Sentences with phrase «more powerful union»

A more powerful union movement?

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

José Francisco Pereira, General Director of Monte Alegre farm said «This union agreement is based on a mutual trusting relationship and will make both companies more powerful on the local and international markets - combining Sucafina's global footprint with Monte Alegre's tradition in the Specialty Coffee Production.

Whether Clark is replaced or not, the MLBPA does need to bolster its ranks with more full - time staff: what was once the most powerful union in sports now has the smallest staff of any of the major sports.

Instead, he has become more powerful and is the union's only presidential candidate.

Despite her more than two decades in the FBI, heading the Suffolk Police Department will bring her new challenges such as dealing with the powerful police labor unions, specifically the Police Benevolent Association, whose contract is up in 2019.

Additionally, in the weeks leading up to the election, the powerful New York State United Teachers union's political action committee spent more than $ 78,000 on mail and advertising for Doran, according to the state Board of Elections.

Kevin Finnegan, the political director of the powerful healthcare workers union, 1199 SEIU, also defended Quinn, saying there was nothing more she could have done to save the hospital from closing.

«He has made this a more progressive, more fair, more forward looking state — and it's turned out to be good for the economy,» Mr. Clinton said at the headquarters of 1199 SEIU, the powerful healthcare workers union, in Manhattan.

At a time when two Democratic lawmakers stand accused of bribery and public corruption, California's most powerful labor unions have kicked back more than a million dollars to the California Democratic Party.

For the first time in more than a decade, the State Senate Republicans isn't getting any money from the state's powerful health care workers» union, SEIU 1199, at election time.

Within the tight - knit communities, votes are often dictated by community leaders, and only some labor unions are more powerful when it comes to turning out voters.

State lawmakers, eager to cozy up to politically powerful unions, have more than 50 proposals that would sweeten pension benefits at the expense of taxpayers.

Meanwhile hypocrites like Stewart - Cousins who pay fealty to powerful union thugs and bosses do more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.

In another private room, at The Capital Grille on 42nd Street, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, Rep. Joe Crowley, state party leaders and about 10 of New York's most powerful union heads spoke for more than an hour about taking back congressional seats held in New York by Republicans as well as taking over the State Senate to sweep its hold of state government.

«Meanwhile, hypocrites like Stewart - Cousins who pay fealty to powerful union thugs and bosses do more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood,» Loeb wrote in a Facebook post that he later deleted.

Also last week, Daniel Loeb, a Cuomo donor and chairman of the Success Academy charter school network, responded to the story by writing that «hypocrites like Stewart - Cousins who pay fealty to powerful union thugs and bosses do more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.»

«I don't see it as an idle threat,» said Richard Iannuzzi, president of the powerful New York State United Teachers union that has won far more battles than it's lost in Albany for its 600,000 - plus members.

Another Democrat said progressives might be better off just focusing on Hochul since it would be more a battle of «two relatively unknowns» — even though she would likely be supported by Cuomo's bulging campaign warchest and the powerful labor unions that are aligned with the governor.

Andrew Pallotta, president of the politically powerful New York State United Teachers union, took note of the state's deficit, the potential impact of the federal tax law and possibility for more federal funding cuts.

Speaking at Tuesday's Common Council Police Oversight Committee meeting, lawmakers heard from both Police Benevolent Association first vice president John Evans, who renewed the union's call for more powerful guns, and Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda, who said he finds them unnecessary for patrol officers.

The impact that produced the crater was two million times more powerful than the largest nuclear device ever tested, a 58 - megaton hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba, detonated by the Soviet Union in 1961.

However, the fact is that God did create the idea of sex as a means of making the union between a married man and woman all the more powerful.

This new age sugar daddy sugar baby arrangement can often develop into a powerful union of mind body and soul... read more

A government - backed committee is almost certain to prefer what the AFT wants over what Fordham may envision since the teacher unions are like Sony except only 100 times more powerful.

The parallels are more powerful even to the actual politicians and trade unions.

For with unions so powerful, employee interests are given far more weight in personnel and policy decisions than warranted, and school boards are partially captured by their own employees.

