Sentences with phrase «for election workers»

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President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to create more jobs for American workers, and since his election, he has regularly touted his ability to negotiate deals that bring jobs to the U.S.

Throughout his 2016 election campaign, Trump routinely threatened to impose a 45 percent across - the - board tariff on Chinese goods as a way to level the playing field for American workers.

Prior to the elections, business leaders thought immigration reform would only happen in a piecemeal fashion, so they limited their efforts to their own needs, which is for highly skilled workers.

Opened by International Harvester in 1974 to remanufacture diesel engines and engine components for its truck and agricultural and construction equipment dealers, the plant had lost $ 2 million in the most recent fiscal year, and the big question was whether the employees, previously nonunion, would vote to join the Teamsters or the United Auto Workers in an election scheduled for March.

But CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on a conference call that the company is investing «heavily» on safety and security, including workers with language skills for detecting hate speech, and tools for verifying government IDs ahead of elections in the U.S. and abroad by the end of the year.

Unions complain that the election format is simply an opportunity for bosses to unleash a host of dirty tricks on workers and organizers.

Trump, known for his use of Twitter to drive political debate, tweeted about an Indiana air conditioner maker he featured in his election campaign as an emblem of trade deals he said were unfavorable to American workers.

(The AP said that most of the former workers and contestants they interviewed offered no opinion on the current election, but most of those who did said they are not voting for Trump.)

«On International Workers» Day this year, lets renew our commitment to push for positive change that will benefit all workers,» says Patrick Colford, President of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour, «With this year being an election year, we need to make sure that our elected representatives are accountable for improving fairness and making sure that economic prosperity benefits everyone.Workers» Day this year, lets renew our commitment to push for positive change that will benefit all workers,» says Patrick Colford, President of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour, «With this year being an election year, we need to make sure that our elected representatives are accountable for improving fairness and making sure that economic prosperity benefits everyone.workers,» says Patrick Colford, President of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour, «With this year being an election year, we need to make sure that our elected representatives are accountable for improving fairness and making sure that economic prosperity benefits everyone.»

Cambridge Analytica suspended Nix on Tuesday after a British television sting showed him on secret recordings talking about employing unethical tactics to win elections, including bribery and using sex workers for «honey pots.»

«We and many allies made Canada Post an election issue in 2015, and the Liberals were elected on a promise to restore door - to - door and to consult on a new vision for Canada Post,» says Mike Palecek, National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW).

Fears of further bloodshed has led Kenya's election commission to postpone the planned voting in some opposition strongholds, with safety concerns for its workers cited as deadly clashes continued between police and protesters.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

At this point, states and parties have already heavily advertised the date of the election, election sites have been chosen and election workers hired (or recruited) for those dates.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court found that New Yorkers Together, which is funded by the Communications Workers of America, and a UFT organization called Teachers for Todd, were operating in violation of independent expenditure rules spelled out in the state election law.

A judge sentenced two Cuyahoga County elections workers Tuesday to 18 months in prison for their roles in a countywide ballot recount after the divisive 2004 presidential election.

Executives at Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm that worked on digital ads for President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, were caught on camera suggesting that the firm could use sex workers, bribes, ex-spies and fake news to help candidates win votes around the world, a new investigation has revealed.

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

The Treasury minister Sajid Javid upped the stakes, quoting back at Labour the shadow work secretary Liam Byrne's conference speech two years ago, when he said: «Let's face the tough truth — that many people on the doorstep at the last election felt that too often we were for shirkers, not workers.»

As Clinton joined Cuomo's wage hike celebration just two weeks before the state's crucial primary election, a spokesman for Sanders chided her for not fully committing to a similar minimum wage for workers across the country.

But it has been said that the Americans are likely to vote for the experienced Mrs. Clinton, who was once an aide worker, former First Lady, a Senator and a Secretary of State in the Obama administration, and Nana Addo, knowing the influence the American elections has on the Ghanaian one, is clearly distancing himself from Mr. Donald Trump, who is being described as belligerent, anti-black, anti-Islam, anti-Mexico, among others.

Bob Master, the political director for the Communications Workers of America District One, said the union polled its members after the election and found that 60 percent had backed Clinton and 40 percent had backed Trump.

Among the issues Kavanagh raised are BOE staffing and poll worker training, long shifts for poll workers on election days, and simply «bad, outdated» election laws.

For more than 30 years, New York City charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % — on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special electiFor more than 30 years, New York City charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % — on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special electifor any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special election.

An August 1997 meeting of the Transport Workers» Confederation of the Mercosur Common Market area resulted in Moyano's election as their Secretary General; this was followed by a November 1998 election as Vice President of the Transport Workers» Section for the Latin America Committee of the ITF, in London.

