U.S. Buick dealers have been asking for the Envision for the better part of the year, but a firm deal was not in place until General Motors signed a new four -
year labor contract with the UAW, with sales of the Envision being part of the agreement.
New York City teachers have approved a nine -
year labor contract, their union announced on Tuesday, a deal that raises pay by 18 percent but leaves questions about the future of their health benefits.
As one of us (Roza has) observed, the best state policies would prevent districts both from «deficit spending» (which occurs due to pensions and retirement health care) and from obligating out - year expenditures — such as when they sign a five -
year labor contract although there's ample uncertainty as to what revenues will look like in five years.
The Cuomo administration and the Civil Service Employees Association have reached a tentative five -
year labor contract, and the proposal now goes to NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby will go to trial on sexual assault charges, tentatively, in June 2017, even though it was expected to be this
COLONIE — The executive board of the Public Employees Federation gave the green light Thursday for a ratification vote on their proposed five -
year labor contract.
(New York City teachers have approved a nine -
year labor contract — a deal that raises pay by 18 percent but leaves questions about the future of their health benefits.)
New York City teachers have approved a nine -
year labor contract — a deal that raises pay by 18 percent but leaves questions about the future of their health benefits.
Not exact matches
Nearly 40 % of top performing firms already have more than 30 % of their
labor force composed of
contract / freelance workers with next
year increases expected to be 30 — 60 — 90 % or more.»
Businesses that occupy the free - trade zones have no restrictions on the repatriation of their profits, and they benefit from relaxed
labor laws that allow them to hire workers on a temporary basis without supplying a
year - long
contract.
The fact is the new agreement has placed football in the best
labor - management shape of any major professional sport, with a
contract that runs until the
year 2000.
When the first
labor contract between the owners and the players was agreed to in 1968 — 14
years after the Major League Baseball Players Association was formed as the representative of the players — the owners insisted that collusion be against the rules.
Food and
labor made up 90 percent of reported costs during the 2005 - 2006 school
year, with the remaining 10 percent attributed to
contract services, supplies, and indirect charges by school districts.a
Village officials said they recently began negotiating new
labor agreements with the Firefighter / Paramedic Association as well as the Metropolitan Alliance of Police and may have to make modifications later this
year depending on
contract settlements.
Moody's Investors Service weighed in today on the nine -
year contract deal reached by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYC teachers union, the UFT, saying that while the agreement «could eliminate» fiscal uncertainty by paving the way for other outstanding
labor contracts, it also comes at a «large» cost and relies on assumptions that may or may not come to pass.
«In just two
years in the state senate she has shown she's a proven advocate for our members and for all workers; she has been stalwart in our fight to end the tip credit for car wash workers, she was the lead sponsor of the Farmworker Fair
Labor Practices Act and she has stood with our members in
contract fight after
contract fight.
More than a
year and a half after its most recent
contract expired, New York's second - largest state worker's union has reached a tentative three -
year labor agreement with the Cuomo administration.
The
labor union that represents CUNY faculty and staff, the Profession Staff Congress, has threatened to strike at the start of the next academic
year if they do not receive a new
contract.
The next mayor is facing a daunting multibillion - dollar bill for retroactive pay hikes because the entire city -
labor force has been working for more than two
years under expired
contracts, the Independent Budget Office warned yesterday.
The state would also reduce funding for the senior colleges of the City University of New York by $ 485 million in the coming school
year, which is partially offset by $ 240 million the state would set aside to settle CUNY's outstanding, long - expired
labor contracts.
Further strain is put on us every
year because the state law known as the Triborough Amendment obliges us to keep giving «step» salary increases and other generous benefits even when a
labor contract has expired.
The union's rank - and - file last
year initially voted down a
labor agreement forged between PEF's leadership and the administration, leading Cuomo to threaten mass layoffs of state workers unless a second, revenue - neutral
contract was approved.
Early this
year, Teamsters Local 72, which represents state Thruway Authority workers, filed an unfair
labor complaint alleging its members were improperly threatened with layoffs if they failed to make concessions during
contract talks.
