Sentences with phrase «led union efforts»

Al Shanker, the brilliant (if controversial) leader who led union efforts to win collective bargaining rights in New York City, denounced the idea of vouchers: «Without public education, there would be no America as we know it,» he cried.

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Western nations fear the Gulf rivalries playing out in Somalia could sideline their multi-billion dollar, U.N. - led efforts to build a functional Somali army to fight Shabaab before the withdrawal of African Union peacekeepers in 2020.

A drive to organize a union at a unit of Bloomberg LP has fizzled, and the employee leading the effort has been fired, Fortune has learned.

The Fight for $ 15, a worldwide effort to raise wages and strengthen unions, has successfully led to better pay in many places since its launch in 2012, and a proposed federal minimum wage of $ 15 an hour was part of the Democratic Party platform in 2016.

One recent victory for unions was in Ohio, where in November 2011, voters overturned a Republican - led effort to place restrictions on public sector unions, similar to that in Wisconsin.

Before starting the firm with Chris Burniske and Brad Burnham in 2017, he led Union Square Ventures crypto research and investment efforts.

Seriously though, regarding the recalls — The Parent Bloggers Network is leading a great effort with Consumers Union to raise awareness.

UPDATE 11/9/07 — The Parent Bloggers Network is leading a great effort with Consumers Union to protest the seemingly never - ending saga of toy recalls.

Two of the four Democrats running in NY - 6 — Assemblywoman Grace Meng and Assemblyman Rory Lancman — were endorsed by two related unions that have been leading the charge against Wal - Mart's effort to build a store in NYC.

«People are already mobilizing in New York — there's a major rally today with some of the state's leading unions and health care advocates,» Cuomo wrote in an email accompanying the video's release that also sought small - dollar donations for the state committee's effort.

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.

In its effort to unionize flight attendants at JetBlue, the Transport Workers Union has found an uncommon array of allies — top New York City and state officials led by Cuomo.

Mulgrew praised the union's political action efforts by both in - service members and retirees in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 6 elections, which he said would have a huge impact on the future of students, educators and the entire country.

A seemingly co-ordinated attempt to appeal for offside is underway, with complaints about the leading candidates» campaigning efforts and the role of the trade unions in the process.

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.

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.

Another big union spender last year was the Communication Workers of America District 1, a close ally of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who led a fundraising effort to win Democratic control of the state Senate.

An organized effort formed, led by high - profile unions and advocates that focused on the state's «botched» implementation of the Common Core rather than the standards themselves.

Mr Johnson led Labour's fight to remain in the European Union but clashed with Jeremy Corbyn, claiming that the leader's office had been «working against» the party's efforts.

Cuomo's union - backed «campaign» for a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage is billed as an effort to address economic inequality, but new TV commercials that juxtapose excerpts of Gov. Mario Cuomo's famous 1984 keynote address with Andrew Cuomo's own remarks have led senior Democrats to conclude the current governor is seeking to follow in his father's footsteps.

«As the lead community engagement partner in the Participatory Budgeting (PB) effort in NYC, Community Voices Heard was excited that Citizens Union noted its support today for innovative pilot programs such as Participatory Budgeting.

IMO is leading a European Union — funded effort called FUTUREVOLC to build a comprehensive database of local volcanic data and develop new tools — including new seismic stations, water chemistry samplers, and ground - and airplane - based ash detectors.

When the rest of the scientific world were pursuing the ideas of Mendel and developing the new science of genetics, Russia led the way in the effort to prevent the new science from being developed in the Soviet Union.

They work together with Cruelty Free International and their collective efforts helped lead to a European Union ban of non-cruelty free make - up in 2013.

The unions vigorously opposed those efforts, leading Rhee to move instead to improve the teaching force by terminating unqualified teachers.

Paul Tritter Current City: Boston Current job: Director of professional learning, Boston Teachers Union Career highlight: Leading a unique labor - management collaboration that brings the voices of teachers to an effort to improve professional learning.

To see just where union efforts lead in practical terms, one only need look at campaign finance disclosures.

The Center for Union Facts, a nonprofit, ran an ad in today's USA Today that urges parents and school reform advocates to to follow Vergara's lead and sue when teacher unions block reform efforts.

