Sentences with phrase «union following the speech»

Comptroller Scott Stringer told reporters outside Cooper Union following the speech that his office is currently analyzing the fiscal impact of Trump's programs on the city, saying that he will be able to roll out the results in one or two weeks.

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Her view, as she articulated in a speech to the AFL - CIO labor union in February, is that the spike in unemployment that followed the Great Recession was largely the result of the economic downturn, and not of a skills mismatch problem in the labour market, as some have suggested.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

During a question and answer session with union delegates following the speech, Mr Miliband was regularly heckled by delegates, particularly over his stance on public sector pensions and academy schools.

at its Manhattan headquarters — the union's president even gave him a Calvin Klein jacket following his speech so he can stay warm — and behind the podium where de Blasio spoke was a larger poster that said «USA Local 381 Endorses De Blasio For Mayor.»

My one encounter with Cuomo came after a column I wrote following his 2007 debate with former Speaker Newt Gingrich at Cooper Union in New York, the site of a famous speech by Abraham Lincoln.

The spontaneous chanting followed a speech by Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, who urged public sector workers to «stand together to defend every job and every service».

Even a subversive speech from Rocket about how unlikely our heroes» union is becomes undermined by the comic book formula that follows.

Following the speech, the union released a statement saying that Clinton's remarks «held no punches in articulating a clear and inspiring vision of opportunity for every student in America, regardless of ZIP code.»

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The link between workers» rights and support for the EU amongst the British labour movement is not new and dates back to the 1980s when the TUC — faced with a domestic Conservative government hostile to trade unions and following Jacques Delors» speech advocating a social dimension to European integration — withdrew its support for the UK's withdrawal from the (then) EEC and instead adopted a positive approach to UK membership.

In concluding, Secretary Johnson enjoined the audience to follow the example of many great and transformational leaders who have defended those values in their speeches before the Oxford Union.