Sentences with phrase «healthcare workers union»

After years of either supporting the Senate GOP outright or hedging its bets by giving to both sides, the powerful healthcare workers union, SEIU 1199, has decided not to give the Republicans any cash in this election cycle or endorse its candidates in competitive races.

They include giant healthcare workers union SEIU / 1199; the union representing doormen and other buildings staff; the hotel workers union; the teachers union; and the Communication Workers of America District 1, which covers a mix of public - and private - sector jobs.

The march, which carried the banner of the governor's «Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice,» consisted mostly of members of healthcare workers union 1199 SEIU.

Left - leaning healthcare workers union 1199 SEIU has endorsed Brooklyn GOP State Senator Martin Golden for re-election — in spite of a vow earlier this year to work exclusively toward helping the Democrats win control of the upper house of the state legislature.

1199 SEIU: George Greshman, the president of the influential healthcare workers union, keeps picking winners.

Thousands of activists — a number of them affiliated with liberal healthcare workers union 1199 SEIU — swarmed into Midtown tonight to protest a Staten Island grand jury's decision not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner.

Kevin Finnegan, the political director of the powerful healthcare workers union, 1199 SEIU, also defended Quinn, saying there was nothing more she could have done to save the hospital from closing.

Avella, however, is being supported by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, who helped broker Cuomo's WFP endorsement deal, and the healthcare workers union SEIU 1199.

Actually, these ads were made by SEIU 1199 (the healthcare workers union) during a budget battle with the former governor.

The healthcare workers union 1199 / SEIU gave $ 250,000 in 2015.

«He has made this a more progressive, more fair, more forward looking state — and it's turned out to be good for the economy,» Mr. Clinton said at the headquarters of 1199 SEIU, the powerful healthcare workers union, in Manhattan.

The Daily News reported in April that two of its biggest organized - labor benefactors, the Hotel and Motel Trades Council and 1199 SEIU, the healthcare workers union and the state's largest, quietly withdrew their support for the WFP at the end of 2014.

The leader of the healthcare workers union 1199, Dennis Rivera, endorsed Pataki for reelection in the aftermath.

The healthcare workers union 1199 SEIU — which has been publicly vocal and active in its support for Mark - Viverito, who represents East Harlem, Manhattan Valley and Mott Haven — tried to pressure Bronx Councilwoman Annabel Palma to drop out of the speaker's race, according to the New York Post.

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.

The members of the health committee include Ken Raske of the Greater New York Hospital Association and Daniel Sisto of the Healthcare Association of NYS, but no one from 1199 SEIU — yet another signal the Cuomo administration is preparing to do battle with the healthcare workers union next year.

The announcement was made at the headquarters of 1199SEIU, the healthcare workers union, this past Mon., Apr. 6th.

Hettie Powell, an attorney who got a third of the vote when she ran against Wills in 2013, has been endorsed by the Working Families Party, healthcare workers union 1199 and the Teamsters.

Hettie Powell, an attorney who got a third of the vote when she ran against Wills in 2013, has been endorsed by the Working Families Party, healthcare workers union 1199 and the Teamsters, while David has the backing of Communications Workers of America District 1.

The pro-de Blasio group includes powerful building staff unions 32BJ SEIU and Hotel Trades Council, healthcare workers union 1199 SEIU and unions representing city employees.

Palma was slapped with $ 30,000 in fines from the Campaign Finance Board because her 2003 campaign allegedly coordinated its activities too closely with 1199 — the city's large and powerful healthcare workers union.

George Gresham, the president of 1199 SEIU, the powerful healthcare workers union, said the campaign for a $ 15 minimum wage would be dubbed the «Mario Cuomo campaign for economic justice.»