Sentences with phrase «national labor movement»

They also inspired a stronger national labor movement that would go on to win such institutions as collective bargaining, the weekend and the eight hour day.

Sanders credits a national labor movement with pushing 15.

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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.»

Turning the Obama network into a vast national party organization could give Democrats durable advantages that the party has not enjoyed since the New Deal era, when Franklin Roosevelt built an alliance between local political machines and a growing labor movement.

Cuomo, who has faced criticism from public - sector unions, basked in the praise of private - sector labor allies with whom he has had a much closer relationship, and which have led a national movement for a $ 15 minimum wage.

On May 3rd the New York State AFL - CIO issued a resolution urging the National AFL - CIO to consider Senator Clinton's exemplary track record of working with the organized labor movement in New York on behalf of the needs and concerns of working men and women.

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

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.

WASHINGTON — The National Education Association has made another step toward allying itself more closely with its chief rival, the American Federation of Teachers, as well as with other education associations and the labor movement as a whole.

An agreement announced last week allowing local National Education Association unions to affiliate with the AFL - CIO signals that the NEA is willing to tighten ranks with the rest of the American labor movement in the face of formidable economic and political changes.

Lee Saunders, the national president of AFSCME, was also given the microphone at the event and explained that «Connecticut's governor's race nationally and how the labor movement can't afford Connecticut becoming another Wisconsin.»

While labor activists like to think of the strikes as a sign of a resurgent labor movement, a recent article by Jason Walta, senior counsel for the National Education Association, the largest teachers» union in the country, strongly indicates otherwise.

1) National: The labor and anti-privatization movements lost one of their giants last week with the passing of Paul Booth.

It examines forced as well as voluntary migrations and places these movements within their historical context, including ethnic cleansing, population exchanges, and demographic engineering in the service of nation - building as well as more recent labor migration due to globalization.Inside, readers will find the work of international experts that cuts across national and disciplinary lines.

Jones and the Ella Baker Center worked to unify the labor and environmental movements in the San Francisco area around green jobs, while Apollo tried to influence policymakers at the national level.

The American environmental and labor movements have often been on opposite sides of the table, whether the issue is drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or raising fuel economy standards on American - made cars.

But in what reads like an essay in Hegelian dialectics, Yale labor law professor Benjamin I. Sachs argues that the stagnation of federal labor law and the dysfunction of the National Labor Relations Board is giving rise to a reinvention of labor law and a new dynamism within the labor movelabor law professor Benjamin I. Sachs argues that the stagnation of federal labor law and the dysfunction of the National Labor Relations Board is giving rise to a reinvention of labor law and a new dynamism within the labor movelabor law and the dysfunction of the National Labor Relations Board is giving rise to a reinvention of labor law and a new dynamism within the labor moveLabor Relations Board is giving rise to a reinvention of labor law and a new dynamism within the labor movelabor law and a new dynamism within the labor movelabor movement.

A national collaboration of 27 organizations that help legal service providers and allies in the faith and labor movements prepare for immigration reform and administrative relief implementation.