Sentences with phrase «current leader of the union»

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Finally, a growing number of union leaders are abandoning the futile efforts to achieve incremental reforms of the current ossified and defunct labor law and instead are calling for opening up labor law to encourage and protect workers who experiment with these and other more fluid and varied activities free from reprisals.

What's going on is that thousands of oil workers are fleeing the state - run oil firm under the watch of its new military commander, who has quickly alienated the firm's embattled upper echelon and its rank - and - file, according to union leaders, a half - dozen current PDVSA workers, a dozen former PDVSA workers and a half - dozen executives at foreign companies operating in Venezuela.

The PSOE's party elders did not choose him for this role, but if Pedro Sánchez takes the lead, in Europe as much as in Spain, and reopens the debate about the euro, acknowledging that the current structure does not work and defining with the help of hindsight what vulnerabilities must be addressed in a reformed European Union, the party's new leader can halt the decline of the PSOE at home and reverse the ugly nationalism spreading through Europe.

Miliband took the biggest gamble of his time as leader yesterday when he confirmed that only individual union members who actively opt - in to supporting Labour would contribute to the party, rather than the current system of an automatic «affiliation» fee paid by three million union members.

Principal Vincent Pitta is the son of Vito Pitta, former Hotel Trades Council president, and the brother - in - law of the powerful labor union's current leader, Peter Ward.

Off topic question topics included whether the mayor and his wife have smoked marijuana inside Gracie Mansion, a Daily News call for the mayor to «accept responsibility for inflaming the police», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction ending.

Just over half (54 %) of trade union affiliates also say they intend to vote for the current leader.

The leaders of the state's teachers unions aren't happy with how Gov.Dannel P. Malloydescribed the current tenure system in his State of the State address Wednesday — «the only thing you have to do is show up for four years» — but they say they are willing to work with him on his proposed reform.

Jesse Hamilton, a Crown Heights resident and the current district leader in Assembly District 43 — which partially overlaps with District 20 — is running with the support of Brooklyn Democratic party chairman Frank Seddio, the service workers» union 32BJ and Adams himself.

Under current rules, the other two thirds of the power to elect a leader is divided equally between party members and of members of «affiliated organisations», such as unions.

Union leaders are elected by current members to protect their interests, and most teachers remain highly satisfied with their unions» conduct of collective bargaining.

Union leaders hope a no vote will put an end to talk of lifting the charter schools ban once and for all, thus keeping the current monopoly education system intact.

After an electrifying keynote by parent leader Rosazlia Grillier that left attendees standing in ovation, Jesse Sharkey of the Chicago Teachers Union facilitated a panel discussion during the Chicago Story plenary on current challenges facing the public school system and the difficulty for community voices to be heard.

Its leaders have put forward a series of amendments to the organization's constitution and by - laws that would make it more difficult for current members to withdrawal from the union.

The appointees, each an expert and prominent voice in the field, included current and former education officials from all levels of government, academic and policy researchers, civil rights leaders, the presidents of the national teachers» unions, education policy advocates and associations, and public interest lawyers.

NYSUT President Richard Iannuzzi faces an ever - toughening contest against Karen Magee, a local Westchester union leader who heads a slate of challengers, including Iannuzzi's current No. 2.

In the past, political coalitions of influential leaders have placed responsibility on schools to solve national political, social, and economic problems ranging from segregation, to Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union, to the United States» current economic struggle as it competes with global rivals.

As of August 24, 2011, leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union have not received the proposal as part of discussions between the Board of Education and the Chicago Teachers Union on possible changes in the current union contracts, which do not expire until June 30, Union have not received the proposal as part of discussions between the Board of Education and the Chicago Teachers Union on possible changes in the current union contracts, which do not expire until June 30, Union on possible changes in the current union contracts, which do not expire until June 30, union contracts, which do not expire until June 30, 2012.

No wonder that just 25 percent of current and former union members think their leaders do a good job representing them.

When contract time rolls around, the union leaders assess current economic conditions, the shortage, or not, of unionized labour at the time, and the importance of employers» contracts regarding penalties for late completions of projects.