Scotland's biggest teaching union is to take to the streets to protest against looming cuts in the education budget.Members of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), which has over 60,000 members, are to take part in a joint union campaign toView...
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Reuters DUBLIN - Members of Ireland's largest two public sector trade unions have backed a government pay offer, helping the chances of pushing through ?3 billion of savings in the 2011 budget and limiting the chance of strikes. Ireland has carried out
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Longshoremen at Virginia-owned marine terminals in Newport News and Portsmouth have rejected proposed wage and benefit cuts. Members of the International Longshoremen's Association voted Thursday to reject two proposals that would have cut wages and
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a tentative agreement on all terms of a new four-year collective bargaining agreement that includes a 16 percent pay raise over four years, according to a joint statement. Dameron's 360 registered nurses who are members of the union will have the
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are fair for both city workers and taxpayers have been rebuffed with threats of mass firings and significant wage cuts SPECIAL TO THE REVIEW-JOURNAL As members of the city's largest employee union, we have repeatedly tried to negotiate concessions that
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-- Thousands of New Jerseyans gathered Saturday near the Statehouse to protest Gov. Chris Christie's proposed budget cuts. Organizers say members of public employee unions hope a show of force will sway the state's top politicians to fight Christie. The
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-- Thousands of New Jerseyans gathered Saturday near the Statehouse to protest Gov. Chris Christie's proposed budget cuts. Organizers say members of public employee unions hope a show of force will sway the state's top politicians to fight Christie. The
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and the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) have today rejected the Croke Park deal on public service pay and reform. TUI members voted by a three-to-one margin against the plan. A total of 10,082 valid votes were cast in the ballot with
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Spanish Civil Servants to Strike over Pay Cuts
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Unions representing Spain's civil servants announced Thursday their members would strike in protest over pay cuts. The Federation of Servicios Publicos,...
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Calls from some members of city council for more cuts in the Chillicothe Budget has Mayor Joe Sulzer firing back. Sulzer rebuked those claiming the administration has refused to look at cuts, when he made cuts in the police and
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Calls from some members of city council for more cuts in the Chillicothe Budget has Mayor Joe Sulzer firing back. Sulzer rebuked those claiming the administration has refused to look at cuts, when he made cuts in the police and
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ant legislators to understand how deep cuts in state funding to libraries would hurt patrons. The Friends of the Phillipsburg Free Public Library launched an initiative April 12 asking members to sign postcards in support of the
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and the IMF has agreed to freeze wages for three years and eliminate two of the fourteen annual salary payment and in all cut 24 billion euros or $32 billion in spending. Service workers union ADEDY is resisting cuts and asking its members to protest
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BELVIDERE ? Some members of the Boone County Board will try to institute a four-year wage freeze tonight for the county?s clerk, treasurer and sheriff. The freeze would continue until December 2014. The proposal got support in a 3-2 vote at the April
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Violent attitudes No one should be surprised at the level of violence the Hutaree militia was willing to wage on the police in Michigan. The political discourse has been poisoned by right-wing talk radio and the Fox News network. What is equally
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The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is to recommend that its members reject the Croke Park public sector pay and reform agreement. The INMO has over 40,000 members and its recommendation is highly significant. Announcing the decision, INMO General
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Violent attitudes No one should be surprised at the level of violence the Hutaree militia was willing to wage on the police in Michigan. The political discourse has been poisoned by right-wing talk radio and the Fox News network. What is equally
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some unlikely allies Tuesday. One group representing more than 700 wealthy Americans pledged to donate members' 2010 tax cuts while lobbying for the cuts to be eliminated next year. Another released a report showing that Americans with incomes above
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Teachers are threatening to strike if the next government imposes cuts on school budgets. The leadership of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teaching union, urged its members to back industrial action to oppose any cuts to services, pay freezes
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Budget action sets up fight over health care, schools, roads
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The Senate doesn't cut pay but does require all employees to pay for a portion of their health insurance, as...
