I looked around at the protected bike lanes, the publicly funded playground workers, and the houses where people are home in the afternoon.
Three focus groups were held with three groups of health care workers (publicly funded community nurses (n = 4), non-government organisation counsellors (n = 4), and privately funded home visiting support workers (n = 4) from community health service providers.
Having unions, in this case SEIU, represent home care workers is part of an admirable strategy of extending collective bargaining to workers who are publicly funded even if they do not work directly for the government.
Robert Bonanza, business manager for the Mason Tenders District Council, which had picketed Lettire job sites and assisted the workers, said the settlement "sends a clear message to anyone who has either worked in the past, or intends to work in the future, on publicly funded, affordable housing projects: exploitation of workers will not be tolerated".
Mr. Paul argues that rapid shifts in the skills and technologies demanded by the modern economy strengthen the case for publicly funded higher education and training to help workers adapt.
In doing so, the administration at the publicly funded Monterey County, Calif., hospital has asked its workers to make concessions typical of this budget-tightening era.
With such a large percentage of the population dependent on publicly funded health care, retention strategies must address not only workers leaving Malawi, but also internal brain drain and worker preference for the private sector and urban areas.
These laws require that workers on certain types of publicly funded construction projects be paid the going rate in a given area.
First created in California in the 1990s, publicly funded registries exist in 19 states to help consumers find workers meeting their requirements.
Typically required on publicly funded construction projects, prevailing wages encourage contractors to compete based on workers' skill, experience and productivity, as well as on innovative project management — not merely on who can pay their workers the least.
