Sentences with phrase «back against corporate»

Labor strife has been on the rise in Canada as unions push back against corporate cost - cutting drives and governments strive to reduce wage and pension costs.

The Alliance is hiring a co-director to join our staff and contribute to the building of a powerful national alliance to fight back against corporate education reform and demand investment in sustainable community schools, particularly for Black and Brown communities.

It is time time to push back against the Corporate Education Reform Industry and Governor Malloy's unwavering commitment to the Common Core and Common Core Testing Scheme.

While the primary focus of the blog has been the on - going effort to push back against the corporate education reform industry and re-take public control of public education, we've collectively dealt with an impressive array of issues.

Or maybe you could donate based on your belief that we must continue to push back against the Corporate Education Reform Industry and ensure that the word «public» is truly part of «Public Education.»

Tuesday night Clark Rising, a grassroots group of Clark Elementary School parents, SAND Elementary School parents and local public school advocates joined forces to fight back against the corporate takeover of both schools by Achievement First, Inc. and Capital Preparatory Magnet School, respectively.

The only thing that will stop the Common Core and Common Core Testing scam from completely destroying our system of public education will be if our elected officials stand up and fight back against the Corporate Education Reform Industry.

Pushing back against corporate lobbying on climate change.

Not exact matches

Anne Sheehan, head of corporate governance at California State Teachers» Retirement System, which backs the additional climate reporting, said Exxon's letter suggests the voting is at least very close and may be going against the company.

I'm not against central banks stimulating the corporate sector to help get the economy back on its feet, but I am worried about how long we can keep it up.

On August 4th, 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported on the growing subculture of Weird Twitter in an article titled «Some Twitter Users Push Back on Ads,» describing the trend as a reactionary movement against the influx of corporate brands and advertising campaigns on the popular microblogging network.

«Against a backdrop of overwhelming corporate pressure to free - up capital and reduce future spend - to the detriment of production growth - there is considerable scope for this wall of output to get pushed back further if prices do not recover and / or costs do not fall enough,» the Wood Mackenzie report concluded.

«To do so would put us against the majority will of the British people and on the side of certain corporate elites, who have always had the British people at the back of the queue.»

«Eric is up for re-election next year, and right - wing corporate interests have already pledged to spend millions of dollars to unseat progressive attorneys general like him who are fighting back against Trump's dangerous and radical agenda,» she wrote in the email.

But a new tableau was emerging this weekend from the Working Families Party convention, where Mr. Cuomo scored the labor - backed party's endorsement as he seeks re-election against an underfunded yet feisty Republican: Mr. de Blasio the savior, swooping in from City Hall to convince a party of disgruntled liberals that Mr. Cuomo, champion of corporate tax cuts, should be their gubernatorial candidate.

With the Disney - Fox merger within the works and the go back of DP to Marvel, after all it is advisable be expecting a comic story or two directed against the corporate and the way which may be unhealthy for all concerned, ignoring the truth there were habitual jokes against Disney's Frozen after all.

People are finally raising up against the oppression of mayoral control of schools and the big corporate money that backs it.

The effort was doomed when Parent Revolution, the Bill Gates - backed group that had initially convinced Compton parents to rebel against their kids» underperforming school district, was painted as a front for corporate interests.

Despite the reluctance of school administrators to speak up and push back against this ludicrous accountability exercise that has been promoted by politicians and corporate education reformers who have many self - interested reasons for maintaining this misguided testing endeavor, it is well - known that the «standardized» testing mandate only serves to continue the false narrative of failing American public education in order to drive the profit - making agenda of those who seek to privatize education and undermine the public trust.

For her work marshaling hard facts and empirical data against corporate - backed «reformers» who rely largely on substance - free rhetoric and platitudes, Ravitch has been named this year's winner of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize — so clearly, she's holding her own, even as U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is launching a desperate PR campaign to make her Public Enemy # 1.

I had a fun little Twitter chat recently with Peter Cunningham, executive director of Education Post, the billionaire funded anti-public education website devoted to fighting back against the critics of the corporate reform of education movement.

RIM has traditionally pushed back against government interference into its encryption policy, arguing that its corporate clients need the BlackBerry's ironclad security.

It is not particularly surprising that they could not find one to argue against the reality of carbon emissions - driven global warming, but it still seems a bit of an unfair difference in stature to have the position backed up by corporate - sponsored pseudoscience be represented by a member of Congress, against a man known primarily for shouting «science!»

1989 Robert E. Scott, Jr. and Denise A. Greig, Medical Product and Drug Causation: How to Prove It and Defend Against It 1990 Michael A. Pope, Excess Insurance in the 1990's: From Back Room to Center State 1991 Thomas W. Hyland and Andrea E. Forman, The Attorney - client Privilege in the Corporate Setting 1992 Richard L. Neumeier, Civil Rights Act of 1991: What Does It Do?

They don't hold back any punches against government officials or corporate interests.