Sentences with phrase «former labor leader»

Weber promised to tighten the bill's language to prevent that scenario, but the Assembly Appropriations Committee, chaired by Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, D - San Diego, a former labor leader and organizer, made that issue moot by eliminating the potential fourth and fifth year of probation.

The speaker also appointed former labor leader I. Daneek Miller to head the Civil Service and Labor Committee, and her appointee to lead the Transportation Committee put out a statement fully embracing the council's turn to the far left.

Frank Crean was Treasurer in the Whitlam government and is the father of former Labor Leader and retiring Hotham MP Simon Crean.

According to Sen. Diane Savino, a former labor leader who was monitoring the AFSCME election at the union's convention in Boston via BlackBerry while the Senate was in the final throes of its last day in Albany (for now, at least), Donohue received 648 votes to Lee Saunders» 652.

While Müller sought to create an anti-Nazi coalition with former labor leaders, heroic priests worked to unite disparate groups into an effective opposition.

Not exact matches

A little - noticed difference between the federal Labor and Liberal parties is that the former ties itself in knots over whether or not to dispatch a leader who's on the nose with voters.

In 1989 the U.S. hosted Lech Walesa, leader of the former Solidarity labor movement and the newly elected president of Poland.

A key labor union for the New York Police Department on Wednesday threw its support to Republican state Senate hopeful Chris McGrath in the race to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Donohue's past endorsement of Republicans (namely former Gov. George Pataki) became an issue during this campaign, with the New York labor leader arguing perhaps more vociferously than his brothers and sisters in the movement that Democrats should not take them for granted and automatically expect to receive their support.

The powerful labor union 1199 SEIU endorsed Republican state Senate hopeful Chris McGrath on Friday in the crucial special election to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in Nassau County.

The labor - aligned Working Families Party in a statement Friday called on Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein to step aside from his leadership post as an investigation is conducted into an allegation that he forcibly kissed a former legislative staffer.

Flynn, a businessman from Hunter, is being backed by the Transport Workers Union, a national labor organization, whose international president, John Samuelsen, (also FORMER president of TWU Local 100 here in New York), said in a statement to be released by Flynn's campaign that the candidate is «a leader who understands that the economic security of families must be the highest priority of Congress, and that unions are a necessary partner in that mission.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan today debuted the «framework» of a deal that will extend the city's rent regulations and the controversial 421a tax abatement for six months — with some tweaks to the former, and potential for the latter to last through 2019 if the real estate industry and labor reach an agreement on construction wages.

Albans), a former transit union leader, was named chairman of the Civil Service and Labor Committee, while Councilman Donovan Richards (D - Laurelton) was appointed chairman of the Environmental Protection Committee.

Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos just issued a statement lamenting the loss of soon - to - be-former Sen. Frank Padavan and took a shot at organized labor for abandoning the veteran Queens lawmaker in favor of his Democratic challenger, former NYC Councilman Tony Avella.

Cuomo couldn't attend, ostensibly because he was attending the funeral for labor leader Ed Malloy, though he did phone in to the news conference explaining that he «had a family matter that kept me downstate» on Thursday (Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of the governor's former brother - in - law Robert Kennedy, Jr., was found dead after committing suicide).

Principal Vincent Pitta is the son of Vito Pitta, former Hotel Trades Council president, and the brother - in - law of the powerful labor union's current leader, Peter Ward.

As a former labor union leader, Miller's perspective on the issue is decidedly pro-labor, and his position as chair of the Council's civil service and labor committee puts him at the front lines in addressing it.

There's a line between highly - compensated labor and a sham consulting agreement, though exactly where it exists in the eyes of the law as opposed to the public was complicated by the exoneration of former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno earlier this year.

The New York Times reports that an unlikely coalition of women's advocates, business leaders, and labor unions has formed with the goal of advertising and mobilizing voters to ensure that Spitzer remains a former politician.

Former City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. and labor leader Rebecca Lynch were selected to once again serve in the halls of government.

Some close to the Working Families Party accuse Adler of having a longstanding political vendetta against the labor - backed political organization — dating back to his membership on the Kings County judicial screening committee for former Brooklyn Democratic Leader Vito Lopez, a frequent WFP advisary.

The group, called NY Jobs Now, includes Heather Bricetti, the president and CEO of the state Business Council, along with labor leaders like the AFL - CIO's Mario Cilento, UFT President Michael Mulgrew, Gary LaBarbera of Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and former New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson.

The committee, which includes elected officials, labor leaders and even a former football star, was formed by the executive leadership of the state Business Council.

Ms. Lynch is a former Democratic district leader in eastern Queens with deep ties to organized labor.

Rivera, a former community organizer and one - time aide to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, became the posted boy for good government groups, progressive labor unions and Albany reform advocates when he ousted former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. in the September primary.

