Sentences with phrase «by the labor movement»

Ed Ott, Executive Director, New York City Central Labor Council stated, «This event is part of a well - planned and strategic effort by the labor movement to ensure that the next Congressman from Staten Island is pro worker in fact, not just in gesture.

This concept is rooted in ongoing efforts supported by the labor movement to allow public and private pension funds to sue Wall St. firms for pension losses.

It has also vindicated longstanding warnings by the labor movement about profiteering and mismanagement, and their case that ideological bias rather than sound public policy is driving privatization and outsourcing.

Founded in 1973 by the labor movement, its first outlet was opened by then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew on July 22 of the same year.

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Davis, however, believes that the made - in - the - USA movement has serious limitations — particularly a puny domestic supply chain crippled by an unskilled labor pool, at least when it comes to custom manufacturing.

TQM was demonstrated on a grand scale by Japanese industry through the intervention of W. Edwards Deming — who, in consequence, and thanks to his missionary labors in the U.S. and across the world, has come to be viewed as the «father» of quality control, quality circles, and the quality movement generally.

By the time things simmered down, Brooklyn's inner - city schools were in considerably worse shape, white liberals had become accustomed to making excuses for black violence, and the old alliances between the civil - rights movement, on the one hand, and the American labor movement and organized American Jewry, on the other, had been put under severe strain.

Some of the businesses that have put large sums into the campaigns of congressmen and presidents, as well as labor generally, have suffered from the movement toward free trade that is supported by economic ideology.

All You Who Labor By Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski Sophia, 191 pages, $ 16.95 These reflections on work and the sanctification of everyday life by the late primate of Poland (d. 1981) had a significant influence on Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement that led to the collapse of communisBy Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski Sophia, 191 pages, $ 16.95 These reflections on work and the sanctification of everyday life by the late primate of Poland (d. 1981) had a significant influence on Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement that led to the collapse of communisby the late primate of Poland (d. 1981) had a significant influence on Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement that led to the collapse of communism.

We loosen our grip and make our concessions only when we are forced to do so by some competing group that has acquired sufficient power to bring us to the negotiating table, as the history of the labor - management conflict and the modern women's movement illustrate.

Agitation for anti-Oriental laws was continued by labor leaders who were welding a political labor movement.

They spoke of Jesus like one speaks of an intimate friend or lover, as if they had just returned from a long walk by his side, their faces still flush from the movement, their breathing still labored from trying to keep up.

The founders no longer want to see the labor of queer Black women neglected by mainstream media and those desiring partnership with the movement.

This concept was supported vigorously by important labor and left - wing Zionist groups, including the radical Marxist Ha - Shomer Ha - Tzair kibbutz movement, the Ahdut Ha - Avodah socialist party, the Poale Zion Smol (Left Workers of Zion) party, and the Mapam party (which at one time embraced the other groups); and by such significant political figures as Haim Margalit - Kalvarisky (a member of the Zionist Executive), Bert Katznelson (a founder of Ahdut Ha - Avodah and of the Histradut federation of labor), and Henrietta Szold (the first woman member of the Zionist Executive and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America).

HMN is throwing its support behind Birth on Labor Day or BOLD — a global arts - based movement founded in 2006 by playwright Karen Brody.

«I have found it difficult for people to visualize and understand the cardinal movements of labor, fetal positions, and fetal station by reading from a text.

If no medical personnel are on the sports sideline, any athlete showing potential signs of concussion, such as balance or motor incoordination (stumbles, slow / labored movements), disorientation or confusion, loss of memory, blank or vacant look or visible facial injury combined with any of these other symptoms, should be removed from play, barred from returning and referred for a formal evaluation by a qualified health care professional.

It teaches women to cope with labor pain by learning to exercise conscious control over posture and movement and by re-educating the body to replace poor postural positions that may be leading to tension with those of release.

Mindful movement, including Yoga & Pilates principals empower a woman to awaken herself physically, emotionally and spiritually as she prepares for labor & birth, embracing her role as a mother. Taught by Certified Nurse Midwife Colleen Brezine, Kim Andrews, RN and Deb Koniaryzck, RN.

According to an analysis prepared on positioning and movement during early labor project that walking around or staying upright for some time will shorten the labor time by about an hour.

At 10:15 a.m., leaders from New York's organized labor movement will hold a news conference as the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Janus v. AFSCME, the latest in a series of attacks by the wealthy and corporate interests against ordinary working people, outside the Senate lounge, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

In the first term, Cuomo battled public labor unions over the Tier Six pension measure, cut a deal with lawmakers in the Assembly and Senate to draw their own legislative boundaries, capped property taxes and was hesitant to embrace taxing the rich that was called for by the nascent Occupy Wall Street movement.

«They are coming at the union movement piece by piece,» he said to the assembled union leaders and members, because of labor's political clout and «because you built and protect the middle class.»

Cuomo warned the Janus lawsuit was «the tip of the iceberg» in terms of the attack on working people and the labor movement by the «extreme conservative movement that is sweeping the country.»

