Sentences with phrase «largest labor union»

Today the NEA has grown into the largest professional organization and largest labor union in the United States.

«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.

Rice has the backing of much of the Democratic establishment, including McCarthy (D - Mineola), the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and several large labor unions.

The president of the country's largest labor union told delegates at her organization's annual gathering that they would not work with the Trump administration because the president and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos could not be trusted to do what is in the best interests of children.

New York's large labor unions helped co-found the WFP and have bank - rolled the party for decades as a valuable voice to pressure lawmakers to back policies to help working people.

The amount — culled from nearly 500 contributions, including several from large labor unions — comes as few other potential district attorney candidates in either major party have started fundraising in earnest.

The head of the nation's largest labor union says Republican efforts to restrain the power of unions has produced a middle - class backlash across the country that could cost Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and other GOP politicians their jobs.

All those needs can be met if more funding and legislative attention were dedicated to helping struggling schools like Travis, according to advocates Austin Voices for Education and Youth and the district's largest labor union Education Austin.

National Education Association: The NEA is the largest professional organization and largest labor union in the US, representing public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staff and colleges and universities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become teachers.

It included representatives of large labor unions and businesses, but Solomon said the recommendations were unanimous.

Greece's largest labor union, the GSEE, has called a general strike for May 17 to protest the latest austerity package.

The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, the largest labor union representing NYPD cops, has slashed the number of «get out of jail free» cards it hands out to 20 from 30 for current cops and to 10 from 20 for retired police officers, the New York Post reports.

With widespread support from a broad and diverse coalition of progressive New Yorkers, the New York Times, the state's largest labor union, 1199 / SEIU United Healthcare East and the largest private - sector union, 32BJ and Citizen Action, momentum is growing for Schneiderman's campaign to be the state's next Attorney General.

1199SEIU has over 400,000 members throughout Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and Florida and is affiliated the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) which has over 2 million members — making it the largest labor union in North America.

Some of Connecticut's largest labor unions, displeased that Democrats voted for a budget deal that cuts spending instead of raising taxes on the rich, are boycotting the party's big fundraising dinner this week.

In 2013, the city's largest labor union, Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union, placed a risky bet on Bill de Blasio, offering a unanimous endorsement early in the crowded Democratic primary.

The president of one of the largest labor unions to endorse Sanders, CWA, says it's time to rally behind Clinton and keep Trump out of the White House at all costs.

The governor must decide whether he'd rather alienate the state's wealthiest residents, newspaper editorial boards, and fiscal conservatives by agreeing to an Obama - style tax increase for the well - heeled, or stick it to his own party members in the Legislature and the state's largest labor unions.

«You have the largest labor unions in the room who also have been our biggest funders arguing Cynthia should not get the W.F.P. line, which is a pretty forceful argument coming from your biggest funders,» said one participant, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private meeting and for fear of angering Mr. Cuomo.

The allegations against Kellner and continued fallout prompted the loss of powerful endorsements, including some from other prominent politicians and one of the city's largest labor unions.

Ms. Lynch has the endorsements of the Working Families Party and larger labor unions, including 32BJ SEIU, the Building and Constructions Trade Council, and another Teamsters local, but Mr. Grodenchik is the Queens Democratic Party's candidate.

The largest labor union in the state, 1199 SEIU, announced its support Wednesday for Cuomo's bid for a third term.

The deficit number could also go up depending on the outcome of contract negotiations with Westchester's largest labor union, the Civil Service Employee's Association.

Then there is County Executive Mike Hein, Senator Larkin, Senator Tkaczyk, Assemblyman Skartados, Assemblyman Pete Lopez, County Comptroller Auerbach, the Ulster County Legislature, Mayor Gallo, town supervisors from across Ulster County, CSEA — the County's largest labor union — and the editorial boards of every major newspaper in the Hudson Valley all standing together in agreement that Kevin Cahill needs to fix what he has broken.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — In a special session Thursday afternoon, the Onondaga County legislature approved retroactive pay raises for the county's largest labor union.

Those negotiations have already begun between the city and two of its largest labor unions, the United Federation of Teachers and DC 37, de Blasio and Office of Labor Relations Commissioner Bob Linn said Thursday.

As NEA president, he leads the nation's largest labor union and advocate for quality public schools.

Seventeen years and a host of education reforms separate public declarations by its highest - ranking officials that the nation's largest labor union should become a leader of education reform.

The pressure has been intense enough to prompt some notable defections in the National Education Association, the largest labor union in the U.S., whose president is lobbying state chapters to line up behind Clinton when the organization considers an endorsement at a leadership gathering that was to start Thursday.

On Sept. 1, Lily Eskelsen García becomes president of the National Education Association, the largest labor union in the country.

Hillary Rodham Clinton told the president of the National Education Association that she would listen to teachers if elected president, a simple promise Monday that impressed the president of the nation's largest labor union.

In three weeks, she will take over as head of the nation's largest labor union, representing 3 million educators.

Hillary Clinton addressed the National Education Association — the country's largest labor union — on July 5, and while there was plenty of applause, there were some boos as well.

Eskelsen García, who started her education career as a cafeteria worker before becoming the 1989 Utah Teacher of the Year, is serving her third year as president of the nation's largest labor union.

The Representative Assembly is the annual conference for the NEA, the nation's largest labor union, which gathers each summer to set its political agenda for the coming year.

In the summer of 2015, the National Education Association passed a resolution committing the nation's largest labor union to fighting institutional racism.

Speaking to more than 7,000 members of the largest labor union in the United States, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said, «It is time to stop focusing on, quote, failing schools.

Officials at the National Education Association, the nation's largest labor union, said they're glad to see absenteeism in rating systems, as long as those systems are used to help identify schools for extra support and not to punish them.

In her more than 40 years in the education system, Garcia, 61, has gone from lunch lady to the highest - ranking Latina woman in labor — rising through the ranks of education to serve as the president of the National Education Association, the largest labor union in the United States.

The president of the country's largest labor union, Lily Eskelsen García of the National Education Association, told delegates at her organization's annual gathering that they would not work with the Trump administration because the president and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos could not be trusted to do what is in the best interests of children.

California teacher Rebecca Friedrichs and nine of her fellow educators are being vilified by executives of the country's largest labor unions — including the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers.

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.