Sentences with phrase «early union support»

Alexander Acosta, who stepped up to replace fast - food CEO Andy Puzder, has received some early union support for his labor secretary nomination.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Early last week in Sarajevo, Valentine Piessev, a Soviet member of the International Skating Union's figure skating committee, lodged a bitter complaint with local Olympic officials: The pro-American crowds at the Zetra Ice Arena were just too demonstrative in their support of the U.S. figure skaters.

A deal wrangled by de Blasio — who famously vowed to ban the buggy rides his first week on the job — collapsed early last year after the union representing carriage drivers yanked their support.

Earlier in the day, two unions crucial to the WFP's organization and financing announced that they would leave the party rather than support Nixon.

Cuomo is far ahead in early public polls, and has a $ 30 million campaign war chest and the support of some key labor unions.

The union earlier this year praised Moya's support for a bill aimed at bolstering the pay and wage theft protections for car wash workers.

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Had he weighed in early, Cuomo might have prevented Schneiderman from gathering the support of key figures like former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall (Cuomo's 2002 gubernatorial primary target, now appearing in multiple ads for the senator's AG bid), former NYC Mayor David Dinkins, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, LGBT clubs and organizations, NARAL Pro-Choice NY and progressive unions from SEIU 1199 to 32 BJ to HTC.

The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, another progressive group, announced their support for Cuomo's reelection bid earlier this month.

Earlier this month, the New York State Bar Association came out in support of a convention, as did the League of Women Voters and the good - government group Citizens Union.

And in New York City, Bill de Blasio is now the first Democratic mayor after two decades of Republican reign, thanks in part to early support from the health - care - workers» union, SEIU 1199.

And today the general secretary of retail union Usdaw, John Hannett, said he was «delighted» with the government's decision, saying it reflected the support of its members and the 288 MPs who signed an early day motion on the issue.

In November, the mayor made a show of rolling out his labor support when he first declared for reelection, touting early endorsements from SEIU 32BJ, the Uniformed Sanitation Workers Union, and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.

In addition to having the support of the Creditor's Committee, the labor unions representing OTB employees reached agreements earlier this fall which were ratified by their members.

As recently as 2004, Howard Dean's support for civil unions in Vermont made him hero of the left in general and the gay rights movement — which never gets the credit it deserves for financing his early bid — in particular.

The union threw its support behind Brodsky's first AG bid very early, announcing its endorsement of him a full year before the AG race heated up.

Roger Tilles, from Woodbury, Nassau County, told the Times Union he would likely support some of the changes that a group of seven Regents proposed in a position paper written earlier in the month.

Jackson announced his run in February to get the fundraising started early and has already garnered the support of former Mayor David Dinkins, Sen. Bill Perkins, Assemblyman Keith Wright, Assemblyman Denny Farrell, Councilmember Inez Dickens, and several unions, his spokesman said.

O'Malley, who earlier in his political career supported civil unions as an alternative to same - sex marriage, asked the crowd of about 200 to be respectful of those whose positions might still change.

The union also called on the lawmakers to support early child care.

Mulgrew — whose union did not support de Blasio's campaign during the Democratic primary last year — said his earlier doubts about the plan had been allayed by de Blasio's clear commitment to seeing universal pre-K implemented in the city.

Earlier this week the GMB union, which supported Mr Miliband's leadership bid, announced it was slashing its affiliation funds to the Labour Party from # 1.2 million to # 150,000.

Supported by a $ 1.8 - million grant from the European Union, the scientists aim to analyze the buzz from 20 hives kept at a village in rural southeastern France in a five - year experiment that started earlier this spring.

The work was supported by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme project «Evolution of gene regulatory networks in animal development (EVONET)» [215781 - 2](A.L.), the Zoonet EU - Marie Curie early training network [005624](A.F. and R.T.), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (A.L., T.B., M.T.H., A.H.L.F., O.S., P.R.H.S., and R.T.), the EMBL International Ph.D..

But he was among those who supported Bob Chase, an earlier NEA president, when he tried to get the union to endorse what he called the «new unionism.»

