Sentences with phrase «helped union leaders»

Additionally, we have helped union leaders inform members about opportunities within their unions.

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The former union leader won global admiration for transformative social policies that helped reduce stinging inequality in Latin America's biggest country.

The PSOE's party elders did not choose him for this role, but if Pedro Sánchez takes the lead, in Europe as much as in Spain, and reopens the debate about the euro, acknowledging that the current structure does not work and defining with the help of hindsight what vulnerabilities must be addressed in a reformed European Union, the party's new leader can halt the decline of the PSOE at home and reverse the ugly nationalism spreading through Europe.

-LRB-...) Mr. Frazier, who is African - American, and Mr. Krzanich and Mr. Plank, who are white, were three of the 28 business and union leaders the president named to the advisory council aimed at helping him boost U.S. manufacturing jobs.

Surrounded by union workers, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called Trump's infrastructure plan a sham, and urged that recent federal tax cuts for corporations and the richest Americans be rolled back to help pay for long - overdue repairs.

According to inside sources, Brian, also an ex-labor leader, was known to speak in a fake Irish brogue to help him fit in with union workers.

«Labour would seek to negotiate a new comprehensive UK - EU customs union to ensure that there are no tariffs with Europe and to help avoid any need for a hard border in Northern Ireland,» the Labour leader said in February.

Calling on the slogan, «One Member, One Vote» Blair (with some help from Smith) defeated the union element and ended block voting by leaders of labour unions.

And the controversy over public pensions is helping to fuel a broader battle in statehouses across the country between public unions and elected leaders who want to curb their influence.

More recently, the work of conservative Christian Democratic Union leader and Chancellor Helmut Kohl helped bring about German reunification, along with the closer integration of Europe in the form of the Maastricht Treaty.

Better for the various labor unions and influential Democrats to appease the IDC leader, Senator Jeff Klein, and not say too much to irk Cuomo, who helped nurture the IDC into existence to soothe his triangulating soul.

Leader to tell Paul Kenny that union's decision to cut affiliation funding by more than # 1m has helped make case for reform

But they are strongly opposed by Bratton, police union leaders and some newspaper editorial boards, on the grounds that they will help criminals hide drugs and guns when they are confronted by police.

As the Times Union reported last Monday, de Blasio's chief fundraiser, Ross Offinger, procured a publicly untraceable $ 50,000 donation to help Senate Democrats last month win a key Long Island district, a seat previously held by ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

City Hall insiders were scratching their heads about the need for a transition team since her predecessor, Christine Quinn, didn't have one.Members of the volunteer transition team included three former borough presidents and union leaders who helped her win the post, including the former law partner of the Brooklyn Democratic boss who brokered a backroom deal to seal her victory.

One police union leader who has been outwardly critical of Mayor Bill de Blasio says he will ask Governor Andrew Cuomo to intervene and help resolve the dispute.

Also at 10:30 a.m., Democratic Westchester County lawmakers, union leaders and women's rights advocates introduce a bill to help ensure salaries will be based on job qualifications and the value of the job they are being hired to do, not what prospective employees made in the past, 148 Martine Ave., 8th Floor, White Plains.

Also at noon, members of the Puerto Rican community, activists, union leaders, and the Hedge Clippers, will rally against Trump because of his opposition to debt relief that would help 3.5 million Americans facing a humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, Trump International Hotel and Tower, 1 Central Park W., Manhattan.

FCUA honored Jones in Tallahassee last month during the Florida Advocacy Conference, where the lawmaker addressed credit union leaders gathered to help promote the industry at the state capitol.

Responding to a question from NY1's Courtney Gross, Lhota listed meeting with the City's union leaders to develop a «roadmap» to reaching new contracts, meeting with «the leaders of all the banks in New York» to encourage them to loosen credit restrictions while also assisting businesses in better preparing for credit requests, and meeting with college and university presidents to discuss ways to help the City's economy, as his immediate priorities.

Union leaders say New York's law allows for more time to help and observe teachers.

Keeping labor relatively happy, however, helps Cuomo become the leader of a new national Democratic identity, one that contrasts with the Republican right's union - bashing yet is fiscally conservative and socially progressive.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about New York State Senate staff looking to finish the budget and leave town to help campaign for the seat once held by former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, dangerous ice in the Adirondacks that resulted in the death of a 12 - year - old Greenwich boy, and an interesting story about politics and money in Cohoes.

The leader of Southampton City Council, Richard Williams, said he will form a taskforce with trade unions, Jobcentre Plus and local MPs to «help find new employment for the affected staff».

