Sentences with phrase «major labor groups»

The pronouncement by Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos was met with energetic rage by de Blasio's allies, including major labor groups, and a statement from the mayor that Skelos» declaration was «just plain wrong.»

They joined other major labor groups that fled the party years earlier, including the UFT, whose president said the union left because «it became evident that their focus was on personal, political agendas and a few egos.»

SEIU 1199, where Finnegan was then political director, was the only major labor group to back de Blasio in the 2013 mayoral primary.

Not exact matches

He has led campaigns uniting business, labor, and environmental groups, testified before Congress, and been cited in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and other major news outlets.

Moreover, the two major American parties are not primarily competitive interest groups, with one, for example, representing capital and the other labor, or one reflecting rural interests and the other the interests of urban people.

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.

With all that on the table, the speed with which JJR was looking for an upgrade after the bruising 2016 campaign helped foment resentment among many major donors, labor groups and others who spent millions of dollars and thousands of man - hours getting him elected.

But support from the labor movement comes a coalition of groups backing the bill make a major end of session push for the measure, which is sponsored by Minority Leader John Sampson, D - Brooklyn, in the Senate.

Democratic Congressional hopeful Rory Lancman has received the backing of the powerful 32BJ service union, a move that backers hope will provide a major boost of on - the - ground politically aid from the well - organized labor group.

A major labor union and more than a half dozen progressive groups are uniting to oppose Cuomo's proposals to legalize ride - hailing outside of New York City and to explore a law allowing for «portable benefits» among workers in the gig economy.

The groups include the state's major labor unions, the Conservative Party, gun rights organizations and environmentalists.

The tougher choices down the road could include major cuts in state education spending — the political third rail for many lawmakers; or what are euphemistically called «revenue enhancers,» also known as higher or new taxes; or a cap on state spending, which such powerful labor groups as the teachers and health - care workers unions fight against tooth and nail.

A group predominantly fueled by major labor unions has spent more than $ 500,000 on television ads opposing a constitutional convention.

1199 / SEIU, a major health care workers union and a politically key labor group, has endorsed incumbent Republicans running in key battleground districts.

The groups include the state's major labor unions, the Conservative Party, gun rights groups, and environmentalists.

As the Times reported on Wednesday, teachers unions along with other labor groups are not, as they did in previous years, launching major attack campaigns on the governor for his proposed cuts to education and other programs.

Among the major group shows in which she has participated are Division of Labor: Women's Work in Contemporary Art at The Bronx Museum of the Arts; Bad Girls at the New Museum in New York; World Glass Now «94 at Hokaido Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, Japan; American Dreams, American Extremes at The Kruithuis Museum in Hertogen Bosch, The Netherlands; and Surface and Structure: Beads in Contemporary American Art at Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C..

Jerome Ringo (The Apollo Alliance & NWF)- Jerome Ringo is chairman of the board of the National Wildlife Federation, the first African American in such a leadership position at a major national environmental group and was recently named president of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of organized labor, environmental, business and civil rights leaders determined to free the United States of dependence on foreign oil.

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Endorsers of the letter include National Organization for Women, NETWORK (which spoke at the Democratic National Convention), National Nurses United, Conference of Major Superiors of Men, Main Street Alliance, Greenpeace USA, Oxfam America, and many other environment, public health, faith - based, labor, development, and social justice groups.

The Patient - Centered Primary Care Collaborative is a coalition of major employers, consumer groups, patient quality organizations, health plans, labor unions, hospitals, clinicians, and many others who have joined to develop and advance the Patient - Centered Medical Home.

Passage of the bill has become a major priority for organized labor groups, who will be joined in the push by a broad coalition that includes advocates for women and children.

The association's independent advertising campaign was ranked 13th among all the 2010 outside groups — making it smaller than the major GOP and labor union players but bigger than the two Democratic groups cobbled together late in the campaign season, according to a tally by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan watchdog group.