Sentences with phrase «campaign workers who»

Keefe said he and several other volunteers have spoken to roughly 60 people who applied for absentee ballots, recounting their experience with campaign workers who told them it was an easier way to vote.

He said he was proud of his campaign workers who spread the word of his principles without spending the huge sums the Democratic and Republican parties did.

I want to thank everyone who carried and signed petitions over the past month especially those campaign workers who braved the heat, humidity and rain to get the job done.»

Through a series of flashbacks, we watch his life as a Democratic campaign worker who falls in love with his long - time girlfriend Emily (Elizabeth Banks), the free - spirited April (Isla Fisher) and the sophisticated and sultry Summer (Rachel Weisz).

The film recounts the tragic events of the 1969 car accident involving U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy and a young, female campaign worker who died at the scene.

Not exact matches

The issues of globalisation and «social dumping» took centre - stage in France's campaign after Le Pen used the relocation of a Whirlpool factory in northern France to Poland to paint Macron as a globalist who did not care about workers.

We explore JPMorgan Chase's bold and urgent campaign to revive one of America's iconic industrial cities and Levi Strauss's effort to make life better for some of the 300,000 garment workers who make its jeans.

Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader who is half - heartedly campaigning for the U.K. to remain the E.U., is almost certainly another closet Brexit supporter, a Socialist who sees the E.U. as the stooge of global capitalism, eroding workers» rights with its neo-liberal focus on the Single Market.

Today, fast - food workers — who most often work for franchisees — are campaigning for a new minimum wage of $ 15 an hour.

They will do little to help former factory workers who have had to take lower - paying jobs — which is one reason that calling for new investments doesn't bring nearly the cheers on the campaign trail that denouncing Nafta does.

My congratulations to all the PSAC members who ran as candidates, and to all of the other public service workers who ran and who worked hard on campaigns.

In my last post I noted a recent memo from a higher - up at the Department of Justice, trying to intimidate public service workers who want to get involved in the current election campaign.

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.

Now, Nobis and other agricultural workers around the state are keeping an anxious eye on President Trump, who campaigned on tearing up trade deals he feels are bad for U.S.e workers, and is reportedly preparing to pull out of a free trade agreement with South Korea as early as this week.

When Nestlé runs mass media advertising campaigns, targets parents with baby clubs or throws a promotional event for health workers at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London to encourage them to promote SMA — who pays for it?

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.

It is the latter who pay for promotion, such as advertising campaigns, mother and baby clubs, targeting of health workers and so on through premiums on top of what is already one of the most profitable products on the supermarket shelves.

He also added that state workers whom his administration has a contractual obligation to pay at the end of every month, and the political class who made it possible to campaign, contest and win elections will be carried along in his administration.

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.

But as the costs of departure come in, workers who voted to quit picking up the tab, not the Ritz crowd who led the campaign with disinformation and lies, Ukip won't look so clever.

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.

«This is disgusting — a barbecue to celebrate a campaign against injured workers?!? They are partying, while injured workers are suffering, to raise money to take away the wheelchairs from workers who fell off of roofs through no fault of their own.

«Even though Bob Cohen didn't win, he should be commended for running a first - class campaign that highlighted the issues Westchester County families are concerned about, especially the need to provide families with relief from high property taxes and create good jobs for workers who need them.»

«There was some campaign workers, or a campaign worker, who was there until about 2:00 a.m. and they expressed to us that they have received a number of phone calls potentially from the same person,» Clien said.

«This is a shameful handout to the union bosses that fund the campaigns of Governor Cuomo and his allies, all at the expense of taxpayers and independent workers who would never join or financially support a union if it were actually voluntary.»

Stuart Appelbaum, the head of the retail workers» union who is a Kathleen Rice backer in the AG primary, says he got a robocall this weekend from state Sen. Eric Schneiderman's campaign denouncing the Nassau County DA as a former Republican and saying he's «one of us.»

It seems as though anyone who will show support for a man who has lived in the 33rd district for over 10 years, spent his years since moving to NYC from Puerto Rico involved in progressive organizations, and helping people like President Obama get elected will be deemed a Rivera campaign worker.

