to parents in effect saying «don't vote for the Conservatives», that was the subtext,» she explawith head teachers writing letters home to parents in effect saying «don't vote for the Conservatives», that was the subtext,» she explains.