Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg insists that he will not grant raises to New York City's unions without productivity increases, a demand that has workers worried and union leaders reluctant to cooperate.
Increasingly frustrated, Mr. Bruno said that his chamber had introduced legislation to grant raises just to judges, and not lawmakers — a move seen by many as a jab at Mr. Silver, given the overwhelming desire of his members for a raise.
In the Fed's playbook, employers would grant raises in response to the pressure and then seek to recover the costs of those raises by jacking up prices for a range of everyday items.
Their grant raises troubling questions about the future of the party.
Also announced Tuesday was a tentative agreement between Brown and California's largest state worker union to grant raises to its members.
He used a loophole to grant raises to two of his most loyal staffers, defying the White House to do so, and fired one of Trump's campaign staffers, after the staffer tried to push back on Pruitt's spending.
I've seen performances done on stages in Brooklyn receive standing ovations that in other parts of New York might only be granted raised eyebrows.
Mr. Hunting of the Beldon Fund wanted "to make sure that grantees weren't left dangling in the wind" and took measures to help nonprofits that had become dependent on his grants raise money from different sources.
Charles Brecher, research director of the Citizens Budget Commission, a business-backed watchdog group, said a wage freeze would bolster Mr. Bloomberg's goal of granting raises to city workers only if those raises were financed by productivity increases.
