Sentences with phrase «local affiliate unions»

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The NPF is made up of 204 members representing parliament, European and devolved assemblies, local government, affiliated trade unions, socialist societies and others, and individual members of the Labour Party, who elect representatives through an all member ballot.

The Trade Union and Labour Party Liaison Organisation is the co-ordinating structure that supports the policy and campaign activities of affiliated union members within the Labour Party at the national, regional and local lUnion and Labour Party Liaison Organisation is the co-ordinating structure that supports the policy and campaign activities of affiliated union members within the Labour Party at the national, regional and local lunion members within the Labour Party at the national, regional and local level.

According to the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York (BCTC), an organization consisting of local affiliates of 15 national and international unions representing 100,000 members in New York City, project labor agreements (PLAs) with these terms for four projects valued at $ 345 million are in the process of being executed by unions in the industry.

They have received the support of our local union affiliates in their districts, and now the statewide labor movement is proud to endorse their candidacies.»

Similarly membership of an affiliated trade union grants the right to vote for the leader and deputy leader, but not for local candidate selection.

The local tradition that gave us Attlee, Lansbury and the Poplar Rates Rebellion now puts two fingers up to Labour - affiliated trade unions and stands with the Tories to vote through job cuts.

Ultimately, the decision will be one for local Labour Party activists, and affiliated union branches.

The union and its major New York affiliates — locals 1199 and 32BJ — were deeply involved in last year's minimum wage push in the state.

Union branches affiliate to local CLPs, our regions affiliate to the Party regionally and of course the national unions affiliate to the Party nationally, at all levels arguing the case for working people from within the Party.

While the influential teachers union is no stranger to School Board races, this year it had an intriguing ally — the local AFL - CIO affiliate.

The outsiders jumping in to sway the outcome of the race represent an influential group of political leaders, including Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz, State Sen. Marc C. Panepinto, D - Buffalo, and the local affiliate of the AFL - CIO, which represents all of the region's labor unions.

Harig enjoyed support not only from the teachers unions, but the local affiliate of the AFL - CIO, which got involved for the first time in School Board elections.

Membership has increased 60 percent since 1991; 90 local unions are affiliated with AFSA.

The media and observers across the ideological spectrum were surprised and, in some cases, disconcerted in July 2014 when at the annual American Federation of Teachers (AFT) convention in Los Angeles, the union's leadership team announced that its Innovation Fund grants of $ 20,000 to $ 30,000 were going to be made available to state and local affiliates to critique the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the massive multistate effort to improve student achievement.

«The local affiliates doing this work and teachers have remained really committed, and both unions have been committed to providing resources to members despite some of the political controversy,» attests Gates Foundation staffer Lynn Olson, who works with the unions on their Common Core endeavors.

In a letter printed as an advertisement in the Tallahassee Democrat, Florida Education Association President Andy J. Ford discouraged local union affiliates from signing an agreement to implement a state plan that, among other provisions, would require districts to base teacher evaluations and compensation bonuses heavily on student test scores.

The most aggressive resistance to the Common Core isn't taking the form of direct action against the process but is coming from «social justice» liberals and progressives, who may be union members but are not by and large in charge of state or local affiliates.

Responding to teachers» complaints of unusually high deductions for union dues from their paychecks in the summer of 2002, the American Federation of Teachers launched a financial audit and found at least $ 4.6 million missing from the treasury of its local affiliate, the Washington Teachers Uunion dues from their paychecks in the summer of 2002, the American Federation of Teachers launched a financial audit and found at least $ 4.6 million missing from the treasury of its local affiliate, the Washington Teachers UnionUnion.

During the four - day Representative Assembly, delegates representing the union's state and local affiliates heard from the new executive leadership, including President - elect Dennis...

An Education Intelligence Agency analysis of 2010 - 11 Internal Revenue Service filings reveals five of the eight largest teacher union local affiliates in the nation operated with budget deficits.

An agreement announced last week allowing local National Education Association unions to affiliate with the AFL - CIO signals that the NEA is willing to tighten ranks with the rest of the American labor movement in the face of formidable economic and political changes.

Today they have 43 state affiliates and over 3000 local affiliates and have grown into the second largest educational labor union in the United States.

But some of the strongest criticism came from local union affiliates, who especially objected to the emphasis on charter schools and merit pay.

It's worth noting these lofty numbers don't include any money that was spent by the unions» state and local affiliates.

The competing measure, Proposition 1A, is sponsored by two unions, Service Employees International Union Local 925 and American Federation of Teachers, a national teachers» union affiliated with AFL -Union Local 925 and American Federation of Teachers, a national teachers» union affiliated with AFL -union affiliated with AFL - CIO.

It's important to note that these dollar amounts do not include money spent on politics by the national unions» state and local affiliates.

CTU, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers and the Illinois Federation of Teachers, is the third largest teachers local in the country and the largest local union in Illinois.

And although Henry is trying to change the union from within, he is not shy about criticizing it publicly, recently telling the Teach For America alumni magazine that, «I don't think my local affiliate is a leader in reform, as much as it says it might be.»

Though they explicitly deny being any sort of competition to the local American Federation of Teachers affiliate, the new group is staking out positions that put them in diametric opposition to the union:

One of the nation's largest teachers unions claimed to have only one dissenting member in its federal labor records, contradicting the reports from numerous local affiliates.

The CTU is an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers and the Illinois Federation of Teachers and is the third largest teachers local in the United States and the largest local union in Illinois.

In New York State, NYSUT — a federation of more than 1,200 local unions representing more than 600,000 members — a union that is affiliated with both the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) has become a leading example of the critically important role that teachers and their unions can play in supporting parents, students and public education.

Two of the workshops — Transforming Schools is Union Work and Union Success: Involving the Community in School Transformation feature a local affiliate presidents, state staff, local school leaders and NEA staff.

This guide proposes a framework for engaging teachers in evaluation reforms and proposes new roles that State and local education agencies (SEAs and LEAs) and State and local union affiliates can play to support their engagement.

A recent local TV station reported on PAA affiliate Portland Parents» Union's efforts to bring positive discipline practices to schools.

In fact the CEA and local affiliates have done little to organize or discuss with the public that these programs seek to lower our expectations as to what we will receive in terms of funding and resources from the state and they also seek to curtail the rights of union members.

What the union boss does not mention is that the inequities in our public education system are largely the doing of NEA and its state and local affiliates.

And the national and local union affiliates also lose money.

Group Activities - New York Artist Union, the WPA, and the Art Workers Coalition Teach - in - Working Conditions Seminar with Precarious Workers Brigade (London), UKK (Young Art Workers, Copenhagen) and a representative of the Chilean Ministry of Culture - Ongoing discussions with representatives from local unions and working centers such as UWA, IWW, Teamster, Writer's Guild of America East, New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and others - Monthly book club on labor law, organizing, workplace occupations, and radical history - End Sotheby's Lockout Solidarity Action at the Whitney Biennial with Occupy Museums, Occupy Sotheby's and Arts & Culture - Joining other OWS labor affiliated working groups such as Labor Outreach Committee, Occupy Your Workplace, and 99 Pickets, as part of the Labor Alliance cluster

The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed a negligence claim brought against the CAW - Canada, holding that the national union should not be held liable for the acts of an affiliated local or its members.