Sentences with phrase «labor leader bill»

Federal President for the Australian Education Union Correna Haythorpe, together with a delegation of parents and students, is scheduled to meet with Education Minister Christopher Pyne and Labor leader Bill Shorten in Canberra to put disability education funding back at the centre of the conversation.

But as federal Labor leader Bill Shorten seeks to reinvent his party, he will do well to examine the reforms his UK counterpart Ed Miliband has introduced to the Labour Party in Britain.

This is interesting given the Labor leader Bill Shorten's pledge for budget repair, while the Turnbull government looks set to cut personal income taxes (although this is just before an election).

In a recorded phone call to voters, Labor leader Bill Shorten said that «cuts to penalty rates will rip off 700,000 workers».

In the last few days Opposition Labor Leader Bill Shorten has proposed a radical transformation of dividend imputation.

It's been a long summer for Labor Leader Bill Shorten, who in eight weeks seems to have run the full gamut of Queen's greatest hits, from I Want it All to Under Pressure.

Not exact matches

Several labor leaders as well as the Cuomo campaign disputed the claims made by WFP State Director Bill Lipton that the governor threatened to work to end funding for the activist organizations as a result of the potential Nixon endorsement.

Rivera's backers, including NRI's Bill Samuels, the WFP, labor leaders and state Democratic Party officials are trying to get Padernacht to bow out.

Today Mayor Bill de Blasio assembled many of New York City's labor leaders in support of his pre - K / after school program initiative.

He praised public - sector unions as an «equalizer» in a speech to labor leaders as he signed the bill into law.

«This is what we need to do in every state,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew told the 500 - plus elected officials, labor leaders and union members assembled in Shanker Hall for the bill - signing ceremony.

Recently, the IDC Leader, Senator Jeff Klein, and the other conference members were joined by heads of the major public workers labor unions to promote bills to make it easier to join a union.

Mr. Klein and Mr. Cuomo, along with Mayor Bill de Blasio and labor leaders, have met behind closed doors in the past few days to discuss the possibility of reconciliation.

What promises to be a wild two - week campaign is already under way, with high stakes for the governor, Mayor Bill de Blasio, labor unions, and county leaders.

According to NY1's Zack Fink, Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio and top labor leaders met to discuss the IDC - Senate Democratic conference detente this week, with IDC leader Jeff Klein tentatively agreeing to a new power - sharing deal.

But support from the labor movement comes a coalition of groups backing the bill make a major end of session push for the measure, which is sponsored by Minority Leader John Sampson, D - Brooklyn, in the Senate.

A coalition of labor leaders and elected officials is urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill aimed at cracking down on Airbnb advertising.

The group, called NY Jobs Now, includes Heather Bricetti, the president and CEO of the state Business Council, along with labor leaders like the AFL - CIO's Mario Cilento, UFT President Michael Mulgrew, Gary LaBarbera of Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and former New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson.

A sharp - eyed reader and campaign finance whiz (OK, NYPRIG's Bill Mahoney) noticed that ex-Queens assemblyman and disgraced labor leader Brian McLaughlin's campaign committee cut a $ 457,253.28 check to the US Department of Justice on March 11.

The bill, sponsored by Democratic Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle (a Rochester - area lawmaker) and Republican Sen. George Amedore, is aimed at codifying state Department of Labor guidelines that exempt delivery people who are hired as independent carriers from aspects of the unemployment, the minimum wage and workers» compensation coverage laws, according to the sponsor's memo.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, Senate Democratic leaders, labor union officials and even liberal activists are hailing the IDC's announcement that it will rejoin the «regular» Senate Dems after the November elections.

In the meantime we will be working with legislative leaders — Democrats and Republicans — and continuing to do what we've been doing all along, and that is working with our community and our allies across New York, including those from communities of faith and organized labor, to earn the votes we need to bring the marriage equality bill to the floor of the Senate for passage.»

CITY HALL — Mayor Bill de Blasio's meeting with police union leaders on Tuesday was «productive» but ended with «no resolve» after two and half hours, city and labor officials said.

He said he would huddle Saturday morning with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who pushed mightily to help Democrats take the majority and helped broker the deal that gave Klein cover in his primary, as well as various labor leaders «who have been very supportive of the I.D.C. and our brand of governing.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio has tapped a Queens district leader and organized labor insider to join his administration, sources say.

Yesterday, in the cathedral to mass transit known as Grand Central Terminal, four members of New York's congressional delegation joined labor leaders and M.T.A. chairman Joe Lhota to rail against a House transportation bill that would theoretically deprive the transit agency that runs city subways and buses of more than $ 1 billion a year in federal funding.

