Sentences with phrase «largest labor group»

Membership is slipping for the NEA, the country's largest labor group, which has lost more than 7 percent of its members since 2009, reducing its rolls to fewer than 3 million.

The Transport Workers Union, the largest labor group for MTA employees, has released several unflattering ads against the mayor, rapping him for not doing enough.

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«I think it's too early to make any judgments on what I would call the very short opening statement, and we'll see what happens as we go forward,» Gerard told reporters at a conference of the BlueGreen Alliance, a coalition of large labor unions and environmental groups.

The world's largest retailer raised wages for its hourly workers to $ 10 per hour earlier this year, but labor groups have called the raise inadequate.

This group — America's most diverse and educated generation — also is the largest in the U.S. labor force.

One of our founders is Edway Group Ltd., one the largest labor - hire companies in Australia, so we know exactly what the market needs and how to achieve it.»

A number of organized labor groups have lined up to provide early endorsements to Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he seeks a third term this fall and faces a new primary challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon, with the latest nod coming from the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1500, New York's largest supermarket workers union.

A coalition of labor unions, religious groups, and others are urging Governor Cuomo and the legislature to close what they say are loopholes in the law that protect large corporations from paying their fair share of taxes.

Congratulations also goes to the large coalition of labor unions, business groups, transit and environmental advocates and good government groups that supported passage of the bill this session, and identical bills in 2011.

Opposition to the convention has been fueled this year in large part by labor unions and environmental groups who worry about the consequences of opening up the constitution.

In recent days and weeks, the incumbent has also rolled out a smaller stream of trades groups, uniformed labor and smaller chapters of larger organization, clearly an effort to show his strength among blue - collar voters.

It's questionable as to whether large - scale potential customers, such as big labor groups and political organizations such as Organizing for Action would consider using Organizer if it served both sides.

So far, Shafran has collected endorsements from several labor groups, including the Teamsters Joint Council 16 and UFCW Local 1500, one of the state's largest grocery workers union.

New York Jobs Now was just one of several ballot referendum committees supporting casino expansion in New York, but with its support from labor groups and casino companies, it was easily the largest and most significant when it came to media purchases, phone banking and GOTV.

The union represents about 50,000 workers and is the second largest public - workers labor group in the state.

The CWA is among Sanders» largest backers among organized labor groups.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Wisconsin will no longer be obligated to bargain with its largest public employee unions after the weakened labor groups decided Thursday against seeking recertification votes in the state that was the forefront in this year's fight over union rights.

Those Democratic committees have accepted large checks from special interest groups that routinely lobby the Legislature, including insurance companies, defense contractors, oil companies and labor unions.

A large coalition of environmental, labor, and business groups had pushed the Senate to include such a measure, known as an RES, in its so - called Spill Bill (pdf), a response to the Deepwater Horizon well blowout.

So the challenge of — even though we welcome the groups that are participating and we need the labor so that's definitely encouraged, but the challenge of coordinating all that and getting it into one coordinated response is a very large one.

As Senators of the Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee debated federal education policy at an abbreviated hearing Wednesday morning, two coalitions of education and civil rights groups released letters poking holes in the bill while the nation's two largest teachers» unions released notes containing partial endorsements.

But the Connecticut Education Association, the state's largest teachers» union and a coalition member, expressed relief that the state is challenging Moukawsher, a reflection of the disparate views likely to emerge from a group that includes labor and management.

Information is derived from a web - based review of relevant literature as well as focus groups and surveys involving 1,400 parents of youth with and without disabilities and 526 school personnel in ten schools across four states as part of a larger five year study of ILPs sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy.

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• As a rule, weddings are not allowed on the Gulf Shores public beaches from Spring Break through Labor Day weekend, especially if a large group is expected.

The portrait paintings, of which there were five (three of solitary visages, one bearing two heads, and one comprising a group of four severely discombobulated busts), were either medium or large in scale, and constituted the most labor - intensive, complex, and accomplished works in the show.

The two largest paintings in the show and the namesakes for the exhibition, Trickland I and Trickland II, show respectively a group of women and a group of men hunched over, while performing mysterious manual labor on a miniature landscape.

Kevin Rudd's announced changes to the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme has again split the climate movement, and this time it's very serious, with three large, rusted - onto - Labor groups providing cover for an appalling policy that won't guarantee a reduction in Australia's emissions for decades.

The state Democratic Party, Fuse (a large statewide progressive group), the Washington State Labor Council, and Front and Centered have come out in opposition.

Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, Hendricks said the «jobs versus the environment» battle pervaded his policy work — first as a special assistant to then - Vice President Al Gore, and later as an economic analyst at the Working for America Institute, an economic group tied to the AFL - CIO, the nation's largest labor union.

At the time of our calls most juniors were in the large business & commercial litigation (BCL) group; a couple were in product liability; and there was one apiece in criminal defense, employment & labor law, and government affairs.

In London, Fred has participated in a mock arbitration of a New York State Labor Law case, at Xchanging, a mock trial of a tractor - trailer accident, and a symposium on litigation at the Lloyd's Library all presented to large groups of claims professionals, underwriters and brokers.

Dinsmore's Labor & Employment Practice Group is one of the largest in the region.

The Labor & Employment Practice Group is one of the largest global labor and employment practices in the world with lawyers located in offices throughout Europe, Asia Pacific, the US and Latin AmeLabor & Employment Practice Group is one of the largest global labor and employment practices in the world with lawyers located in offices throughout Europe, Asia Pacific, the US and Latin Amelabor and employment practices in the world with lawyers located in offices throughout Europe, Asia Pacific, the US and Latin America.

Smaller firms tend to focus on particular specialties of the law (e.g. patent law, labor law, tax law, criminal defense, personal injury); larger firms may be composed of several specialized practice groups, allowing the firm to diversify their client base and market, and to offer a variety of services to their clients.

Investopedia [2] defines Group Life Insurance as «Life insurance offered by an employer or large - scale entity (i.e. association or labor organization) to its workers or members.

Organizations depend on small or large groups of individuals — each related to one another through a division of labor, with each person's work intended to contribute to achieving the organization's overall goals.

As medical assistants, being near larger groups of people means there will be more employers and more need for your labor.

In anticipation of the President's FY 18 Budget, over 60 of the nation's largest and most prominent human rights, women's rights, and labor rights advocacy groups signed on to a letter outlining the bare minimum required for this budget to reflect «women's empowerment»: Read the full letter here.