Sentences with phrase «former city worker»

But one former City worker has used her heartbreak to become a top romance blogger — and is now launching one of the country's first dating awards to help others through the often treacherous world of online dating.

Eric Garner, 43, an asthmatic father of six and former city worker, died after police placed him in a chokehold while trying to arrest him on charges of selling untaxed cigarettes on a Staten Island street.

A former City worker and a fierce opponent of leaving the EU, she is also a particularly close ally of the party's most vocal Remainer (and Chapman's former boss) George Osborne.

Not exact matches

Former rustbelts trying to lure in high - tech companies need to focus on creating the kind of cities where knowledge workers actually want to live

Neil, a former 58 - year old former manufacturing worker, worried about his future and the future of his city, asked the Prime Minister how prosperity could be brought back to the region.

Yet Funk, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, points out benefits to workers as well employers.

In 1965, 23 - year - old Johnson, a former graduate student in anthropology, became Nike's first employee, while toiling full - time as a social worker for the city of Los Angeles.

The city comptroller campaign of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer released a Spanish - language TV ad today that focuses his heavily on low - income workers and his cursade against Wall Street corruption.

The de Blasio administration is reissuing tens of thousands of parking permits to city education workers, rolling back reforms made by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

In Brooklyn, Menchaca, a former top aide to Council Speaker Christine Quinn and before that to Borough President Marty Markowitz, has the support of Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, powerful unions, including SEIU 1199, which represents healthcare workers, 32BJ, representing building services employees, and the Hotel Trades Council, as well as the city's Central Labor Council.

QUEENS — Officials and community leaders are urging members of the LGBT community in Queens to be on alert after the choking deaths of a former city sanitation worker and teacher in Elmhurst and East Elmhurst over the last two weeks.

Early Endorsements include: Burt Cohen, former New Hampshire Senate majority leader (reported by Seven Days on May 26, 2015) Emily Hague, at - large Keene City Council member (announced June 6, 2015) Dudley Dudley, longtime Democratic activist; Executive Councilor in the 1970s (reported July 3, 2015) New Hampshire Postal Workers Union (announced Sept. 19, 2015) IBEW Local 490 in Concord SEIU Local 560 in Hanover (both announced Oct. 31, 2015)

Ferrer is serving on the search committee along with two former MTA leaders — Joe Lhota and Tom Prendergast, as well as Partnership for New York City president Kathryn Wylde, real estate executive Scott Rechler, Transport Workers Union leader John Samuelsen, and former U.S. transportation secretary Rodney Slater.

Edward Ott, a labor expert at CUNY and former executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council, said that Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York's agreement may encourage more developers to hire union workers for affordable housing projects.

Syracuse, NY — A Syracuse police officer who spent eight years chauffeuring and protecting former Mayor Matt Driscoll retired with the highest pension of 47 city workers in 2009.

To prevent the impending lapse of mayoral control over New York City schools, the state Legislature and Governor Andrew Cuomo passed a two - year extension Thursday as part of a larger omnibus bill, which included a pension enhancement for certain uniformed workers, special recognition for former Governor Mario Cuomo, and several benefits for upstate areas.

Specifically, Padernacht says he's received pressure from SEIU 1199 (the healthcare workers union) and the office of Public Advocate (and former Councilman) Bill de Blasio, one of the city's rising Democratic stars.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito pressured the Housing Authority to remove the black manager of a Bronx housing development and replace her with a «Spanish manager,» former and current NYCHA workers told the Daily News.

His campaign has amassed a number of endorsements, including that of former Mayor David Dinkins and Harlem state Sen. Bill Perkins, as well as the New York City Principals» Union and District Council 37, which includes city parks workers, school workers and social service workCity Principals» Union and District Council 37, which includes city parks workers, school workers and social service workcity parks workers, school workers and social service workers.

The former agreed to shelve pay raises for municipal workers; the latter helped stave off bankruptcy by buying city bonds with pension funds.

Barry Grodenchik, a former assemblyman and deputy Queens borough president, announced he had secured the backing of Teamsters Local 831, which represents the city's sanitation workers.

«Everyone across the country has agreed that Governor Cuomo coming out in support of fast - food workers has been a game changer,» Christine Quinn, the former New York City Council speaker and current Cuomo aide, said at a rally.

The Hotel Trades Council, an increasingly influential union representing the city's hotel workers, has endorsed Rebecca Lynch in the race to replace former Queens Councilman Mark Weprin.

Building workers union 32BJ SEIU announced today its endorsement of Rebecca Lynch, a former member of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Community Affairs Unit, in the election for the Queens City Council seat recently vacated by Mark Weprin.

Several mayoral candidates — including Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker; Bill de Blasio, the public advocate; John C. Liu, the comptroller; and William C. Thompson Jr., a former comptroller — were quick to voice support for the workers.

It also demands the passage of laws guaranteeing renters an attorney in housing court, a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, more construction projects employing union workers and local residents, more supportive housing for people with HIV, and an end to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's «cluster - site» housing — where the city paid landlords $ 3,000 a month to put up homeless families, often in deplorable conditions.

In 2011, Stringer protested the city's decision to cut 63 pest control workers to save $ 1.5 million in his former neighborhood of Washington Heights, which has the worst rat infestation levels in the city, Department of Health stats indicate.

MAY 25 CHERNOBYL DIARIES Starring: Jesse McCarthy and Olivia Dudley Directed by: Bradley Parker On an «extreme tour» of the abandoned city of Pripyat, where the former workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor lived, six tourists discover they are not alone.

He is a former social worker and inner - city public school teacher.

A social worker at a women's homeless shelter in New York City contacted me about a resident of the shelter who wanted to sue her former employers for unpaid wages.