Sentences with phrase «labor rally»

About 1,000 members of the UFT and 1199 SEIU marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on June 14 to join a thousands - strong labor rally at City Hall, protesting Mayor Bloomberg's proposed budget cuts and layoffs.

Education historian Diane Ravitch says the teachers on the front lines of labor rallies in Wisconsin reflect growing anger among educators nationwide.

In June, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, the wage board's chairman and a longtime Cuomo ally, said he and his fellow members clearly believed «a substantial» increase was needed to bring fast food workers up the economic ladder — despite persistent opposition from the business community, which often found itself drowned out at public hearings that served more or less as labor rallies.

«In the 60th District, our members indicated that they believed Amber Small would be a fighter for public education and organized labor rallied on her behalf,» Korn said.

Community & Labor Rally in NYC on Sunday to Protect Saturday Mail Delivery and Strengthen the Postal Service Friday March 22, 2013 at 12:07 pm

Hillary Clinton at a labor rally at The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on March 2, 2016 in New York City.

The measure is part of Cuomo's $ 154 billion budget proposal that is due to pass by March 31, but the governor said after a labor rally for the wage that it's a matter of policy that could wait until after the spending plan is approved.

«Each hearing that this wage board had really became a labor rally,» said Durant, who said the Governor, and his Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, who spoke at one of the rallies «embraced it».

Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a labor rally, announcing a plan to get a wage hike to $ 15 an hour for fast - food workers, Thursday, May 7, 2015, in New York.

On Thursday, Cuomo presented just that sort of plan during a labor rally at the Javits Center.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration formally approved the increase Thursday, a move the Democratic governor announced at a labor rally with Vice President Joe Biden.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a labor rally, announcing a plan to get a wage hike to $ 15 an hour for fast - food workers on Thursday, May 7, 2015.

American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, who headed New York City's teachers» union before taking the national post, wouldn't take sides when confronted by reporters at a labor rally in Albany Wednesday.

This includes a series of drawings inspired by historic political graphics of women, photographs she has taken at labor rallies and her photo - realistic drawings of activists.

Before it was retired and replaced in 1927 by the electric chair, the gallows was used in at least 40 hangings, beginning with those of four of eight men convicted in the deaths of eight police officers during an 1886 labor rally in Haymarket Square.