Sentences with phrase «labor leaders»

She's a good wife, mother, and worker, but the role of labor leader suits her perfectly, allowing her to come fully into her own.

One of the city's best - known labor leaders said «the majority of the unions would try to build a coalition quickly and push against» any primary challenge.

This is a big risk for these unions to take — and one that other labor leaders are calculating right now.

The annual conference drew more than 100 delegates, including labor leaders, political activists and rank and file members.

The governor chose a task force that includes well - connected labor leaders.

His first press conference featured labor leaders declaring their support for de Blasio's pre - K / after school initiative.

One other key piece of the political puzzle is what the city's labor leaders end up doing in the Democratic primary.

The governor chose a task force that includes well - connected labor leaders.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in Westchester County to appear at the Mario Cuomo Bridge and will later appear at a rally with labor leaders in Union Square.

Democrats have had a tough time recruiting challengers to New Jersey Rep. Frank A. LoBiondo, who's friendly with labor leaders in South Jersey.

«We raised the minimum wage last year, and we're now in the midst of a minimum wage phase - in schedule,» Cuomo said at a news conference in Manhattan, where he was flanked by labor leaders who later praised his proposal.

His bill, unveiled this week, was blasted by the local and national labor leaders for not including a provision requiring construction workers on 421 - a backed projects be paid a prevailing wage.

The development comes as labor leaders allied with Gov. Andrew Cuomo are considering forming their own ballot line to rival the WFP this fall.

It's been a long summer for Labor Leader Bill Shorten, who in eight weeks seems to have run the full gamut of Queen's greatest hits, from I Want it All to Under Pressure.

And prominent labor leaders like George Gresham and Chris Shelton stood up to formally nominate Mr. Cuomo, a seeming rebuke of the labor - backed Working Families Party's ongoing deliberations about whether to support a protest candidate against Mr. Cuomo — who stressed a desire for inclusion.

It's been a barren marriage in many respects, and one hears plenty of frustration with the Democrats today from labor leaders Rich Trumka or Lee Saunders or Mary Kay Henry's words.

EAST HARLEM — With a lineup of some of the top labor leaders in the state and city behind him, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an array of union support Monday for a tax increase on the wealthy to pay for his signature universal pre-K plan.

At the same time, a video shown at the Democratic convention last week featured prominent labor leaders from influential unions like 1199 SEIU and 32BJ endorsing Cuomo.

In the room were a range of top New York labor leaders including AFL - CIO President Mario Cilento, Hotel Trades Council President Peter Ward, as well as Building Trades President Gary LaBarbera.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state labor leaders on Monday pledged a concerted campaign to boost the state's minimum wage to $ 15 over the coming years by leaning on the state Legislature for the latest hike for low - wage workers in the last several years.

Later, Cuomo gave a private talk to a range of labor leaders at the New York City Central Labor Council Reception held early last night at the W Hotel.

Using an article about labor leader Cesar Chavez's grape boycott and hunger strike, these students at Stuart - Hobson Middle School are doing a «close read,» a skill prized by the new Common Core State Standards being put into practice in the District of Columbia.

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.

Out labor leader Stuart Appelbaum, of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, one of Quinn's point people on attacking de Blasio, was even given a shout out by the live - and - let - live mayor, as was Bill Thompson supporter Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers.

In what was delivered like an early, fiery campaign speech, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told labor leaders yesterday how he, like his father before him, owes his place in the governor's office to organized labor.

According to Sen. Diane Savino, a former labor leader who was monitoring the AFSCME election at the union's convention in Boston via BlackBerry while the Senate was in the final throes of its last day in Albany (for now, at least), Donohue received 648 votes to Lee Saunders» 652.

Some of the party's top members were summoned to a meeting with labor leaders on Friday at the Manhattan headquarters of the United Federation of Teachers.

[«Duffy will be joining RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum, who is a big Cuomo supporter and was the first labor leader to call on Gov. David Paterson to step aside to let the AG run unopposed for governor this fall.

ALBANY, NY (03/27/2008)(readMedia)-- WHAT: Arlene Holt Baker, Executive VP of the national AFL - CIO, prominent and historically elected African American woman, will speak to local labor leaders as keynote speaker for the 7th Annual Meeting of the Capital District Labor Federation.

ALBANY, NY (04/12/2010)(readMedia)-- Joined by labor leaders representing 2 1/2 million union members across the state, New York State AFL - CIO President Denis Hughes today announced the Labor Federation's endorsement of Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney.

At a rally in Manhattan, the Democratic governor shared the stage with national labor leaders after a state wage board recommended raising the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 and hour, delivering a key victory in a national push by unions — led by Service Employees International Union — to improve the lot of (and unionize) employees at McDonald's, Burger King and other chains.

Newly - installed state Labor Leader Mark McGowan has confirmed the party will support the introduction of Sunday trading and will not revoke any approvals for uranium mines in Western Australia, in his

The same video included appearances by noted progressives like Harry Belafonte and major labor leaders like SEIU 1199's George Gresham, all of whom have influence in the Working Families Party.

«Most labor leaders, when they are negotiating with the executive branch, are realistic,» said Mayor Mike Spano of Yonkers, a Democrat.

Pay has become a hot - button issue in Albany as the governor seeks a series of one - day furloughs for 100,000 state workers, after labor leaders refused to forgo a 4 percent raise for the state work force that was largely negotiated under Gov. Eliot Spitzer, or to delay a week's pay.

chronicling the 36 - day water fast which would prove to be Chicano labor leader Cesar Chavez's final act of protest.

A top Cuomo aide, Joe Percoco, reportedly called labor leaders and upstate officials to question Kennedy's credentials and urge them to refrain from a public embrace.

He's one of the few city labor leaders aggressively supporting Mr. Sanders» presidential bid, and pols have come out to endorse CWA's strike against Verizon.

And while labor leaders and the coalition of dozens of community groups celebrated in the rotunda of City Hall after the vote, they acknowledged there was a long way to go.

Labor leaders gathered over chicken and cheese cubes at the Crowne Plaza Hotel the night before Cuomo's speech.

Labor leaders do not want to be perceived as guardians of ineffective teachers.

Several labor leaders whose unions have departed the WFP are considering the formation of their own ballot line.

They eventually meet legendary labor leader Mother Jones and join her famous march to persuade President Theodore Roosevelt to champion their rights.

Several labor leaders as well as the Cuomo campaign disputed the claims made by WFP State Director Bill Lipton that the governor threatened to work to end funding for the activist organizations as a result of the potential Nixon endorsement.

As the head of the largest union in the state, he's been at the forefront of the fight for $ 15 push and remains maybe the most important New York labor leader out there.

Two pro-charter school state senators delivered a statement to labor leaders yesterday after the unions launched a campaign against them: We stand up to schoolyard bullies!

The actor Diego Luna (Y Tu Mamá También, Milk), now a director, as well (this is his third film, and second narrative feature), has crafted the story of the late labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez with a fair amount of respect and wit, but without a lot of energy.

While many labor leaders in the party were firmly behind Mr. Cuomo, rank - and - file members were angry with the governor for charting a more fiscally moderate course in his first term.