Sentences with phrase «labor advocate who»

As the youngest of six children, his father Jack, a blue - collar, union man and labor advocate who worked for Con Edison for over fifty years taught him the importance of hard work, dedication, and commitment to community.

As the youngest of six children, his father Jack, a blue - collar, Navy vet of the Korean War, union man and labor advocate who worked for Con Edison for over fifty years, taught him the importance of hard work, dedication, and commitment to community.

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Bogle told those assembled that he has been an advocate for «a federal standard of fiduciary duty, the duty of everyone who touches «other people's money» (OPM) to place the interests of [their] clients above [their] own interests» and that he supports the proposed Department of Labor broker fiduciary duty standard.

I advocate people giving money to those who labor at preaching and teaching, but as free - will gifts, not as mandatory tithes, as gifts of appreciation to supplement their income, not as the sole source of receiving a salary.

Slave labor, he believed, was unfair competition to «free labor,» and that argument was carried forward by Abraham, who was a free labor advocate throughout his years as a Whig and, later, as a Republican.

Wendy Kenin, a doula and educator in Berkeley, Calif. who knows Hollie, says, «Natural birth advocates are well aware that the childbirth protocols in hospitals are often not scientifically sound, but instead are based on trends to medically intervene in and disrupt the natural labor process.

Over the weekend, Smitherman was endorsed by Cuomo, who praised the labor advocate for «fight for working and middle class New Yorkers.»

«So rest assured that labor will be relentless in its efforts to return Congressman Rangel to Washington, where he can continue to advocate for those who need his help the most.»

That would be very good for the WFP in advance of the 2013 NYC mayor's race, and also for NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who — at the moment, anyway — looks to be the likely standard - bearer for the labor - backed party in the battle to succeed Mayor Bloomberg.

Rangel is facing primary challenges from labor advocate Jonathan Tasini, who dropped a bid to oust Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to focus on trying to unseat the scandal - scarred congressman; Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell, and Vince Morgan.

Opposing the convention is a broad array of powerful interest groups — including most of state's unions and environmental advocates — who argue that it would give business interests and other well - financed groups an avenue to weaken existing labor and environmental protections.

Ruffalo, a Hudson Valley resident who has been active in lobbying on several issues this year — in favor of gay marriage and against hydrofracking in the Marcellus shale — appears in a Web video paid for by New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, the labor - backed group that has long advocated for a more progressive tax structure.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, facing a primary challenge from actress and education advocate Cynthia Nixon, has been under increasing pressure to show he's the true champion of the left, bringing him closer to his allies in organized labor, who have fled the Working Families Party.

The latest push comes from an unusual coalition of progressive labor interests, political (Democratic Party, that is) and environmental groups, health care interests and good government advocates who are urging Cuomo to enact a «voluntary» public campaign finance system early in the 2011 legislative session — one of the many camapign promises outlined in his «New New York Agenda» books.

«The low - wage service workers we represent need a champion in Albany who will advocate for raising workers» standards, the DREAM Act and state - level immigration reforms, and ensure the labor movement remains a force for upward economic mobility.»

«I don't think he offered a bigger vision... about where we're going,» said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who described the mayor's contentious tone toward labor unions and Albany as «classic Michael Bloomberg.»

Ms. Jimino and Mr. Astorino are among a number of mayors and county leaders from both major political parties who have advocated for the repeal of the Triborough Amendment, which was named after a labor dispute at the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, arguing that the measure strips them of leverage during contract talks.

Quinn's decision was praised by the business community, but drew fire from labor advocates, who accused her of turning her back on her base.

Gay City News on the shutdown of Brian Ellner's appointment to the Empire State Pride Agenda: «Nearly everyone who spoke to Gay City News — both advocates and foes of Ellner — cited the adamant opposition to him from board member Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, one of the city's most progressive labor leaders and a tough critic of Bloomberg.

While the racial, social, political, and economic consequences of poorly performing schools are innumerable and harsh, they won't be felt by Burris who earned $ 268,000 as a principal; or Ravitch who became a fierce public school advocate only after her children completed private school; or Valerie Strauss — another private school parent — who uses her Washington Post real estate to bolster all the drivel teachers» unions send her (without mentioning her connection to communication contracts with labor).

Xapuri was the home of the internationally known labor and land rights advocate Chico Mendes, who was assassinated in the late 1980's for opposing road building and other mega-projects in the Amazon.

We include the first openly lesbian judge in the nation; the first openly gay and lesbian appellate judges in California history; the founder of the National Center for Lesbian Rights; founders and former executive directors of Equal Rights Advocates and the East Bay Children's Law Offices; a former chief attorney in the San Francisco public defender's office, as well as several other former public defenders; a former California labor commissioner; a former chief deputy attorney general; and a former chief deputy city attorney and the lead counsel who successfully argued the historic gay marriage case that changed lives in our community forever.

Passage of the bill has become a major priority for organized labor groups, who will be joined in the push by a broad coalition that includes advocates for women and children.