Lindsay was promised millions in new fees from the development there, and his negotiator, Deputy Mayor Robert Price, finally extracted from the Port Authority an increase in payments for the original trade-center site.
As doctors' payments are discussed in Committee - along with a new formula for determining those fees - consideration must be given to an increase in payments for Primary Care Physicians PCPP).
The company was cited for proposing increases in payments that G.E. workers and retirees must pay for their health plan, while giving Mr. Welch a multimillion-dollar retirement package that included payments for his apartment, V.I.P. tickets at Yankee Stadium, and even his laundry.
In July 2004, pensioners instituted a hunger strike when demands for increases in payments were ignored, and when the government did react, its proposal was to increase the national sales tax.
The hiring of part-time workers, increases in overtime payments for police officers and others, raises for city workers and rising health care costs, among other factors, have all pushed the city budget upward in the last several years.
In a sign of their growing militancy, screenwriters are consumed not only by financial matters, like increases in residual payments for video and foreign sales, but symbolic issues involving the way credits are given on films.
But their health care benefits will remain largely intact, save for modest increases in co-payments for brand-name prescription drugs for active workers and for future, but not current, retirees.
Management did not budge from that offer in recent weeks, but in negotiations this week, an increase in company payments for health insurance and other benefits seemed to clear the ground toward settlement of a strike that both sides had repeatedly said they wanted to bring to a quick conclusion.
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