Sentences with phrase «activists over the union»

As Capital NY reported this morning, about one third of the WFP's state committee seats are vacant — a situation that empowers the activists over the union members.

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The contract has sparked a debate among corrections officers, their union, and activists, who are at odds over whether the special - operations training is the right approach to solving Rikers» long - standing brutality problem.

Over the past decade, it has funded the right's assault on labor unions, climate scientists, public schools, economic regulations, and the very premise of activist government.

To date, Schneiderman has earned the endorsement of over 100 progressive leaders, prominent community activists, and labor unions including the Hotel Trades Council, UAW and the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

An infrastructure of union shop stewards, academics, the «peace movement», union - financed research and constituency activists which had sustained Labour's left in the early 1980s — and almost won the deputy leadership for Tony Benn — had all but disappeared over the following decades.

Over the past spring and summer, for instance, a few dozen activists with Britain First marched in front of the East London Mosque, waving the Union Jack and carrying white crosses.

Those unions are also likely to yank their support for a constellation of activist groups that have worked with the WFP over the years and have been critical of Cuomo.

The Working Families Party on Saturday endorsed Cynthia Nixon for governor over incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo, highlighting a broader fissure among liberals in New York, activist groups and the union movement.

Over the past 30 years, Mr. Lane has maintained leadership roles in union and corporate jobs, while also volunteering in his free time as an activist to help promote social justice issues.

The Working Families Party, a coalition of activists and labor unions, faced an identity crisis last year when it endorsed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's re-election over liberal activist Zephyr Teachout, who went on to mount a surprisingly strong though unsuccessful challenge to Cuomo in the Democratic primary.

The average non-political member is by inclination less motivated than the ideologically motivated activists, who through their energy and dedication to their cause, end up taking over trades unions.

Union activists remain unconvinced by the proposals and believe their is a lack of action over tests for older pupils.

Ministers are proposing to scrap key stage 1 SATs and replace them with a new baseline test for reception children, but union activists remain unconvinced by the proporals and a lack of action over tests for older pupils.

Parent Power activists such as the Connecticut Parents Union are already gearing up for a fight with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association over expanding the reach of the state's Parent Trigger law; the fight is particularly tinged by revelations earlier this year of the AFT's presentation on how it unsuccessfully attempted to kibosh the passage of the Parent Power law and how it exacted revenge by ousting Jason Bartlett, the legislator who led the passage of the law and the neutralizing of his former colleague, Gary Holder - Winfield.

But the fact that the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers remain key forces within the activist wing of the Democratic Party, along with the success of the two unions in co-opting progressive players means that the party still remains divided over transforming education.

In a race that cost over $ 30 million, $ 25 million from outside groups, Torlakson was backed by labor unions and progressive activists while Tuck got the support of establishment newspapers and, according to one source, «30 donors who gave on average $ 267,000 each, including real estate developer William Bloomfield, Jr., Broad Foundation founder Eli Broad, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Emerson Collective Chair Laurene Powell Jobs.»

The Chicago Teachers Union sees itself as having been on the front lines of education reform for more than a decade, and this is now a radicalized union, taken over two years ago by an activist facUnion sees itself as having been on the front lines of education reform for more than a decade, and this is now a radicalized union, taken over two years ago by an activist facunion, taken over two years ago by an activist faction.

Parent trigger is the latest flashpoint in the wars over «education reform» (a term now claimed by right - wing front groups, defensive teachers» unions and activists of many stripes).

Meanwhile, teaching unions and activists condemned the move, with several groups already preparing for a sustained legal battle over a possible breach of the law banning the opening of new selective state schools.

We host a debate with three guests: Mark Epstein, the chairman of the board of trustees for Cooper Union; Victoria Sobel, a Cooper Union student organizer who is among the activists who have occupied the president's office for over a week; and Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon.

Here in the studio, Victoria Sobel, a Cooper Union student organizer who's been working on the Free Cooper campaign, among the activists who has occupied the president's office for over a week.

But Walmart would still likely face a battle from the City's labor unions and other activist groups over the low wages it pays its workers and over the amount of traffic its store might create.