Sentences with phrase «by labor activists»

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Iraq's liberation from Saddam Hussein and his criminal underlings by the coalition of the willing last year has breathed life into many Labor activists — including Federal Labor leader Mark Latham — who are afflicted by anti-Americanism and / or pacifist inclinations.

Though Uber is beloved by many riders, the way it has muscled into cities and the public consciousness, and the manner in which it has altered labor relations and urban planning, have rattled lawmakers, activists and even its drivers.

Several labor leaders as well as the Cuomo campaign disputed the claims made by WFP State Director Bill Lipton that the governor threatened to work to end funding for the activist organizations as a result of the potential Nixon endorsement.

The only Democrat left in the field against Gillibrand is labor activist Jonathan Tasini, who also mounted a long - shot challenge to Clinton in 2006, running to the then - senator's left by focusing almost entirely on her «yes» vote on the Iraq War.

The NY Post opines: «With labor gone, the WFP's now essentially run by the activist groups that co-founded it with the unions.

Brian Sampson, president of the Associated Builders and Contractors, Empire State Chapter, released a statement on «MTA cost overruns and labor contracts» that did not mention the actress / activist - turned - Democratic - gubernatorial - candidate by name, but did say that the «facts» of what is happening at the cash - strapped MTA can not be ignored, «regardless of your political stance or background.»

Activists have also utilized hashtags created by Starbucks to criticize the company's labor practices, by Vodafone to call attention to the firm's alleged tax avoidance, and by SodaStream to note that the company's principal manufacturing facility is located on an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.

The controversial WFP, which is under investigation for possible violations of the New York City campaign - finance law, was founded nearly a decade ago by left - wing labor unions and political activists, and has emerged as a potent force in helping Democratic candidates.

The TV spot follows a marketing assault from the hotel industry, organized labor, activist groups and city Comptroller Scott Stringer that produced and publicized findings that the online rental service has accelerated gentrification by illegally converting apartments to short - term lodgings for travelers.»

«Our endorsement in the Governor's race will be determined by our state committee, which is comprised of 232 labor, community and grassroots activists from across New York State,» said New York WFP director Bill Lipton.

Labor activist Jonathan Tasini, one of five Democrats who unsuccessfully tried to oust Rep. Charlie Rangel in the Sept. 14 primary, is the first to call on the embattled Harlem congressman to step down after he was found guilty of 11 of 13 ethics charges by a House committee earlier today.

In addition to Johnson, Rangel is challenged in the Sept. 14 Democratic primary by State Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, labor activist Jonathan Tasini and banker Vincent Morgan.

Community Voices Heard, a community activist organization started by single mothers on public assistance in NYC more than two decades ago, was at the forefront of the #NoCuts Coalition rally, along with U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, State Senator Marisol Alcantara (D - 31st Senate District), and the leaders of several dozen grassroots, civic and labor organizations.

Led by New Yorkers for Clean Livable and Streets, also known as NYCLASS, the activists and council members at the press conference expressed optimism that the legislation would ultimately pass the City Council next spring and become law, despite the opposition of organized labor and a sizable number of council members.

The thorny issue pitted animal rights activists — who relentlessly opposed Mr. de Blasio's main rival for the Democratic nomination for mayor in 2013, former Council Speaker Christine Quinn — against organized labor, since the horse drivers are represented by the Teamsters.

She spoke Friday to an audience of about 250 labor leaders, elected officials, candidates for elected office and liberal activists at the annual Labor Day Breakfast held by the Pioneer Valley Central Labor Council, AFL -labor leaders, elected officials, candidates for elected office and liberal activists at the annual Labor Day Breakfast held by the Pioneer Valley Central Labor Council, AFL -Labor Day Breakfast held by the Pioneer Valley Central Labor Council, AFL -Labor Council, AFL - CIO.

«The Working Families Party was created by labor unions, community organizations and progressive activists to advance an agenda and elect candidates who improve the lives of working people.

The only problem is that a placeholder would take control from the more activist - based state committee and place it in the hands of the executive committee, which is dominated by labor leaders who have been assiduously courted by Cuomo.

While the party's executive committee is dominated by major labor unions — it includes leaders of SEIU 1199 and the Communications Workers of America — most state committee people are engaged and active citizen activists.

The split is part of a broader dispute within the WFP between its labor union founders and activist groups that have largely been funded by unions to push issues.

