Sentences with phrase «mostly white collar workers»

PEF is the state's second largest public employee union representing about 55,000 mostly white collar workers.

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PEF, a union of mostly white - collar workers, represents about 55,000 members and is the second - largest public workers union in the state.

Hawkins was in Albany today to meet with PEF, a labor group that represents mostly white - collar workers, and to hold a joint interview with Zephyr Teachout, the Fordham law professor challenging Cuomo on the Democratic ballot line.

Unlike some bigger labor counterparts — like SEIU 1199 and H.T.C., both firmly in Cuomo's corner — the union of some 55,000 mostly white - collar state workers isn't known as a political powerhouse.

In the decades since, the environmental justice movement has grown from a scrappy army of the poor and disenfranchised into a powerful coalition that united the mostly white and college - educated traditional environmentalists, trade unionists, blue - collar workers and residents of some of the nation's most contaminated neighborhoods.