Sentences with phrase «labor leaders on»

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.

Labor leaders on hand included NYSUT's Vice President Andrew Pallotta, who called Cuomo's cuts to education «horrendous,» especially combined with the potential impact of the governor's property tax cap, which passed the state Senate on Monday.

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.

The vote will be preceded by a rally with advocates, and business and labor leaders on the City Hall steps.

Not exact matches

If President Donald Trump decides to move forward with targeted tariffs or quotas on steel, Mattis recommended that the labor leaders and management of the impacted industries be convened by the president so they would understand that the tariffs and quotas are conditional.

A little - noticed difference between the federal Labor and Liberal parties is that the former ties itself in knots over whether or not to dispatch a leader who's on the nose with voters.

UAW President Bob King told Reuters that labor leaders pursued Proposal 2 because they expected a Republican push on right - to - work regardless.

«We refined the categories and tested them with other professors, entrepreneurs, policymakers, labor leaders, folks at think tanks, and ultimately settled on this list,» adds Brynjolfsson.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Mr. Obama, who invited labor leaders to fly with him here on Air Force One, said the «constant war against unions» undermined regular workers.

We need the Wal - Mart worker who depends on her job despite its poor benefits as well as the leader of the local movement to boycott the megachain for its labor abuses.

been criticized (sometimes by their own leaders) for not doing enough on behalf of the poor, the majority of the American labor force believes they are actually doing a good job in this area.

At the Church of the Lord Jesus in Jolo, West Virginia - one of the country's most famous «signs following» churches - a group of worship leaders passed around a rattlesnake at a service last year on Labor Day weekend.

This was largely through the so - called prophets, charismatic leaders who were devoted to Jahweh, spoke on his behalf, condemned any alien deities, and labored to establish him as the one and only god with whom humankind had to deal.

Thus, many people have been able to assume that our leaders were justified in lying about the Cambodian bombings, that a labor union can pursue a policy which its members would deem immoral on the level of individual behavior, that a committee to re-elect a president is perhaps justified in engaging in acts not acceptable in private behavior.

This relatively new movement, which is also sometimes called student - centered learning, has its roots in the progressive strain of American educational thought, but its current incarnation is also based on the modern belief, common among corporate executives and other business leaders, that there is a major and potentially calamitous disconnect brewing between the historical structures and traditions of the American public school system and the labor - force demands of the 21st - century American economy.

As Knickerbocker noted earlier today, this comes on the heels of the Senate Democrats» efforts to create so - called «councils» of labor, business and LGBT leaders, offering exclusive access to members of the majority conference for the low, low price of $ 50,000 to $ 25,000.

One labor leader recently suggested a truce might be in the offing, but I haven't seen much public movement on that front, either.

A key labor union for the New York Police Department on Wednesday threw its support to Republican state Senate hopeful Chris McGrath in the race to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

A day after being collared in Mexico on charges of sex trafficking and forced labor, NXIVM leader Keith Raniere appeared before a judge in Fort Worth, TX, where he was told he could have his future preliminary and detention hearings in the Eastern District of New York.

The powerful labor union 1199 SEIU endorsed Republican state Senate hopeful Chris McGrath on Friday in the crucial special election to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in Nassau County.

The trouble began on Monday, when King blasted the labor - aligned Working Families Party and criticized Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins in a lengthy statement after liberal groups have started to put pressure on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to unite the various Democratic factions in the chamber.

The labor - aligned Working Families Party in a statement Friday called on Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein to step aside from his leadership post as an investigation is conducted into an allegation that he forcibly kissed a former legislative staffer.

De Blasio — who has resisted including the «Fair Fares» (city - funded half - priced Metro Cards) measure in his budget — was massively outnumbered by an army of city elected officials, district attorneys and labor leaders who called on him to pony up $ 212 million for it in his executive budget.

It was the first official breakfast of the 2018 Somos Annual Spring Conference in Albany on Sat., Mar. 10th and Crespo addressed union leaders and members who had gathered for the traditional New York City Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) morning repast.

Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D - Ill., on Monday received the endorsement of the SEIU Illinois State Council, a vote of confidence from labor leaders and a pool of manpower that should help her in the three - way Democratic primary for the Senate seat held by Republican Mark S. Kirk.

