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Other labor leaders have also ratcheted up the pressure.

Other labor leaders aligned with Cuomo are likely to either follow suit in deed or in action.

The speakers include PEF President Susan M. Kent, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, Civil Service Employees Association President Danny Donahue, New York State AFL - CIO President Mario Cilento, Executive Vice President of the New York State United Teachers Andrew Pallotta, United University Professions President Fred Kowal, NYSCOPBA President Donn Rowe, as well as other labor leaders, members of community groups and members of the New York State Legislature.

Other labor leaders aligned with the governor have threatened to create a competing new labor party of their own, as Mr. Cuomo has himself urged labor leaders to stop giving money to liberal community groups backing Ms. Nixon.

Middle class workers from all sectors will be joined by Denis Hughes, President of the NYS AFL - CIO, Gary LaBarbera, President of the NYC Building and Construction Trades Council, Mike Fishman, President of SEIU Local 32BJ and other labor leaders (list in formation).

Meanwhile, at the board meeting inside, a coalition of union leaders stood behind Max Arias, executive director of Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union, as he stood with Juan Flecha of the Associated Administrators of Los Angeles (AALA), representing principals, Alex Caputo - Pearl of the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA); and other labor leaders.

Not exact matches

If business owners are like investors, healthcare providers, labor union leaders and a myriad of other people with vested interest in our policies, they're probably anxiously awaiting the results to see how their businesses — or sentiment — will fare in 2011.

«We refined the categories and tested them with other professors, entrepreneurs, policymakers, labor leaders, folks at think tanks, and ultimately settled on this list,» adds Brynjolfsson.

Finally, a growing number of union leaders are abandoning the futile efforts to achieve incremental reforms of the current ossified and defunct labor law and instead are calling for opening up labor law to encourage and protect workers who experiment with these and other more fluid and varied activities free from reprisals.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

So every economics department was closed down, every social science department was closed down, about 10,000 labor leaders, government workers and others were murdered or driven into exile.

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This relatively new movement, which is also sometimes called student - centered learning, has its roots in the progressive strain of American educational thought, but its current incarnation is also based on the modern belief, common among corporate executives and other business leaders, that there is a major and potentially calamitous disconnect brewing between the historical structures and traditions of the American public school system and the labor - force demands of the 21st - century American economy.

Based on the nationally recognized model used in Wisconsin that involved bringing stakeholders together to find efficiencies and cost savings within the Medicaid program, the team includes leaders from the healthcare industry, the Governor's office, the legislative bodies, and other business, labor, and consumer advocates.

Rev. Emily McNeill of the Labor Religion Coalition and other religious leaders lobbied at the state Capitol Monday for extension and expansion of the state's millionaires tax in the budget.

Gov. David Paterson this morning traded indirect barbs with PEF President Ken Brynien, all but accusing the labor leader of lying on the airwaves while defending labor's refusal to go along with furloughs, wage freezes and other cost - cutting proposals.

Around the table sat Mr. Cuomo; the leaders of New York's most powerful labor unions; Joseph Crowley, the top - ranked New York Democrat in the House of Representatives; and the two rival Democratic leaders of the State Senate — Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who leads the main group of Democrats, and Jeffrey D. Klein, who leads the breakaway group — among others.

«Our current pension and benefit structure is simply not sustainable,» she said, but offered no specifics others than adding, «I urge both the mayor and our city's labor leader to be equally open to negotiating and making fair and responsible changes to meet the difficult challenges ahead.»

Recently, the IDC Leader, Senator Jeff Klein, and the other conference members were joined by heads of the major public workers labor unions to promote bills to make it easier to join a union.

Today's letter to Cuomo was signed by U.S. Reps. John Katko and Richard Hanna, state Sen. Patty Ritchie, Assembly Members Will Barclay and Bob Oaks, and several dozen local officials, labor leaders and others.

But by elevating the importance of a host of other actors, from Bratton to McCray to labor - union leaders to Al Sharpton, de Blasio often diminishes his primacy.

OSWEGO, N.Y. - In response to the planned shutdown of FitzPatrick nuclear plant, Central New York politicians, labor leaders and others today called upon Gov. Andrew Cuomo to «do whatever it takes» to protect Upstate energy jobs.

The eight City Council members, all Democrats, who are competing to lead the 51 - member legislative body as speaker for the next four years must convince numerous constituencies of their viability, including some combination of county party leaders, labor unions, the mayor, and other influential politicos.

«Governor Cuomo listened to the growing demand from workers, students, labor unions, faith leaders and others.