In the 6th District, former educator and labor leader Edwin Vargas seeks a second term against Republican Michael Lupo, who lost to Mr. Vargas in 2012.

Labor leaders from across the city rallied on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Sept. 9 in support of Robert Jackson, a longtime education advocate and former City Council member running for the Democratic nomination to represent the 31st District in the state Senate.

In recent months, he invited public - sector unions to become his partners, even sending their leaders copies of «The Man Who Saved New York,» a biography of former Gov. Hugh L. Carey, which recounts how Mr. Carey, a Democrat, teamed up with labor leaders in similar fashion in the 1970s.

Dadey says the murky appropriations — which he says are simply labeled as $ 200 million for transportation, or $ 300 million for labor initiatives, for example — led to some of the criminal charges against former Speaker Sheldon Silver, and a former senate leader, Malcolm Smith, who misused the funds for personal gain.

New York's governor has nominated a former union leader to be the state's next labor commissioner.

The Committee for Effective Leadership has announced its honorees for its April 26, 2015 awards luncheon: Mr. Patrick Devine, Veteran, co-Founder of The Bronx Veteran's Day Parade; Hon. Joe McManus, Labor Leader, Member, NYS Democratic Committee; Hon. Joan Millman, former -LSB-...]

ALBANY — The 25 largest donors to state - level politicians and political parties last year included several hedge fund managers, labor unions and a PAC controlled by a former leader of the Senate.

The Committee for Effective Leadership has announced its honorees for its April 26, 2015 awards luncheon: Mr. Patrick Devine, Veteran, co-Founder of The Bronx Veteran's Day Parade; Hon. Joe McManus, Labor Leader, Member, NYS Democratic Committee; Hon. Joan Millman, former NYS Assembly Member and Eunic Ortiz, Director of Online Communications for 1199 SEIU and President of the Stonewall Democratic Club of New York.

Chao, who served as Secretary of Labor under former President George W. Bush, is married to Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

On October 11, Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo, Chairman of the Legislature's Finance and Management Committee, joined Henry Wojtaszek, President / CEO of Batavia Downs Gaming, Thurman Thomas, Hall of Fame former Buffalo Bills running back, Vice Chair of NYS Tourism Advisory Council and Batavia Downs Ambassador, Lee Zarpentine, Labor Relations Representative of United Public Service Employees Union (UPSEU), Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw and Mike Nolan, COO of Batavia Downs to announce Erie County has received $ 545,984 from Batavia Downs Gaming in the second quarter of 2017 alone.

Indeed, here is a widely discussed 1967 prediction from former teacher Robert Doherty and labor leader Walter Oberer (from their book

Indeed, here is a widely discussed 1967 prediction from former teacher Robert Doherty and labor leader Walter Oberer (from their book Teachers, Schools Boards, and Collective Bargaining: A Changing of the Guard): If the «movement to improve the status of teachers by collective action is successful, if... teachers... come close to realizing what they seem to be striving toward, the concern over purely employment matters will decline.

When it became apparent that district negotiators wouldn't back down on issues like tax - funded union release time and payroll dues deductions, DCFT sought intervention from major campaign beneficiary and Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper and his labor department executive director, former state AFL - CIO leader Ellen Golombek.

Many a famous face has graced the Windsor during her history, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt, labor leader Eugene V. Debs, boxing champion John Sullivan, baseball greats Ty Cobb and «Shoeless Joe» Jackson, poet laureate Robert Bly, former President Constantinescu of Romania, entertainer Pat Boone, Chief Justice William Jennings Bryan, comedienne Rachel Feinstein, musicians John Orth and Blake Schwarzenbach, and in recent years Martin Sheen and his family.

The work, titled Not Dressed for Conquering / HC 04 Transport, 2011 — portrays former king of Spain Juan Carlos I being sodomized by the late Bolivian labor leader Domitila Chúngara, who is in turn being mounted by a grinning wolf.»

The work, titled «Not Dressed for Conquering / HC 04 Transport» (2011 — ongoing), portrays former king of Spain Juan Carlos I being sodomized by the late Bolivian labor leader Domitila Chúngara, who is in turn being mounted by a grinning wolf.

Chao is the former US secretary of labor and the wife of US Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell.

Economist and former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich explains the need for a carbon price and elected leaders who'll take action:

Combining our longstanding and market - leading labor and employment team with deep crisis management experience and the investigative backgrounds of former leaders from the US Attorney General's Office, former federal prosecutors, state prosecutors, and leaders from other government agencies — including a special team of more than 30 female attorneys — we built a team over decades that can strategically and effectively manage complex internal investigations on behalf of clients and defend them in the matters that result when allegations of harassment by a top member of management becomes a crisis.

«As a former business executive, Dan brings a deep understanding of the challenges our clients face,» said Eric Paley, leader of Nixon Peabody's Labor & Employment practice.