Sentences with phrase «coalition members work»

Coalition members work both through working groups devoted to specialized areas of activity and together on an over-arching initiative.

Not exact matches

«We've been working closely with the Coalition for Better Ads and industry trades to explore a multitude of ways Google and other members of the Coalition could support the Better Ads Standards.»

After four decades of shareholder advocacy, we are bolstered in the knowledge that as the field of corporate social responsibility which ICCR members helped to promote in the early 1970s continues to evolve, so does the work of our growing coalition of active shareowners as they refine their methodology and design newer and more effective models for corporate engagement.

Justice For Children International is by no means alone, we are a founding members of Stop the Traffik, a major global coalition with over 300 member organisations based out of the U.K. Stop the Traffik works together to help stop the sale of people, to see the traffickers prosecuted, and to protect the victims of human trafficking and those vulnerable to this crime.

The National Organic Coalition is a national alliance of organizations working to provide a «Washington voice» for farmers, ranchers, environmentalists, consumers and industry members involved in organic agriculture.

For example, several ISEAL members have come together to form the Global Living Wage Coalition, and ISEAL is working in partnership with The Sustainable Food Lab and GIZ on the Living Income Community of Practice.

He has been very involved in many aspects of domestic and international agricultural policy and practice development, organizing, food labeling, standards, certification and accreditation work over the years, including: Founding Chair of the USDA / National Organic Standards Board, A founder of Domestic Fair Trade Association, National Organic Coalition, and Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Founding member of National Family Farm Coalition and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Board member of the International Organic Accreditation Service, Former NGO delegate to UN Codex / FAO / WHO Food Labeling Commission and WTO, Founding partner of Agricultural Justice Project, which has developed domestic fair trade standards for North America.

«We are proud to have worked alongside Members of Congress, as well as a broad coalition of public health and education groups and others in the food and beverage industry, to see this bill pass,» Neely said.

As a founding member of the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER), a coalition of leading global beverage companies working together to advance environmental sustainability, in FY17 Bacardi signed the Joint Commitment on Climate Change.

Through our participation in the Food Waste Reduction Alliance, a coalition made up of members from the Grocery Manufacturers Association, the Food Marketing Institute and members of our Association, we're working to educate the food industry on the issue.

Each year, members of the Connecticut Elks Association work with local Safe Kids coalitions to host safety events at schools, churches, Fire Departments, Police Departments and elsewhere.

She is member of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) and works to provide physiologic birth options and education in her community.

Baby Milk Action, the International Baby Food Action Network and the Baby Feeding Law Group, a coalition of 23 leading health bodies including the Royal College of Midwives, the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, have been working with MEPs and Member States to bring about an overhaul of these regulations for over 20 years — aware that mothers have been misled by the aggressive promotion carried out by the baby food industry.

This session will update on progress since last year's conference, on the work between coalition members of the Baby Feeding Law Group to develop a resource for food bank organizers and volunteers, and a pilot to implement the resource supported by Leicester City Council.

Firstly, Merkel and Sarkozy need to start understanding or remembering how strategic political coalition - building, collaboration and decision - making works at the level of both 17 and 27 member states.

At the same time, there are five members of the Independent Democratic Conference who have worked with GOP lawmakers in the past through a majority coalition.

Under a plan adopted by the state party committee, the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference and the mainline Democratic conference must work together to win the election and then form a new majority coalition in the chamber.

It is why Britain is a leading member — alongside the United States — of the coalition working successfully to defeat Daesh; why we have agreed to send 800 troops to Estonia and Poland as part of NATO's forward presence in eastern Europe; why we are increasing our troop contribution to NATO's Resolute Support mission that defends the Afghan government from terrorism; and it is why we are reinforcing our commitment to peacekeeping operations in Kosovo, South Sudan and Somalia.

Dafis was a Member of Parliament for Ceredigion from 1992 until 2000, having been supported by a coalition of local Plaid Cymru and Green party activists, the latter of which had worked with him on a number of environmental initiatives.

Common Cause / NY is an active member of the Fair Elections Coalition, working for the passage of a broad package of campaign finance measures, built around a core of small donor matching fund public financing of elections.

Senator Dave Valesky, D - Oneida, is one of the original members of the IDC, and says the coalition depends on the leader of the Senate GOP, Dean Skelos, and the IDC leader Jeff Klein, working very closely together.

The focus from liberal advocates has been on the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, which remains a key bloc of votes in the Senate chamber and has in the past worked in a majority coalition with Senate Republicans.

Quite a long time ago, back in 2005, I was lucky enough to work with my hon. Friend the Member for Grantham and Stamford (Nick Boles) and James O'Shaughnessy on the pupil premium, and little did we know then that it would be a raft for such a friendly and successful coalition.

The Working Families Party on Monday expressed disappointment over the decision by the seven - member Independent Democratic Conference to side with the Senate GOP in a governing coalition while also urging the lawmakers to help bloc the «Trump agenda» in Albany.

Members of the Wisconsin Contractor Coalition, which formed to oppose right - to - work efforts and has about 350 construction - related businesses on board, are lobbying lawmakers on the issue, said the group's spokesman Steve Lyons.

Rep. Joseph Crowley (D - Jackson Heights) worked with her on the New Democrat Coalition Political Action Committee and said she was a kind woman who got along well with members of both sides of the aisle.

A spirited coalition of union members, Democrats and Working Families Party members rallied Thursday outside the Capitol to urge Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to veto the Republican - written budget.

