Sentences with phrase «larger union effort»

But it can contribute in a positive way to the larger union effort, and in some cases — when elections are close — it can even be pivotal.

Not exact matches

Indiana is the latest Midwestern state where Republicans have pushed though anti-labor legislation even as the efforts have drawn large protests by union backers and spawned recall efforts.

Indiana is the latest Midwestern state where Republicans have pushed labor legislation with safe voting margins even as the efforts have drawn large protests by union backers and spawned recall efforts.

At a Manhattan news conference, the Democratic attorney general praised Duffy's efforts to consolidate agencies and bring mayoral control of schools to New York's third - largest city over the objection of teachers unions.

A state Elections Board enforcement counsel accused de Blasio and his aides of funneling large contributions from unions and other donors through county Democratic committees to three State Senate candidates upstate in 2014 in an unsuccessful party effort to retake control from Republicans.

-- New York City poised to join Airbnb crackdown effort backed by hotels, unions, by POLITICO's Sally Goldenberg: New York's City Council is plotting a crackdown on Airbnb, the largest home - sharing platform in the world, as the hotel industry and its unionized workers push lawmakers in some of the nation's biggest cities to blunt the $ 30 billion company's growth.

In a short interview today, Brynien said his efforts have saved jobs, even in the face of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's successful efforts to wring concessions from the state's second - largest public employees union.

A pair of police reform measures vigorously opposed by New York City's largest officers union is moving toward passage in the City Council, a last - ditch effort by its departing speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, who has staked her legacy on criminal justice reform.

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

«The members of New York's largest health care workers union, 1199 SEIU, appreciate his efforts.

Days after a Times Union report on Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan's ramped up attempts to garner more financial contributions from the city's large nonprofits amid tax - exempt institutions» growth, Albany Medical Center Chief Officer James Barba renewed his effort to encourage other large entities to help.

While the exact details of the coalition's effort, including who will spend what and how, are still unclear, «there's a sense that most of the large unions are on board with this same strategy» of not donating to the SRCC, Finnegan said.

Two of the largest efforts are the Human Microbiome Project, funded by the National Institutes of Health (See «Your Microbial Menagerie,» page 4), and the European Union's Metagenomics of the Human Intestinal Tract.

China could both benefit from the lessons of earlier efforts, such as Europe's flagship carbon market — the world's largest, known as the European Union Emissions Trading System, or ETS.

The largest single assistance programme in nuclear safety, the Prime Minister said, is that of the European Union, through which much of Britain's contribution to the international effort is now directed.

The largest multi-stakeholder effort, the European Union's Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) began in 2008 and has established more than 40 consortia with financial and in - kind investments totaling $ 2 billion.

SKA was first conceived in 90s at the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) which established the Large Telescope Working Group to begin a worldwide effort to develop the scientific goals and technical specifications for a next generation radio observatory.

A major new school - reform effort in Maryland ignores the needs of teachers and denigrates their efforts, the head of the state's largest teachers» union charged last week.

And even when turnout is not pivotal to the outcome, it is clearly a resource that works to the unions» advantage, contributing to their larger effort to control electoral outcomes.

A law the Legislature passed last spring was more modest than previous proposals, but the state's largest teachers union, the Washington Education Association (WEA), launched an effort to get rid of it.

The president of Washington's largest teachers» union said the effort had one other positive result: fruitful collaboration between the governor, the Legislature, parents, other education advocacy groups, local school districts and the Washington Education Association, representing teachers.

An effort between school districts and the state's largest teachers union to collaborate has unraveled following Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to curtail public employee collective bargaining.

While those three groups spearheaded the effort, consultants from the nation's two largest teachers unions, members from ACT and the College Board, education experts from 48 states (including Mississippi), and 10,000 public comments all played a role in the final standards, published in 2009.

The nation's two largest teachers unions are certainly doing their best to triangulate and beat back Parent Power movements and other school reform efforts.

Large teachers unions that once backed the effort have now reversed their position.

Earlier this week, the LA Weekly honed in on the outsized influence California's largest teachers union is perceived to have on education policy issues, including recent efforts to speed the removal of sexual predators from the classroom.

At the same time, Connecticut has one of the nation's largest academic achievement gaps, and Governor Malloy has faced pushback from teachers unions on his efforts surrounding teacher evaluation.»

It was part of a larger undertaking on the part of the district and the union to see one another not as adversaries, but as permanent partners in an effort to keep St. Louis schools viable and on a path of academic improvement.

The lawsuit is part of a growing effort to use litigation to overcome union opposition to changes in the way teachers in the nation's second - largest school district are assigned, retained, evaluated and granted tenure.

The variation in union strength identified in recent literature, the new policy experiments occurring in states across the country, and the sheer availability of large administrative datasets that link individual students to teachers in school across the country now allow a new field of highly focused questions that link educational outcomes to rules, regulations and conditions directly attributable to union efforts.

By ALAN J. BORSUK Posted: June 20, 2005 The nation's largest teachers union and a partner organization on Monday announced a $ 500,000 grant to support efforts in Milwaukee to close achievement gaps between racial minority students and white students and between low - income students and others.

«The Koch brothers would be proud, Jonathan Pelto for your efforts to undermine the largest union in the state, and Connecticut teachers» strongest voice in the policy arena.

The CEA's efforts to push legislation to phase out the Common Core SBAC testing system is important and appreciated but Connecticut's students, parents and teachers also need the state's largest union to take a public and unequivocal position in support of parents and their fundamental right to opt their children out of the Common Core testing scam.

Over the past three years, the nation's second - largest teachers» union poured $ 650,000 into the Clinton Global Initiative, the non-explicitly political wing of the Clinton family's political efforts, and $ 500,000 into the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

Friedrichs is challenging California's largest teachers union on First Amendment grounds, arguing, in part, that mandatory union dues deny individual members the right of free speech through lobbying efforts and campaign contributions that don't necessarily comport with the views of all union members.

Due in large part to the efforts of Pierre Jay, a central banker, and Edward Felene, a merchant and philanthropist from Boston, the first credit union in the United States was chartered in 1909.

«With large quantities of hope and trepidation, I will be following the efforts of art workers, including artists, to create and strengthen unions and other forms of collective bargaining.

All efforts of Free Cooper Union work to establish the foundation of a new chapter at our college and in society at large - one that will uphold the principles that allow education to be «as free as air and water», in a long term sustainable, and socially conscious manner.

With its current headquarters in the town of Waco, Texas, AIL has no grown to serve over 2 million policy holders across the United States, and have become one of the top providers of life insurance in the supplemental arena, focusing their efforts heavily on credit unions, labor organizations, and large scale associations.