Sentences with phrase «biggest union ally»

JEREMY CORBYN's biggest union ally last night launched a fresh attack on «stale» Labour MPs — and told activists to oust them.

Not exact matches

The coming power struggle pits the neoliberal capitalist class — big business and the banks with their friends in the media and their governing allies in the Tory party — against a weakened Labour party pushed on the back foot by a big election defeat and a trade union movement still hamstrung by Thatcher's legal minefield.

(The powerful health care workers union was a big financial backer of the campaign, too, and it has long been a close ally of the governor).

Another big union spender last year was the Communication Workers of America District 1, a close ally of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who led a fundraising effort to win Democratic control of the state Senate.

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 allies.

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.

Yet these reform issues have moved to the mainstream as even the Democrats, traditionally labor's biggest allies, have gotten fed up with union intransigence to structural changes to improve America's schools.

U.S. Travel Association CEO Roger Dow was pleased that the U.S. government has «rejected calls from the Big 3 domestic airlines and their union allies to tamper with open skies aviation agreements.»