Sentences with phrase «as labor rallies»
In June, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, the wage board's chairman and a longtime Cuomo ally, said he and his fellow members clearly believed «a substantial» increase was needed to bring fast food workers up the economic ladder — despite persistent opposition from the business community, which often found itself drowned out at public hearings that served more or less as labor rallies.
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Thousands of workers and activists have marched to the Philippines» presidential palace to demand the government address labor issues, as workers around the world stage May Day rallies.
Treasury yields closed the session on one - week highs, as the ADP employment report showed a robust labor market, which bodes well before Friday's government release, while the relief rally is risk assets also pushed yields higher across the curve, despite the slight miss in the ISM services PMI.
The AFL - CIO has been pushing back hard in particular against the mayor's plan as well, while a rally of labor groups was held at the Capitol today to back the prevailing wage component.
The long - running battle between the Working Families Party and the NY Post continues this morning with an e-mail from the labor - backed party's executive director that uses the tabloid's latest anti-WFP editorial as a rallying cry for a statewide public campaign financing system.
At 4 p.m., Gov. Cuomo, President of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York Gary LaBarbera, labor leaders and thousands of New Yorkers will rally in Union Square as part of #CountMeIn, Union Square, Manhattan.
Religious and labor advocates rallied at the State Capitol Monday as part of a nationwide movement known as Moral Mondays, to urge state lawmakers to take more progressive stances on issues.
Schumer also made a point of traveling to the Working Families Party rally in New York City, attended also by Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio, as the labor - backed organization seeks to turn the state Senate to full Democratic control.
Religious and labor advocates rallied Monday at the New York state Capitol as part of a nationwide movement, known as Moral Mondays, urging state lawmakers to take more progressive stances on issues.
As Cuomo and Clinton arrived at a rally after the private bill signing, labor groups in the audience cheered: «Si se pudo» — yes we did.
During the course of a 90 - minute rally, a score of labor leaders and Democratic legislators addressed the gathering as a truck - mounted L.C.D. screen played ads from the UP4NYC coalition.
The rally, though not billed as another labor - related event for Mr. Cuomo, corralled hundreds of members from three of the state's major unions — 1199 SEIU, 32BJ SEIU and the Hotel Trades Council — into several pens on Seventh Avenue around 41st Street to hear the Democrats, who spoke from a stage above the crowd.
To assist in that effort, he also announced at a labor union rally the launch of the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice, named after his late father, who served as governor for three terms.
Touching on Albany's recent corruption crises, emphasizing a need to rally against entrenched labor interests, and pushing for greater resources for immigrant students and small businesses, Cuomo adopted a genial tone on the whole, addressing audience members as «my friends.»
The rally was co-sponsored by members of the Let NY Vote coalition, which includes over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citizen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and the National Action Network, grassroots organizations, faith groups, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.
Public labor members rallied Monday in Albany as the Supreme Court heard the opening arguments of Janus v. AFSCME, a case that challenges automatic union dues paid by public - sector workers.
On Thursday afternoon, Mr. Cuomo had appeared at a rally with a variety of labor leaders to present himself as their champion, and they as his ardent supporters.
As Gov. Andrew Cuomo suffers defections from the left flank of the Democratic Party, powerful labor allies are rallying to his aid.
The fund - raiser was held the same night as a rally for the Working Families Party, the labor - backed group also fighting for a Democratic takeover of the senate.
«Please be advised that there is a labor dispute at the Albany Hilton Hotel, which involves a boycott called by the workers, as well as picket lines and rallies in front of the main entrance to the hotel and surrounding areas,» the memos state.
Juma Graham, left, holds a sign calling for a $ 15 minimum wage as James Brown, right, speaks during the rally held at the state labor board's meeting to discuss raising the wage.
As thousands of families throughout Chicago watched anxiously, the process of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement turned melodramatic at a Chicago Teachers Union Labor Day rally.
It's really not exactly the type of song you'd expect at a labor union rally as it is a song which praises the colors of nature and the joy these colors bring.
will join community, health, labor, student and environmental groups to kick start the People's Climate March and United Nations Climate Summit 2014 with a rally hailing a Robin Hood Tax — a tax on Wall Street also known as a financial transaction tax — as a key solution to addressing the climate crisis.