Sentences with phrase «many labor activists»

Iraq's liberation from Saddam Hussein and his criminal underlings by the coalition of the willing last year has breathed life into many Labor activists — including Federal Labor leader Mark Latham — who are afflicted by anti-Americanism and / or pacifist inclinations.

DeWitt was on a panel Thursday alongside a labor activist, investigative journalist and Starbucks barista at O'Reilly Media's Next: Economy conference in San Francisco.

That may not sound particularly controversial, but some immigration and labor activists are calling out FWD.us for favoring a specific type of immigrant: White - collar tech workers whom tech world titans could pay less than their American colleagues.

It contains no stories drawn from the thousands of mothers, children, labor activists and university workers who have been «disappeared» or slain because of their efforts to improve living conditions.

School food is a civil rights issue, and a labor activist like Jeremiah Lowery who draws on a long family history of civil rights struggle gets that.

Goode, a little - known attorney in the Bloomberg administration, has taken a leave from her job to challenge Gillibrand — a quest many Democrats before her, from Reps. Steve Israel, Carolyn Maloney and Carolyn McCarthy to labor activist Jonathan Tasini, have found too challenging to date.

The only Democrat left in the field against Gillibrand is labor activist Jonathan Tasini, who also mounted a long - shot challenge to Clinton in 2006, running to the then - senator's left by focusing almost entirely on her «yes» vote on the Iraq War.

In Round I, labor activist Jonathan Tasini, who recently dropped his long - shot primary challenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to train his sights on Rangel instead, managed to hold Rangel just under the 50 percent mark that would have enabled him to land the club's nod.

Before her career as a photographer took off, Grossman was a labor activist within the teachers» union and a member of the American Labor Party.

«She's a community activist, she spent her life as a community activist, as a labor activist, as a Bernie delegate — Marisol and I were the few Democrats to support Bernie Sanders.

Tasini, a labor activist who dropped a challenge to US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to set his sights on ousting Rangel, has been running on the congressman's left, challenging him particularly hard of late on the Afghan War.

Labor activist Jonathan Tasini, one of five Democrats who unsuccessfully tried to oust Rep. Charlie Rangel in the Sept. 14 primary, is the first to call on the embattled Harlem congressman to step down after he was found guilty of 11 of 13 ethics charges by a House committee earlier today.

The WFP has a history with Clinton, supporting both her first 2000 US Senate run (her first attempt at seeking elected office) and her re-election campaign in 2006, though she faced a primary challenge from the left from labor activist Jonathan Tasini.

In addition to Johnson, Rangel is challenged in the Sept. 14 Democratic primary by State Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, labor activist Jonathan Tasini and banker Vincent Morgan.

- Eddie Kay, Labor Activist and Organizer

Ferrer said that Alcantara didn't «parachute» her way into politics, but has «paid her dues at the community level — as a labor activist and organizer and as a political activist and organizer.»

Labor activists say the Democratic governor's plan to gradually increase the wage will improve the lives of some 200,000 New Yorkers.

On Tuesday, May 1, labor activists and immigrant support organizations staged rallies in New York City to commemorate May Day.

The benchmark for a protest candidate that most people have been using is the 17 percent labor activist Jonathan Tasini received in his primary challenge to Hillary Clinton in 2006.

19 % reported, however, they would have supported Ford, and labor activist Jonathan Tasini would have taken just 3 % of the vote.

Labor Notes is also a network of rank - and - file members, local union leaders, and labor activists who know the labor movement is worth fighting for.

Doubling down, the mayor issued a statement on Saturday in favor of Maria Elena Durazo, a California labor activist.

As a result, the labor activists visited between 3,000 and 4,000 union households within the 13th Congressional District.

That union's leader, Debora M. Hayes, who has a long history as a labor and strike leader, was recognized as the area's labor activist of the year.

In an acceptance speech delivered in both Spanish and English, Ms. Mark - Viverito underscored her liberal beliefs, calling for higher wages for fast - food and carwash workers, describing her experience as a labor activist, and, echoing the familiar rhetoric of Mr. de Blasio, pledging the Council would strive «for a more equal and just New York.»

