Here, Justice Kagan wrote, "personnel" is commonly used to refer to "human resources matters" like pay, pensions, lunch hours and parking.
"It's been painted as being all about the money but what this is really about is workers who won't be able to negotiate health insurance, pension, vacation, hours of work, the arbitration process, just cause or discipline," Badger said.
Shuntō subject matter has gradually broadened to include issues such as work hours, pensions, and housing, as well as large wage bonuses paid once or more each year.
The NUT called the strike in protest at what it says is the government's unwillingness to negotiate over teachers' pay structures, pensions and working hours.
But the main focus of Thursday's strike seemed to be traditional issues like wages, working hours, pensions and benefits — of obvious interest to the teachers, nurses, bank tellers, bus drivers and factory workers who turned out in large numbers.
Business groups denounce the binding arbitration provision, saying it would be wrong to have federally appointed officials issuing rulings that determine a company's wages, hours, pensions and working conditions.
[C1.] Dissatisfaction Grows Among Nation's Pilots With half the seats in the nation's airliners run by companies either in bankruptcy protection or limping out of it, pilots are facing a new world of reduced pay and pensions, and longer hours.
The spending climbdown was announced on Monday by Stephen Crabb, the new work and pensions secretary, an hour after Cameron addressed the political crisis engulfing the Conservative party by offering his support to George Osborne and praise for the work of Duncan Smith.
In a report this month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said state and local workers averaged $26.85 in wages an hour, with compensation totaling $41.16 an hour when pensions and other benefits are included.
The US Airways dispute shows how hard times in the industry — including pay cuts, lost pensions and longer work hours — have brought out the fratricidal tendencies of pilots.
