Sentences with phrase «democratic leaders of the union»

In an election year in which the front - running Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo is pitching a statewide property tax cap, New York State United Teachers» backing of Mangan may be calibrated to remind Democratic leaders of the union's political clout.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The coalition holds the kind of veto power that bigcity mayors, African - American leaders and labor unions hold in the Democratic Party.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

And Gov. Andrew Cuomo pledged to business leaders jittery about his support from the union - aligned Working Families Party and endorsement of a full Democratic takeover of the state Senate that he has no intention of going backwards.

He said Cameron's resignation in response to the outcome of a referendum that supported Britain to leave the European Union «was a demonstration of courage by a democratic leader who respects the will of the people, even if he didn't agree with their decision.»

The chairman of the state Democratic party and a group of influential union leaders are calling on New York Senate Democrats to back the re-election of eight breakaway Dems who recently returned to the fold.

Union, WFP and Democratic leaders have been trying to no avail to get Padernacht out of the race, even going so far as to have the New Roosevelt Initiative commissioned a poll that showed Espada was far more likely to hold onto his seat if he faced two challengers rather than just one.

House Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi introduced Cuomo at a rally of union workers at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City, where he made his remarks.

Curran's team to recommend candidates for top county posts consists of 35 people, including Republican and Democratic elected officials, developers, philanthropists, union presidents, and leaders of local universities, hospitals, religious institutions and nonprofits.

Around the table sat Mr. Cuomo; the leaders of New York's most powerful labor unions; Joseph Crowley, the top - ranked New York Democrat in the House of Representatives; and the two rival Democratic leaders of the State Senate — Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who leads the main group of Democrats, and Jeffrey D. Klein, who leads the breakaway group — among others.

Michael Kink, executive director of the union - backed Strong For All coalition who previously worked on AIDS housing issues, was arrested in 2013 outside the office of Sen. Jeff Klein, leader of the Independent Democratic Conference.

Off topic question topics included whether the mayor and his wife have smoked marijuana inside Gracie Mansion, a Daily News call for the mayor to «accept responsibility for inflaming the police», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction ending.

This is why the Bronx Democratic Party, Working Families Party, Acorn, 1199 union, 32BJ, United Federation of Teachers, DC37, Retailers union, Hotel and management union, churches and community leaders have endorsed Cabrera - he is the true democrat in this race.

More recently, the work of conservative Christian Democratic Union leader and Chancellor Helmut Kohl helped bring about German reunification, along with the closer integration of Europe in the form of the Maastricht Treaty.

Labour's leader has accused David Cameron of a «lack of respect for the democratic process» after the Prime Minister failed to show up in Parliament to answer questions about this morning's draft European Union deal.

The intelligence report, corroborated by numerous security sources, reveals that the The Democratic Union of Africa (DUA) an association of rightists / conservative political parties in various African countries on whose ticket Mr Mac Manu was traveling to Kenya as an observer of the elections, and the National Super Alliance (NASA) led by opposition leader Raila Odinga are doing everything possible to manipulate the Kenyan election in favour of the National Super Alliance (NASA) and its Presidential candidate Raila Odinga.

The Communications Workers of America, a key union in the coalition that's trying to engineer a full Democratic takeover of the state Senate, endorsed on Monday Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein's re-election.

As Democratic state Assemblyman Michael Blake seeks the vice chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee, his bid is getting a boost from the leader of the retail workers» union.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Union leaders, workers and Citizen Action activists held a press conference in front of a Syracuse Burger King restaurant Thursday to build on momentum to raise the minimum wage and to call on Sen. Dave Valesky to return to the Democratic conference in the Senate.

At a rally in Manhattan, the Democratic governor shared the stage with national labor leaders after a state wage board recommended raising the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 and hour, delivering a key victory in a national push by unions — led by Service Employees International Union — to improve the lot of (and unionize) employees at McDonald's, Burger King and other chains.

NEW YORK, NY — Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein (D - Westchester / Bronx) and State Senator Diane Savino (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn) joined Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Stores Union, and Macy's employees, retail workers, and working family advocates, in front of the iconic Macy's Herald Square on Friday calling for increased funding to child care subsidies.

City Hall insiders were scratching their heads about the need for a transition team since her predecessor, Christine Quinn, didn't have one.Members of the volunteer transition team included three former borough presidents and union leaders who helped her win the post, including the former law partner of the Brooklyn Democratic boss who brokered a backroom deal to seal her victory.

Ms. Throne - Holst, 56, of Sag Harbor walked out of the back room at the IBEW Local 25 Union Hall in Hauppauge where she and other Democratic leaders were watching the election results about an hour after polls closed and was immediately hugged by allies who praised the race she ran.

