Sentences with phrase «by campaign workers»

New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter was among the forged names on reelection petitions by campaign workers hired by Councilwoman Arroyo.

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The film alleges that the COS was only declared tax - exempt by the IRS after it waged a decades - long campaign against the agency, which included filing dozens of lawsuits against both the organization and individual IRS workers, and hiring private investors and fake journalists to dig up incriminating information about individual IRS workers.

It's a narrative that repeats itself innumerable times per year in workplaces across the country — and a misapprehension encouraged by countless internal communications campaigns at companies seeking to build trust and esprit de corps among their workers.

The union that represents Ford Motor's Canadian manufacturing workers reached a tentative contract agreement on Tuesday, averting a strike but setting up what may be a difficult campaign to get the deal approved by members.

«The hackers accessed software designed to be used by poll workers on Election Day, and in at least one state accessed a campaign finance database.»

A report by Anzalone Research Group published by Fast Food Forward, the campaign behind the fast food strikes in New York, found that of the 500 fast food workers it surveyed in New York in April 2013, 84 % said that their employer had committed at least one form of wage theft in the past year.

Bob White and the auto workers captured the attention of many Canadians by breaking away from their American parent union in 1985 and then leading an inspired campaign against the Mulroney government's proposed free trade agreement with the United States.

«Executives from Cambridge Analytica, hired by the Trump presidential campaign, have been caught on tape promising an extraordinary package of strategies to potential clients including filming opponents in compromising situations with Ukrainian sex workers,» The Daily Beast writes of U.K. station Channel 4's documentary.

Saunders, the president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, says that Canadian workers and their pensions are more exposed to risk during market trouble because of the successful campaign over the past decades to move from defined benefit pensions, which guarantee a certain monthly amount when you retire, to defined contribution plans, promoted by market enthusiasts.

The tax changes will save Walmart $ 2 billion a year, according to estimates from Making Change at Walmart, a campaign run by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.

«Instead of Walmart paying its workers what they deserve for their work, Walmart is merely offering to pay more — for more work,» said Randy Parraz, director of Making Change at Walmart, a campaign run by the United Food and Commercial Workers Internationalworkers what they deserve for their work, Walmart is merely offering to pay more — for more work,» said Randy Parraz, director of Making Change at Walmart, a campaign run by the United Food and Commercial Workers InternationalWorkers International Union.

IG Metall's campaign follows a 6.3 per cent pay increase over two years secured for 2m public sector workers last month by Ver.di, the services union, after weeks of stoppages.

The In campaign is urging Britain to remain in the European Union, saying it promotes security and peace by uniting countries which were previously at war, encourages economic prosperity through its free trade agreement, and passes laws which protect workers and environment.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

Today, a protest campaign in front of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) was held by hundreds of farmers and civil society supporters led by the National Women Farmers and Workers Association (NWFA) and Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (BAFLF).

Baby Milk Action has embarked on its «Say NO to formula company sponsorship «campaign in response to the many messages of concern we receive from health workers who are targeted by companies and also dismayed to see events they might otherwise attend being sponsored by companies.

Various health workers have contacted us about a curious market research exercise being conducted by the Millward Brown market research company into a Nestlé SMA advertising campaign.

Health workers and carers are demonstrating their independence — and helping Baby Milk Action to monitor and campaign — by buying our DanoNO mugs or other merchandise from our Virtual Shop.

Recall that one of the earliest walls Gov. Eliot Spitzer ran head - long into was a proposal to allow undocumented workers receive drivers» licenses issued by the state, a move that was vehemently opposed by county clerks and became a campaign issue for Hillary Clinton, then running for the Democratic nomination for president.

AT&T Inc.'s wireless workers moved closer toward striking at the nation's second - largest carrier, citing a campaign pledge by Trump to keep U.S. jobs from being outsourced to other countries.

In statements released by Schneiderman's campaign, the three lawmakers touted the candidate's work to on gun reforms and efforts to preserve «reproductive freedom,» marriage equality, and farm workers rights.

Election campaigns and access to the electoral process continue to be affected by traditional barriers, security concerns, absence of female voters and female observer groups.Past elections reflect significant obstacles women have faced as candidates, voters as well as election workers.

The Business Council and wall street tycoons who paid almost $ 10 million of own money in the anti-state worker campaign last year certainly have their own interests in mind by bankrolling Cuomo and his ideas.

This pay rise is a step in the right direction for all of McDonald's workers but it is by no means the end of the campaign.

Flynn, a businessman from Hunter, is being backed by the Transport Workers Union, a national labor organization, whose international president, John Samuelsen, (also FORMER president of TWU Local 100 here in New York), said in a statement to be released by Flynn's campaign that the candidate is «a leader who understands that the economic security of families must be the highest priority of Congress, and that unions are a necessary partner in that mission.»