While Lipton and activist organizations — like Make the Road Action, a leading immigrants» rights group that endorsed Nixon on Friday — were careful to blame the crack - up on Cuomo, at least one labor leader offered a more scathing indictment of the WFP.

Based on the nationally recognized model used in Wisconsin that involved bringing stakeholders together to find efficiencies and cost savings within the Medicaid program, the team includes leaders from the healthcare industry, the Governor's office, the legislative bodies, and other business, labor, and consumer advocates.

Ramos is a labor leader, an advocate for women, a community organizer, she's fought for immigration reform and LGBT rights, and she's even worked on historic elections, but for whatever reason, Ramos is running without party support.

Union leader John R. Durso, president of the Long Island Federation of Labor, blamed the dearth of good - paying jobs on the 2007 - 09 recession, which he said wiped out the retirement savings of older workers, causing them to postpone retirement.

«While some of our members have differed in the past on some of the specific issues in the New NY Agenda, the Executive Committee unanimously takes this position because we understand and accept Andrew's point that this is a pivotal moment in the history of this state, similar to the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis, when leaders in the labor, civic, business and political arena must put aside their individual agendas for the good of the entire state.»

At 5:15 p.m., labor, business and environmental leaders hold a news conference ahead of New York state Energy Research and Development Authority's public information meetings on offshore wind power for New York, Queens Public Library, 92 - 25 Rockaway Beach Blvd., Queens.

The measure comes after the abatement earlier this year lapsed, when real - estate developers and construction labor leaders couldn't reach an agreement on a prevailing wage component in the measure.

«I deeply appreciate that I can count on strong fundraising support from progressive groups, labor unions, local small businesses, and my community's leaders,» Constantinides said.

Community & Labor Leaders, Advocates Honor Workers Killed on the Job During Superstorm Sandy, Push for Reform Monday April 29, 2013 at 04:40 pm

In 2010, when the party was under federal investigation and risked falling off the ballot in the following election, it agreed to endorse Cuomo after he made the party's leaders sign on to a pro-business platform that included fighting organized labor.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan today debuted the «framework» of a deal that will extend the city's rent regulations and the controversial 421a tax abatement for six months — with some tweaks to the former, and potential for the latter to last through 2019 if the real estate industry and labor reach an agreement on construction wages.

On March 19, Public Advocate Letitia James, together with labor leaders, led a roundtable at the headquarters of DC 37 in Manhattan.

Gov. David Paterson this morning traded indirect barbs with PEF President Ken Brynien, all but accusing the labor leader of lying on the airwaves while defending labor's refusal to go along with furloughs, wage freezes and other cost - cutting proposals.

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.

The potential endorsement of Cynthia Nixon in the race for governor by the Working Families Party is leading some labor leaders to consider forming their own ballot line this fall, sources with direct knowledge of the talks on Thursday said.

As it was during the endorsement battle, which saw some on in the activist wing of the WFP support Cuomo's primary opponent, Fordham Law Prof. Zephyr Teachout, while big labor leaders sided with the governor, the party is again showing signs of a split.

Support for the main line project came just as Majority Leader John Flanagan was being pushed by a campaign launched by the business - backed Long Island Association and labor groups criticizing the lack of an agreement on the project.

Teachout, a Fordham Law professor, initially challenged Cuomo for the WFP line in May, only to lose it at the state convention after Cuomo, labor leaders and activists in the party agreed on the incumbent's endorsement.

Cuomo couldn't attend, ostensibly because he was attending the funeral for labor leader Ed Malloy, though he did phone in to the news conference explaining that he «had a family matter that kept me downstate» on Thursday (Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of the governor's former brother - in - law Robert Kennedy, Jr., was found dead after committing suicide).

I expect the legislative leaders and DiNapoli will express solidarity with the unions — particularly the state comptroller, who owes no small part of his victory over Republican Harry Wilson last year to the efforts on his behalf by organized labor.

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.

The question there is whether the rank - and - file activists, who are unhappy with Cuomo for his fiscal conservatism and lack of movement on progressive issues — mainly creation of a public campaign finance system — will buck party and labor leaders who are more pragmatic and want to endorse the governor for re-election.

Senator Klein met privately with labor leaders at his Bronx office on Monday to strategize about how best to proceed.

The advocates plan to visit all of the districts whose senators are on the Labor Committee, as well as the office of Majority Leader John J. Flanagan (R - Smithtown).