During a news conference in his Capitol office, Pawlenty was more reserved in his criticism of the state's powerful teachers» union, Education Minnesota, than he was immediately after the

There are so many advantages to making workplaces more family friendly (ask Google) that one would think that the president of the city's most powerful union would, at the very least, keep a respectful silence.

It's more accurate to say that the Democratic Party is really a wing of the powerful California union.

Amid a controversial lawsuit charging that the state's teacher tenure and dismissal laws were depriving students of their constitutional right to a quality education, billionaire philanthropists seeking to overhaul public education and powerful teachers unions poured more than $ 20 million into television attack ads and nasty mailers.

Los Angeles Unified School Board Election Has Nation's Attention The race for three Los Angeles Unified school board seats has drawn more than $ 4 million in donations — as well as the attention of education leaders nationwide — as the district's powerful unions and the reform movement battle for control of public education.

CTA, arguably the most powerful union in California, spent more than $ 2 million during the primary in support of Torlakson and in opposition to Tuck.

Richard Berman, executive director of the Center for Union Facts, says yesterday's «Day of Action» is no more than the latest attempt by the powerful teachers union to pull the wool over the public's eyes: «Randi Weingarten doesn't care about reforming schools in the name of quality education; she cares about exploding government budgets in the name of filling her union's bank account.&rUnion Facts, says yesterday's «Day of Action» is no more than the latest attempt by the powerful teachers union to pull the wool over the public's eyes: «Randi Weingarten doesn't care about reforming schools in the name of quality education; she cares about exploding government budgets in the name of filling her union's bank account.&runion to pull the wool over the public's eyes: «Randi Weingarten doesn't care about reforming schools in the name of quality education; she cares about exploding government budgets in the name of filling her union's bank account.&runion's bank account.»

Unions are powerful levers for change, and so we encourage our members to become more engaged within their uUnions are powerful levers for change, and so we encourage our members to become more engaged within their unionsunions.

«Districts and unions also need to work together to provide parents with more and better information about teacher effectiveness — if not individual ratings, then at least school - level statistics, as teachers are the most powerful school - based factor in student academic success or failure,» he said.

Once one of the most powerful unions in the American Federation of Teachers, the PFT, Local 3 of the AFT, has been undermined for more than a decade by a combination of corporate «school reform» and the attempts by the union's leadership to compromise with the union busting and privatization policies of local Democrats and state Republicans.

These inspiring fights will leave a more lasting impression when teacher leaders use them to build their unions into powerful forces for social transformation.

Those of us on the SEE RESPECT ticket in the election know that our union needs to become more powerful in its defense of public education.

If these are about their suggestion that the unions do more to control the quality of the profession, they again ignore both the history and that teacher organizations are not all - powerful.

Opening up the TWUC membership means a larger, more powerful and better - financed union.

There are more than one million credit union members in Iowa, and by acting together, we can have a powerful impact on policy that affects our financial lives.

Nouvian has managed to rally the French public to her side as she's taken on powerful lobbies in her country and more broadly in Europe, ultimately helping to secure a European Union - wide ban on deep - sea trawling that started phasing in last year.

Hurricanes that intensify rapidly — a characteristic of almost all powerful hurricanes — do so more strongly and quickly now than they did 30 years ago, according to a studypublished recently in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

RICHLAND, Wash. — Hurricanes that intensify rapidly — a characteristic of almost all powerful hurricanes — do so more strongly and quickly now than they did 30 years ago, according to a study published recently in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

Hurricanes that intensify rapidly - a characteristic of almost all powerful hurricanes - do so more strongly and quickly now than they did 30 years ago, according to a study published recently in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

Now that the Sierra Club has joined with a coalition of environmental activist groups, labor unions, and other left - liberal groups to form the Democracy Initiative, the Sierra Club has an even more powerful platform to promote its radical agenda.

Hurricanes that intensify rapidly — a characteristic of almost all powerful hurricanes — do so more strongly and quickly now than they did 30 years ago, according to a study published recently in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.