In the July Budget, Osborne also planned to cut tax credits, which top up pay for low - income workers, prompting claims that this represented a breach of promises made by colleagues before the general election in May.

Pretty much all the left press other than Solidarity [Workers Liberty's paper] has denounced the election court decision against Lutfur Rahman, mayor of Tower Hamlets in East London, and most of the left has backed Rabina Khan, Rahman's ally, for the new mayoral election on 11 June.

Alyson Kennedy, a member of the Socialist Workers Party who was that group's candidate for Vice President during the 2008 election, said that despite Sanders idealism, he wouldn't be able to enact sufficient changes to help working class people.

Political watchers and other pundits, had projected Americans to vote for the experienced Mrs. Clinton, who was once an aide worker, former First Lady, a Senator and a Secretary of State in the first Obama administration, and Nana Addo, knowing the influence the American elections had on the Ghanaian one, clearly distanced himself from Mr. Trump, who ahead of the American election, was described as belligerent, anti-black, anti-Islam, anti-Mexico, among others.

According to this article in The Militant, the Socialist Workers Party newspaper, the SWP is working to get on the ballot for the special U.S. House election in New York's 9th district.

The recall election spurred by anger over changes Walker pushed through the Legislature last year to effectively end collective bargaining rights for most public workers is the most prominent campaign in the nation after the presidential race.

Naturally enough, this refrain and a party that looks divided burrows away in the minds of workers and guess what, we get a self fulfilling prophecy, we lose some elections and the pretext for a coup arises.

July 16, 2011: Socialist Workers Party Submits 7,080 Signatures in Special New York U.S. House Race July 10, 2011: Socialist Workers Party Launches Fast Petition to Get on Ballot in Special New York U.S. House Election July 8, 2011: New York Special U.S. House Election Procedure Gives Only 12 Days for Independent Candidate Petitions

If you look at the demographics, at where we need to be at the next election, we need more people in the north voting for us, more of what they call here «blue collar» workers and I call the white working class.

The 1985 Local Elections saw a Labour Party — which was part of a coalition government with Fine Gael — fare poorly, with its national share of the vote dropping to just over seven percent and with its position as the leading left wing party being usurped by a major contender for this position, namely the Workers Party.

As the tension mounts in Albany over the late budget and thousands of state workers forced to cut their hours and pay, the AFL - CIO is targeting individual lawmakers this election year who they say aren't looking out for the interests of working men and women.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has promised to introduce new rights for workers on zero hour contracts, if his party wins the next election.

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It's unclear why Tony Blair is better placed to advise the country on its profound human rights issues than the skilled global NGOs and international organisations who have, year after year, offered Kazakhstan advice on how, for instance, it can hold free elections, not murder striking workers and not silence bloggers or the country's few remaining independent journalists.

«In addition to this election - related violence, the country has been ravaged by widespread insecurity for years, with a recent increase in attacks targeting humanitarian workers, including the deadliest incident in Congolese history, in which five aid workers were killed in October in South Kivu,» the NGOs said.

It notes the MP for Henley on Thames supported the election of George W Bush in 2000 and 2004, voted for the war in Iraq, opposed the Kyoto treaty, opposed the national minimum wage and pension rights for part - time workers and defended Section 28.

For the first time in more than a decade, the State Senate Republicans isn't getting any money from the state's powerful health care workers» union, SEIU 1199, at election time.

George Galloway 2008A worker from a nearby building threw a rubber ball at the Respect MP while he was speaking on the top of an open - top bus in Holborn on the campaign trail for the London Assembly elections.

Those who have served in our armed forces, our health service, successful entrepreneurs, school teachers, shop workers, all selected for the next election to represent Labour.

The plan actually includes some significant victories for the powerful health care workers union, which has a long - standing relationship with Cuomo and played a big role in the resurrection of his political career through his election to the AG's office in 2006.

The group wishes to lay more emphasis on the public sector worker, particularly the teachers» point of view and indeed it has become very urgent and imperative for these facts to be put out there in order for discerning minds to make an informed decision on election day.

In the hopes that it's not over for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, his local volunteers are watching Erie County election workers this week review the affidavit ballots that were filled out on primary day by voters whose status to vote was unclear.

A slate of candidates planning to challenge the leadership of PEF, one of New York's largest state workers unions, has broadened its geographic base, adding candidates from Buffalo and New York City as it gears up for June elections.

The bill (S1836) permits local Boards of Elections to hire election inspectors for half - day shifts, preventing fatigue and flexibility for workers whose shifts often start before the polls open at 6 AM and end after they close at 9 PM.

They advocate for the community's needs to elected officials and the city, register voters and hire Election Day workers — but their real power comes in nominating judicial candidates to the State Supreme Court.