Mulgrew called the Janus case «part of a coordinated plan by right - wing organizations to disenfranchise workers and crush the labor movement, one of the few strong advocates for working people.»

The WFP is supported by liberal organizations as well as the labor movement.

Iannuzzi will begin his latest term at a critical juncture for the labor movement, as issues like collective bargaining and seniority are under attack nationwide, and as public K - 12 and higher education in New York struggle to cope with the devastating effects of more than $ 1 billion in cuts by state government.

Emboldened by the Occupy Wall Street movement and President Barack Obama's embrace of a «millionaire's tax,» organized labor and their Democratic allies in Albany are getting ready to square off with Mr. Cuomo, a popular Democrat who has so far been insulated from harsh criticism.

But support from the labor movement comes a coalition of groups backing the bill make a major end of session push for the measure, which is sponsored by Minority Leader John Sampson, D - Brooklyn, in the Senate.

«Make it even worse, it's not just the labor movement that's being attacked, the state of New York is being attacked by these forces in Washington,» Cuomo said.

At 6:30 p.m., NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and Council members Brad Lander and Carlos Menchaca join labor leaders for a panel on the progressive movement in city politics moderated by Fordham's Dr. Christina Greer, 1199 SEIU Auditorium, 310 W. 43rd Street, Manhattan.

He made peace with his biggest nemesis in the labor movement, the teachers unions, by denouncing much of the state education agenda he had pushed in his first term.

He has done this despite the default of the labor movement of which he is an active part as a Teamster; New York unions by and large have have rejected political independence and have chosen the path of least resistance, endorsing «winners» like Andrew Cuomo for governor, in the hopes of picking up a few fallen crumbs off the bargaining table.

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.

«I think you will see in 2018 an unprecedented focus on flipping state legislative chambers across the country by progressives and the labor movement.»

And the entire labor movement — from the teachers union to the AFL - CIO — are urging their members to vote no, claiming a convention would open a Pandora's box that would put pension protections — approved by voters following the 1938 convention — at risk.

Our members are unified in this battle, a battle that started as a result of Con Edison's deeply misguided notion that they could intimidate Local 1 - 2, and by extension the labor movement in New York.

It is no accident that the American labor movement has been kept afloat by the success of public - sector unions - and that the largest, most powerful union in the country is not the Teamsters or the United Auto Workers, but the National Education Association.

Any effort to understand why the teacher unions succeeded as they did must begin by recognizing that their emergence was not an isolated development in the American labor movement.

[5] While some workers from Hasköy and Güzeltepe actively participated in the organized labor movement to build a more just future, others, though not directly an organized part of this movement, still became workers within the atmosphere of a promising future generated by the working class and / or socialist movement.

A scholarship tax credit appeals to a diverse coalition of supporters: economically disadvantaged, working - class, and middle - class voters; African American and Hispanic clergy and parents; urban Catholics, Orthodox Jews, and evangelical voters; and a large swath of the labor - union movement (a scholarship tax credit proposal in New York is supported by 30 labor unions).

Indeed, here is a widely discussed 1967 prediction from former teacher Robert Doherty and labor leader Walter Oberer (from their book Teachers, Schools Boards, and Collective Bargaining: A Changing of the Guard): If the «movement to improve the status of teachers by collective action is successful, if... teachers... come close to realizing what they seem to be striving toward, the concern over purely employment matters will decline.

Nelson Lichtenstein, a labor historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said the unions» strategy on testing follows years in which they have been under assault, by conservative leaders and by the bipartisan education - reform movement that has painted unions as a central obstacle to improving schools.

A longtime ally of the labor movement, Sanders is backing the two candidates who are supported by the local teachers union in a race that could shift control of the nation's second largest school district.

Sponsored by the California Federation of Teachers, this bill recognized the first week of April as «Labor History Week» and authorized public school districts to «commemorate that week with appropriate educational exercises that make pupils aware of the role that the labor movement has played in shaping California and the United States.&rLabor History Week» and authorized public school districts to «commemorate that week with appropriate educational exercises that make pupils aware of the role that the labor movement has played in shaping California and the United States.&rlabor movement has played in shaping California and the United States.»

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.

«FBI and the Departments of Labor and Education — were investigating whether some charter school employees were kicking back part of their salaries to a Muslim movement founded by Gulen known as Hizmet.»

An unprecedented movement by labor unions to raise Disney park and resort worker wages, through city legislation, is facing

Whether he's mimicking the act of sweeping the floor in agile grace or responding to verbal statements of cultural criticism in gliding movement, Linder's paid - by - the - hour choreography goes beyond music and ultimately engages choreography and language as a critical reflection of the relationship between economic labor and social conditions.

Fusing the «presentness» of his own footage with the past evoked by archival footage, Chieh - jen points to the oversights of official history and its collusion with capitalism's unrelenting movement toward greater profitability, whether through technological advancement or the perpetual search for cheaper labor.