The races drew unprecedented involvement from non-education labor unions and Democratic Party leaders, all working to help elect candidates endorsed by the Buffalo Teachers Federation.

Dick Dadey, with Citizens Union, which supports the measure, says it's the best opportunity in decades to help fix a broken system that allows nearly unlimited gerrymandering by legislative leaders to benefit parties in power.

That requirement would have forced a restaurant like McDonald's to pay its workers more if they rented space in a development that had received city help — a crucial provision, union leaders had said.

The union's plan to forego donations to the Senate Republican Campaign Committee this year is part of a deliberate strategy by a united coalition of labor groups, Working Families Party leaders and Governor Andrew Cuomo to help Democrats regain control of the State Senate, where they have been in the minority for 48 of the last 50 years.

Dick Dadey, with Citizens Union, which supports the measure, along with the League of Women Voters, says it's the best opportunity in decades to help fix a broken system that allows nearly unlimited gerrymandering by legislative leaders to benefit parties in power.

My primary opponent Tom Foley says, «I'm not going to cut spending» and tells state employee union leaders he won't seek any contract concessions — even reasonable ones — to help balance the budget.

The then 19 - year - old Mr McCluskey became a shop steward and helped unionise the white - collar staff, and then became leader of a union branch - the 5, 6, 7 branch.

Local council leaders and trade union bosses are in touch with moderate MPs encouraging them to return to the fold and help improve the party's fortunes.

But in 2014, the mayor was able to outmaneuver the leaders to put in Councilwoman Melissa Mark - Viverito as speaker with the help of the powerful health workers» union, Local 1199.

Besides publicizing union concerns about NCLB, Baxter is focusing on helping principals grow as leaders in their schools and in the labor arena.

The foundation has already committed some $ 135 million to overhauling fundamental aspects of urban school districts: identifying new sources of talent for positions of authority; developing alternative training methods for managers, principals, and teachers union leaders; creating new tools for analyzing performance data; and working with school boards to help those sometimes obstructionist bodies become more focused on student learning than on petty power plays.

One of Michael Bennet's first moves, back in 2005, was to recruit Brad Jupp, a union leader who had helped negotiate performance pay, to be his senior policy advisor.

Teacher leader Greg Ahrnsbrak, who helped organize Denver Teachers for Change, made an astute observation, «As a union, we've wanted to pay more teachers more money earlier in their career for as long as I can remember.

Memorandums of understanding help district leaders and union members achieve flexibility around time and money issues.

According to the piece, public employee union leaders and community organizations gathered in Washington, D.C. in 2014 and came up with a 3 - point plan: use the bargaining process as a way to challenge the relationships between government and the private - sector; work with community allies to create new, shared goals that help advance both worker and citizen power; and recognize militancy and collective action will likely be necessary if workers and citizens are to reduce inequality and strengthen democracy.

Our goal is to help teachers and their schools, unions, and districts implement collaborative, job - embedded professional learning that leads to better student learning by developing and using the skills of involved teacher - leaders.

Our goal is to help teachers, their schools, unions, and districts implement collaborative, job - embedded professional learning that leads to better student learning by developing and using the skills of involved teacher - leaders.

The Consortium for Educational Change (CEC) has developed a pair of training sessions that can help all educators — administrators, union leaders, teachers, support staff, board members — learn how to navigate difficult conversations and move those challenging discussions to a productive level.

Our goal is to help local union leaders to be bold, collaborative, creative advocates for the improvement of public education.

The leaders of teachers unions often say that they want to help kids.

It goes on to say that the union's 77,000 members (public educators in this state are forced to pay dues to the WEA if they want to teach here) helped elect «strong, pro-public education leaders and defeat charter schools.»

Indeed, though 17 labor unions support the plan, saying it would help children of their members, leaders of those representing teachers see it as a thinly disguised voucher program redirecting state revenue to private schools.

For help figuring out state plans, reporters can look at the plans themselves, talk to state - based associations, advocates, or union leaders, or contact national outfits like the Alliance for Excellent Education, Fordham, the AFT, or the Education Trust.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of school leaders» union NAHT, added he wants a «fairer system for re-marking, including a fund to help schools pay for regrading.

Union leaders, meanwhile, bristle at the upstarts and so far seem less inclined to help them than to co-opt or marginalize them.

In our bizarre newspeak world, the leader of a labor union who tries to force kids to stay in their failing public schools gets a «human and civil rights» award and the Walton Foundation, which gives millions to help free those kids, is vilified.