Sentences with phrase «big union endorsement»

On Saturday, two days before Clinton's big economic policy speech, the 1.6 million - member American Federation of Teachers announced the first big union endorsement in the 2016 cycle when it came out for the Democratic front - runner.

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He put up a big early fundraising number, netted several key union endorsements and this week received his first nod from a Democratic county committee (Putnam) in the district.

It's not a big surprise, though, especially after Maloney's report that he had $ 310,000 on hand after the first three months of fundraising this year, and his endorsement by several labor unions.

The endorsement, first reported by Crain's Insider, landed on top of a big pile of labor support, including SEIU 32BJ, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500 and Communication Workers of America District 1.

And his influence extends beyond his members: Mr. Seabrook has been known to throw his weight behind an interesting array of candidates from both parties and was rumored (by Rudy Giuliani) to be supporting Donald Trump — for whom an endorsement from a black union leader would amount to big news.

Antonio Reynoso, the chief of staff for Ms. Reyna, has already secured important endorsements, including from most Democratic mayoral candidates and the city's biggest unions, and he has raised more than $ 85,000 so far in contributions.

The governor, meanwhile, wanted the WFP endorsement, a tool of the city's biggest unions, primarily to cripple his challenger in the Democratic primary, Zephyr Teachout, who would have benefited enormously from WFP backing.

The endorsement is a big win for Liu, as the union has more than 125,000 members and 50,000 retirees in New York City alone.

Hein won't have the endorsement of CSEA, the county's biggest labor union this year.

This endorsement doesn't come as a big surprise — just like Cuomo's entrance into the race was long expected, so too has his likely support of many labor unions, particularly since he's the only Democratic candidate for governor.

Liu has bravely insisted he's still running for mayor in 2013, but that prospect will get even dimmer with the latest round of accusatory headlines; the biggest beneficiaries from Liu's decline are former comptroller Bill Thompson and current public advocate Bill de Blasio, both of whom would have tangled with Liu for labor union endorsements.

The liberal club had called a special session to reconsider its endorsement of Hochul, a few hours after Teachout and Wu had won their biggest victory to date, when the state's second - largest public employees union had endorsed their ticket.

At first sight, it would appear that the big trade unions» endorsements of Ed Miliband had a decisive effect.

The data controversy came at a terrible time for Sanders, who on Thursday scored two big endorsements from the progressive group, Democracy for America, and the 700,000 - member Communications Workers of America union.

NYSUT is big enough so that its active «no» vote on Cuomo would make it difficult for him to hit the threshold necessary to get the AFL endorsement, especially if the public employee unions, which are not pleased with the AG's proposed wage freeze and other parts of his «New NY Agenda» plan, also decided to oppose him.