Sentences with phrase «labor activist»

State Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs just issued a statement slamming labor activist Jonathan Tasini for criticizing his new primary target, Rep. Charlie Rangel, and saying the veteran Harlem pol's multiple ethics scandals will be an anchor around the necks of the party's candidates nationwide.
An agenda distributed to the hundreds of labor activists who gathered at a Midtown Manhattan hotel today does not include anything about the gubernatorial election, according to a picture provided by one delegate.
While labor activists like to think of the strikes as a sign of a resurgent labor movement, a recent article by Jason Walta, senior counsel for the National Education Association, the largest teachers» union in the country, strongly indicates otherwise.
One of the more left - leaning labor activists within the WFP, Communications Workers of America Local 1180 President Arthur Cheliotes, during a phone interview the day after the debate remarked with some ruefulness on the paradox his union faces.
Explore the life and loves of labor activist and free - love advocate Emma Goldman as told in comic - book format.
Phaedra Ellis - Lamkins, a long - time labor activist with organizations like the South Bay Labor Council and Working Partnerships USA, remembers bitterly what it felt like when her mother — a single parent scraping by on waitress wages — failed to make it home for dinner.
Stunningly, Burns accuses the men - labor activists with an apparent grudge against the Los Angeles Times's fiercely anti-union owner - of not just one heinous deed but of being part of a terror wave involving hundreds of bombings.
Fast - food franchise owners have said that the increase to a $ 15 minimum wage unfairly singles out their industry and could force them to raise menu prices and cut employee hours or staffing, while labor activists charge that the focus on the fast - food industry is justified because of its high numbers of low - wage workers.
I'm a long - time labor activist turned education reform advocate who works with families across the Commonwealth to find their voice at the education table and to put kids back at the center of the conversation.
Iraq's liberation from Saddam Hussein and his criminal underlings by the coalition of the willing last year has breathed life into many Labor activists — including Federal Labor leader Mark Latham — who are afflicted by anti-Americanism and / or pacifist inclinations.
The WFP has a history with Clinton, supporting both her first 2000 US Senate run (her first attempt at seeking elected office) and her re-election campaign in 2006, though she faced a primary challenge from the left from labor activist Jonathan Tasini.
Labor activists say the Democratic governor's plan to gradually increase the wage will improve the lives of some 200,000 New Yorkers.
FARMINGTON — Four years ago, labor activists launched an aggressive ground game that helped elect — by a 6,400 - vote margin — Connecticut's first Democratic governor in three decades.
The benchmark for a protest candidate that most people have been using is the 17 percent labor activist Jonathan Tasini received in his primary challenge to Hillary Clinton in 2006.
Doubling down, the mayor issued a statement on Saturday in favor of Maria Elena Durazo, a California labor activist.
He had been one of three people being considered by the Staten Island Democratic Party's executive board, alongside Brooklyn Assemblyman William Colton and State Island labor activist Robert Holst.
Rodrigo Grande's Argentine crime thriller At the End of the Tunnel won the Golden Space Needle Audience Awards for Best Film and Best Director and Peter Bratt's Dolores, a portrait of racial and labor activist Dolores Huerta, won for Best Documentary.
«Nos batailles,» Guillaume Senez's follow - up to «Keeper,» toplines French star Romain Duris as a dedicated labor activist who is forced to start acting as a father when his wife deserts him.
And while Amazon has escaped much of the kind of negative attention that has surrounded Apple and its FoxConn manufacturing plant in China, there is an emerging campaign among labor activists and progressive journalists to focus a spotlight on poor conditions in Amazon fulfillment centers.
Given that Gulf Labor activists including Walid Raad and Ashok Sukamaran have recently been refused entry to the UAE to speak about labor issues, present their art, and document conditions under which migrant laborers live, the international territory of the Biennale becomes a fruitful alternative site for their interventions.
They were followed by labor activists, mainstream environmental organizations, anti-capitalists, scientists, and community groups.
The term «teacher union leader» typically evokes a hard - charging labor activist who shares an adversarial relationship with the school district, is focused solely on protecting members» bread - and - butter interests, and flees from phrases like «school reform.»
Goode, a little - known attorney in the Bloomberg administration, has taken a leave from her job to challenge Gillibrand — a quest many Democrats before her, from Reps. Steve Israel, Carolyn Maloney and Carolyn McCarthy to labor activist Jonathan Tasini, have found too challenging to date.
