Sentences with phrase «just labor unions»

As the recent contract dispute at the American Federation of Teachers made clear, the A.F.T. and the National Education Association are not just labor unions: They are employers faced with many of the same issues as the school districts with which their members negotiate.

Not exact matches

The minimum wage bill is one that's supported not just by unions, but also the labor - backed Working Families Party.

It wasn't just a business priority — it was also strongly backed by labor unions.

And, as a reader pointed out, it was produced and posted by the Senate Democrat - controlled (and taxpayer - funded) media services unit just two weeks before Espada faces off against his two primary opponents: Gustavo Rivera (who is being backed by a number of the majority leader's colleagues and labor unions) and Dan Padernacht.

And public unions such as teacher's unions don't just extract money from the state they do labor too (like teaching our kids), and, like other unions, they unionize to negotiate for better compensation and look out for their own interests, like just about every union out there does.

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently signed a bill making it harder for government workers to escape labor unions, he said it was just «the first step of the resistance.»

Cuomo made his commitment to steer public - works contracts to union labor just minutes after thanking union representatives for supporting him in previous elections.

The changing composition of the Supreme Court is just one of the serious threats facing working families and labor unions following Trump's election.

They just gave a tax cut to the richest one percent of Americans,» Cuomo said Wednesday evening at a rally for 32BJ, a prominent labor union that endorsed his re-election bid earlier this month.

That just so happens to be the position pushed by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the Senate Democrats, a host of labor unions and their progressive allies.

Backed by Mr. de Blasio, the WFP and just about every labor union under the sun, Mr. Smitherman still lost to Mr. Sampson, once the majority leader of the senate, by 14 points.

It would be refreshing, invigorating even, to hear him (or any other component of the Democrat bobble - headed doll - set presently occupying the council chambers) publicly question just one, single: expenditure, bonding - plan or labor union contract demand.

This existential crisis about Labor and trade unions has been ongoing, and not just in Australia.

Mayor Bill de Blasio officially kicked off his campaign for reelection in 2017 with his first labor union endorsement today — just six days after the shock loss of his former boss Hillary Clinton's defeat in her bid for the presidency.

Labor unions are leading the fight against a New York ballot measure to hold a constitutional convention, arguing that it's just too risky to tinker with the state's governing document and threaten existing protections for worker's compensation, unemployment benefits and collective bargaining.

This endorsement doesn't come as a big surprise — just like Cuomo's entrance into the race was long expected, so too has his likely support of many labor unions, particularly since he's the only Democratic candidate for governor.

The 2015 session ended in June without agreement after powerful public labor unions weighed in, saying they were concerned it would apply to all public workers, not just policymakers.

Another Democrat said progressives might be better off just focusing on Hochul since it would be more a battle of «two relatively unknowns» — even though she would likely be supported by Cuomo's bulging campaign warchest and the powerful labor unions that are aligned with the governor.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- Labor unions are leading the fight against a New York ballot measure to hold a constitutional convention, arguing that it's just too risky to tinker with the state's governing document and threaten existing protections for worker's compensation, unemployment benefits and...

Cuomo chose Labor Day weekend to tell the Daily News that the union leadership needs the same «spirit of cooperation» displayed in the»70s, one where short - term sacrifice provides long - term security not just for the state but also their members.

The labor and union movement of the time not only told the working class that poverty was nothing to be ashamed of, furthermore, regarding workers as the primary subject of the struggle to build a just and equal world, contributed to the establishment of a respectable worker identity.

It is far from clear that teachers» unions can continue to function just fine in the absence of favorable state - level labor laws.

What the Obama administration just did with education would be a mild case, in which waivers are combined with new requirements lacking a basis in law, but the more serious case is the Affordable Care Act, under which, without any warrant that I have been able to find in the law itself, the administration granted more than 1,400 waivers to labor unions and small businesses that were offering less insurance coverage than the law requires.

In 1975, when teacher unions were just getting themselves into the collective bargaining game, teacher labor disputes nationwide numbered 241.

However, in the absence of a contract for the last three years between the district and the teachers union, United Teachers of Los Angeles, labor talks remain at a complete standstill, raising questions about just how much remains «TBD.»

Also with Josh Freeman on Lessons from New York Labor History; Dave Newman of NYCOSH on an Organizing Approach to Health and Safety; Labor law expert Robert Schwartz on Just Cause: How to Win Discipline Cases; and a discussion of After Bloomberg: A Union Agenda for New York City.

But it's a «union shop» in more ways than just that — in a conveniently - timed reversal of a previous position, CMD takes money from labor unions, too.

Teachers union leader says battle's just begun Predicts labor inroads against GOP Washington Times

You are right; the unions, including my own, are no longer «labor unions» they are just fund raisers for the Democrat party these days.

As The Heritage Foundation's labor economics expert James Sherk points out, just 1 percent of current teachers in the largest school districts in Florida were on the job in 1975 when the first and only union election process took place.

While these groups file just 13 percent of CEQA lawsuits, they along with labor unions are one of the main obstacles to reforming CEQA in Sacramento.

The same objection is more relevant in the example of trade unions or employer collectives forming to bid up or down the price of labor; if all employers collude to fix the price of labor and lock out all workers, then there is no economic reason to call negotiation of wages fair or just, and the courts long ago found such anticompetitive practices sufficient cause to uphold the right of workers to unionize.

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For example, we just hired a labor and employment lawyer to handle unions and any regular employment matters that come up in the Company.

Obtained a labor arbitration award in favor of a local Transit Corporation which denied a union grievance alleging a suspension without just cause.