The deal with frustrated progressive activists and labor union leaders, who make up the WFP, was in part brokered by Mayor Bill de Blasio after the WFP threatened

WFP Director Bill Lipton on Friday accused Cuomo of threatening labor leaders dependent on Albany largesse, telling them to «lose my [phone] number» if they continue funding WFP.

Out of 814 votes cast with a 211 - vote threshold for election for two female at - large vice chair positions, Meng received 216.5 votes, while Maria Elena Durazo — a prominent Californian labor leader endorsed by Mayor Bill de Blasio — received 228.5 votes.

She was encircled by a dozens of council members, as well as a minimum of 2 UN agency opposed the first bill, and labor leaders UN agency had advocated for the bill since it had been introduced regarding 3 years agone.

Leaders from all of the city's major labor unions — representing 1.3 million workers — on Jan. 6 voiced their strong support for Mayor Bill de Blasio's call for universal, full - day pre-K for the city's four - year - olds.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Labor leaders said they'll lobby state lawmakers to OK New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal to offer universal pre-kindergarten.

EAST HARLEM — With a lineup of some of the top labor leaders in the state and city behind him, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an array of union support Monday for a tax increase on the wealthy to pay for his signature universal pre-K plan.

The CUNY Rising Alliance, a coalition of community groups, faith leaders, labor unions and student organizations, released a white paper today — a companion to its Students» Bill of Rights — that details what it describes as city and state disinvestment in CUNY and the university's imperiled mission.

But in a clear message to Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio, he warned that the self - interest of politicians and union leaders — the «labor - electoral complex,» as he deemed it — could quickly lead to devastating fiscal consequences.

The fate of the bill was put in their hands by Cuomo and legislative leaders after the governor insisted any deal had to include wage guarantees for labor - a position the governor still holds despite the fact that no deal has been reached and there are concerns about the development of affordable rental housing in New York City.

In reporting on this race online last week, Gay City News noted that Cabrera's website included endorsements by Mayor Bill de Blasio as well as the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which is headed by out gay labor leader Stuart Appelbaum.

On October 11, Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo, Chairman of the Legislature's Finance and Management Committee, joined Henry Wojtaszek, President / CEO of Batavia Downs Gaming, Thurman Thomas, Hall of Fame former Buffalo Bills running back, Vice Chair of NYS Tourism Advisory Council and Batavia Downs Ambassador, Lee Zarpentine, Labor Relations Representative of United Public Service Employees Union (UPSEU), Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw and Mike Nolan, COO of Batavia Downs to announce Erie County has received $ 545,984 from Batavia Downs Gaming in the second quarter of 2017 alone.

Because House leaders want to follow through on plans to impose additional sequestration cuts, the corresponding House appropriations subcommittee has a much smaller pot of money for its Labor / HHS bill.

Washington — Not willing to risk a Presidential veto of a huge catchall spending bill and seeking to make good on a political vow to pass their own appropriations bill for the second straight year, key congressional leaders pushed through a weary 98th Congress, a record $ 17.6 billion in fiscal 1985 Education Department funding last week — not as part of the continuing resolution but in the $ 101 - billion bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education.

Leaders from the House Education and the Workforce Committee and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) purportedly are preparing for the next steps with a House - Senate conference committee reportedly convening soon and a reconciled bill could be considered by both chambers in December.

Weber promised to tighten the bill's language to prevent that scenario, but the Assembly Appropriations Committee, chaired by Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, D - San Diego, a former labor leader and organizer, made that issue moot by eliminating the potential fourth and fifth year of probation.

He went on to slam both the president's budget proposal and the draft House Labor, Health and Human Services and Education FY 2018 Appropriations bill, both of which propose eliminating Title II funding for teacher and school leader professional development and undercut funding for Title I and Title IV Part B (21st CCLC) of ESSA.

The Guardian reported on May 2nd that Opposition Labor Party leader, Bill Shorten, is now vowing to end the live export trade before the government review since «Labor sees no future for live sheep exports.»

Labor: Does not mention justice issues in its Indigenous health election statement but Opposition leader Bill Shorten pledged last November to set justice targets with a focus on community safety, preventing crime and reducing incarceration, and to support research into justice reinvestment.

In the lead up to the Apology anniversary, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten announced a Labor government would introduce a reparations scheme, along with a funeral fund, for Stolen Generations members not covered by state schemes.

Mental health, suicide prevention, and the framing of this election as «a referendum on Medicare» were among the health highlights of Opposition leader Bill Shorten's speech at the official Labor campaign launch in Sydney today.

Hopes for more humane asylum seeker policies in Australia took a blow last night with confirmation that Opposition Leader Bill Shorten wants this weekend's Labor national conference to endor... Read more