DeWitt was on a panel Thursday alongside a labor activist, investigative journalist and Starbucks barista at O'Reilly Media's Next: Economy conference in San Francisco.
Yet labor activists and others have said such roles — with people working as freelancers and having little certainty over their wages and job status — are simply a way for companies like Uber to minimize costs, even as they maintain considerable control over drivers» workplace behavior.
That may not sound particularly controversial, but some immigration and labor activists are calling out FWD.us for favoring a specific type of immigrant: White - collar tech workers whom tech world titans could pay less than their American colleagues.
School food is a civil rights issue, and a labor activist like Jeremiah Lowery who draws on a long family history of civil rights struggle gets that.
Labor activist Jonathan Tasini, the last remaining primary challenger to Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, confirmed today he has given up on his quest to oust the appointed junior senator and has decided to join the fray against embattled Rep. Charlie Rangel instead.
The only Democrat left in the field against Gillibrand is labor activist Jonathan Tasini, who also mounted a long - shot challenge to Clinton in 2006, running to the then - senator's left by focusing almost entirely on her «yes» vote on the Iraq War.
In Round I, labor activist Jonathan Tasini, who recently dropped his long - shot primary challenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to train his sights on Rangel instead, managed to hold Rangel just under the 50 percent mark that would have enabled him to land the club's nod.
Before her career as a photographer took off, Grossman was a labor activist within the teachers» union and a member of the American Labor Party.
The other reader happens to be labor activist Jonathan Tasini, who lives on the Upper West Side and is about as left of center as they come.
«She's a community activist, she spent her life as a community activist, as a labor activist, as a Bernie delegate — Marisol and I were the few Democrats to support Bernie Sanders.
A Queens high school teacher and labor activist has entered the race for NYSUT executive vice president — the only position heading into the April elections that had been uncontested.
Labor activist Jonathan Tasini, one of five Democrats who unsuccessfully tried to oust Rep. Charlie Rangel in the Sept. 14 primary, is the first to call on the embattled Harlem congressman to step down after he was found guilty of 11 of 13 ethics charges by a House committee earlier today.
Tasini, a labor activist who dropped a challenge to US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to set his sights on ousting Rangel, has been running on the congressman's left, challenging him particularly hard of late on the Afghan War.
In addition to Johnson, Rangel is challenged in the Sept. 14 Democratic primary by State Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, labor activist Jonathan Tasini and banker Vincent Morgan.
Labor activist Jonathan Tasini, who ran last year, emailed in response to my question about whether he'd ever polled to say, «No we did not.
- Eddie Kay, Labor Activist and Organizer
Ferrer said that Alcantara didn't «parachute» her way into politics, but has «paid her dues at the community level — as a labor activist and organizer and as a political activist and organizer.»
On Tuesday, May 1, labor activists and immigrant support organizations staged rallies in New York City to commemorate May Day.
19 % reported, however, they would have supported Ford, and labor activist Jonathan Tasini would have taken just 3 % of the vote.
Labor Notes is also a network of rank - and - file members, local union leaders, and labor activists who know the labor movement is worth fighting for.
«That ticket might be harder to get than a luxury seat at the seventh game of the World Series with the Yankees versus the Mets,» said Jonathan Tasini, a labor activist and Sanders surrogate who plans to be at the Brooklyn Navy Yard to serve as a CNN panelist who will comment after the debate.
As a result, the labor activists visited between 3,000 and 4,000 union households within the 13th Congressional District.
That union's leader, Debora M. Hayes, who has a long history as a labor and strike leader, was recognized as the area's labor activist of the year.
In an acceptance speech delivered in both Spanish and English, Ms. Mark - Viverito underscored her liberal beliefs, calling for higher wages for fast - food and carwash workers, describing her experience as a labor activist, and, echoing the familiar rhetoric of Mr. de Blasio, pledging the Council would strive «for a more equal and just New York.»
At 6 p.m. Wednesday evening at the CUNY Graduate Center, City Limits News is hosting a discussion about President Trump and infrastructure, with «a labor activist, a transportation expert, a policy journalist and a roomful of people who are concerned about the Trump Presidency but intrigued by his pledge to invest billions in improving infrastructure.»
«I don't think Andrew Cuomo thinks he's going to lose the primary, and neither did Hillary Clinton,» said Jonathan Tasini, a labor activist who ran an anti-war primary against then - Senator Clinton in 2006 and won 18 percent of the vote.
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