Sentences with phrase «current union president»

According to an article by Michael Levinson in the Boston Globe (6.6.14), Barbara Madeloni «won her race by openly criticizing the current union president... for his record of negotiating with — rather than fighting — officials on the development of teacher assessments and the Common Core...» He went on to say: «Her agenda forcefully rejects those policies, which have gained increasing support from Republicans and Democrats over the last 20 years.

In Los Angeles, teachers had a chance to vote out the current union president, Alex Caputo - Pearl, who threatens a «state crisis» if his leftist demands aren't embraced.

Not exact matches

In his ambitious second term agenda, announced during his State of the Union Address on Tuesday, President Obama raised a proposal that made small business owners sit up and take notice: an increase in the minimum wage to $ 9 from its current $ 7.25.

The governor of Indiana is one of the most articulate, down to earth and straight - forward advocates of conservatism, especially with regard to the troubled sustainability of our deficits regarding the long - term liabilities pertaining to our current and future health care expenditures (as evidenced in his response to the president's State of the Union address).

The 92 - year - old Gonville & Caius graduate has been an England and British Lions selector, president of the Rugby Football Union, chairman of the International Rugby Board and is the current president of the Barbarian Football Club.

National Union of Students (NUS) president Wes Streeting said: «Students are making a stand today because the current system is completely unfair.

While UFT president Michael Mulgrew supports an extension, he has repeatedly said his union does not believe in the «current version» of mayoral control.

International Road Transport Union president Christian Labrot added: «Autonomous trucks will bring many benefits to society, from cost savings and lower emissions to safer roads, and will also help the haulage sector deal with the current shortage of drivers in many parts of the world.

Whilst in opposition to the then liberal government, current Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta and his Social Liberal Union (USL), an alliance of several political parties, vehemently protested against the Rosia Montana mining project, which was supported by President Traian Basescu and his Democratic Liberal Party (PDL).

As the current Student Union president at Stuyvesant, and the Manhattan Borough Student President, he's learned about compromise — but also sticking to the issues that matter,president at Stuyvesant, and the Manhattan Borough Student President, he's learned about compromise — but also sticking to the issues that matter,President, he's learned about compromise — but also sticking to the issues that matter, he said.

The President of the state worker union the Public Employees Federation, Ken Brynien, says he's pleased that the governor seems to realize that state government can not continue in its current form, after years of budget cuts and staff attrition, and that it needs to be reorganized.

After serving one term apiece, Kent and Garcia were ousted by PEF's rank and file in 2015 and replaced by the union's current President Wayne Spence and Secretary - Treasurer Kevin Hintz.

Chadian President and current African Union Chairman Idriss Deby, attending the summit, urged Tokyo also to support efforts to tackle a lack of security, including that arising from terrorism.

President Obama's recent signing of the FAA Reauthorization Bill — over the protests of at least 19 major trade unions including the UAW, Steelworkers, Transportation Communications Union (IAM) and Teamsters — shows once again the current administration's true nature, say supporters of Jill Stein's Green Party presidential campaign.

WNYALF president Richard Lipsitz told POLITICO New York the union doesn't normally come out for school board races but made an exception because it felt the current board was damaging public education in Buffalo.

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.

National Union of Students (NUS) president Liam Burns said: «We should be celebrating the numerous individual successes that today represents, but unfortunately we can be under no illusion about how challenging the current circumstances are for students.

New York State United Teachers, a statewide teachers» union, will hold its first contested election in recent memory this weekend; Cuomo wants to avoid negotiating the changes twice, in case current president Richard Iannuzzi is replaced.

Picture shows President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Chairperson of the Russian Federal Council, Valentina Matvienko, current President of IPU, Mr. Saber H. Chowdhury and Dino Melaye, during a reception dinner at the ongoing Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting in Russia.

On Tuesday, the union president, Michael Mulgrew, would not directly discuss whether he would urge the borough presidents to appoint people who would keep the current schools chancellor, Carmen Fariña, and give her day - to - day control of the schools.

Fresh off last night's victory of his rank - and - file's approval of the contract deal he struck with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, CSEA President Danny Donohue made it clear that the union's current detente with the governor isn't necessarily a long - term thing.

Mulgrew, president of the U.F.T., told reporters that the «position of our union is we support mayoral control but not in its current version.»