According to this line of reasoning, the unions expressed their support for the standards during the early stages, when they were being developed and then adopted by states during competition for Race to the Top funds.

We represent those working in education, early years and childcare, ensuring that our members have the support and guidance of a strong and approachable union throughout their career.

The Washington Teachers Union has withdrawn its support, and Williams faced a nascent recall effort early this year.

School leader union NAHT will be supporting a motion calling for more male teachers in Early Years education at the union's annual conference in Liverpool on Friday 4 May

School leader union NAHT will be supporting a motion calling for more male teachers in Early Years education at the union's annual conference in April on Friday 4 May.

Released in 2011, the plan won early support from some program providers, unions, and advocates.

I'm enormously proud that Vermont has universal health coverage, was early to support civil unions then gay marriage, and continues to outlaw billboards on the side of the road (just contrast the pleasure of interstate driving in Vermont to the hideousness that is driving in New Hampshire).

In New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie, who's been waging wars against the state's teachers unions since taking office earlier this year, made news by pulling the RTT application his own Education Commissioner, Brett Schundler, crafted to win the support of the New Jersey Education Association, and instead submitting his own application without NJEA support (or changes made to garner it **).

...» He said the major economic speech the president has planned for early next month will tell union members what they need to know about whether he will be worth supporting.»

The New York State United Teachers union voted earlier this year to withdraw its support because of the top - down implementation there and other reasons.

The unions are blaming cuts to support staff, the increasing number of existing teachers leaving the profession early, and the introduction of zero - hour contracts in further and higher education as some of the key reasons for this fall.

While Ms. Taylor and Ms. Rich do acknowledge that some union leadership is not really on board, they missed the serious split within New York's UFT — New Action Caucus may have put up a motion to support Opt Out, but that motion repeats an earlier attempt by the Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE) Caucus to pass a similar resolution in March.

Duncan, who stands at a lean 6» 5», defined himself early in his tenure as a persistent yet compromising free - marketer, part of an education reform movement that stresses the use of data and competition to improve schools — a departure from traditional Democratic education policy, which unquestionably supported teachers unions.

When the National Education Association held its membership conference over Independence Day weekend, it made headlines for endorsing Barack Obama early; for a speech Joe Biden gave about keeping the union - supporting «family» in tact; and adapting a teacher evaluation policy that would — barring a few caveats — take into account student performance on standardized tests.

This includes the new teacher evaluation pilot program that is part of the revised version of Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform package contained in what is now Public Law 116, which will only involve eight - to - 10 districts; the fact that NEA and AFT affiliates are still opposed to this plan and are also battling reformers over another evaluation framework that uses student test score data that the unions had supported just several months earlier also raises questions as to whether Connecticut can actually earn the flexibility from federal accountability that has been gained through the waiver.

With an assist from LEE, the organization has nearly doubled its investment recently with respect to its lobbying efforts, spending almost $ 2 million since 2010 on attacking unions, weakening teacher tenure, supporting more and earlier standardized testing, reducing certification requirements, and encouraging the use of VAM in teacher evaluation systems.

Ofili, the Turner prize's youngest winner, has given his Union Black to Tate Britain to celebrate the black contribution to London and in recognition of the gallery's support of his early career.

As a result of the evaluation findings, Early Years is taking this programme to scale across its network of 1200 members in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland with support from the government and the European Union.

Using experimental methods researchers have found support for: childhood stress (§ 6b) and father absence (§ 6c) lowering preferred age at first birth and increasing sexual risk taking [45,53]; attachment style (§ 6e) influencing parenthood - related thoughts [60]; cultural norms (§ 6m) discouraging reproduction outside stable unions [12]; women's reproductive autonomy (§ 6i) influencing their fertility preferences [47]; paternity uncertainty (§ 6j) discouraging parental investment by men [55]; high cost of children (§ 6l) encouraging delayed reproduction and lower fertility [36,47]; resource stress and limitation (§ 6o) affecting mating preferences [12,36,40,51]; and mortality risk and salience (§ 6p) encouraging a greater interest in children, earlier reproduction and higher fertility [6,41,42,45,57 — 59].