It also prohibits secret harassment settlements involving state officials, and directs
state labor officials to create a new standard for sexual harassment policies for private companies.
Given the alternative,
labor officials see an easy choice in de Blasio, even as they work to manage expectations, should he get elected.
One top
labor official said John Samuelsen, the president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, was beefing with Mr. de Blasio simply because the mayor's Vision Zero initiative initially forced bus drivers to automatically face misdemeanor charges if they injured or killed pedestrians crossing with the light in their favor.
On Monday, Department
of Labor officials claimed Google, who is a federal contractor, systematically pays female workers less than their male colleagues.
Mr. Recchia campaigned with Ms. Savino today at a roundtable
with labor officials on Staten Island, but has not appeared at an event with the mayor since the two attended a closed - door Democratic Party dinner on Staten Island in March.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A Syracuse
labor official chided Mayor Stephanie Miner on Monday for not using her bully pulpit to publicly call out Sen. John DeFrancisco and other opponents of the proposed $ 15 an hour minimum wage.
Citizens Union announced it prefers both Dale Smiterman, a
former labor official, who is challenging Sampson, as well as Leroy Comrie, who is Smith's opponent.
Jennifer Cunningham, a top New York political consultant who is close to AG Eric Schneiderman, (actually, she used to be married to him), was scheduled to meet with Trump at Trump Tower today along with several other
top labor officials.
In Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital, sourcing agents check in daily with political and
labor officials who can offer warnings about demonstrations that could shut down production.
Trade and
labor officials put FTA partners on notice that the U.S. would monitor their labor rights performance.
Cuomo has
told labor officials to gather input on the practice of scheduling retail and other workers with short notice.
Elected officials, Nassau Democratic political leaders and
labor officials joined her along with about 250 people.
HARTFORD — After questioning UConn and
labor officials for more than two hours Tuesday afternoon, the legislature's Appropriations Committee remained divided when it came to supporting a five - year contract between the University of Connecticut and the school's largest union that calls for pay raises...
The
longtime labor official is running for New York State Senate for the 31st District, where she has a shot at becoming the first Dominican woman to serve as State Senator.
ALBANY, NY (01/20/2009)(readMedia)-- «This rule will have a profound impact on the working lives of thousands of public employees and it will save lives,» CSEA President Danny Donohue told state Department of
Labor officials today about a proposed DOL rule that would require public employers to put in place workplace violence prevention programs to protect their workers.
A well
known labor official, in an unsolicited call, dubbed it untrue Gianaris is looking to sabotage a deal with the independent Democrats.
Hunter currently has two major Democratic challengers for re-election — retired Navy SEAL Josh Butner and Ammar Campa - Najjar, a former Department of
Labor official in the Obama administration.
According to today's Sun, in late May Spitzer assembled a group of powerful D.C. -
based labor officials at the Manhattan office of his father's real - estate firm (where he's been working) and pitched them the idea of raising money to start «flipping» distressed real - estate assets.
Norman Seabrook, the president of the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association and a nationally
recognized labor official, civic leader and reformer, said to Feerick: «As a community district leader for many years, you have demonstrated a strong commitment to fighting for affordable housing, to creating a better education system, quality health care, and achieving economic stability.
DeFrancisco ridiculed a challenge issued Friday morning by the Central New York Fight for $ 15 Coalition, a group of
local labor officials and others, who said DeFrancisco should try to live on minimum wage for a week.
Labor officials Friday revised job growth upward in March to 154,000 from 120,000 previously reported, but that didn't change the overall picture: The economy is advancing but at a frustratingly slow pace.
Wages have stagnated as more South Floridians have retired with lower incomes, economists and state
labor officials say.
San Diego County unemployment in March hit its lowest level since December 1999, said
state labor officials and local analysis.
«That $ 25,000 was probably the best money I've ever spent, because I got to talk to the governor,» the
former labor official, Eugene Caccamise, told the station.
Speaking
with labor officials, which included Gary LaBarbera, a key Cuomo ally at the Building and Trades Council, the governor suggested the outcome of the 421a debate could have national implications for labor leaders.
The San Diego region added 27,100 jobs in a year, said state
labor officials.
«I feel he has the position and the platform where she can do so much, and push it over the edge, and get it passed,»
the labor official said.
Asked about the faltering talks between transit and
labor officials, Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier today urged «fairness» in the ongoing talks in order to avoid a strike on the Long Island Rail Road.
CITY HALL — Mayor Bill de Blasio's meeting with police union leaders on Tuesday was «productive» but ended with «no resolve» after two and half hours, city and
labor officials said.
Curran announced her candidacy in November and has coalesced support from county and state lawmakers and
labor officials.
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider limiting the power of government employee unions to collect fees from non-members in a case that
labor officials say could threaten membership and further weaken union clout.
But advocates,
some labor officials and Democratic lawmakers in the state Senate have become increasingly uneasy with the changes as their regulations are being considered.
John G. Rowland, according to
a labor official.
While some of de Blasio's supporters have high expectations about what a Democrat in Gracie Mansion could mean for a progressive policy agenda wish list,
labor officials are taking a more measured approach.