Sentences with phrase «biggest union at»

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The difference between the two approaches is a subtle one in that the central bank's current policy tool - a 101 trillion yen ($ 1 trillion) program of asset buying and lending - also expands the BOJ's balance sheet, which at a third of GDP is a bigger proportion of the economy compared with those of the U.S. and European Union's central banks.

Politically, however, the creation of a middle category of worker would be a hard sell, with labor unions likely to oppose it, says Brishen Rogers, a professor of labor law at Temple University, out of fear that it might tempt many big employers to eliminate fuller - benefit jobs.

The rising support for the far right is the biggest concern for market players when they look at France and the wider European Union.

Speaking at Fortune «s Most Powerful Women International Summit in London, Gavet, whose company owns travel sites such as Priceline.com, Kayak.com and booking.com, said the European Union's effort to create its much - touted «single digital market» is «the biggest question for tech startups here in Europe.»

Though the decision does not directly address them, its logic also applies to the labor unions that are often at political odds with big business.

France Telecom SA, SFR's main competitor and the country's biggest phone operator, was rocked two years ago by a streak of employee suicides which unions blamed on stress caused by a reorganization aimed at making the company more competitive.

Many credit unions issue small business loans, and they approve requests at twice the rate of big banks.

This data - gathering machinery can be used to shape who we vote for, or whether we vote at all, or how we make choices on big referendums, such as whether Britain leaves the European Union.

Think of how our two seminaries relate to their surroundings — Union in the middle of the nation's biggest city and from the most savory part of Manhattan at that, but drawing vitality and the pulse of reality from it.

Unions closed at least ten airlines and three big air plane makers.

BYU is a big place, and there are people like me who go there (my wife, for example, is a grad), but we picked up that the kind of folks who were likely to have a union card and a temple recommend were more likely to be at Utah.

Although what seems to be a bigger split than the In Or Out European Union Referendum, Arsene Wenger seems to have secured his role as Arsenal manager for at least another season.

The union and city have been at odds since Mayor Richard Daley pushed a measure through a recent City Council meeting that gives the Chicago Park District and the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority the responsibility for traffic control at Bears games and other big events on and around the Museum Campus.

This means that we could have the odd situation where the big Unions vote against the McDonnell Amendment at the NEC but then issue instructions to delegates to vote for it when it comes to the conference hall.

Unite, Britain's biggest union, has called the UK government's decision to sack over 1,000 disabled workers at Remploy «Barbaric».

A secure future for one of the most important ports in the country, Dover is being put at risk by the refusal of the Port of Dover Community Trust (PDCT) to get behind The People's Port, says Unite, the country's biggest union.

The White House says the crowd at Cooper Union for President Obama's Wall Street reform speech includes some 700 people, including a number of finance industry bigs and local elected officials.

Len McCluskey, leader of the UK's biggest union, Unite, will use his speech at the historic Durham Miners» Gala today (Saturday) to call upon Labour to renew its connection to working people by delivering a genuine alternative to the government's ruinous austerity programme.

There was the time Sanders was set to stay at a non-union hotel, a big no - no among people close to labor groups, and Yvanna Cancela, the union's political director called the campaign with a list of hotels he could stay at instead.

Founded by real estate developers and business executives at Mr. Cuomo's urging shortly after he was elected governor, the committee has rapidly become the biggest spender on lobbying in Albany, providing not only critical backing for Mr. Cuomo but also a counterweight to the labor unions whose money and political muscle have traditionally dominated the Capitol.

United Federation of Teachers President Mike Mulgrew referred to Klein and the Department of Education as acting «nuts» and doing «nutty» things while addressing Big Apple union delegates Friday at a meeting in Washington, DC, attendees said.

At the labor strategy session, I heard it explained that some years ago, unions invested big in organizing — but were unable to staunch the loss of members, especially in the private sector.

It's true of Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, Muslim fundamentalists, political fundamentalists... For example, during the Cold War China was at times a bigger threat to the Soviet Union than the United States due to their somewhat different interpretations of what Communism meant.

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)

Indeed not only did unions take part, but all of the existing «big five» at the time took part, each represented by very senior officials.

Under the Trade Union Bill - the Conservatives» biggest assault on the unions since the 1980s - a turnout of at least 50 % of members will be needed to authorise action.

I know of no union asking for, let alone expecting, a «big» raise or any raise at all for that matter.

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.

Many Democratic voters, including union members, are furious at big business for the recent...

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.

This morning, Bronx Boro Prez Ruben Diaz, Jr. and Stuart Applebaum, the head of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, held a press conference on Kingsbridge Road, in front of the Kingsbridge Armory, to show solidarity in their opposition to a big - box supermarket at the Armory and also to promote the merits of the Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) they sent to the Related Companies (the Armory's developer) last week.

He told Radio 4's the World at One: «I don't think it's a surprise that Dave Ward, who's a big supporter of Jeremy, has pulled his union in around him, but ultimately this is a members» election — they will be the ones that decide who the leader is.»

So instead they go to this big conspiracy theory that somehow you have got the country's biggest unions — so Len McCluskey, the head of Unite, and Dave Prentis, the head of Unison — in cahoots with those well - known socialists at the CBI, the big business organisation, and the IMF's Christine Lagarde, [and] all of this being orchestrated by Len McCluskey's new best friend, the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, aided and abetted by President Obama, all campaigning against Brexit.»

See «Teachers Sacrifice While Union Spends Big on Itself» at http://www.nyfera.org/?p=3115.

The trade union movement has long been the biggest driver of equality, helping to create a fairer and more just society which benefits all of us, not just those at the top.

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

But with the big trade unions still vehemently pro-nukes, he ducked the fight at last year's conference and looks set to continue to do so.

Cuomo has cultivated the support of construction unions at the same time he has poured state money into big construction projects, like the rebuild of LaGuardia Airport.

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.

The mayor's former big - bucks campaign donor and self - described» friend» Jona Rechnitz once dressed up in blackface, evidence of which could soon be presented at the bribery trial of former union head Norman Seabrook, sources tell The Post.

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.

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.

In an outspoken interview with The Observer on the eve of the Trades Union Congress, Derek Simpson, joint general secretary of Unite, the union with the biggest group of Labour MPs at Westminster, accused Miliband, in a stream of swearwords, of being «smug» and «arrogant&raUnion Congress, Derek Simpson, joint general secretary of Unite, the union with the biggest group of Labour MPs at Westminster, accused Miliband, in a stream of swearwords, of being «smug» and «arrogant&raunion with the biggest group of Labour MPs at Westminster, accused Miliband, in a stream of swearwords, of being «smug» and «arrogant».

About 95,000 students are enrolled at 207 charter schools in the Big Apple, but de Blasio has frequently sparred with operators of the schools, which mostly run without the teachers union.

I took a field trip to the big city last week, to attend the Union of Concerned Scientists» and George Washington University School of Public Health's conference, «FDA at a Crossroads.»

There, the terrain was «full of great big juicy blueberries again,» said rover chief scientist Steven Squyres on Wednesday at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in San Francisco, California, US.

But the biggest takeaway is that scientists should be careful before declaring an animal can't sense something, says Robert Olberg, an insect neuroscientist at Union College in Schenectady, New York, who was not involved with the research.

There, at the seat of the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, a system of Big Science funding that marries politics with scientific objectives, allows little transparency and exercises insufficient control has enabled the mess that the HBP has become.