Sentences with phrase «labor committee»

Today, June 12th 2012, MORE joins with all union workers of the Municipal Labor Committee in demanding a fair contract now.

Some of the hearings, which will be headed by Senate Labor Committee Chairman Jack Martins (R - Nassau County), could take place before the new legislative session kicks off in January.

Senate Labor Committee Chairman Jack Martins (R - Nassau County) said the Senate remains open to a hike in the minimum wage but stressed it must be considered with other issues, such as improved workforce training.

The House Education and Labor Committee last week approved by voice vote legislation to reauthorize — and reorganize — the Education Department's research branch, after rejecting a Republican effort to give the President authority to appoint the members of a new board that would set research policy.

Dennis King, in his book Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism, describes how LaRouche turned his National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC) from a Trotskyite organization into an anti-Semitic neo-fascist group:

In a related event in Albany on Thursday, a parade of business and restaurant officials and owners testified before the Republican - controlled state Senate Labor Committee hearing on the recent Fast Food Wage Board convened by Cuomo, bashing it as largely one - sided political stunt designed to appease progressive advocates.

At 8 a.m., City & State holds a «Changing the Minimum Wage» forum where speakers will include Senate Labor Committee Chair Sen. Jack Martins, and Empire Center for Public Policy President E.J. McMahon, New York Law School, 185 West Broadway, Manhattan.

The proposal, which failed to advance out of the Senate Labor Committee in previous sessions, doesn't currently have a same - as version in the Assembly.

On top of the two posts, Peralta was also named the ranking member of the Senate Labor Committee by Sampson.

Heastie, 47, was chairman of the Assembly Labor Committee for the past two years.

All with inventory numbers on the verso, several with inscriptions, one with the National Child Labor Committee address stamp and another with a «HINE PHOTO COMPANY,» Yonkers, stamp on the verso.

The measures, announced in a news release by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Assembly Labor Committee Chairman Carl Heastie, come after the state's minimum wage officially increase from the federal $ 7.25 minimum to $ 8.

At 10 a.m., the Senate Labor Committee holds a hearing on «prompt pay reforms» for the state's construction industry, Legislative Office Building, Hearing Room A, 198 State St., Albany.

Jewish Labor Committee: This independent secular organization enables the Jewish community and the trade union movement to work together on important issues of shared interest and concern, in pursuit of their shared commitment to economic and social justice.

Yesterday the House Education & Labor Committee approved the bipartisan Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act.

The economist, Ken Jacobs, was set to testify before the New York state Senate's Labor Committee about the benefits of municipal minimum wage hikes in California.

The interests of the young scientists at these universities, on the other hand, are so poorly represented at those meetings that he and the two other Education and Labor Committee members present, fellow Democrats Barbara Lee and Lynn Woolsey, who also represent Bay Area districts, seemed unfamiliar with very basic features of postdocs» situation.

The top priority for the Ed & Labor Committee from 2011 - 12 will be reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, also known as No Child Left Behind.

In response to the agreement, Representative George Miller (D — CA), chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee who held a hearing in April on the then - stalled talks, issued a statement criticizing the «unnecessary delays that blocked a first contract for far too long,» adding that those delays were «outrageous and needed to end,» and that «it was clear that [UC] caused» the delays.

Aaron Albright, spokesperson for the House & Education Labor Committee, said, «nothing has been scheduled yet.»

Harry Nespoli of the Municipal Labor Committee shot back that «There is not enough time for the Mayor to do anything,» since «he is leaving, then he'll be gone and no one will be accountable.»

As a former labor union leader, Miller's perspective on the issue is decidedly pro-labor, and his position as chair of the Council's civil service and labor committee puts him at the front lines in addressing it.

Cuomo did not send any representatives to the hearing, something Labor Committee Chair Martins said was regrettable.

«A re-education through labor committee can strip a citizen of their freedom for three years, with the option to extend that by another year.

Onorato was first elected to the Senate in 1982 and retired in 2010, and served as Labor Committee chairman during the Democrat's brief stint in the majority.

For instance, when members of the Senate labor committee interviewed Acting Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon on Tuesday, Republican members asked her pointed questions on topics about a lawsuit the state Civil Liberties Union has filed seeking to help farm workers form unions.

The agreement with the Municipal Labor Committee secured an unprecedented $ 3.4 billion in permanent, guaranteed health care savings — the first major reduction in health care costs in the City's history.

Doug Volland was among those who took the day off from work to testify at the six - hour Labor Committee hearing on Senate Bill 216.

Washington — As the Reagan Administration last week unveiled its $ 70 - million plan for upgrading the nation's programs in mathematics and science education, the House Education and Labor Committee concluded four days of hearings on a bill that would support such programs with four times as much federal money.

In fact, for the better part of three decades (from 1967 to 1994) he was one of the most powerful education policymakers on Capitol Hill, as a Democratic staffer for the House Education and Labor Committee at a time when the Democrats completely controlled the House.

John F. Jennings, who has worked for the House Education and Labor Committee since 1967, said last week that he will leave the committee at the end of 1994, when the 103rd Congress ends.

But a contentious hearing before the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee probed allegations that the widespread use of DIBELS may stem, in part, from inappropriate promotion of the tests by federal...

The House Education and Labor Committee began hearings last week on a similar measure.

The U.S. House Education and Labor Committee unanimously approved a measure last week aimed at helping to keep problems in the shaky credit markets from affecting the availability of college loans.

The House Education and Labor Committee earlier this month voted to change the bill's name to the «civil rights and women's equity in employment act of 1991.»

The Senate Labor Committee meets Wednesday to take up SB 665, with changes to the worker's compensation law.

Taking heat from the bill's opponents for passing HB 1957 through the House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee instead of through House Education Committee, Rep. Bruce Cozart, R - Hot Springs, chairman of the Education Committee, said he believed the Legislature had the responsibility to intervene on behalf of teachers.

December 8, 2009: NSBA Testimony before the House Education and Labor Committee Local school board member testifies on behalf of NSBA with recommendations for Common Core standards development.

Lewis Wickes Hine (American, 1874 - 1940) Five National Child Labor Committee Photographs, 1908 - 12.

Developments to watch out for, including Agency workers, reform of joint labor committees and review of complaints bodies.

Washington — In response to strong criticism from Republicans and Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee last week, Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell admitted that «when you reduce funding [for federal education programs], you sacrifice as far as quality is concerned.»

The overarching Municipal Labor Committee is expected to meet in the coming days to make a decision on the medical benefits portion of the U.F.T. deal.

The 47 - year - old Heastie was first elected in 2000 and has led the Assembly's Labor Committee for the past two years.

Even Capitol Hill's Democratic education kingpin, House Education and Labor Committee Chair George Miller, is now taking shots at the administration.

The House Education and Labor Committee in June approved a measure reauthorizing funding for Gallaudet University, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and programs to encourage deaf students and...

«Elected officials must ensure the government continues to protect the lives of working people,» said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Jewish Labor Committee.

Developed in 1991 by the National Child Labor Committee and Grand Metropolitan, Inc. (the owner of such businesses as Burger King, Hagen Daz, and Vision Corner), KAPOW creates partnerships in which schools and area businesses work together to educate elementary - aged students about the world of work.

Arne Duncan testifying before the House Education and Labor Committee about the reauthorization of the Education Act on Wednesday

Assembly Speaker and ex-Chairman, Executive Committee Bronx Democratic County Committee Carl Heastie, and former Chair, NYS Assembly Labor Committee; Public Advocate Award