Sentences with phrase «most powerful unions»

Seven of those Top 10 most powerful unions don't have any limitations on what they can negotiate into teacher contracts.

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.

«They're challenging a powerful bureaucracy and special interests — some of the most powerful unions in the state.»

The Civil Service Employees Association, one of the most powerful unions in Albany, makes no apologies for its vigorous defense of the group - home workers it represents.

The United Federation of Teachers, one of the most powerful unions in the city, has voted to recommend backing State Senator Adriano Espaillat in his bid to unseat Charlie Rangel, the dean of New York's congressional delegation.

ALBANY — Bernie Sanders may be the one supporting a $ 15 federal minimum wage, but it's Hillary Clinton who has scooped up support from almost all of the state's biggest and most powerful unions.

It's one of the most powerful unions in the five boroughs.

Cuomo and some of the state's most powerful unions will kick off the new year with a massive rally today to push for a $ 15 - an - hour statewide minimum wage.

In 2014, some of the state's most powerful unions coalesced behind the Democrats efforts to retake the chamber.

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.

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.

And the business leaders, organizing as the Committee to Save New York, have found a surprising ally: one of the most powerful union officials in the state.

California's teachers have some competition for the title of most powerful union in California.

Some senior Labour figures who know the inner circle well say that nothing will happen until Len McCluskey, his most powerful union backer, has secured re-election as the leader of Unite, in April.

It is no accident that the American labor movement has been kept afloat by the success of public - sector unions - and that the largest, most powerful union in the country is not the Teamsters or the United Auto Workers, but the National Education Association.

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.

Then finally, there's the national affiliate, which is usually the National Education Association, the biggest and most powerful union — and political entity — in the country.

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.

«As the nation's largest, most powerful union local, the UFT can and should lead the charge for real innovation in schools.

Over a decade ago New York City's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, and its most powerful union boss, Randi Weingarten, had a showdown over the handling of teachers who weren't... Continue reading NYC Is About To Send Hundreds of Troubled Teachers to Struggling Schools, and Nobody is Standing up for Children

According to an encouraging post by Mike Antonucci, the California Teachers Association (CFT's big union brother, and the most powerful union affiliate in the country) came out with some interesting new business items which are currently under review by its board of directors.

Not exact matches

With a combined economic might of some 13.9 trillion euros ($ 15.5 trillion) in 2014, the European Union is one of the most powerful economic powers in the world, dwarfing China's $ 10.3 trillion in the same year but not quite reaching the U.S» $ 17.4 trillion.

Speaking at Fortune «s Most Powerful Women International Summit in London, Gavet, whose company owns travel sites such as Priceline.com, Kayak.com and booking.com, said the European Union's effort to create its much - touted «single digital market» is «the biggest question for tech startups here in Europe.»

LONDON — Talks about forming a coalition government in Germany collapsed on Sunday, causing political instability in the most powerful country in the European Union.

He voted for results that favored labor unions even though he thought that union successes tended mainly to impoverish other workers, because his philosophy of struggle implied that unions should be allowed to employ their most powerful weapons.

The most powerful effort in the direction of Full Co-operatives, in Buber's opinion, has been the Village Communes which have taken the form of an organic union of agriculture, industry, and the handicrafts and of communal production and consumption.

The most powerful players were divided between a free trade perspective promoted by the USA and a cultural policy perspective defended by the European Union.

To begin with, as mentioned above, nostalgia for the original union of praxis and theoria propels some of the most powerful currents of modern philosophy; it may even be said to be a kind of shibboleth of fashionably self «critical moderns.

The monopoly is defended by what is probably the most powerful political lobby in America, the teachers» unions.

Samuel Balentine, professor of Old Testament at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, crafts powerful and imaginative understandings of some of the most central — and controversial — matters of the book's theology.

In 1987 Thatcher proclaimed «there is no such thing as society», 22 years later we have a community organiser, supported by the trade union movement, in the most powerful job in the world, President of the United States of America.

The union, one of the most powerful in the city, had called for Ponte's resignation after he fought to end the use of solitary — a move the union argued would only endanger correction officers» safety.

Politico reported last week that one of the president's top political advisers, Patrick Gaspard, took home nearly $ 40,000 last year from one of the country's most powerful labor unions — without telling a soul.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan), a staunch union ally, remained mum yesterday as The Post exclusively reported that Cuomo would tie the rating system to the state budget, an indication the Legislature's most powerful voice would not stand in the governor's way.

Could it be that the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers» union and one of the most politically powerful special interests in history, isn't really about educational effectiveness after all, and that the Democrat Congress is in the pockets of the NEA?

Bill Morris, former General Secretary of the Transport & General Workers Union (now part of Unite), once said that the most powerful position he had ever held was not at the TGWU, nor at the TUC, Bank of England, or BBC, but as chair of Labour's conference arrangements committee.

To defeat the union movement, they had figured, meant defeating the most powerful and economically significant of their number: the National Union of Mineworunion movement, they had figured, meant defeating the most powerful and economically significant of their number: the National Union of MineworUnion of Mineworkers.

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.

Opposing the convention is a broad array of powerful interest groups — including most of state's unions and environmental advocates — who argue that it would give business interests and other well - financed groups an avenue to weaken existing labor and environmental protections.

Jennifer Cunningham, a lobbyist for the state's gargantuan health - workers» union, which can be expected to provide the most powerful opposition to reforming New York's bloated Medicaid system, helped run Cuomo's 2006 race for attorney general and continues to serve as an informal adviser to him.

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.

Cunningham, who thanks to her years of widely respected lobbying and consulting work in state politics is often referred to as the most powerful woman in Albany, first became known as a prominent labor strategist, serving as political director for the 1199 / SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the most politically potent union in the state (and perhaps the entire Northeast).

But Jeremy Corbyn's most powerful ally in the trade union movement has provided a clue in the form a blistering article for the New Statesman.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's ruling that Superintendent Kriner Cash can circumvent the union contract to make changes at receivership schools will likely end in a court battle with one of the most powerful teachers unions in the country.

Next month, one of the most powerful labor unions in NYC can begin organizing workers at Tavern on the Green, which had been a union shop for decades.

Most Republican delegates have not yet committed to one of the three candidates, a Times Union survey found, but Maragos has an early lead with endorsements from powerful leaders on Long Island.

The most powerful man in Albany isn't accustomed to taking direction from anyone (save his union - boss patrons)-- but you can bet his ears perked up yesterday when former President Bill Clinton publicly pronounced himself strongly in favor of raising New York's charter - school cap.

The party stated Sunday that its local members as well as a list of public - and private - sector unions, some of them among the most powerful special interests in Albany, unanimously support Cuomo's platform, which he calls the New New York Agenda.

«This is one of the most powerful people in Albany charged with graft to line his pockets,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of good government group Citizens Union.

But the most ambitious proposals Mark - Viverito laid out Thursday have built - in opposition in the powerful leader of the correction officers» union.