Sentences with phrase «led by labor»

While opposition forces, led by labor unions, have already begun to spend sizeable sums of money to encourage a «no» vote, it is unclear how rising populist sentiments indicated in last year's presidential election — especially through the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump — may factor in.

A coalition of groups — led by labor unions, environmental groups and conservative organizations — has formed to oppose the constitutional convention.

Their demands were anathema to the two ultra-Orthodox parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism, which will now sit in a 52 - strong Knesset opposition led by the Labor party.

Although revenues for the group rose 3.8 percent, expenses rose further, up 8.1 percent, led by labor (up 8.1 percent) and fuel (up 17 percent).

Not exact matches

• Wonolo, a San Francisco - based staffing platform enabling businesses to fill their immediate labor needs, raised $ 13 million in a Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital.

Smith wrote that an individual laboring in his own interest is «led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

Significant capital underspend was a feature of Western Power management under the Labor governments led by premiers Gallop and Carpenter.

In the decade leading up to the last lockout, the average NHL salary increased by more than three times, totalling $ 1.83 million for the 2003 - 04 season, according to a 2005 article in the journal Monthly Labor Review.

One was in the decade leading up to the late - 1960's, which was driven by a legitimate expansion in the productivity of U.S. workers, as measured the capacity of labor to produce output.

But as NISA's website notes, Australia's government is in caretaker mode pending the outcome of the July 2 federal election, in which a Liberal / National coalition led by Turnbull faces the Labor party led by Bill Shorten.

In Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, Infosys ranked first with 6,269 H - 1B petitions approved by the government, and Tata ranked second with 6,193... these leading offshore outsourcing firms use the H - 1B program to replace American workers and to facilitate the offshoring of American jobs... they don't use the H - 1B visa as a way to alleviate a shortage of STEM - educated U.S. workers; they use it primarily to cut labor costs.»

The producer - price index, reflecting how much firms pay for everything from paper to trucks, rose a seasonally adjusted 0.4 % from November, led by a jump in energy costs, the Labor Department said Wednesday.

Her resourcefulness as an advocate has been significant on many issues, most recently in the long process leading to the fiduciary rule adopted by the Department of Labor.

With the grants, «we are joining forces with leading social innovators to fuel the pursuit of a more equitable and efficient labor market,» according to ablog posted today by Jacqueline Fuller, President of Google.org, and Kathleen McLaughlin, President, Walmart Foundation.

NELP is working with allies to ensure accountability by lead companies that structure their businesses without responsibility for their workers, by drafting legislation, enforcing broadly scoped labor and employment laws, and promoting employer best practices.

Increased recognition of the accomplishments of the Middle Ages (including the birth of engineering, social benefits such as universities, hospitals and the beginnings of corporations and labor guilds, as well as science, (all under the Catholic Church) has led to the label being restricted in application or avoided by serious historians.

Clinton's Israeli ties were with the secular Labor Party, led by Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, not with the conservative Likud Party.

All You Who Labor By Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski Sophia, 191 pages, $ 16.95 These reflections on work and the sanctification of everyday life by the late primate of Poland (d. 1981) had a significant influence on Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement that led to the collapse of communisBy Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski Sophia, 191 pages, $ 16.95 These reflections on work and the sanctification of everyday life by the late primate of Poland (d. 1981) had a significant influence on Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement that led to the collapse of communisby the late primate of Poland (d. 1981) had a significant influence on Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement that led to the collapse of communism.

The main biblical evidence is (1) the stories of the creation (Gen.I: 26 - 27 with 5:1 - 2; 2:18 - 25) and the fall (3:16 - 20); (2) Jesus» respect for women, whom he consistently treated as men's equals (Luke 8:1 - 3; 10:38 - 42; 11:28 - 28; 13:10 - 17; 21:1 - 4; Mark 5:22 - 42; John 4:7 - 38; 8:3 - 11; 12:1 - 8; (3) references to women ministering in the apostolic church by prophesying, leading in prayer, teaching, practicing Samaritanship both informally and as widows and deacons, and laboring in the gospel with Apostles (Acts 2:17 - 21; 9:36 - 42; 18:24 - 26; 21:9 Rom.

Rice and the commissioner are joined by Newsome, Ravens team president Dick Cass, NFL lead counsel Jeff Pash and NFL VP for labor relations Adolpho Birch.

On the other hand, serious dehydration can have a devastating impact during and after pregnancy by leading to neural tube defects, low amniotic fluid levels, premature labor, and low breastmilk production.

Led by Marisa Fujinaka and Cordelia Herman, the class offers women in all stages of pregnancy an opportunity to strengthen, lengthen, relieve tension and prepare their minds and bodies for labor and delivery.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

Labor can be intense and you might be intimidated by it leading up to the experience.

It teaches women to cope with labor pain by learning to exercise conscious control over posture and movement and by re-educating the body to replace poor postural positions that may be leading to tension with those of release.

OT but its a bit of an SOS for a woman in a cesarean by choice group I run — she's 34 weeks in the Toronto area and her Dr has been leading her on — she wants an elective CS, has from the start and the Dr is basically forcing her into a trial of labor.

The Labor Progress Handbook By Penny Simkin The focus of this book is to understand how laboring women, their partners, doulas and care providers can help avoid the cascade of intervention due to dystocia (difficult or abnormal labor) which often leads to a cesarean bLabor Progress Handbook By Penny Simkin The focus of this book is to understand how laboring women, their partners, doulas and care providers can help avoid the cascade of intervention due to dystocia (difficult or abnormal labor) which often leads to a cesarean blabor) which often leads to a cesarean birth.

