Not exact matches
The NASUWT has today received formal notification
from the High Court of the
hearing date for its application for judicial review of the Coalition Government's decision to change the index - linking of
public service
workers» pensions, including teachers» pensions,
from the Retail Price Index (RPI) to Consumer Price Index (CPI).
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.
In June, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, the wage board's chairman and a longtime Cuomo ally, said he and his fellow members clearly believed «a substantial» increase was needed to bring fast food
workers up the economic ladder — despite persistent opposition
from the business community, which often found itself drowned out at
public hearings that served more or less as labor rallies.
«On Friday we'll be
hearing from Len McCluskey, the newly elected general secretary of Unite - a union like ours that represents
workers in both the
public and private sectors, a union that knows the importance of campaigning hard, and a union with which we will be signing a joint agreement to embed our new working relationship at every level.
On Feb. 26, the United States Supreme Court will
hear oral arguments in Janus v. AFSCME, a case that boils down to the question of whether
public - sector unions have a right to collect dues
from workers they bargain on behalf of, even if they are not union members.
They did pack
public hearings, lining up testimony
from current fast food
workers who described in tearful detail the impossibility of supporting a family while working in the industry.
We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion
workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the
public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted
from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to
hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to
hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming
from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect
from him?nothing.
Sex
workers testifying at the
hearing stated in Court that, «If prostitutes could work
from home they would be safer and not a
public nuisance on the street.»
The effect of these changes on the injured
worker, often in the
worker's own words, is gathered
from many sources: workshops and conferences,
public consultations and
hearings, injured
worker groups, media investigations and coverage, participatory action projects, lobbying and advocacy activities, oral histories & personal accounts recorded in photos, poems and song.