Between the specter of primaries, a newly united Democratic party (key unions and other leaders also agreed to back a Democratic senate for the first time when WFP backed Cuomo), and the events of the last year, the IDC announced it would caucus with Democrats in 2015.

Also at 10:30 a.m., Democratic Westchester County lawmakers, union leaders and women's rights advocates introduce a bill to help ensure salaries will be based on job qualifications and the value of the job they are being hired to do, not what prospective employees made in the past, 148 Martine Ave., 8th Floor, White Plains.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan is close to a «Faustian pact» with Democratic Gov. Cuomo to raise the state's minimum wage to a national high of $ 15 an hour — boosting union power and possibly costing New York hundreds of thousands of jobs, The Post has learned.

Witnesses to the wedding of mainline Dems and the IDC were Byron Brown, the mayor of Buffalo and chair of the New York State Democratic Committee; Christine Quinn, the party vice chair; Geoff Berman, the party's executive director; Peter Ward, president of the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council; and the leaders of other powerful unions, such as 1199, NYSUT and UFT, 32BJ, the Service Employees International Union, and the AFL - CIO.

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The missive made no mention of the controversy over Loeb, who used racially inflammatory language to rip state Senate Democratic leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins as beholden to politically potent teachers unions.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader, Senator Jeff Klein, stands to address members of the Senate on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, in Albany, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)

The proposal is the result of months of closed - door negotiations between Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's administration and the state employee union leaders as the state tries to balance a deficit of more than $ 2 billion.

Keeping labor relatively happy, however, helps Cuomo become the leader of a new national Democratic identity, one that contrasts with the Republican right's union - bashing yet is fiscally conservative and socially progressive.

After studying government at Colby College in Maine, she became a labor organizer herself, working alongside the Teamsters union and local political groups and eventually serving as a Democratic district leader until she was hired by the de Blasio administration in February of 2014.

The Government of Ghana has stressed that it had no intention of interfering in the 2017 Kenyan elections via Peter Mac Manu, who was prevented from entering the east African country as a leader of a team of election observers from the Democratic Union of Africa.

Cuomo was joined by House Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, members of Congress including Rep. Paul Tonko of Amsterdam and scores of union leaders and rank - and - file members.

«Labour MPs and trade union leaders whipping up hostility to MPs mounting a democratic challenge should reflect heavily on the consequences of their words.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio said this afternoon he would not apologize to police union leaders and rank and file cops, despite calls from some top officials for the Democratic mayor to be contrite in the wake of a glaring rift between the NYPD and City Hall.

Dilan has also racked up endorsements of his own, including Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson (D - Brooklyn), along with union groups New York City Building Trades and the New York City District Council of Carpenters.

Ms. Noerdlinger's boyfriend problem is just more grist for the mill for Mr. Mullins and other union leaders, who are spinning the idea that the mayor's reforms are making the city less safe — Mr. Mullins going so far as to place a paid advertisement in newspapers urging the Democratic National Convention not to come to town because New York is «lurching backwards to the bad old days of high crime, danger - infested public spaces, and families that walk our streets worried for their safety.»

Jesse Hamilton, a Crown Heights resident and the current district leader in Assembly District 43 — which partially overlaps with District 20 — is running with the support of Brooklyn Democratic party chairman Frank Seddio, the service workers» union 32BJ and Adams himself.

Assemblyman Keith Wright, a leader in the state Democratic Party, and Kevin Finnegan, · the political director of 1199 SEIU, the powerful healthcare workers» union, spoke to about 100 members of the WFP state committee, stressing what they painted as Mr. Cuomo's lengthy progressive record.

Under the agreement, which was hashed out during a two - hour meeting on Tuesday with Gov. Cuomo, Rep. Joseph Crowley (D - Queens) and influential labor unions, Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeffrey Klein (D - Bronx) will no longer be co-leader of the chamber.

When tumultuous change shook the former Soviet Union in the 1990s, with Russian leaders struggling to build a more democratic and free - market society after more than 50 years of communist rule, Caputo staked out his next adventure.

House Democratic Leader Pelosi introduced Governor Cuomo at the rally of union workers at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City.

Both of New Mexico's teachers unions and leaders in the Democratic - controlled state senate were openly critical of the pick.

Democratic leaders have enriched the unions over the past half century, creating millions of jobs for dues - paying teachers, feeding the building trades via school construction, and granting bargaining rights to teachers in the 1970s.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle and Washington Gov. Gary Locke chat in Mr. Daschle's conference room before Gov. Locke delivers the Democratic response to President Bush's State of the Union Address.

This one is taking place within the Democratic Party, where the unions» opposition to reform has led to increasing dissatisfaction — led by groups like Democrats for Education Reform, vocally expressed by moderate and liberal opinion leaders, energized by a growing network of education activists (many with roots in Teach for America), and funded by well - heeled philanthropists like Bill Gates and Eli Broad.

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