He had been one of three people being considered by the Staten Island Democratic Party's executive board, alongside Brooklyn Assemblyman William Colton and State Island labor activist Robert Holst.

One of the more left - leaning labor activists within the WFP, Communications Workers of America Local 1180 President Arthur Cheliotes, during a phone interview the day after the debate remarked with some ruefulness on the paradox his union faces.

Rangel is still facing open ethics investigations, and Powell and labor activist Jonathan Tasini have made clear those issues will be used against him.

The workers are then forced to work until they pay off their new bosses for sharply reduced wages and under conditions that make it hard for them to speak out against abuses, labor activists and workers in Fukushima said.

Rodrigo Grande's Argentine crime thriller At the End of the Tunnel won the Golden Space Needle Audience Awards for Best Film and Best Director and Peter Bratt's Dolores, a portrait of racial and labor activist Dolores Huerta, won for Best Documentary.

«Nos batailles,» Guillaume Senez's follow - up to «Keeper,» toplines French star Romain Duris as a dedicated labor activist who is forced to start acting as a father when his wife deserts him.

The term «teacher union leader» typically evokes a hard - charging labor activist who shares an adversarial relationship with the school district, is focused solely on protecting members» bread - and - butter interests, and flees from phrases like «school reform.»

While labor activists like to think of the strikes as a sign of a resurgent labor movement, a recent article by Jason Walta, senior counsel for the National Education Association, the largest teachers» union in the country, strongly indicates otherwise.

And while Amazon has escaped much of the kind of negative attention that has surrounded Apple and its FoxConn manufacturing plant in China, there is an emerging campaign among labor activists and progressive journalists to focus a spotlight on poor conditions in Amazon fulfillment centers.

Given that Gulf Labor activists including Walid Raad and Ashok Sukamaran have recently been refused entry to the UAE to speak about labor issues, present their art, and document conditions under which migrant laborers live, the international territory of the Biennale becomes a fruitful alternative site for their interventions.

But then someone like Eric Glatt, a former AIG employee who turned into a labor activist after being fired from AIG and taking on an internship as an accountant, put it eloquently: «I can't tell my landlord to give me free rent so he can gain experience as a landlord.»

When legislators and employers failed to comply in time, the result was a general strike and the bloody Haymarket Riot in Chicago, which caused the deaths of eight police officers and led to the hangings of four labor activists.

Not exact matches

MOSCOW — Workers and activists around the world marked May Day on Tuesday with rallies and other events to press their governments to address labor issues.

When the labor practices of Nike's contract suppliers brought activist scrutiny, according to a company official, the «initial attitude was, «Hey, we don't own the factories.

1817: Welsh manufacturer and labor rights activist Robert Owen coins the phrase «Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest,» dividing the day into three equal eight - hour parts.

Although most ardent Australian admirers of that increasingly murderous hellhole joined the Communist Party of Australia, a significant segment of Labor's activist strata also saw Sovietism as the way to go.

Though Uber is beloved by many riders, the way it has muscled into cities and the public consciousness, and the manner in which it has altered labor relations and urban planning, have rattled lawmakers, activists and even its drivers.

He said the pay rule approved today is mainly of interest to certain activist groups such as labor unions.

Over the past decade, it has funded the right's assault on labor unions, climate scientists, public schools, economic regulations, and the very premise of activist government.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

High labor costs and the falling price of crude oil have contributed to the industry's dark days, but environmental activists can also take a bow.

Thousands of workers and activists have marched to the Philippines» presidential palace to demand the government address labor issues, as workers around the world stage May Day rallies.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma González and civil - rights activist and organized - labor icon Dolores Huerta are among those being celebrated at the annual Diversity Honors on Friday, April 27, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in...

Mr. Lens, a Chicago - based labor leader and activist in peace and radical movements, is the author of a number of books, including, most recently, The Promise and Pitfalls of Revolution.

Many of these activists think black sociologist William Julius Wilson is correct to argue that structural changes in the U.S. economy have led to a mismatch of the labor and job supplies: residents of the inner city are unable to win the types of jobs that are available in the city, and they can't get to the jobs that are available to them in the suburbs.