Sentences with phrase «local labor organizers»

Activist Scott Parking wrote, «Midwest Rising was a convergence for climate and economic justice that brought together a diverse coalition of groups fighting home foreclosures in cities like Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh, communications workers on strike against Verizon Wireless, local labor organizers, Appalachian activists fighting mountaintop removal and climate justice activists from around the world.»

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.

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He graduated with a top rank from the Labor Executive Training Program (LETP) in 1967 and was hired as a Local 153 Organizer the same year.

She is a labor organizer for SEIU Local 1199, a union representing health care workers.

After studying government at Colby College in Maine, she became a labor organizer herself, working alongside the Teamsters union and local political groups and eventually serving as a Democratic district leader until she was hired by the de Blasio administration in February of 2014.