Rather it has been organised by Mitcham and Morden MP Siobhain McDonagh who has been running a longstanding campaign on behalf of shop workers.

In one instance, the Crespo campaign handed in three pages of petitions with nearly identical lists of voters from the same Morrison Avenue address signed by different campaign workers on June 7.

DNAinfo also uncovered several unusual donations made to the Campaign for One New York from workers at Primary One LLC, a Queens beauty supply company owned by Sm - Ali Amanollahi.

Woolwich ferry workers have secured an Olympic award of at least # 400, following months of discussions and a sustained campaign to have their extra contribution during the Olympics recognised by their employer Serco, and TfL.

Both campaigns have been supported and co-ordinated by a new trade union group called the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB).

The lawsuit is the culmination of a decades - long, coordinated campaign by conservative groups to debilitate unions, one of the few strong advocates for workers.

«Ironically,» he said, «the provision preemptively limiting worker rights and benefiting the unions could not have made it into the budget without agreement of Senate Republicans — whose slender working majority has been targeted by campaigns funded largely by NYSUT and UFT,» the state and local teachers unions.

In a symbolic move, Nixon traveled by subway to her inaugural campaign stop — but was delayed by an hour when a subway worker was killed in an accident at 125th Street earlier Tuesday.

The recall election spurred by anger over changes Walker pushed through the Legislature last year to effectively end collective bargaining rights for most public workers is the most prominent campaign in the nation after the presidential race.

De Blasio was joined at the rally by members of the health care workers» union, SEIU 1199, which has endorsed his campaign, but whose political director has also spoken positively about Quinn's work on behalf of St. Vincent's.

Hawkins not only supports but organizes on issues such as a $ 15 minimum wage, a ban on fracking, 100 % clean energy by 2030, full public campaign financing, single payer health care, the legalization of marijuana, worker rights, taxing the rich, an end to the New Jim Crow and mass incarceration, universal child care... the list goes on and on.

As longstanding Nassau County legislator John Ciotti (D - Elmont) tries to distance himself from the racist and sexist shenanigans of his campaign workers, the sister of his opponent, Mickey Solages the victim of harassing taunts by a loose cannon that identifies as Republican, caught it all on tape.

De Blasio unofficially kicked off his 2017 reelection campaign on Nov. 14 by announcing his endorsement by the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association, one of the city's largest unions with 6,500 workers.

Posted from the website of Fast Food Rights, a campaign initiated by the Bakers» Food and Allied Workers Union.

A former campaign worker for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has filed to run for the seat held by Sen. Jeff Klein, the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference.

«Instead of reaching out to union leaders to gain consensus on an affordable housing program that ensures middle - class wages for workers, (de Blasio) coordinated with a lobbying group — led by billionaire developers — to run an anti-union campaign that would lead to unsafe job sites and a low - wage workforce,» The Greater New York Laborers - Employers Cooperation and Education Trust and the New York City and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Corporation said in a joint statement.

Ukip's poster campaign suggesting that builders are being forced out of work by immigrants was looking shakey today, after the building industry reported a widespread shortage of skilled workers.

The one - house budget resolutions being voted on Thursday by both chambers backs $ 45 million in funding for direct care workers, money that has been long sought for a campaign of advocacy groups pushing for the fundnig.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state labor leaders on Monday pledged a concerted campaign to boost the state's minimum wage to $ 15 over the coming years by leaning on the state Legislature for the latest hike for low - wage workers in the last several years.

Also at 11 a.m., the New York Worker Center Federation announces the launch of Freedom Cities, a new campaign that «moves beyond sanctuary cities by expanding both the way safety is defined and the realm of who deserves protection,» in front of Trump Hotel, Central Park, Manhattan.

His campaign today attributed the endorsement to Lancman's championing of the Wage Theft Prevention Act, which was aimed at ensuring workers aren't cheated out of earned wages by unscrupulous employers (it's also Lancman's third labor endorsement since announcing his run).

«Look, the comment by Aaron Woolf concerning Elise Stefanik's lack of experience as a «blue collar worker» during the TWC debate was «sexist» and reprehensible, and should have no place in this campaign.»

Despite campaigning in person for Pete Sikora twice, the economist with the Communication Workers of America lost to Jo Anne Simon, a Democratic district leader, by more than a thousand votes.

Flanked by Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority tenants in front of the Marine Drive complex where he lives Wednesday afternoon, the retired construction company owner and worker says he is not going to quit as a BMHA tenant commissioner and won't abandon the Council campaign.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman zeroed in on alleged efforts by Maziarz's campaign to hide $ 95,000 in payments over two years to a former Maziarz campaign worker, Glenn S. Aronow.