The party, made up of liberal activists and labor unions, has irked Mr. Cuomo for years by trying to push him to the left, though the governor will still appear on its ballot line on Election Day.

According to Mike Lupica, these tolls, set at $ 2 and collected by EZ - Pass technology so as not to slow traffic, were supported by nearly every major leader in the city: «politicians, labor leaders, community activists, even patrician Metropolitan Transportation Authority board members.»

Later that same day, delegates will participate in a program focused on the future of the labor movement by well - known labor and social justice activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. in the Hart Theatre of The Egg, at 2 p.m. Fletcher is currently the director of Field Services and Education for the American Federation of Government Employees.

The deal with frustrated progressive activists and labor union leaders, who make up the WFP, was in part brokered by Mayor Bill de Blasio after the WFP threatened

He had been one of three people being considered by the Staten Island Democratic Party's executive board, alongside Brooklyn Assemblyman William Colton and State Island labor activist Robert Holst.

The development, known as Astoria Cove, is viewed as a coup by the de Blasio administration and left - leaning City Council members — a about - face on the part of City Councilmembers occasioned by a 7 percent increase in the amount of affordable housing housing to built — and an agreement to use organized labor during the construction phase, even as speculation builds that the developer, Alma Realty, could flip the property and some activists question whether enough affordable housing will be built.

Financed by Significant, MNM Creative, MACRO, and Cinereach, the film follows a young black telemarketer who finds success in the business world, quickly rising through the ranks, just as his activist friends are rising up in tandem against unfair labor practices.

The Battleship Island Near the end of World War II, a Korean independence activist plots to save his countrymen imprisoned by the Japanese as slave labor on the island of Hashima.

And union leaders may warm up to decentralizing management, even with more flexible labor contracts, especially if they can win control of pilot and autonomous schools by uniting with Latino neighborhood activists.

In a race that cost over $ 30 million, $ 25 million from outside groups, Torlakson was backed by labor unions and progressive activists while Tuck got the support of establishment newspapers and, according to one source, «30 donors who gave on average $ 267,000 each, including real estate developer William Bloomfield, Jr., Broad Foundation founder Eli Broad, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Emerson Collective Chair Laurene Powell Jobs.»

Likewise, for conservative politicians and activist - profiteers disproportionately bankrolled by these and other monied interests, the «reform» argument gives them a way to both talk about fixing education and to bash organized labor, all without having to mention an economic status quo that monied interests benefit from and thus do not want changed.

Likewise, for conservative politicians and activist — profiteers disproportionately bankrolled by these and other monied interests, the «reform» argument gives them a way to both talk about fixing education and to bash organized labor, all without having to mention an economic status quo that monied interests benefit from and thus do not want changed.

While labor activists like to think of the strikes as a sign of a resurgent labor movement, a recent article by Jason Walta, senior counsel for the National Education Association, the largest teachers» union in the country, strongly indicates otherwise.

In May, protesters led by the Global Ultra Luxury Faction (GULF), a subset of activist group Gulf Labor, shut down the Guggenheim, just one in a series of demonstrations against the poor conditions facing the workers constructing the Guggenheim's offshoot in Abu Dhabi.

Add to that an ill - conceived expansion to Abu Dhabi, years delayed and justifiably protested by artists and activists concerned about labor conditions in the United Arab Emirates, and you could ask yourself just what the Guggenheim is for.

This includes a series of drawings inspired by historic political graphics of women, photographs she has taken at labor rallies and her photo - realistic drawings of activists.

«Labor Organizers, Environmental Activists Forge New Alliance» by Rosanne Skirble for the Voice of America also defines and questions the quality of certain green jobs generated to date.

While conservative activists have offered many general, unreferenced assertions about CPP compliance costs, as far as I am aware, only three papers have been published by the Right laboring to make those assertions more concrete.

Clinton, who weighed in on the Dakota Access pipeline for the first time last week in a noncommittal statement, finds herself torn between labor unions on one side, who want the jobs created by the project, and Native American activists and environments on the other side, who say the pipeline would pollute water and violate sacred land.

Political deals (sometimes dubbed «grand bargains») to win Republican support for carbon taxes, such as the proposal by Democratic Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) and Brian Schatz (HA) therefore risk alienating labor, low - income advocates and economic - justice activists, many of whom are already tepid at best about carbon tax legislation that doesn't directly invest considerable carbon revenues in a «just transition.»