Sentences with phrase «labor groups whose»

UTLA President Alex Caputo - Pearl mentioned the day of action as part of his state of the union speech in July and said the event will be in coordination with the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, a national group of parent, youth and community organizations and labor groups whose stated goal is «fighting for educational justice and equity in access to school resources and opportunities.»

Labor groups whose top priorities include increasing the minimum wage, opposing an increase in charter schools, and creating a public financing gave overwhelmingly to Democrats.

Not exact matches

«Firms that aren't friendly to him, especially those whose business models center on the use of artificial intelligence and taking labor out of the marketplace, will offer a juicy political target,» Eurasia Group wrote.

The Working Families Party, whose base combines labor unions and individuals and activist groups, has emerged as a force in New York through unusual «fusion» laws that allow candidates to run on more than one party line.

They joined other major labor groups that fled the party years earlier, including the UFT, whose president said the union left because «it became evident that their focus was on personal, political agendas and a few egos.»

Mr. Nislick, whose wife has also contributed to Mr. de Blasio, joined forces with a labor group and Wendy Neu, a wealthy Manhattan businesswoman who is active in animal rights causes, to found the anti-Quinn coalition that bought the ad.

«One only needs to look to the Working Families Party (WFP)-- whose leadership includes a number of high - ranking labor union officials — to see what organized labor has been able to accomplish politically,» the group wrote in its report.

«The way to stand up to Trump's attacks on our democracy and working families can not be to empower Republicans in the State Senate whose goals are aligned with the Trump regime,» said Bill Lipton, state director of the Working Families Party, a labor - backed group that has pushed Democrats to embrace liberal policies.

So the group calls for relief from two very costly state mandates - a pension system whose costs have spiraled since the stock market crash, and a labor law that ties the hands of management when negotiating contracts.

The stage for Hawkins» real campaign was set, unintentionally, by the Working Families Party, whose base of labor unions and progressive groups nearly fractured over a plan to spurn Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, and nominate Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham law professor who has written extensively about political corruption.

Mr. Hawkins, who is chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, also prepared by speaking to like - minded groups of people, such as parents whose children participate in...

You see, EPI is nothing more than a union front group whose board includes a rogue's gallery of Big Labor honchos: AFL - CIO's Richard Trumka, SEIU's Mary Kay Henry, American Federation of Teachers» Randi Weingarten, National Education Association's Lily Eskelsen - García, et al..

For the High Line, Nazareth presents a grouping of cast cement watermelons — a conceptual artwork whose realization references both the corrupt labor policies involved in the construction of the iconic historical capital of Brasília, and the journey that watermelons — originally native to West Africa — made to the Americas alongside colonization and the slave trade.

Speaking broadly, this highly diverse group includes farmers, environmentalists, students, rural labor, minorities, senior citizens, technology entrepreneurs and a wide range of people in traditional industries such as food, medicine, social services and manufacturing whose experience has yielded cynicism and dissatisfaction with the status quo.