Sentences with phrase «labor groups who»

While environmentalists protest the plan, labor groups who backed Inslee's campaign are in favor of the project, pitting the two Democratic constituencies against each other.

Cuomo, who in his first term had a decidedly strained relationship with public - sector labor groups who represent state employees as well as teachers, said there's an «anti-union movement» afoot in the coutnry.

The group spent heavily on ads to support the governor's agenda, particularly in his first year in office, and acted as a counterweight to the powerful labor groups who opposed some of Cuomo's policies.

Cuomo has been close with a variety of labor groups who have in turn proven politically friendly to his efforts.

This year, it's been opposed by a coalition of environmental and labor groups who are worried a convention would open up the constitution to changes that impact benefits and protections.

The latest executive actions have bolstered Cuomo's support among engaged liberal advocacy groups, ranging from LGBT organizations thrilled with his plan to write regulations to protect transgender New Yorkers to labor groups who have pushed him for years to take action on the minimum wage through the previously little - known power of the Department of Labor wage board.

Not exact matches

The trade groups hired Eugene Scalia, a former top lawyer at the Labor Department who has a strong record of getting courts to strike down government regulations.

Scalia, who co-chairs his firm's Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Group and is a member of its Labor and Employment Practice Group, said the lawsuit first challenges the «definition and meaning» of the word fiduciary.

But Richard Trumka, the president of AFL - CIO labor federation who is a member of Mr. Trump's manufacturing council, said Monday afternoon that the organization was «assessing our role» with the group.

I've sat across the room from a group of fisherman who shared their stories of being drugged, forced to labor 20 hours a day for years on fishing boats, under horrific conditions.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

It is clear that some groups, especially those who live from the investment of capital, will gain by increasing the size of markets and that labor now living above the global subsistence level will lose.

Another, much smaller group of feminists is made up of socialists who link feminism with fundamental changes in the economic relation of home and work, and the class structure of paid labor.

The hospital birthing center where I had my baby offers it... My midwife was actually excited that I wanted to do water labor but no water birth... I was the only one of her patients who DID N'T intend to birth in the water and she needed people birthing out of the tub for a control group in a waterbirth infection study she was contributing to.

So any woman who developed complications during pregnancy and was appropriately transferred to hospital care long before labor began was included in the homebirth group.

They report three times the marital contentment of the next happiest group — working - and middle - class families who favor a traditional division of labor and have only one breadwinner.

Yes the home group will contain some higher risk moms (some VBAC, some breech, some GDM) but it won't contain the full spectrum of high risk that the hospital gets: Women with clotting disorders on heparin, maternal heart disease, moms addicted to crack, moms with HIV, 12 and 13 year olds, women who walk in off the streets in labor with no prenatal care, women with sickle cell and cystic fibrosis and type 1 diabetes, babies with severe anomalies.

After connecting in the 1980s with co-founders Phyllis Klaus, Penny Simkin and Annie Kennedy, the group chose the word «doula» to describe a person who serves families in labor.

But we counted measurement bias when the control group included women who used hydrotherapy during labor, but did not deliver in water, and there was no explanation of why.

I will need to read the paper more closely to comment on the relationship between immersion and duration of labor; in a prior study I found that women who had longer labors were more likely to be removed from the water for medical reasons and so would never be counted in the water birth group.2

These data report intrapartum and early neonatal death rates in full term women who intended to deliver out of hospital (and subsequently deliver either out of hospital or in hospital) at the start of labor compared with women who intended a hospital birth (thus «higher risk» pregnancies are included in this group) in 2012.

Models were developed using the following possible predictors of breastfeeding duration: maternal race, maternal education, paternal education, maternal age, socioeconomic status, 22 marital status, parity, mode of delivery, previous breastfeeding experience, timing of feeding method selection, problems with pregnancy / labor / delivery, breastfeeding goal (weeks), family preference for breastfeeding, paternal preference for breastfeeding, having friends who breastfed, randomization group, 16 plans to return to work, infant's 5 - minute Apgar score, and infant's age in minutes when first breastfed (first successful latch and feeding).

Amid this division between the WFP's two main forces — labor and advocacy groups who have been critical of the governor's policies — Cuomo emphasized his labor ties.

Paterson has come under pressure to bow out of next year's election from labor groups and others who worry his historically low popularity could jeopardize the party's fortunes statewide.

