Labor advocates say they want the state of Connecticut to tax companies that pay low wages to their employees, companies like big box retail stores and fast food chains.
Not exact matches
Tech companies
say they need the visas to get scarce talent, while
labor advocates contend that it allows companies to hire cheaper foreign workers instead of Americans.
Natural birth
advocates say that a more non-medical focused
labor, like a water birth experience, can reduce the difficulty of
labor.
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.
LaBarbera and representatives of construction
labor management funds, which
advocate for companies that use organized
labor and related unions,
said it was clear the real estate lobbying group had more sway at City Hall than they did, given that they were not invited into the 421 - a discussions the administration and REBNY had engaged in.
«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.»
Thompson
said he had
advocated McCain - Feingold to prevent, among other things, corporations and
labor unions from «giving large sums of money to individual politicians.»
«HTC knows that Rebecca will be a fierce
advocate for the many issues important to our members and for the entire
labor movement — we are confident she will be a champion for working families,» a HTC spokesman
said.
A senior member of the Obama administration met with
labor leaders and
advocates in Manhattan on Thursday morning to discuss efforts to bring paid family leave to New York, Donna Dolan, executive director of the New York State Paid Leave Coalition,
said.
Alcantara, a
labor organizer, has
said she will «continue to be a fierce
advocate for the progressive policies» she has always worked for even as member of the IDC.
FINANCIAL DISTRICT — Mayoral hopeful and Public
Advocate Bill de Blasio
said there is a model approach to the city's massive backlog of
labor contracts in the work done by Governor Andrew Cuomo, while blasting what he called Mayor Bloomberg's hands - off approach to the issue.
The public
advocate contrasted what he
said was Cuomo's forceful yet clear approach to
labor, exemplified by Medicaid redesign negotiations during the governor's first term.
Traveler
advocates are angry but airlines
say labor costs are up.
Amid many concerns about issues for rural and remote Australia, one
advocate called on
Labor to make sure all policies are «rural proofed»,
saying that there were often unintended consequences to good policies when they did not test for quality and equity in more remote communities.