Sentences with phrase «modern labor movement»

A source familiar with the three casino projects said the union is likely to gain more than 3,000 members — a 10 percent increase in its ranks, which would be almost unheard of in the modern labor movement.

The speech given Tuesday at a closed - door conference at the Las Vegas event was cheer leading address for labor, a lament at the national movement's decline and praise for New York being «the home of the modern labor movement.»

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We loosen our grip and make our concessions only when we are forced to do so by some competing group that has acquired sufficient power to bring us to the negotiating table, as the history of the labor - management conflict and the modern women's movement illustrate.

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.

A Democratic insider called Fishman «a national labor leader who helped invent the modern day labor movement in New York City.»

Between censorship and the police's repression, riots and political upheavals, Marx and Engels lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.