An additional study of 1,014 women conducted by different authors demonstrated that using the same criteria in women with spontaneous labor or induced labor would lead to a significantly higher proportion of women achieving vaginal delivery with no increase in neonatal complications (24).

Some medications can speed up labor pains and lead to fetal distress in babies by slowing down their heart rate.

This class is led by Jill Birt who spent the last 15 years as a labor and deliver nurse before stepping in to her roll as our prenatal yoga specialist and teacher.

After years of setbacks and declining membership nationally, labor groups were seen as being on the offensive in the last year with successful efforts in some states to increase the minimum wage to $ 15 — a major union - led effort that initially began by focusing on fast food restaurants.

The bill had leadership juice behind it: it was sponsored in the Assembly by Herman «Denny» Farrell, D - Manhattan, the Assembly Ways & Means chairman, and co-sponsored in the Senate by John DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse, the Finance Committee chairman, and Diane Savino, D - Staten Island, who is both a close ally of labor unions and a leading member of the Independent Democratic Coalition.

Demonstrators, led by filmmaker Michael Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Robert De Niro and Sally Field, crowded in front of Trump International Hotel and Tower to speak about a variety of issues including health care, labor rights, climate change and protection for immigrants, lesbians and gays.

The potential endorsement of Cynthia Nixon in the race for governor by the Working Families Party is leading some labor leaders to consider forming their own ballot line this fall, sources with direct knowledge of the talks on Thursday said.

As he gears up for another re-election campaign, Rep. Charlie Rangel has hired some high - priced talent, including Metropolitan Strategies, the consulting firm led by Neal Kwatra, an experienced labor operative; Mercury Public Affairs (for poling) and Marathon Strategies (for oppo).

Sugarman, who was appointed by Gov. Cuomo, wrote that the effort on behalf of the Dems was led by de Blasio and his team and included a group of influential political consultants and labor unions close to the mayor, the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, several of the candidates who were helped, and the Ulster County and Putnam County Democratic committees.

Opponents of the constitutional convention, led by the state's major labor unions, say the event would have been too dangerous.

The study, announced on Equal Pay Day, will be led by Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul and state Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon.

«I want to thank the unprecedented alliance of elected officials, led by Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio, as well as the representatives of organized labor and New York's advocacy groups, for campaigning so effectively that the will of the people be properly recognized,» she said.

Led by New Yorkers for Clean Livable and Streets, also known as NYCLASS, the activists and council members at the press conference expressed optimism that the legislation would ultimately pass the City Council next spring and become law, despite the opposition of organized labor and a sizable number of council members.

In a statement, Stewart - Cousins thanked the «unprecedented alliance of elected officials, led by Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio, as well as the representatives of organized labor and New York's advocacy groups, for campaigning so effectively that the will of the people be properly recognized.»

«Instead of reaching out to union leaders to gain consensus on an affordable housing program that ensures middle - class wages for workers, (de Blasio) coordinated with a lobbying group — led by billionaire developers — to run an anti-union campaign that would lead to unsafe job sites and a low - wage workforce,» The Greater New York Laborers - Employers Cooperation and Education Trust and the New York City and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Corporation said in a joint statement.

Slightly over half of eligible Labor Party primary voters cast ballots in the party's leadership primaries by the time polls closed at 10 p.m. Thursday, already leading to worries in Yachimovich's camp that the low turnout could unseat her.

While Cuomo himself stayed for the most part silent on the amendment's passage, the effort to promote the referendum was led by NY Jobs Now, a coalition of labor unions and gaming operators that stood to benefit from casino approval.

Key labor unions contributed heavily to the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee as a coalition led by the Working Families Party seeks to help Democrats take full control of the chamber, filings posted on Tuesday show.

The Democratic - led Assembly previously approved the measure favored by the Fair Elections umbrella group, a coalition of labor - backed organizations and other liberal - leaning advocacy groups.

Set to testify to the Senate Labor Committee, which is chaired by potential congressional candidate Jack Martins, include labor leaders like George Gresham, the 1199 SEIU president who is leading the $ 15 minimum wage campaign named in honor of the late Gov. Mario CLabor Committee, which is chaired by potential congressional candidate Jack Martins, include labor leaders like George Gresham, the 1199 SEIU president who is leading the $ 15 minimum wage campaign named in honor of the late Gov. Mario Clabor leaders like George Gresham, the 1199 SEIU president who is leading the $ 15 minimum wage campaign named in honor of the late Gov. Mario Cuomo.

The two proposals — to create a Civil Justice Coordinator and an Office of Labor — were just two of the expansive ideas trumpeted by Ms. Mark - Viverito in her first State of the City address since taking lead of the City Council over a year ago.

At a rally in Manhattan, the Democratic governor shared the stage with national labor leaders after a state wage board recommended raising the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 and hour, delivering a key victory in a national push by unions — led by Service Employees International Union — to improve the lot of (and unionize) employees at McDonald's, Burger King and other chains.

The investigation, which is being led by the U.S. Department of Labor, was revealed last month when a federal grand jury subpoena was sent to the Rockland County PEF union formerly headed by Deborah J. Lee, whose purchases first drew scrutiny within her union's ranks two years ago.