Sentences with phrase «democratic labor movement»

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A fight over trade this year ruptured the usual alliance between the Democratic president and the organized labor movement.

I owe thanks to everyone who has believed in me and in my candidacy over these past few months: the Democratic Party, the Working Families Party and especially my brothers and sisters in the labor movement.

«I owe thanks to everyone who has believed in me and in my candidacy over these past few months: The Democratic Party, the Working Families Party and especially my brothers and sisters in the labor movement.

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.

The labor - backed political party voted tonight to «join the campaign to draft» Ms. Warren, a Democratic senator and darling of the progressive movement, to enter the 2016 race in which many assume former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic front - runner — if she decides to run.

The two are the cornerstones of the so - called «progressive» labor movement in NYC, and teamed up to successfully challenge a number of Queens Democratic Party - endorsed NYC Council candidates in 2009.

It was how the workers» movement and its small farmer allies were able to build movements to win the universal franchise, to organize labor unions and cooperatives, and to effectively compete in elections against the older top - down parties of the landed and business elites that were based on their legislative caucuses and wealthy sponsors rather than a formal membership with democratic rights in their party.

But a source familiar with Cuomo's thinking said the AG isn't open to supporting Donovan and will back whoever wins the Democratic primary — even if it's Schneiderman, whose long - standing Albany ties and close relationship with «special interests» in the labor movement make for an uncomfortable fit with Cuomo's anti-Albany platform.

That didn't stop Gonzalez from writing the following: «(F) or a Democratic governor with presidential dreams, Cuomo must now decide if he is ready for a nasty battle with the labor movement in his own state.»

A Democratic insider called Fishman «a national labor leader who helped invent the modern day labor movement in New York City.»

In the process, they revealed — and began to reshape — divisions in the education debate, in the Democratic Party and within the labor movement itself.

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) whose historic 2012 strike inspired and energized the US labor movement, voted to endorse Democratic Governor Pat Quinn whose running mate is former Chicago Public School superintendent Paul Vallas.

On show here are works belonging to the Christian Democratic Appeal (a small clay figurine representing the importance of family values and faith), the Labor Party (a piece of a new kind of asphalt, more endurable under extreme temperatures, connoting stability, employment and freedom of movement for the working class), the Socialist Party (photos of a protest by harbor workers in Rotterdam that went on strike in 1979 to demand higher salaries), and Leefbar («Livable») Rotterdam (an image of tolerant multiculturalism, at odds with the ideological identity of the owners.)

But the pillars of the liberal class — the press, universities, the labor movement, the Democratic Party, and liberal religious institutions — have collapsed.