ALBANY - Labor - backed groups and lawyers for the injured on Wednesday continued to pressure the state Workers» Compensation Board to back off on changes they say would shortchange countless people who are hurt on the job.

If there's a singular face for diversity breakthroughs in the group, it doubtless belongs to Lisa Blunt Rochester, a former Delaware labor secretary and personnel director, who is going to become the first woman and first African - American to represent the state at the Capitol.

They are part of a group of 28 Democratic sponsors in the Senate who have signed on, as are also five Republican Senators who sit in the body's Labor Committee.

As expected, the New York State AFL - CIO has set their sights on three more Senators who they believe have failed to protect the interests of the 2.5 million member labor group.

Opposition to the convention has been fueled this year in large part by labor unions and environmental groups who worry about the consequences of opening up the constitution.

The opposition puts him within the same camp of labor leaders and environmental groups who had opposed holding a convention on the grounds constitutionally protected rights and benefits would be put at risk.

Around the table sat Mr. Cuomo; the leaders of New York's most powerful labor unions; Joseph Crowley, the top - ranked New York Democrat in the House of Representatives; and the two rival Democratic leaders of the State Senate — Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who leads the main group of Democrats, and Jeffrey D. Klein, who leads the breakaway group — among others.

Sugarman, who was appointed by Gov. Cuomo, wrote that the effort on behalf of the Dems was led by de Blasio and his team and included a group of influential political consultants and labor unions close to the mayor, the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, several of the candidates who were helped, and the Ulster County and Putnam County Democratic committees.

Days later, after meeting with labor groups, Clinton explained her position further by aligning herself with Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Senate's health, education and labor committee, who had introduced a $ 12 - an - hour federal wage bill.

The union that represents the deputies who responded to the Florida high school massacre is holding a no - confidence vote on the sheriff, with the labor group's leaders saying he should have accepted some blame for the shooting.

With all that on the table, the speed with which JJR was looking for an upgrade after the bruising 2016 campaign helped foment resentment among many major donors, labor groups and others who spent millions of dollars and thousands of man - hours getting him elected.

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.

The Rev. Emily McNeill, who heads the Labor - Religion Coalition of New York State, said her group is not as concerned about the topics promoted by the evangelical right, including opposition to abortion and gay marriage.

Mr. Nislick, whose wife has also contributed to Mr. de Blasio, joined forces with a labor group and Wendy Neu, a wealthy Manhattan businesswoman who is active in animal rights causes, to found the anti-Quinn coalition that bought the ad.

Those less - happy labor groups include public employee unions, who will offer formal testimony Friday afternoon at a legislative budget hearing, and teachers» unions, who are mobilizing against the governor at meetings around the state and trading press barbs with the second floor on a near - daily basis.

There were also plenty of right - leaning groups that aren't associated with organized labor who worked against the convention, notably the state Conservative Party.

At a meeting Monday with a group of influential labor leaders representing some of the state's powerful unions, including 1199 SEIU, 32BJ, the Hotel Trades Council and the Communications Workers of America, Cuomo said he couldn't pass a budget with campaign finance reform because of Senate opposition, and pressed the leaders to rein in the restive members of the Working Families Party, who vote on the party's endorsement.

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.

Holding a convention had been staunchly opposed by labor groups, who worried rights such as collective bargaining would be impacted or potentially weakened if a convention is held.

In the NY - 18 where five Democrats are vying at the chance to take on Republican Rep. Nan Hayworth, the labor group gave their endorsement to Maloney, who has worked to solidify union support as part of an overall GOTV effort.

The umbrella labor group also gave its nod to former city Comptroller John Liu, who is running a primary challenge against Queens Sen. Tony Avella, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference.

Opposition to MMA legalization stems in part from women's groups who find the sport too violent, while labor unions that have feuded with UFC's ownership in Las Vegas have also backed an effort to oppose the measure.

The labor group announced it was supporting Dell Smitherman, a former SEIU / 1199 political director, who is running against Sen. John Sampson, a Brooklyn Democrat who is accused of siphoning money from an escrow account he controlled.

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 nomination of Puzder, a former fast food executive who had led the company that owned Hardee's and Carl's Jr., had previously come under the scrutiny of labor groups for his support for automation.

Squadron, who represents, the Lower East Side, and Wright were joined by members of the tenant association, community leaders, representatives of the International Union of Elevator Constructors Local 1 and other labor groups.