Sentences with phrase «labor rights activist»

1817: Welsh manufacturer and labor rights activist Robert Owen coins the phrase «Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest,» dividing the day into three equal eight - hour parts.

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Over the past decade, it has funded the right's assault on labor unions, climate scientists, public schools, economic regulations, and the very premise of activist government.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma González and civil - rights activist and organized - labor icon Dolores Huerta are among those being celebrated at the annual Diversity Honors on Friday, April 27, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in...

School food is a civil rights issue, and a labor activist like Jeremiah Lowery who draws on a long family history of civil rights struggle gets that.

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.

Calling her one of the best friends the UFT has ever had, UFT President Michael Mulgrew motivated a resolution honoring Dr. Annie B. Martin, the longtime president of the New York City NAACP, posthumously for her work in the labor and civil rights movements over her long, activist lifetime.

The thorny issue pitted animal rights activists — who relentlessly opposed Mr. de Blasio's main rival for the Democratic nomination for mayor in 2013, former Council Speaker Christine Quinn — against organized labor, since the horse drivers are represented by the Teamsters.

Allen Roskoff — President of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club; legendary gay rights activist Judd Krasher — Albany City Councilmember, 11th Ward Doug Bullock — Albany County Legislator, 7th Legislative District; First Vice-President of the Albany Central Federation of Labor

Indigenous groups, labor, youth, scientists, food justice and clean water activists, religious groups, and civil rights organizations joined environmental groups in calling on world leaders attending the UN Climate Summit in New York this Tuesday to start taking real action to halt climate disruption.

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While conservative activists have offered many general, unreferenced assertions about CPP compliance costs, as far as I am aware, only three papers have been published by the Right laboring to make those assertions more concrete.

Fernando's father, César Chavez (March 31, 1927 — April 23, 1993) was a Mexican American labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers.

The raised fist became a go - to symbol for solidarity and strength for labor unions, American leftists, civil rights activists, white supremacists, and the Black Panther Party.