Sentences with phrase «after labor leaders»

Pay has become a hot - button issue in Albany as the governor seeks a series of one - day furloughs for 100,000 state workers, after labor leaders refused to forgo a 4 percent raise for the state work force that was largely negotiated under Gov. Eliot Spitzer, or to delay a week's pay.

Pulse rate rapidly increasing, I expect understeer, lots of it — the car is in pit - bull attack mode, like Alan Jones going after a Labor leader.

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After the election he tried to get labor leaders and Republicans together to discuss a compromise but he said those talks failed.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

After six long years, the specter of the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule has finally taken shape, although as one BD leader put it, the industry is still in a «state of flux» as it determines how to comply with all aspects of the rule.

South Australian Liberal leader Steven Marshall has promised a «new dawn» for South Australia after his party won the state election and ended 16 years of Labor Government.

A day after being collared in Mexico on charges of sex trafficking and forced labor, NXIVM leader Keith Raniere appeared before a judge in Fort Worth, TX, where he was told he could have his future preliminary and detention hearings in the Eastern District of New York.

Days after Nxivm leader Keith Raniere was arrested for sex trafficking and forced labor last week, the feds scoured a Halfmoon townhouse known as «The Library,» where Raniere is accused of abusing at least one of his victims — a 30 - something Brooklyn actress.

The trouble began on Monday, when King blasted the labor - aligned Working Families Party and criticized Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins in a lengthy statement after liberal groups have started to put pressure on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to unite the various Democratic factions in the chamber.

Not long after, a host of labor union leaders ripped Nixon for comments she made Wednesday about how labor deals have been driving up the cost of needed subway improvements.

This GOP infighting comes a day after news broke about an internal squabble between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and four of the state's top labor leaders, who were bounced from the DNC convention at - large delegate list and told to they could only be reinstated if they personally called the governor to request that be done.

The measure comes after the abatement earlier this year lapsed, when real - estate developers and construction labor leaders couldn't reach an agreement on a prevailing wage component in the measure.

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

His first press conference featured labor leaders declaring their support for de Blasio's pre - K / after school initiative.

In 2010, when the party was under federal investigation and risked falling off the ballot in the following election, it agreed to endorse Cuomo after he made the party's leaders sign on to a pro-business platform that included fighting organized labor.

Teachout, a Fordham Law professor, initially challenged Cuomo for the WFP line in May, only to lose it at the state convention after Cuomo, labor leaders and activists in the party agreed on the incumbent's endorsement.

Cuomo couldn't attend, ostensibly because he was attending the funeral for labor leader Ed Malloy, though he did phone in to the news conference explaining that he «had a family matter that kept me downstate» on Thursday (Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of the governor's former brother - in - law Robert Kennedy, Jr., was found dead after committing suicide).

But labor leaders have advised Cuomo to not take the WFP's ballot line in September anyway after the Sept. 13 party primary — a move that could hamper the WFP's ability to garner votes in the general election and maintain its ballot status.

Labor was divided in that race, which ended up being carried by Espaillat's hand - picked successor, Marisol Alcantara, who was also backed by IDC Leader Jeff Klein, of the Bronx, and has indicated (though her spokeswoman, Lis Smith) that she will join the breakaway GOP - allied IDC conference after her all - but - certain general election win in November.

And while labor leaders and the coalition of dozens of community groups celebrated in the rotunda of City Hall after the vote, they acknowledged there was a long way to go.

Stuart Appelbaum, head of the Retail Workers and Department Store Union (RWDSU), the local labor leader who invited Trumka to the armory, said that «bringing the head of the AFL - CIO the first week after he is elected sends a powerful message about what working people want in economic development.

A century after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, politicians and labor leaders gathered to remember the dead.

Labor and Business Leaders to Hold Press Conference after Meeting with Congressman Rangel Thursday December 18, 2008 at 07:30 am

Cuomo held a triumphant rally with labor leaders and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday after the wage deal was approved.

News of the potential deal circulated a day after Stewart - Cousins and Klein met with Cuomo and labor leaders in a Manhattan restaurant in hopes of ironing out their longstanding disagreements.

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.

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.

At a rally in Manhattan, the Democratic governor shared the stage with national labor leaders after a state wage board recommended raising the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 and hour, delivering a key victory in a national push by unions — led by Service Employees International Union — to improve the lot of (and unionize) employees at McDonald's, Burger King and other chains.

Ms. Jimino and Mr. Astorino are among a number of mayors and county leaders from both major political parties who have advocated for the repeal of the Triborough Amendment, which was named after a labor dispute at the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, arguing that the measure strips them of leverage during contract talks.

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

After studying government at Colby College in Maine, she became a labor organizer herself, working alongside the Teamsters union and local political groups and eventually serving as a Democratic district leader until she was hired by the de Blasio administration in February of 2014.

Days after Nxivm leader Keith Raniere was arrested for sex trafficking and forced labor last week, the feds scoured a Halfmoon townhouse known as «The Library,» where Raniere is accused of abusing at least one of his victims — a 30 - something Brooklyn actress, the Albany Times Union reports.

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.

On the run after a botched assassination attempt on a labor union leader, Clement (Jean - Louis Trintignant)-- the scion of a wealthy French family and a secret right - wing terrorist — becomes part of an intense romantic triangle.

The school is named after the Mexican - American labor leader who co-founded the United Farm Workers of America.

Last week Labor leader Daniel Andrews announced the building of 11 new schools across Victoria, after earlier kicking off his election campaign by promising a $ 1.3 billion boost to Victoria's education sector.

After nearly a decade of relatively harmonious labor relations, signs of rising teacher unrest have become increasingly evident in recent months, educators and union leaders say.

Next Monday Environmental Progress President Michael Shellenberger (left) will give labor union and Oswego leaders the «James Hansen Courage Award,» named after climate scientist James Hansen (right) for their tenacious and successful effort to save Fitzpatrick.