Sentences with phrase «business lobbying organization»

Astorino, who spoke last night to the business lobbying organization, unexpectedly appeared at the breakfast session of the group's Friday meeting awaiting Cuomo's scheduled speech.

The leader of the Rochester Business Alliance — a business lobbying organization that the lieutenant governor is rumored to be one day take over — announced this morning she would delay her retirement a year.

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More alarmingly, it has been lobbying against traditional theater - only cinematic runs for new movie releases — leading John Fithian, CEO of the National Association of Theatre Owners trade organization, to call out Netflix at a recent conference as a «grave threat to the movie business.»

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Gaskin presides over a large multi-faceted business empire comprised of trade, propaganda and lobbying organizations, all with one purpose in mind: allowing uneducated women like herself to provide substandard medical care to pregnant women while ignoring the growing pile of tiny bodies.

John Evers, Albany County's director of operations, is headed back to the state Business Council to oversee the organization's lobbying efforts on economic development, technology & telecommunications, travel and tourism.

Business organizations that lobby Albany have spent the last several months putting together a counter campaign to block the wage increase.

Duffy, the former mayor of Rochester, has been rumored to be interested in the top post at the Rochester Business Alliance, a lobbying organization.

And Cuomo has benefitted from the help of the Committee to Save New York — a coalition of real estate and business interests that has been compared to a Super PAC on the state level (though the comparisons are little off, considering CSNY registered, after some prodding, as a lobbying organization).

The I.I.I. is an industry supported organization, but does not lobby for insurance businesses; instead, our central function is to provide accurate and timely information on insurance subjects.

PIJAC is a lobbying organization that claims to stand up for pet businesses — especially small ones — around the country.

The battle has exposed deep rifts within the Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and other business lobbies, with companies leaving their trade organizations almost daily in disputes over climate change legislation.

Climate activists with the international Rising Tide network embarrassed the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a lobby group composed of 33 prominent businesses and organizations, by distributing a spoof press release declaring that the consortiumâ $ ™ s members had committed to a 90 percent reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

This guidance document provides an overview on: the evolving contribution of business to the sustainable development debate; planetary boundaries, environmental challenges and their implications for business; the greening of enterprises and workplaces, and; the role that business and employers» organizations can play in lobbying and service development in the environmental field.

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This follows in line with psychology and other mental health trade organizations» promotion and lobbying for more and more business in the family courts over the past two decades, performing a panoply of various and sundry services such as non-lawyer mediation, «parenting plan development», acting as case managers or special masters or «parenting coordinators», doing custody evaluations, opining as litigant - hired expert witnesses and consultants, managing supervised visitation centers, teaching parenting classes, and so forth.

The truth is that some certifying organizations are simply business - affiliated groups or lobby organizations with minimal if any certification standards.

NAR had requested a federal exemption for real estate practitioners in comment letters to both the FTC and FCC, lobbying both commissions diligently on the issue of restrictive telemarketing rules, but the only exemptions that ended up in the final rules were for political organizations, charities, telephone surveyors, and those with an existing business relationship.