«Therefore all IDC members are united and agree to work together to form a new majority coalition between the Independent Democratic Conference and the Senate Democratic Conference after the November elections in order to deliver the results that working families across this state still need and deserve,» he added.

The activists, including members of the Long Island Progressive Coalition, the Working Families Party and the Hempstead - based group, the Corridor Counts, staged rallies at Nassau Republican Committee headquarters in Westbury and at Sen. Kemp Hannon's Garden City office.

She serves as a Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and has served as a member of the Elder Justice Working Group, NYS Senator Sue Serino's Aging Services Advisory Board, Dutchess County Coalition of Non-Profits, the Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Abuse, and the NYS Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution Mediation Ethics Advisory Committee, among others.

Most notably, members of the coalition from Transportation Workers Union Local 100 are working tirelessly to get New York City's essential transportation lifeline back on track.

The IDC has been under intense fire since Cuomo, during his successful attempt to secure the Working Families Party nomination, warned that all five IDC members will face primaries unless they break their relationship with the Republicans and form a new leadership coalition with the Democrats.

First Lady Chirlane McCray — who spearheads the ThriveNYC mental health initiative and the nationwide Cities Thrive Coalition that has 200 cities as members — said the initiative is «working hard» to change the manner in which individuals think about addiction and mental illness and establish prevention protocols.

Diaz, the entire Bronx Council delegation, along with members of the Northwest Bronx Comnunity and Clergy Coalition and the city's biggest retail workers union, fought for living wage jobs as part of a Community Benefits agreement with the developer, the Related Companies, but a deal couldn't be worked out.

We are also a founding member of the Accord Coalition — a wide coalition of organisations working for reform of state funded schools to make them more inclusive in matters of religion oCoalition — a wide coalition of organisations working for reform of state funded schools to make them more inclusive in matters of religion ocoalition of organisations working for reform of state funded schools to make them more inclusive in matters of religion or belief.

Members of the coalition, which includes the Center for Working Families, United NY, and the Working Families Party, will be on Capital Tonight at 8 p.m. and on the replay at 11:30.

The letter, dated Friday, was signed by members of the coalition, including Common Cause's Susan Lerner, Lawrence Norden of the Brennan Center for Justice, NYPIRG's Bill Mahoney and David Palmer of the Center for Working Families.

But Cuomo and the coalition, which is backed by the Working Families Party, do not align on the repeal of Wilson - Pakula, which allows party bosses to grant non-party members a spot on the ballot.

At 12:30 p.m., the Climate Works for All coalition and NYC Council members Donovan Richards, Ben Kallos, Barry Grodenchik, Carlos Menchaca, Brad Lander and Alan Meisel call for mandatory energy efficiency retrofits of large buildings, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

In September 2008 we became one of the founder members of the Accord Coalition — a wide coalition of organisations working for reform of state funded schools to make them more inclusive in matters of religion oCoalition — a wide coalition of organisations working for reform of state funded schools to make them more inclusive in matters of religion ocoalition of organisations working for reform of state funded schools to make them more inclusive in matters of religion or belief.

Darren Johnson, a London Assembly member, said the Lib Dems had made a «huge error» and were paying the price of entering a coalition, instead of going into opposition and working with other parties.

An IDC spokeswoman denied the group conferences with Republicans, saying they conference with fellow Democrats and work «in Majority Coalition with 32 senators who elected a Republican leader, enabling IDC members to move and pass progressive legislation.»

But she said Peralta's town hall showed IDC members have work to do explaining the purpose of the coalition.

The coalition of activists and members of the Democratic and Working Families parties launched a second website, Smart Vote NY, urging people with second homes in swing districts to register to vote there.

Among the voices joining with PSC was Bill Lipton, State Director of the New York Working Families Party; members of 32BJ; Henry Garrido, Executive Director of DC 37; Vincent Álvarez, President of the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL - CIO; Zakiyah Ansari, Advocacy Director of the Alliance for Quality Education; and Rabbi Michael Feinberg, Executive Director of the Greater New York Labor - Religion Coalition.

In August, the name «Christopher Howarth» is listed twice in the official Register of Interests of Members» Secretaries and Research Assistants as working for the MP Steve Baker and Nick Herbert, a former Home Office and Justice minister in David Cameron's coalition government.

And for weeks now in New York City, people have been turning on their television seeing Andrew Cuomo with his daughters and his girlfriend all urging the voters not to vote for him as a Democrat or as a member of the Working Families, but as a member of the Women's Equality Party — an attempt to basically use the third - party movement, basically, to promote himself without having to be accountable to other groups in the normal Democratic or progressive coalition.

To the editor: 9/11 health care was won through the efforts of a vast coalition of 9/11 responders, community members and other stakeholders who worked alongside Congressman Jerry Nadler and a host of other elected officials to get the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act passed by the congress in 2010.

The union is one of a handful of labor groups, including the United Federation of Teachers, the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Workers» Union and the Hotel Trades Council, that agreed to form a coalition along with Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and members of the Working Families Party to help Democrats take control of the Senate, which the Republicans have controlled for all but two of the last 50 years.

Outside of his work with the coalition, Justin also serves as President of the Board of Directors for the Chautauqua Leadership Network, is a classroom volunteer for Junior Achievement of WNY, is a mentor for the WNY P - TECH STEM College & Career Academy and is a member of the WNY STEM Hub.