Sentences with phrase «handful of union members»

That said, I spoke to a handful of union members in attendance who came because they asked / demanded to go, but who never saw anything from their International about Netroots Nation.

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Glick, who is one of a handful of openly gay members of the Legislature, stopped short of calling for Weisenfeld to resign, (the CUNY faculty union has renewed its calls for his removal).

The Bronx, represented by Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. (and at least a handful of Bronx Council members), with backing from the retailers union and the Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance (KARA), wants Related to require their Armory mall tenants to pay a living wage ($ 10 an hour, plus benefits).

While that may change in 2006 and for a considerable stretch in the future, Ohio is one of a handful of states in the Union with no statewide elected Democrats, without a majority of Democratic Congressional members and without control of either State Legislative body (and for a full decade).

The move came after a handful of Democratic mayoral candidates penned a letter to the union Thursday night promising to revisit the bus contracts once Mayor Michael Bloomberg leaves office, and urging the union's members to go back to work in the meantime.

The meeting of the Public Authorities Control Board, which usually meets in out - of - the - way rooms in the Capitol and draws only a handful of mild - mannered observers in pinstripe suits, met in a large convention room yesterday, and drew hundreds of angry union members, some in hard hats, who noisily called for the stadium and jeered its opponents.

The union is one of a handful of labor groups, including the United Federation of Teachers, the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Workers» Union and the Hotel Trades Council, that agreed to form a coalition along with Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and members of the Working Families Party to help Democrats take control of the Senate, which the Republicans have controlled for all but two of the last 50 yunion is one of a handful of labor groups, including the United Federation of Teachers, the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Workers» Union and the Hotel Trades Council, that agreed to form a coalition along with Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and members of the Working Families Party to help Democrats take control of the Senate, which the Republicans have controlled for all but two of the last 50 yUnion and the Hotel Trades Council, that agreed to form a coalition along with Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and members of the Working Families Party to help Democrats take control of the Senate, which the Republicans have controlled for all but two of the last 50 years.

While there have been a handful of exceptions, the unions» general aversion to actually behaving - and encouraging their members to behave - like professionals is squarely at odds with the professionalism agenda itself.

More simply, this means teachers unions are supporting a handful of members of a party that criticizes unions in its national platform — as we touched on during the Republican National Convention.