Sentences with phrase «us labor movement»

(«I do not view the labor movement as part of the problem,» President Barack Obama said this morning at a White House reception.

Instead, America needs to invent, support and grow a new and renewed labor movement that fits the needs of today and tomorrow's workers and economy.

The good news is a wide range of experiments with new forms of mobilization and worker representation is now underway inside and outside of the labor movement.

The state is, after all, the cradle of the American labor movement and the closed shop.

«The labor movement has increasingly come to realize that small to midsize companies are creating most of the new jobs in America,» Steed says.

More than 1,000 Uber drivers are banding together in New York — the birthplace of the organized U.S. labor movement — to create an association that can represent their collective interests to the ride - sharing company's management.

The withering of the labor movement will further kneecap Democrats, keeping them out of power for a generation.

But in Germany the labor movement remains strong, and on workplace issues the mainstream political parties, the Christian Democrats as well as the Social Democrats, are well to the left of their American and British counterparts.

In the United States and the United Kingdom, the parties of the center Left, the Democrats and the Labour Party, have today lost this focus, and the labor movements in both countries are in long - term decline.

«The labor movement historically hasn't organized workers this poor in a very long time.

A fight over trade this year ruptured the usual alliance between the Democratic president and the organized labor movement.

And the conditionalities, the so - called reforms, are an Orwellian term for anti-reform, for cutting back pensions, for rolling back the progress that the labor movement has made in the last half century.

Today marks four years since since the labor movement known as the Fight for $ 15 launched, and American fast - food employees and other hourly workers are continuing to push for a living wage.

Regretably his great work was destroyed after his death through the French Revolution which spread gradually to Germany, and later the labor movement.

His part of Switzerland had been heavily under the influence of Ragaz of Zurich, the blazing prophet of social Christianity who, like his friend Walter Rauschenbusch, saw in the labor movement the greatest single contemporary salient of the advancing kingdom of God.

By the time things simmered down, Brooklyn's inner - city schools were in considerably worse shape, white liberals had become accustomed to making excuses for black violence, and the old alliances between the civil - rights movement, on the one hand, and the American labor movement and organized American Jewry, on the other, had been put under severe strain.

We must construct new models, new pageantry, new hymns, new forms of prayer, new anthems of praise, new dramatizations, in which, for example, the labor movement may be caught up in the embrace of religion, the peace movement, the civic conscience, the community spirit, the family and every great aspiration of our time.

Much of the debate about the Church and power conflicts now going on in many American cities seems very familiar because it is a replay of discussions in which I was involved in the 1930's when the chief issue was the relation of the churches to the labor movement in its early struggles to achieve...

The labor movement that might have shared his Social Gospel vision — the Knights of Labor — died before he rose to prominence in socialist circles.

The labor movement aimed at material improvement for workers.

Next to temperance, the labor movement garnered the largest volume of space.

Agitation for anti-Oriental laws was continued by labor leaders who were welding a political labor movement.

In 1989 the U.S. hosted Lech Walesa, leader of the former Solidarity labor movement and the newly elected president of Poland.

Much of the debate about the Church and power conflicts now going on in many American cities seems very familiar because it is a replay of discussions in which I was involved in the 1930's when the chief issue was the relation of the churches to the labor movement in its early struggles to achieve power.

Milosz, like other literary Nobelists, may have been selected for a political reason — to express support for the rising Solidarity labor movement and other oppositionists in Poland.

In 1919 they wrote of the labor movement: «Gone... for the moment is its responsiveness to moral obligation.

In Great Britain the official labor movement owed much in its early leadership to Christians and had a strongly Christian tinge.

The threat of moving, often acted on, has greatly weakened the labor movement in the United States.

Unlike the labor movement at its height, this policy initiative poses no threat to the structures of power in our society.

The global mobility of capital has also diminished the power and significance of the labor movement.

Van Warner suggests creating a crisis management plan for threats including food deserts, GMOs, the environment, health concerns, terrorism, cybersecurity, and the new labor movement and how to handle demonstrators.

Mr. Sheppard (Shep, to his friends) has in his time scratched up the U.S. Army, a U.S. Senator, the Attorney General's office, the New York State Harness Racing Commission and the American labor movement, all of which have been foolish enough to do him battle.

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The divergence from Europe is mostly due to the post-1970 decline of the private sector labor movement in the U.S. and not to the lack of one in the first place in the U.S.

There absolutely was a trade - union and labor movement in the U.S. from 1890 to 1950, including about 34 % of private sector workers in the late 1940s.

I pointed out that it doesn't have common cause with the labor movement.

There was a big labor movement in the United States, they accomplished quite a bit for workers rights.

It is imperative that elected officials clearly understand the organized labor movement will never tolerate the undermining of our core, bedrock issues of fair wages, benefits, economic security and conditions of employment.»

«The labor movement will utilize all resources at its disposal to ensure that our friend returns to Congress, where he can continue to lead the fight on behalf of the needs and concerns of working people.»

Aside from a long history in the labor movement as an organizer for the state Nurses Association, she was also a delegate for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders during the New York presidential primary.

Also, Team Cuomo and its allies are pre-emptively accusing the WFP of dividing the labor movement in a manner that will only benefit Republicans in the fall elections.

«I would advise Councilman Barron to spend a bit more time learning about who makes up the private sector labor movement, before he attacks the very people who live in his community and every community throughout this great state.»

«We can not allow right - to - work to demolish the labor movement that was born in New York,» she said.

I owe thanks to everyone who has believed in me and in my candidacy over these past few months: the Democratic Party, the Working Families Party and especially my brothers and sisters in the labor movement.

At 10:15 a.m., leaders from New York's organized labor movement will hold a news conference as the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Janus v. AFSCME, the latest in a series of attacks by the wealthy and corporate interests against ordinary working people, outside the Senate lounge, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

During this fight our union received the unwavering support of the whole Albany area labor movement and allied organizations.

In such a challenging political climate, it was imperative, insisted one speaker after another, that the labor movement remain united.

«Part of their power is they're so focused on themselves and willing to support elected officials, even if it's to the detriment of the rest of the labor movement.»

«I learned that there is no more important voice for workers then the labor movement.