Sentences with phrase «labor action movement»

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Whether it's been attacking public employee pensions, refusing to help New York's unemployed workers, or failing to stand up to the Governor when he shut down hundreds of construction jobs, there is a long line of broken promises and actions in the Senate that have targeted the labor movement.

The action dramatized the lengths to which the labor movement in New York will go to stay on good terms with Cuomo, whose record has mixed important progressive accomplishments with centrist politics that most unions dislike.

Indeed, here is a widely discussed 1967 prediction from former teacher Robert Doherty and labor leader Walter Oberer (from their book Teachers, Schools Boards, and Collective Bargaining: A Changing of the Guard): If the «movement to improve the status of teachers by collective action is successful, if... teachers... come close to realizing what they seem to be striving toward, the concern over purely employment matters will decline.

Through participation, action, and dialogue, The Worker's Art Coalition gives attention to the diverse individuals who actively shape the developing history of labor movements and union organizing.

In this hour, we'll travel Down Under to see a growing climate movement that is as diverse as it is, visiting a primary school where climate action is on the agenda and hearing from Sharan Burrow, general secretary, International Trade Union Confederation, about labor's vital role in the climate fight.