It is noted that «the cost of these reimbursements [is] roughly $ 1.7 million... According to the annual reports by the accounting firm O'Connor Davies Munns & Dobbins, Rockland County failed to budget for the prescription co-pay refunds for several
years in a row, under the assumption that county officials could eliminate the benefit during
contract talks with
labor unions.
This will be offset by $ 240 million the state will set aside to settle CUNY's outstanding
labor contracts, which have been expired for six
years.
More of the same was OK with all but one board member Tuesday when the Oak Brook Village Board approved a new three -
year contract with the Fraternal Order of Police
Labor Council.
Ryder will be expected to keep decreasing the department's once - ballooned overtime budget and help negotiate a
labor contract for the department's rank - and file, whose pact expired at the end of last
year.
In Nassau, officials attributed the historically high overtime costs to staffing needs after a wave of officers retired in recent
years and were not immediately replaced as the county negotiated new
labor contracts following a three -
year wage freeze.
The union and Mahoney are about to start negotiating a new
labor contract, which expires at the end of the
year.
That is why we worked together last
year to resolve the long - outstanding
labor contracts for the Faculty Federation and Administrators Association, I agreed to provide more operating assistance to the college these past two
years, and he agreed with me that changes needed to be made elsewhere to better serve the needs of the college.
Cuomo has had over the
years a truculent relationship with some
labor unions, including the public sector organizations who he battled in his first term in order to win cost savings in new
contracts.
The next mayor of NYC is facing a multibillion - dollar bill for retroactive pay hikes because the entire city -
labor force has been working for more than two
years under expired
contracts, the Independent Budget Office warned.
A new
labor contract has led to more retirements of New York City teachers this
year, according to the United Federation of Teachers.
Bill de Blasio and the teachers union struck a deal on a new
contract, ending a nearly five -
year labor dispute and potentially setting a template for negotiations with the city's other unions.
Cuomo's budget also included $ 240 million for the settling CUNY's
labor contracts, which expired six
years ago.
But in a story last
year, Politico New York reported that 62 percent of donors had business or
labor contracts before the city, or were trying to get a project approved — including the union DC37, which was negotiating a
contract, and a manufacturer of scented garbage bags who eventually got a
contract to provide them to the city.
Under Kaiman, the seven - member board worked more cooperatively with Mangano, lifting a three -
year wage freeze and approving new
labor contracts.
This
year, after she warned that she would again resort to layoffs, half of the city's
contracts remain expired, but she was able to settle the city's largest
labor contract.
«How can a mayor go four
years — an entire mayoral term — without resolving a single municipal
labor contract?»
As a result, the Mayor's Fiscal
Year 2015 Executive Budget, for the first time, paints an accurate picture of the cost of a
labor settlement, following
years during the previous administration in which
contracts remained open and unresolved.
During nearly two and a half hours of questioning, several Republican legislators asked whether the tax money — a projected $ 530 million a
year — would be used to help the city resolve open
labor contracts with over 100 unions.
While at the authority, he called for three
years of «net zero» increases in
labor costs; that was in line with what his predecessor, Jay H. Walder, had pursued and in line with the
contracts that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had negotiated with the state's public employee unions.
The
labor contracts of all five county unions expire at
year's end.
Syracuse police officers have reached a new
labor contract with the city, more than three
years after the old one expired.
During that time members voted down
contracts offers three times and the union filed an improper
labor practice charge against the county last month after the legislature voted to impose a three -
year contract on workers
De Blasio irked some in
labor by declaring in early August that his relative lack of primary endorsements left him «unburdened» should he be the one negotiating public sector
contracts next
year.
With the next mayor responsible for the renegotiation of
labor contracts, many of which have been expired for
years, the public sector unions have a tremendous amount invested in the person replacing Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Labor leaders have called for retroactive pay raises and other benefits for their members, who have been without
contracts for
years.
That 2 -
year maximum
contract term is a result of U.S.
labor law.
Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six
years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge
labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40
years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.
With continuing advances in hardware and software, the boundaries among «learning in school,» learning in other settings,» and «learning on your own» will gradually disappear, with potent implications for time spent learning, which need no longer be confined to the classroom hours stipulated in the teachers» union (or custodians» union)
contract or the 180 - day
year prescribed in state law (and, in some jurisdictions, not allowed to start before
Labor Day).