Sentences with phrase «labor movement in»

Intertwining myriad voices, Wiley Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of the now forgotten struggle of the labor movement in early twentieth - century America - and pays tribute to the thousands of heroic women and men who risked their lives to win basic rights for all workers.

An agreement announced last week allowing local National Education Association unions to affiliate with the AFL - CIO signals that the NEA is willing to tighten ranks with the rest of the American labor movement in the face of formidable economic and political changes.

A Democratic insider called Fishman «a national labor leader who helped invent the modern day labor movement in New York City.»

«As a result of Jon's longstanding commitment to the ideals of working people, he has received substantial support within the local labor movement in the 26th congressional district.

«As a result of his tireless efforts, Eric Massa has received substantial support within the local labor movement in the 29th congressional district.

«As a result of Scott's commitment to the ideals of working people, he has received substantial support within the local labor movement in the 20th congressional district.

«As a result of his outreach to local unions, Dan is very familiar with the goals, issues and initiatives of the labor movement in his district.

On May 3rd the New York State AFL - CIO issued a resolution urging the National AFL - CIO to consider Senator Clinton's exemplary track record of working with the organized labor movement in New York on behalf of the needs and concerns of working men and women.

Our members are unified in this battle, a battle that started as a result of Con Edison's deeply misguided notion that they could intimidate Local 1 - 2, and by extension the labor movement in New York.

«My brothers and sisters in the labor movement in the state of New York.

That didn't stop Gonzalez from writing the following: «(F) or a Democratic governor with presidential dreams, Cuomo must now decide if he is ready for a nasty battle with the labor movement in his own state.»

«Today, the labor movement in this state has a great deal to be proud of.

We want to be able to protect what we have for ourselves and our families well into the future and that's why the labor movement in this state is so adamantly opposed to a constitutional convention,» Cilento said.

The two are the cornerstones of the so - called «progressive» labor movement in NYC, and teamed up to successfully challenge a number of Queens Democratic Party - endorsed NYC Council candidates in 2009.

The event Friday morning comes as Cuomo has taken an increasingly arch tone with President Donald Trump's administration and policies, while also linking himself further to the labor movement in New York.

The action dramatized the lengths to which the labor movement in New York will go to stay on good terms with Cuomo, whose record has mixed important progressive accomplishments with centrist politics that most unions dislike.

«As a result of his efforts, David Weprin has received substantial support within the local labor movement in the 24th Assembly District.

«As a result of her efforts, Lauren Thoden has received substantial support within the local labor movement in the 3rd Assembly district.

«It is still my sincere hope and goal to improve our relationship with the Senate leadership and to advance the many important interests of the labor movement in doing so.

Also, Team Cuomo and its allies are pre-emptively accusing the WFP of dividing the labor movement in a manner that will only benefit Republicans in the fall elections.

There was a big labor movement in the United States, they accomplished quite a bit for workers rights.

There absolutely was a trade - union and labor movement in the U.S. from 1890 to 1950, including about 34 % of private sector workers in the late 1940s.

The divergence from Europe is mostly due to the post-1970 decline of the private sector labor movement in the U.S. and not to the lack of one in the first place in the U.S.

The threat of moving, often acted on, has greatly weakened the labor movement in the United States.

Much of the debate about the Church and power conflicts now going on in many American cities seems very familiar because it is a replay of discussions in which I was involved in the 1930's when the chief issue was the relation of the churches to the labor movement in its early struggles to achieve power.

Much of the debate about the Church and power conflicts now going on in many American cities seems very familiar because it is a replay of discussions in which I was involved in the 1930's when the chief issue was the relation of the churches to the labor movement in its early struggles to achieve...

In the United States and the United Kingdom, the parties of the center Left, the Democrats and the Labour Party, have today lost this focus, and the labor movements in both countries are in long - term decline.

Not exact matches

Davis, however, believes that the made - in - the - USA movement has serious limitations — particularly a puny domestic supply chain crippled by an unskilled labor pool, at least when it comes to custom manufacturing.

