Sentences with phrase «local labor»

• Course offerings vary and are developed in response to the student's evolving academic needs and interests as well as local labor market data about career fields.

The bill would allow the county executive to appoint two board members, one of whom would be backed by local labor unions.

Several local labor organizations are behind the event, but it's open to the public... and free.

They announced an agreement with local labor they say should prevent a repeat of one of the major problems.

The resolution charged a committee, composed of citizens from local labor unions and advocacy organizations, with examining the possibilities of a municipal public financing system.

They use local labor to produce cheaply goods to be shipped elsewhere for sale.

Couldn't all the thousands of dollars spent on airline tickets and room and board be used to hire local labor to do the work, providing jobs and money to the local economies?

The cost to grow and serve more students differs as well, with facility, transportation, and local labor costs varying greatly across our 31 communities.

Large companies have more infrastructure to make outsourcing profitable, while smaller businesses are often dependent upon local labor.

The three - year - old competition pits local labor, education and business leaders against one another to come up with plans that have the most promise to create jobs.

So does local labor, whose members turned out in large number for the hearing.

And more than half (55 percent) take local labor market needs into account in program planning.

We work closely with foreign counsel around the world to address local labor and employment, commercial and other contractual issues.

The principles also require compliance with local labor and environmental laws.

I think we can do everything we need to do for $ 200,000 or less, and we should use local labor.

Austin Harig, a Hutchinson Central Technical High School senior, has the backing of local labor unions in the race for the Park District seat, as POLITICO New York first reported.

Going forward, unions could provide stronger leadership by pressing to institutionalize elements that support teacher - academy programs — such as stipends for teacher - academy instructors and incentives like Virginia Beach's guaranteed future employment — within local labor agreements.

Economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson quantified the effects of China's 2000 entry into the global trading community on local labor markets around the United States.

He has authored several legal publications and articles, including «Preemption Update: Enforceability of Local Labor Laws Impacting the Airline Industry» (the Air & Space Lawyer, American Bar Association), «Meeting Statutory Deadlines, Antitrust» (C.E.B.) and portions of «California Environmental Law Handbook,» 11th edition.

Around 100 people from local labor groups gathered Wednesday morning to protest the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency's awarding of tax breaks to hotels.

ALBANY, NY (03/27/2008)(readMedia)-- WHAT: Arlene Holt Baker, Executive VP of the national AFL - CIO, prominent and historically elected African American woman, will speak to local labor leaders as keynote speaker for the 7th Annual Meeting of the Capital District Labor Federation.

To help provide data on the depth of local labor pools and wage levels, the NIC MAP ® Data Service (NIC MAP) recently launched a new resource tool for clients on the NIC MAP web platform.

The strong support of local labor for this initiative is very important.»

The states «have a substantial interest in avoiding the vast disruption in state and local labor relations that would occur if the Court were now to overrule Abood's approval of public sector collective bargaining arrangements utilizing agency - fee rules,» lawyers for the states argue.

This from the man who essentially held the Legislature — not to mention the entire state — hostage for weeks while he refused to vote on the budget in hopes of getting a SUNY empowerment / UB 20 - 20 deal and then caved — a move for which he's now being lambasted by local labor unions.

Producers like Verala Hermanos not only grow their own sugar cane, but have begun to implement some of the standards included in Bonsucro including employing local labor, harvesting by hand to reduce fuel consumption, and skipping the pre-harvest burn to reduce emissions.

But Mendes had built a global network, from local labor organizers to American environmentalists, and had personally pressed development banks in Washington to restrict loans for Brazil's road - building projects until local peoples» rights were considered.

Local labor represented by unions such as Utility Workers Union of America Local 1 - 2 and Teamsters Local 456 expressed support for the plant with a rally at the hearing on October 15, arguing that its closure would put thousands of New Yorkers out of work.

Pilots in Ireland, Spain, Germany, Sweden and Portugal, as well as Italy, have formed local labor councils in the past few weeks in order to press for collective bargaining outside of Ryanair's in - house employee representative committees.

Industry consultants agree that the long experience of Li & Fung — it was founded in 1906 during China's Qing dynasty — helps it ensure compliance with varying local labor standards and say that it tries to be conscientious in its oversight, especially when compared with newer and smaller rivals.

The economist attributed the lag to the fact that property prices «tend to move slowly» even after local labor markets sag.

Such rebuilds require less local labor and materials, and both could be in short supply as the North Bay recovers from the wildfires.

The group referred her to a group of local labor doulas.

The U.S. Department of Labor has presented the United Way of Buffalo & Erie County with a $ 2.9 million grant to grow apprenticeship programs in Western New York, something local labor and government leaders say is important as manufacturing makes a comeback in the United States.

... Please contact the appropriate local labor organization and negotiate an LPA.»

Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan credited Donohue for «years of service to get the Capital Center across the finish line on time and on budget using primarily local labor.

The groups in the coalition for upgrading the state's power grid include IBEW Local labor groups from the state, accounting for more than 11,500 members.

Miner, a Democrat, wanted a deal in writing that would guarantee local labor would be used for the project.

Personally and despite having an honest, decent and hardworking Local Labor MP, (for whom I'd previously voted,) it was the thought of electing the kind of entrenched Blair period right wing low life; exemplified by people like Harman, (who let's not forget either wanted to exempt details of MP's expenses from the freedom of information act,) more than anything else that made me vote UKIP.

The 90 percent local labor rule could be suspended for projects which require tradespersons with specialized skills not found in the area.

The first project the new local labor policy will be applied to is Ellicott Development's $ 14.6 million adaptive reuse of the long - vacant Fairmont Creamery Co. / Arctic Freezer building, at 199 Scott St., in downtown Buffalo.

DeFrancisco ridiculed a challenge issued Friday morning by the Central New York Fight for $ 15 Coalition, a group of local labor officials and others, who said DeFrancisco should try to live on minimum wage for a week.

Locally, she's earned support from City Auditor Marty Masterpole, Common Councilors Joe Nicoletti and Steven Thompson, Council President Van Robinson and Democratic County Legislator Peggy Chase, as well as a half - dozen local labor unions.

Colombian Amber Onnit Coffee is sustainably raised to protect the environment and local labor practices and is both Rainforest Alliance and UTZ Certified.

In a decision late last month, a three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously overturned a federal district judge's ruling requiring the United Teachers of Los Angeles to obtain nonmembers» consent before charging them for political and other activities not germane to local labor affairs.

The document revealed that teacher union honchos in the Golden State are expecting that pending litigation may very well put an end to mandatory union dues, and they're exhorting local labor leaders to rise to the challenge.

They form an innovative management team open to environmentally friendly ideas that focus on generating employment with a strong emphasis in valuing local labor and skill, continuous support of staff training and programs geared towards community development and education.

Additionally, cities and towns could frown upon the lack of local labor utilized on each project.