For the elections for the seats left vacated by current Council members, the union endorsed Democrat Jerry Iannece for Democratic Councilman Tony Avella's seat in the 19th District, Democrat S.J. Jung for Democratic Councilman John Liu's seat in the 20th District, state Assemblyman Mark Weprin (D - Little Neck) for the 23rd District seat vacated by his brother David Weprin, Democrat Jimmy van Bramer for the District 26 seat vacated by Councilman Eric Gioia and former Queens Deputy Borough President Karen Koslowitz (D) for her run for the 29th Council District seat that will be vacated by Melinda Katz (D).

That's James McCarthy, professor of biological oceanography at Harvard and current president of the board of the Union of Concerned Scientists, speaking September 21st in New York City at an event hosted by the Union.

Current AFT president Sandra Feldman explained to journalist Sara Mosle that when advance copies of Risk were circulated on the eve of a union convention in 1983, «We all had this visceral reaction to it.

Randi Weingarten serves as the current president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation's primary labor union, which represents nearly 1.6 million teachers.

The latest purveyor of union blather is Arlene Inouye, current treasurer of the United Teachers of Los Angeles and member of the ominous sounding «Union Power Slate,» a group that is trying to unseat current president Warren Fletcher in an election this Janunion blather is Arlene Inouye, current treasurer of the United Teachers of Los Angeles and member of the ominous sounding «Union Power Slate,» a group that is trying to unseat current president Warren Fletcher in an election this JanUnion Power Slate,» a group that is trying to unseat current president Warren Fletcher in an election this January.

Alex Caputo - Pearl, the presumptive next president of UTLA, said today that current president Warren Fletcher made the right decision by expressing a willingness to step aside in the race to lead the second largest teachers union in the nation.

More and more Democratic politicians — including President Obama — have finally had enough of the mediocrity in our public schools and recognize that it is union - imposed work rules that have helped create the current situation.

Only the combative current UFT president, Michael Mulgrew, has spoken out, but of course the union took no responsibility for the school's miserable results.

The Chicago Teachers Union had a change of leadership soon after being awarded the 2010 grant in September of that year, and its current president, Karen Lewis, is adamantly opposed to the program described in the grant application, which ties teacher compensation directly to student test scores.

Jessica Tang, President of the Boston Teacher's Union, said the bill's supporters believe in high standards and accountability, but the current standardized testing system is not working.

Maria Neira, NYSUT's first vice president, represented the union's current administration at the event instead.

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.

The Seattle Times ran an important front page article today on the current election in the Seattle Education Association (SEA), «Politics plays role in teachers union vote for president».

No, Ed Burke is embarrassed because Karen Lewis, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, opposes CPS's going back on the current contract to force teachers to work an extra 90 minutes per day while the district holds back 50 % of the contractually promised raise for the coming year.

The Euro dollar became jittery at the end of the first week of February when the ECB President Mario Draghi underplayed the recent rise in the headline inflation in the European Union and justified the need for the further quantitative easing measures including the current bond purchases.

On Tuesday April 21, 2015, the following resolution was adopted by the Faculty - Student Senate: Resolution Whereas Jamshed Bharucha, the current President of The Cooper Union, is unable to perform his job duties and responsibilities at the present time, Be it resolved that the Faculty - Student Senate requests the appointment of an Interim President as soon as possible.

The famously free art and architecture school, founded in 1859, started charging tuition in the fall of last year as per a plan instated in 2011 by current Cooper Union president Jamshed Bharucha.

Announced his own resignation, effective July 1: current Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha.

In the current political climate, Robin Bell, a research professor at Columbia's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, and president - elect of the American Geophysical Union, said scientists need to ``... continue to articulate how science is key to what the new administration cares about: intelligent investment in infrastructure, national security, public health.

Even U.S. President George Bush in his January 2007 State of the Union address pledged to «increase the supply of alternative fuels by setting a mandatory fuels standard to require 35 billion gallons of renewable and alternative fuels in 2017 — and that is nearly five times the current target.»

Whilst the European Parliament report on the Commission's proposed Regulation (available here) is to be adopted in the course of 2018, and the EU legislators are to decide on the current draft amended by the European Parliament (available here), the SMIT remains an EU priority for the current Commission (see for example the letter of intent accompanying Commission President Jean - Claude Juncker's «State of the Union» speech, available here).

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As President Obama prepares his remarks for the 2014 State of the Union Address on January 28, the Coalition for Patent Fairness asks him to address the need for comprehensive patent reform legislation during the current Congress.

Last night in his «Built To Last» State of the Union address, President Obama discussed many current and recommended initiatives which have the potential to create more jobs for Americans and to build on the success our country has had in generating more than 3 million jobs in the last 22 months.