Sentences with phrase «few union leaders»

Maybe there are a few union leaders who are fat cats out to protect their privileges.

In recent years, certain scholars and even a few union leaders have argued the need for «reform unionism» and claimed that, with enough enlightened thinking, the unions can voluntarily dedicate themselves to education reforms that promote the greater good.

Not exact matches

The goverment said more than a week ago inflation will remain elevated in the next few months, and Prime Minister Lee said in his May Day speech that the No. 1 concern among union leaders is the cost of living.

The KGB archives, opened fleetingly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, proved what many Russians had known but few in the West had believed: that the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church were often forced to carry out the specific instructions of the more nefarious organs of state.

The vote came a few months after the state's teachers unions, closely aligned with the Assembly, claimed a victory in December when the Regents, prompted by the governor and Legislative leaders, placed a moratorium on the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

In the past few months, the leaders of all the public sector unions threatened a mass strike of three million workers over pensions, while this week the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union balloted members on industrial action over civil service job cuts.

A government minister has said fewer than 500,000 people are estimated to have taken part in today's public sector strike, a significantly lower number than union leaders have claimed.

Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude, who is responsible for the Civil Service, said: «Our official estimates are that fewer than half a million took part in this strike action — well short of the inflated claims of union leaders.

As union leaders were quick to point out, it would mean probably as few as ten per cent of trade unionists would remain members.

We've done a few debriefings and at one, a teacher from Ohio told us that she couldn't believe she was sitting with a team of teachers, superintendents, union leaders, and principals, all as peers.»

In an article for Education Next released a few days ago, I critiqued an education theory advanced by a group known as the Broader, Bolder Approach (BBA), a coalition of teacher union leaders and others, including Helen Ladd, a professor at Duke University, who co-chairs the group.

Only a few years ago, the Los Angeles Unified School District's system for evaluating teachers» job performance was the subject of legal disputes, full - blown lawsuits and bitter fractious debate between district leaders and the teachers union.

While individual union leaders have demonstrated a willingness to embrace change in a few places - New Haven, CT, and Hillsborough County, FL, to name a few - teachers unions in general have yet to embrace the role they could and should be filling as the leaders of the charge to elevate the teaching profession and improve outcomes for students.

Also, if the station had bothered to dig a few inches below the surface, it would have learned that the CTBA board is packed with — no surprise — union leaders, including Illinois Federation of Teachers president Daniel Montgomery, as well as its Director of Governmental Relations, Jim Reed and Illinois AFL - CIO president Michael Carrigan.

A few thousand of the most active and invested union politicians attend national conventions to choose the national leaders.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of school leaders» union NAHT, said: «The massive increase in pupil numbers over the next few years, particularly at secondary age, will only make it harder.

Among the comments is an impassioned defense of Malloy by a few of the blog's readers, including one named Tom, who I know and respect as a dedicated teacher, union leader and defender of teachers.

That even those few NEA and AFT leaders who advocate for some modest version of systemic reform continually back other policies that do not help younger teachers — including the defense of defined - benefit pensions from which half of newly - hired teachers will never benefit — has also made them apathetic about even bothering with the unions that take so much of their take - home pay.