Sentences with phrase «mostly white workers»

The Congress has already pass legislation that will reduce some union pension by more than half and the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to deal unions a major setback again effecting mostly white 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.

This helped spark an out - migration of mostly white, affluent and Republican - leaning residents, including many former defense - industry workers.

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.

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

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.

The adopted son of two postal workers, Williams, 52, graduated from Loyola, a Catholic, mostly white high school in Los Angeles, before serving in the Air Force and earning undergraduate, law, and public policy degrees from Yale and Harvard.

Black, red, tri-color or mostly white; long - coated, medium - coated, or short - coated; 25 pounds or 55 pounds, he is an obsessive - compulsive worker of immeasurable value to the sheep farmer.