Sentences with phrase «labor activists who»

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.

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.

«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.

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.»

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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.

It contains no stories drawn from the thousands of mothers, children, labor activists and university workers who have been «disappeared» or slain because of their efforts to improve living conditions.

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.

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.

Ellison, who had lost his bid for DNC chairman against former Labor Secretary Tom Perez, had drawn the ire last week of liberal activists in New York when he posed for a selfie with IDC Sen. Marisol Alcantara.

The Green Party nominee had initially proposed this year that the labor - backed Working Families Party should endorse his candidacy in order to present a united liberal front against Cuomo, who liberal activists remain deeply skeptical of when it comes to economic policies.

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.

The question there is whether the rank - and - file activists, who are unhappy with Cuomo for his fiscal conservatism and lack of movement on progressive issues — mainly creation of a public campaign finance system — will buck party and labor leaders who are more pragmatic and want to endorse the governor for re-election.

A civil war has erupted within the Working Families Party over whether to back Cuomo for re-election, with labor leaders who support the governor pitted against party leaders and grass roots activists.

The thorny issue pitted animal rights activists — who relentlessly opposed Mr. de Blasio's main rival for the Democratic nomination for mayor in 2013, former Council Speaker Christine Quinn — against organized labor, since the horse drivers are represented by the Teamsters.

«The Working Families Party was created by labor unions, community organizations and progressive activists to advance an agenda and elect candidates who improve the lives of working people.

The only problem is that a placeholder would take control from the more activist - based state committee and place it in the hands of the executive committee, which is dominated by labor leaders who have been assiduously courted by Cuomo.

Lots of upset Dems, independents, labor people, activists, who plan on breaking with Cuomo and the Dems and voting that way.

«I have not spoken to the mayor ever about the speaker's race and my emphasis is on talking to my colleagues and talking to important allies in this process, whether they be labor leaders, county organizations, activists and others who have a stake in the outcome,» Levine said.

Since 1979, Labor Notes has been the voice of union activists who want to put the movement back in the labor movement.&rLabor Notes has been the voice of union activists who want to put the movement back in the labor movement.&rlabor movement.»

The deal with frustrated progressive activists and labor union leaders, who make up the WFP, was in part brokered by Mayor Bill de Blasio after the WFP threatened

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.

Hawkins, Union Activist for Governor, to Make in Rochester Labor Day Parade Tonight, 5:30 PM Howie Hawkins, the Teamster member who is running for Governor, will march in the Labor Day parade in Rochester on Friday August 29.

The Working Families Party, a coalition of activists and labor unions, faced an identity crisis last year when it endorsed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's re-election over liberal activist Zephyr Teachout, who went on to mount a surprisingly strong though unsuccessful challenge to Cuomo in the Democratic primary.

Financed by Significant, MNM Creative, MACRO, and Cinereach, the film follows a young black telemarketer who finds success in the business world, quickly rising through the ranks, just as his activist friends are rising up in tandem against unfair labor practices.

The Democratic Party has its own tensions to resolve under an ideological tent that tries to accommodate both old - line labor unions, which instinctively oppose school choice, and a younger generation of black and Hispanic activists who demand it.

In a race that cost over $ 30 million, $ 25 million from outside groups, Torlakson was backed by labor unions and progressive activists while Tuck got the support of establishment newspapers and, according to one source, «30 donors who gave on average $ 267,000 each, including real estate developer William Bloomfield, Jr., Broad Foundation founder Eli Broad, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Emerson Collective Chair Laurene Powell Jobs.»

Labor Notes claims to be the «voice of union activists who want to put the movement back in the labor movement.&rLabor Notes claims to be the «voice of union activists who want to put the movement back in the labor movement.&rlabor movement.»

Activists who have been working to draw attention to labor practices in connection with the Guggenheim's planned expansion in Abu Dhabi — and who last week briefly occupied the loading dock of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice during the 2015 Biennale — said this week that their tactics seemed to be generating more overt resistance from the government of the United Arab Emirates, which oversees cultural construction projects.

But then someone like Eric Glatt, a former AIG employee who turned into a labor activist after being fired from AIG and taking on an internship as an accountant, put it eloquently: «I can't tell my landlord to give me free rent so he can gain experience as a landlord.»

* «Old Labor» people in the more conservative unions and the Labor Party who take a narrowly economic view of workers» interests and have a dislike of environmentalists and other new social movement activists which is affective rather than intellectual — indeed, is anti-intellectual.

Clinton, who weighed in on the Dakota Access pipeline for the first time last week in a noncommittal statement, finds herself torn between labor unions on one side, who want the jobs created by the project, and Native American activists and environments on the other side, who say the pipeline would pollute water and violate sacred land.

Fernando's father, César Chavez (March 31, 1927 — April 23, 1993) was a Mexican American labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers.