Sentences with phrase «biggest states in the union»

So why would they then pick Cuomo, less than two years into his own governorship of one of the biggest states in the union?

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Just days later, the U.S. president made clear in his State of the Union address that when it came to the other big eco-controversy in America — hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to access natural gas reserves — he was siding with the oil and gas industry.

«This is a big deal, when you have that amount of data, and the privacy violations there are significant,» Senator Jeff Flake (R - AZ) said in an appearance on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday.

Included in the tariffs are the European Union, South Korea, and Australia, all of them among the biggest exporters of steel to the United States.

Big vs. small government, Blue vs. Red states, the Union vs. the Confederacy: each of these pairings represents different iterations on a recurring theme in the history of American politics.

Example: education - funding issues are going to be big in the upcoming legislative session, so you prepare a column by your caucus chair and pitch it to the state teachers» union newsletter, with of course a link back to your website.

ALBANY — Mayor Bloomberg's drive to end «last in / first out» protections for underachieving city teachers got a big boost in the state Senate last night with the introduction of a measure to end the union - backed practice, The Post has learned.

My name is Bill de Blasio and I am mayor of the biggest union town in the United States of America,» he said.

In theory, he is here to ceremonially sign a bill that would allow union members to deduct their union dues from their state taxes, but it's clear what he is really doing today is waging a bigger argument against President Donald Trump.

The Finger Lakes Region were big winners at the REDC awards Thursday afternoon Dec. 10, 2015 in Hart Theatre on the Empire State Plaza in Albany, N.Y. (Skip Dickstein / Times Union)

The Central New York Region were big winners at the REDC awards Thursday afternoon Dec. 10, 2015 in Hart Theatre on the Empire State Plaza in Albany, N.Y. (Skip Dickstein / Times Union)

Governor Cuomo's administration was dealt a blow today in their ongoing effort to negotiate contracts with several state employee unions, including the two biggest ones, PEF and CSEA.

Clearly, HTC and other unions have identified DeFrancisco as the biggest obstacle to getting the state Senate to approve the $ 15 minimum wage that Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed in January.

The Albany Times - Union reported that a Hudson Valley developer with millions in state contracts — and a frequent big - bucks Cuomo contributor — has benefited in spades from government decisions that placed competitors at a serious disadvantage.

The Daily News reported in April that two of its biggest organized - labor benefactors, the Hotel and Motel Trades Council and 1199 SEIU, the healthcare workers union and the state's largest, quietly withdrew their support for the WFP at the end of 2014.

If the court sides with Mr. Janus, it would spark the biggest change in government labor relations and state politics in New York since the passage of the Taylor Law in 1967, which first established ground rules for public employee unions.

Far fewer people realize that a significant share of the remaining manufacturing capacity in the United States has relocated to union unfriendly, small towns in the South, usually in fairly small enterprises that have supplier relationships with big name manufacturing companies but aren't big names themselves.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his team to start negotiations with the two biggest public employee unions his director of state operations, Howard Glaser, was telling state lawmakers the administration will move ahead with the layoff process if a contracted deal isn't reached in the next four weeks.

This might, for example, involve extra state funding for political parties in return for a cap on big private and union giving.

Calamia's complaint says that much of the big money that went to the Democratic committees on Long Island involved many of the same organizations Sugarman cited in her report as working with de Blasio, including Local 1199 of the powerful Service Employees International Union, Communications Workers of America District One, the state Nurse's Association and SEIU 32BJ.

Education groups control the state's biggest super PACs, and while reformers and unions will likely take sides along most partisan lines in November, supporters of charter schools and tax credits for donations to private schools have focused on targeting eight incumbent Democrats in the primaries, forcing the New York State United Teachers to play defense in support of alstate's biggest super PACs, and while reformers and unions will likely take sides along most partisan lines in November, supporters of charter schools and tax credits for donations to private schools have focused on targeting eight incumbent Democrats in the primaries, forcing the New York State United Teachers to play defense in support of alState United Teachers to play defense in support of allies.

He made peace with his biggest nemesis in the labor movement, the teachers unions, by denouncing much of the state education agenda he had pushed in his first term.

There's a big change in the New York State United Teachers union, as members elected new leadership after months of unrest.

Their manifesto includes the following commitment: «End the corrupting effects of big private and Trade Union donations to political parties, and bring in a fair system of state funding.»

In the calendar year, Brown raised a whopping $ 9.87 million in monetary contributions, with the overwhelming majority of those funds coming from big corporations, labor unions, oil companies and high - worth individuals that routinely lobby state governmenIn the calendar year, Brown raised a whopping $ 9.87 million in monetary contributions, with the overwhelming majority of those funds coming from big corporations, labor unions, oil companies and high - worth individuals that routinely lobby state governmenin monetary contributions, with the overwhelming majority of those funds coming from big corporations, labor unions, oil companies and high - worth individuals that routinely lobby state government.