«The labor movement has increasingly come to realize that small to midsize companies are creating most of the new jobs in America,» Steed says.

Last year, the figure was 333,000, of which 184,000 came from the E.U. Even if you accept, as most do, that immigration has expanded the tax base and kept the price of both food and services down, the influx — for which there is no end in sight — is changing the face of the country too fast for the population to stomach, and the E.U.'s rules on free movement of labor are an easy target.

More than 1,000 Uber drivers are banding together in New York — the birthplace of the organized U.S. labor movement — to create an association that can represent their collective interests to the ride - sharing company's management.

TQM was demonstrated on a grand scale by Japanese industry through the intervention of W. Edwards Deming — who, in consequence, and thanks to his missionary labors in the U.S. and across the world, has come to be viewed as the «father» of quality control, quality circles, and the quality movement generally.

The flip side of the movement of mothers into the labor force has been a dramatic decline in the share of mothers who are now stay - at - home moms.

But in Germany the labor movement remains strong, and on workplace issues the mainstream political parties, the Christian Democrats as well as the Social Democrats, are well to the left of their American and British counterparts.

To many old - timers in the union movement, these «alt - labor» associations are thus a meager substitute for the real deal.

«The labor movement historically hasn't organized workers this poor in a very long time.

Given the terrible plunge in Help Wanted advertising and the likelihood of smaller movement out of the labor force, my expectation is that the unemployment rate will jump from the current 4.5 % to somewhere between 4.8 % and 5 %.

And the conditionalities, the so - called reforms, are an Orwellian term for anti-reform, for cutting back pensions, for rolling back the progress that the labor movement has made in the last half century.

Commenting on Mr. Greenspan's remarks, David Hale of Kemper / Zurich International pointed out that as a result of Europe's more «rigid» (that is, unionized) labor markets, «If France or Germany had enjoyed America's success in reducing unemployment, their trade union movements would be pushing up wages aggressively and setting the stage for a monetary tightening to slow down the economy's growth rate.»

The only things you have to provide are ventilation to make sure there's air movement, labor input to be able to make sure the plants are growing, and water — which is a new challenge for legal operators in California.

There would still need to be movement of labor, because a huge number of EU citizens work in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Lens, a Chicago - based labor leader and activist in peace and radical movements, is the author of a number of books, including, most recently, The Promise and Pitfalls of Revolution.

His part of Switzerland had been heavily under the influence of Ragaz of Zurich, the blazing prophet of social Christianity who, like his friend Walter Rauschenbusch, saw in the labor movement the greatest single contemporary salient of the advancing kingdom of God.

By the time things simmered down, Brooklyn's inner - city schools were in considerably worse shape, white liberals had become accustomed to making excuses for black violence, and the old alliances between the civil - rights movement, on the one hand, and the American labor movement and organized American Jewry, on the other, had been put under severe strain.

We must construct new models, new pageantry, new hymns, new forms of prayer, new anthems of praise, new dramatizations, in which, for example, the labor movement may be caught up in the embrace of religion, the peace movement, the civic conscience, the community spirit, the family and every great aspiration of our time.

One factor that helped produce a labor force for the industrial revolution in England was the enclosure movement.

Congressman Henry Hyde, that lion of pro-life, has characterized the movement as one of the most admirable in history since those who labor in this cause reap absolutely no material gain from its success.

The labor movement that might have shared his Social Gospel vision — the Knights of Labor — died before he rose to prominence in socialist cirlabor movement that might have shared his Social Gospel vision — the Knights of Labor — died before he rose to prominence in socialist cirLabor — died before he rose to prominence in socialist circles.

In 1989 the U.S. hosted Lech Walesa, leader of the former Solidarity labor movement and the newly elected president of Poland.

But one of the great divisions in liberalism was that between organized labor and the churches that were the heirs of the social gospel movement.