It's worth noting that RWDSU President Stu Appelbaum was one of the first labor leaders to call for Gov. David Paterson not to run this fall (and this back in January, in other words: Pre-David Johnson) and for AG Andrew Cuomo to get into the race.

District Council 9, the labor organization that represents painters and other tradesmen, has endorsed Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein in his re-election bid.

RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum forwared this invite to an upcoming breakfast meeting he's hosting with AFL - CIO President Denis Hughes at which labor leaders will strategize for and discuss the «upcoming fight» over same - sex marriage and other LGBT issues.

Squadron, who represents, the Lower East Side, and Wright were joined by members of the tenant association, community leaders, representatives of the International Union of Elevator Constructors Local 1 and other labor groups.

«I have not spoken to the mayor ever about the speaker's race and my emphasis is on talking to my colleagues and talking to important allies in this process, whether they be labor leaders, county organizations, activists and others who have a stake in the outcome,» Levine said.

At a rally in Manhattan, the Democratic governor shared the stage with national labor leaders after a state wage board recommended raising the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 and hour, delivering a key victory in a national push by unions — led by Service Employees International Union — to improve the lot of (and unionize) employees at McDonald's, Burger King and other chains.

Turnover in these demanding positions has been an issue and I thank CSEA President Denise Szymura and other union leaders for coming to the table with my social services and labor relations teams and me to have a constructive dialogue on how best to address that,» said Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz.

At 1 p.m., NY Renews, a coalition of community organizations, environmental justice groups, labor unions, faith groups, business leaders, and other advocates fighting for equitable climate policies, holds a telephone press conference to call on Cuomo to step up as a leader for communities hurt most by climate change.

On Tuesday, the events will feature other prominent officials, including Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, city Controller Scott Stringer, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., and labor leaders George Gresham, Peter Ward and Mario Cilento.

Labor leaders and some public - education advocacy groups, on the other hand, are hoping for a majority of exclusively mainstream Democrats which would be more inclined beat back pro-charter legislation and a controversial tax credit proposal.

State Senator Jim Seward joined community, labor and business leaders to announce the launch of New Yorkers for Affordable Energy, which supports increasing access to natural gas for manufacturing facilities, power production, transportation, and other purposes to support New York's economy and quality of life:

UFT Family Child Care Providers Chapter Chair Tammie Miller joined Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and other elected officials and labor leaders for a Manhattan town hall meeting on May 25 to discuss the impact of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed $ 51 million cut to child care funding on children and low - income

Mulgrew testified with three other city labor leaders, representing classroom aides, firefighters and health workers, who took the Bloomberg administration to task for spending billions of dollars on the corruption - plagued payroll system City Time and the problem - plagued Special Education Student Information System (SESIS) while failing to give needed raises to city workers.

With schools and other public services threatened with more budget cuts this year, UFT President Michael Mulgrew joined fellow labor leaders and representatives from community and education advocacy groups at a «99 New York» rally on Oct. 17 on the City Hall steps demanding that the state millionaire's tax be extended.

One other key piece of the political puzzle is what the city's labor leaders end up doing in the Democratic primary.

UFT Family Child Care Providers Chapter Chair Tammie Miller joined Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and other elected officials and labor leaders for a Manhattan town hall meeting on May 25 to discuss the impact of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed $ 51 million cut to child care funding on children and low - income working parents.

From left, Rep. Nita Lowey, Rep. Peter King, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy joined other elected officials, labor leaders and investment bankers at a news conference in Manhattan to discuss the push for federal dollars for the state and region in the wake of superstorm Sandy.

De Blasio and others criticized the move as too little, too late, but the speaker had an impressive array of labor leaders standing with her as she announced her new position.

Labor leaders have called for retroactive pay raises and other benefits for their members, who have been without contracts for years.

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Labor leaders, community activists, and others will also present an oral history of CPS school closings, consolidations and turnarounds and illustrate its impact on impoverished communities and conduct workshops on how to save troubled schools.

On Sunday, other speakers included the leaders of the California Labor Federation and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor.

But then came the incredible work of Albert Shanker, Charles Cogen and other fearless labor leaders that changed the course of teachers and their unions.

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And as a sign of the broad support behind this plan, we are joined by the representatives from more than a dozen car and truck manufacturers, as well as fleet operators, auto workers, labor leaders, environmental groups, and officials from California and other states.

CEO Jeffrey Grybowski and other representatives of the the Providence - based firm were joined by Governor Raimondo, Rhode Island's congressional delegation and state business and labor leaders at a celebration at the marine construction firm in the Quonset Business Park that is fabricating pieces of the turbine's steel foundations.