In 2010, Donnelly «was the first to get a big donation from any of the state's law - enforcement unions,» according to the Pasadena Star - News.

That ad, and more like it (along with fliers and other attention - grabbers in what will likely be a low - turnout primary) was the product of an independent expenditure effort backed by the California Charter Schools Association, which has been a big force in battles with teachers» unions over charter schools in Los Angeles and at the state level as well.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, generally a champion of unions, opposes a state Assembly bill that would boost disability pensions for New York City police officers because he believes it would put too big a dent in the city budget, Capital has learned.

He also put forth a budget in 2011 that relied on $ 60 million worth of concessions from labor unions and $ 20 million worth of aid from the cash - strapped state that never materialized, not to mention some $ 100 million in borrowing to cover operating expenses — a big no - no as far as fiscal experts are concerned.

Sheldon Silver was the teachers unions» biggest ally in Albany, and his arrest came less than 24 hours after Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed an ambitious education reform plan in his State of the State address.

Supporters of charter schools and education tax credits have caught up to unions in terms of total political spending, but NYSUT's VOTE - COPE remains one of the state's biggest PACs.

Unlike some bigger labor counterparts — like SEIU 1199 and H.T.C., both firmly in Cuomo's corner — the union of some 55,000 mostly white - collar state workers isn't known as a political powerhouse.

The state teachers» union, meanwhile, is consistently one of the biggest donors to state - level candidates and parties, giving heavily to Democrats in the Assembly and the Senate.

One of the pragmatic reasons the union officials who play such a big role in the WFP's operation wanted to give him its nomination rather than backing an obscure law professor whose lack of name recognition at the time was equaled only by her paucity of funding was that they felt more confident he could produce the 50,000 votes on the WFP line necessary to preserve its spot on the state ballot four years from now.

Andy Smarick, a partner at Bellwether Education Partners, a nonprofit education reform organization, said Mr. Cuomo was unusual among current and recent Democratic governors of big states in his fidelity to reform priorities, noting that Martin O'Malley, the departing governor of Maryland, and Deval L. Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, were closer to teachers» unions.

Gov. Paterson and the state's two biggest labor unions reached a deal yesterday to avoid layoffs and employee givebacks in exchange for buyouts and more modest retirement benefits.

«No one has a big interest in the tax component,» one Albany insider said, adding that there was a growing belief in the state capitol that the tax increases were a surreptitious way of funding the city's looming public employee union contracts.

A $ 37,400 a year pay hike looks big, but it mirrors the approximately 48 percent rise Public Employees Federation state union members have received in the period.

Return on federal investment in genomics is big, but updated estimate is smaller than figure that Obama cited in State of the Union

This follows previous rumours that WB was inviting pitches for a live - action big screen adaptation of the story, which takes place in an alternate world where Kal - El's rocket ship landed in the Soviet Union as opposed the United States, with Superman raised as «the Champion of the common worker who fights a never - ending battle for Stalin, socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact»...

If only the low - aiming script by Simon Kinberg (xXx: State of the Union, X-Men 3), rumored to have undergone several rewrites at the hands of others, saw their characters as living, breathing human beings instead of mere comedic devices in the singular big joke the film is built on, and perhaps we would have seen even more fireworks in the romance department.