It is about supporting the dedicated direct care workers — who certainly deserve more than a minimum wage — so they can support their families while they continue to support the 130,000 New Yorkers with developmental disabilities,» the #bFair2DirectCare campaign said.

But Weiner's campaign called a high - ranking Board of Elections official who told the worker to let him vote, the campaign said.

Last week, Jackson criticized one of his own campaign outreach workers, who is a registered Republican, for posting Facebook messages from a pro-Trump group calling Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton a liar and criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement.

At a meeting Monday with a group of influential labor leaders representing some of the state's powerful unions, including 1199 SEIU, 32BJ, the Hotel Trades Council and the Communications Workers of America, Cuomo said he couldn't pass a budget with campaign finance reform because of Senate opposition, and pressed the leaders to rein in the restive members of the Working Families Party, who vote on the party's endorsement.

The campaign pushing for funding in the state budget workers who provide direct care services to those with developmental disabilities is upset Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 30 - day budget amendments do not include the funding they have sought.

A group of specialty doctors, who are fighting a new rule that would cut their compensation for treating injured workers, donated heavily to Cuomo's reelection campaign this year.

More than 200 women are expected to attend, including Gloria Steinem, who is leading a campaign to pressure Council Speaker Christine Quinn to bring the measure up for a vote, Ai - jen Poo (National Domestic Workers Alliance), Marjorie Hill (Gay Men's Health Crisis), Maria Castaneda (SEIU 1199 secretary treasurer).

Dicker noted that CSEA has launched a new ad campaign (just radio at the moment, but I'm told TV spots are coming), that slams unnamed «politicians» who think public sector layoffs are a «quick fix» and argues that firing state workers «only makes the economy worse.»

Klein, who recently announced his re-election campaign, has already received the declared backing of groups like the Teamsters, the Uniformed Firefighters, Transportation Workers Union Local 100 and RWDSU, which represents retail and department store wWorkers Union Local 100 and RWDSU, which represents retail and department store workersworkers.

Where are the voices of the Remploy workers who have campaigned and lobbied so hard to retain their jobs in this debate?

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.

Mr. Lipton, who has campaigned for better pay for low - wage workers for years, said, «There's clearly a new standard for the minimum wage, and it's actually a living wage for the first time in many, many decades.»

(Esty has another Republican challenger, Craig Diangelo, an IT worker from New Britain who had $ 109.30 in his campaign account as of Dec. 31.)

«It shows that this campaign is far more about the union worker than it is about the working poor or the people who are struggling in this state, and secondly, the fact that this issue two weeks from its deadline is paralyzed shows that it doesn't take money when you have real - life, emotional stories from the people who are actually impacted,» Durant said.

However, since quitting the shadow cabinet in protest at Corbyn's leadership in July 2016, Alexander has come under pressure from pro-Corbyn campaign group Momentum, including some local activists who are also members of the far left Alliance for Workers» Liberty.

Fernandez, who said he has been doing «traditional campaigning» with community walkthroughs, has been endorsed by several labor unions, including the District Council 9 International Union of Painters and Allied Traders, the PEF Political Action Committee Region 10 and the Local 46 Metallic Lathers & Reinforcing Iron Workers.

The state Senator who is trying to unseat Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino is calling on the Board of Elections to investigate the use of county workers on his campaign.

«This is an unprecedented win for 40,000 contracted airport workers in an ongoing campaign led by thousands of cabin and terminal cleaners, wheelchair attendants, baggage handlers, security and other contracted service workers who have won $ 15 an hour and the union lifting families and communities in both New York and New Jersey.

Subway and bus operators, members of Transport Workers (TWU) Local 100, had to contend with Governor Andrew Cuomo, who campaigned on taming unions and cutting taxes.

Stringer also commented on the campaign he launched in August to locate more than 1,000 workers who are owed $ 3.7 million in unpaid wages.

«More people take us as a credible campaign, so they're willing to give us contributions,» Hawkins said by phone, ducking out of a state board that is holding a hearing on whether or not to raise the minimum wage for workers who rely on tips.

But a spokesman for Mr McCluskey's leadership campaign said: «Unite members will be baffled by this nonsense when they see daily that Len McCluskey's priority is to fight for their jobs, pay and pensions, as he is doing today for the tens of thousands of UK workers who depend on the auto industry for their livelihoods.»