What's different here is that educators now have a respected voice in the process, and the union is leading the reform effort rather than being pulled along behind it.

Today's education reform climate seems to focus on a misguided narrative of unions as obstructionists and educators as villains, ignoring how educators and their unions are leading successful reform efforts all across the country.

«I think that because of the trigger law, how it empowered us, they are no longer dealing with the average parent that just drops off their kids at school,» said Cynthia Ramirez, leader of the Desert Trails Parent Union, the group that led the trigger effort and a parent of two children at Desert Trails.

The Desert Trails parents organized a parent union and led an effort to educate parents.

This flood of legislation, along with new rules in many states allowing for more charter schools, pioneering union contracts in several cities and a state - led effort to rewrite the nation's academic standards, have made this spring a watershed period, said Jon Schnur, an education adviser to the Obama campaign who helped design Race to the Top.

That's why I led an AFT delegation that visited Egypt to meet with the independent Egyptian unions whose efforts proved decisive in bringing down the corrupt regime that ruled their country for decades.

TURN is a union - led effort to restructure teachers unions to help promote the kinds of reforms that will lead to better learning and higher achievement for all students (see, Proposal to Pew Charitable Trusts).

The Teacher Union Reform Network (TURN) is a union - led effort to strengthen the nation's teachers unions by promoting progressive reforms that will ultimately lead to better learning for all studUnion Reform Network (TURN) is a union - led effort to strengthen the nation's teachers unions by promoting progressive reforms that will ultimately lead to better learning for all studunion - led effort to strengthen the nation's teachers unions by promoting progressive reforms that will ultimately lead to better learning for all students.

James Encinas teaches fourth grade at Westminster Avenue Elementary School; Kyle Hunsberger teaches math at Cochran Middle School; Michael Stryer, a former Fairfax High School social studies teacher, leads teacher union reform efforts at Future is Now Schools

(April 21, 2011) Matt Franck of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote during the 2011 Education Writers Association Conference that union - led transformation efforts such as NEA's Priority Schools Campaign would motivate him to think differently about how he covered teachers unions.

Amabilia Villeda, the leader of the Padres de 24 Parent Union leading the effort, handed Superintendent John Deasy some of the signatures she'd been gathering over the last nine months in a door - to - door campaign.

But since the 1960s, successful efforts by teachers» unions to pass state laws forcing districts to bargain with them, along with school funding lawsuits and property tax reforms such as California's Proposition 13, have led to states taking a more prominent role in all aspects of education.

An incumbent Democratic governor who has pushed anti-labor bills and his running mate, Paul Vallas, one of the nation's leading champions in the effort to destroy public school teachers, their unions and the public education system.

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In Union City, by contrast, the school improvement efforts were led by a team of principals and teachers within the district who focused on how students learn best, how teachers teach most effectively, and how parents can be engaged in the schools.

Another coauthor, Philadelphia Student Union, has been one of AFT's lead groups in its effort to oppose systemic reform and school choice in the City of Brotherly Love; it collected $ 20,000 from AFT in 2013 - 2014.

And she is fired up enough to be pushing a union - led effort to get more water...

A union - led effort to amend the Michigan Constitution to guarantee labor bargaining rights will go before a state elections panel today.

The effort to plant cotton in the Soviet Union was short - lived, leading to declining yields and destruction of the ecology of the Aral Sea.

According to VIN, in addition to efforts to spread the word, a group of volunteers are formulating organizational documents and compiling paperwork to file with the National Labor Relations Board, all of which may lead to the NVPU becoming an officially recognized union.

Last year, United Airlines, along with the airline industry lobby group, Airlines for America, led the way on a massive lobbying effort on Capitol Hill to try to kill a plan that would see US airline companies participate in the European Union's climate law for all their flights to and from Europe.

Chip and his team negotiated and implemented bilateral logging agreements with China and Indonesia, coordinated the Climate and Environment Working Group under the U.S. - Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership, led trade - related efforts on forests with Peru, the Asia - Pacific region, and the European Union, and played a leading role in developing the U.S. relationship with Burma on forest policy since that country began its political and economic reform process in 2011.