0:00 — Intro 3:15 — Headlines: Jurassic Park 4 Coming in 2 to 3 Years, Joe Johnston Wants to Direct a Boba Fett Movie, Kevin Costner in Django Unchained, Netflix Price Increase 21:40 — Review: Captain America: The First Avenger 1:13:35 — Trailer Trash: The Amazing Spider - Man, Haywire, In Time 1:36:40 — Other Stuff We Watched: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Beauty and the Beast, The Adjustment Bureau, Election, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, Four Lions, Rango, Fright Night, The 25th Hour, Bloody Birthday 1:48:46 — Junk Mail: Trusting Our Taste in Comedies, Horrid Entries in Great Movie Franchises, Joaquin Phoenix, What We Hate about the United States, Captain Canuck vs. Captain America vs. Union Jack, Organizing DVDs by Director, Favourite Movie Trailers, Roseanne, Kurt Russell as Han Solo 2:24:40 — This Week's DVD Releases 2:26:20 — Outin 2 to 3 Years, Joe Johnston Wants to Direct a Boba Fett Movie, Kevin Costner in Django Unchained, Netflix Price Increase 21:40 — Review: Captain America: The First Avenger 1:13:35 — Trailer Trash: The Amazing Spider - Man, Haywire, In Time 1:36:40 — Other Stuff We Watched: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Beauty and the Beast, The Adjustment Bureau, Election, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, Four Lions, Rango, Fright Night, The 25th Hour, Bloody Birthday 1:48:46 — Junk Mail: Trusting Our Taste in Comedies, Horrid Entries in Great Movie Franchises, Joaquin Phoenix, What We Hate about the United States, Captain Canuck vs. Captain America vs. Union Jack, Organizing DVDs by Director, Favourite Movie Trailers, Roseanne, Kurt Russell as Han Solo 2:24:40 — This Week's DVD Releases 2:26:20 — Outin Django Unchained, Netflix Price Increase 21:40 — Review: Captain America: The First Avenger 1:13:35 — Trailer Trash: The Amazing Spider - Man, Haywire, In Time 1:36:40 — Other Stuff We Watched: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Beauty and the Beast, The Adjustment Bureau, Election, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, Four Lions, Rango, Fright Night, The 25th Hour, Bloody Birthday 1:48:46 — Junk Mail: Trusting Our Taste in Comedies, Horrid Entries in Great Movie Franchises, Joaquin Phoenix, What We Hate about the United States, Captain Canuck vs. Captain America vs. Union Jack, Organizing DVDs by Director, Favourite Movie Trailers, Roseanne, Kurt Russell as Han Solo 2:24:40 — This Week's DVD Releases 2:26:20 — OutIn Time 1:36:40 — Other Stuff We Watched: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Beauty and the Beast, The Adjustment Bureau, Election, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, Four Lions, Rango, Fright Night, The 25th Hour, Bloody Birthday 1:48:46 — Junk Mail: Trusting Our Taste in Comedies, Horrid Entries in Great Movie Franchises, Joaquin Phoenix, What We Hate about the United States, Captain Canuck vs. Captain America vs. Union Jack, Organizing DVDs by Director, Favourite Movie Trailers, Roseanne, Kurt Russell as Han Solo 2:24:40 — This Week's DVD Releases 2:26:20 — Outin Comedies, Horrid Entries in Great Movie Franchises, Joaquin Phoenix, What We Hate about the United States, Captain Canuck vs. Captain America vs. Union Jack, Organizing DVDs by Director, Favourite Movie Trailers, Roseanne, Kurt Russell as Han Solo 2:24:40 — This Week's DVD Releases 2:26:20 — Outin Great Movie Franchises, Joaquin Phoenix, What We Hate about the United States, Captain Canuck vs. Captain America vs. Union Jack, Organizing DVDs by Director, Favourite Movie Trailers, Roseanne, Kurt Russell as Han Solo 2:24:40 — This Week's DVD Releases 2:26:20 — Outro

Diesel left the series (his character, Xander Cage, was killed off in a DVD supplement and replaced by Ice Cube for the poorly received sequel xXx: State of The Union) to embark on a string of drama, sci - fi and family - comedy roles; but after a string of disappointments with Chronicles of Riddick, Find Me Guilty and Babylon A.D. he ultimately returned to the Fast series - only to see it reborn as an ensemble action franchise that's now one of the biggest and most beloved movie properties in the world.

The ruling was a big win for teachers» unions, but not just in the states that will maintain their agency fees.

They are implementing entirely new approaches in varied contexts — union and non-union, small town and big city, well - funded and not — and often in challenging circumstances, such as superintendent turnover and severe state policy constraints.

In the capitol, the union won some accountability and transparency fights — prohibiting for - profit organizations from running charters, making charters adhere to state comptroller audits, and demanding they serve more special education and ELL students — but lost the bigger issues of saturation and the cap, which legislators agreed to raise from 200 to 460.

Manuel, Washington Post - «How Gates Pulled Off The Swift Common Core Revolution»»... Bill Gates was de facto organizer, providing the money and structure for states to work together on common standards in a way that avoided the usual collision between states» rights and national interests that had undercut every previous effort, dating from the Eisenhower administration... The Gates Foundation spread money across the political spectrum, to entities including the big teachers unions, the American Federation of Teachers... Read More

That in turn could weaken the relationship between the teachers unions and the Democratic Party, with big pro-reform implications, especially in blue states.

New Jersey does have slightly more LEAs signed on this time — 387, as opposed to 378 — and signatures from 21 local teachers unions as opposed to 4, but in a state with over 500 districts those aren't big changes.

The nation's largest state convention for teachers drew more than 30,000 educators to the Atlantic City Convention Center, according to the union, which said it the event's biggest turnout in at least a decade.