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Midwives Organisation. SIPTU President Jack O'Connor has meanwhile said that the anger from some members about the pay and reform deal is understandable considering the announcement from Government over the past few days. He said the proposal from Croke
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members cut away at the school budget at a special meeting on Saturday morning, moving to add a "pay to play" activity fee and lay off at least 43 employees â?? including as many as 15 teachers. To bring the budget to within the state-mandated
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Lakewood EMS agrees to pay cut; Contract vote possible at meeting tonight
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LAKEWOOD ? Members of the township's Emergency Medical Services department have agreed to take a 30-percent pay cut in order to prevent Lakewood officials ...
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economy cyprus economy » economy NICOSIA, March 22 - Members of Cyprus' government, including its president, are taking pay cuts as part of broader moves to rein in a widening public deficit, President Demts Christofias said on Monday. A 10 percent
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Over 11,000 rank and file garda today began a work-to-rule in protest over the Government's pay cuts and pension levy. Members of the Garda Representative Association will no longer use personal equipment, such as laptops and mobile phones, in the course
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members and the Miami-Dade County Commission, its main components include: Union employees contributing 5 percent of their base wage toward their group health insurance coverage. Freezing step salary increases and longevity bonuses for one year. A
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among them, legislated for the love of country and freedom, not the money. Since then, members have taken pay cuts only thrice, the last coming in 1933 when they accepted a 5.6 percent reduction. (It was restored a year later.) Today, they are paid
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hospitals, schools and public transport again on March 5 in protest at the government's 'socially unjust' spending cuts. Thousands of members of unions affiliated to the Greek Communist Party (KKE) rallied peacefully outside parliament, where MPs were
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Assembly Speaker Karen Bass quietly promoted 20 members of her Democratic caucus staff and gave them 10 percent salary increases as she stepped down as Assembly leader. Bass submitted the pay hikes and they took effect on the same day, last Friday, the
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Members of the Unite union voted by a four-to-one majority to end a four-month dispute with Fujitsu over pay, jobs and pensions. They had been protesting about recent job cuts, pay freezes and the closing of a final salary pension scheme. Unite said
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Union activists have called on members to campaign against spending cuts in local government, which they warned would damage communities throughout the UK
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8:08 PM EST SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ? It's a worst case scenario for Santa Barbara County. Cuts have been proposed for more than 400 jobs, which is roughly 10% of the counties workforce including 100 members of the Santa Barbara Counties Sheriff's
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Members of the Bellevue City Council are divided on an ordinance that would double their pay. The ordinance to increase the council salary from $7,000 to $14,000 and the mayor?s salary from $15,000 to $17,000 was introduced at the Feb. 8
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escalate a campaign of industrial action.Members of the CPSU have been involved in work to rule, since pay cuts imposed on the sector were introduced in last December's budget
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Budget cuts at the agency that administers the state?s Medicaid program could make it more difficult for patients to get the medical care they need, members of the state?s medical
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />SD Teachers Union Refuses Pay Cut, Offers Alternative
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SAN DIEGO ? San Diego's teachers union says its members will not accept an 8 percent pay cut to balance San Diego Unified School ...
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20 individuals who attended a meeting late last week, 19 voted on ways to make $25 million in cuts. But only a dozen voted on ways to slash next year's budget by $40 million - the number deemed necessary last week by Chief Financial Officer Ron Ally. 'I
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upon its 1,800 members to rally at tonight's school board meeting in opposition to more budget cuts that it says would hurt students. District officials estimate that trustees will have to slash at least $16 million next year and have prepared a report
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the Civil, Public and Services Union yesterday described the hardship they had suffered after the pension levy and pay cut reduced salaries by between 10pc and 13pc
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />UH professors begin contract ratification vote
KPUA
It includes a 6.7 percent pay cut until July 2011. The pact also calls for three lump-sum payments, starting in August 2012, to reimburse professors for the ...
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