Sentences with phrase «new labor secretary»

Providence labor and employment partner Andrew Prescott is quoted in this article about the new Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta and how he may impact the Labor Department rules and policies.

Not exact matches

With ports near gridlock and cargo delays being felt throughout the U.S. commercial supply chain, U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez plans to travel to San Francisco on Tuesday to help broker an agreement on a new contract between dockworkers and the group representing shippers and terminal operators.

Even so, «the fact of the matter is that in today's job market there are only two tracks — the fast track and the slow track,» says Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary and the author of a new book called Super-capitalism.

This summer, with all the good letters already taken, the former labor secretary Robert Reich wrote on his blog that the recovery might actually be shaped like an X (the imagery is elusive, but Reich's argument was that there can be no recovery until we find an entirely new model of economic growth).

A project of the State Game and Fish Department, it was built with penitentiary labor and installed under the authority of the New Mexico Secretary of State, who handles such official items as the state's official flower (yucca), official mammal (black bear) and official fish (cutthroat trout).

Ellison, who had lost his bid for DNC chairman against former Labor Secretary Tom Perez, had drawn the ire last week of liberal activists in New York when he posed for a selfie with IDC Sen. Marisol Alcantara.

New Jersey Democrat Tom Malinowski, a former assistant secretary of State for democracy, human rights, and labor, is among the latest additions to the DCCC's Red to Blue list.

President of the New York Hotel & Motel Trades Council, AFL - CIO; Business Manager of Hotel, Restaurant & Club Employees and Bartenders Union, Local 6; Recording Secretary of the International Union, UNITE HERE; Vice President of the New York City Central Labor Council, and Vice President of the New York State AFL - CIO.

Also at 12:30 p.m., New York City Fight for $ 15 workers, 32BJ SEIU and others protest during lunchtime rush at local McDonald's against Andy Puzder, Trump's labor secretary nominee, McDonald's at Broadway and Thomas Street, Manhattan.

Democrats chose former Labor Secretary Tom Perez as their new national chairman Saturday over a liberal Minnesota congressman, capping a divisive campaign that reflected the depths of the party's electoral failures as well as the energy from resistance to President Donald Trump.

When the national and New York Working Families Parties recently chose to support Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for president over Hillary Clinton, it was widely seen as something of a snub to the former secretary of state — especially since the labor - backed party had endorsed her when she ran for the US Senate in the Empire State.

As labor secretary, he pushed through new rules allowing more workers to get overtime pay and protecting retiree investments.

After receiving an endorsement from what some consider New York's most powerful labor group, SEIU Local 1199, and and immigrants» rights group, the former secretary of state said this office would build on what President Barack Obama has done with immigration.

And U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez joins me here in the studio to talk about those new jobs numbers.

She also serves as secretary - treasurer of the New York City Central Labor Council.

ALBANY, NY (07/10/2007)(readMedia)-- Today, at a regularly scheduled Executive Board meeting of the New York State AFL - CIO, Terrence Melvin was unanimously elected Secretary Treasurer of the 2 1/2 million member State Labor Federation.

«No matter how you cut it, there is no worse pick for labor secretary than Andrew Puzder, and I'm encouraged my Republican colleagues are starting to agree,» the New York Democrat said.

Washington DC (WBEN / AP)- Democrats have a new national party chairman and it's Tom Perez, who was labor secretary under President Barack Oback.

With no final decision on the lawsuit expected until well after the Trump administration takes office — and with administration appointees including the proposed secretary of labor and the Republican - controlled Congress apparently opposed to the change — observers believe that, even were the new rule to survive court scrutiny, it would likely be overturned.

One day, Edward Banfield brought in as guest lecturer to his Urban Problems course a young assistant labor secretary from Washington named Moynihan to talk about LBJ's new War on Poverty — my first glimpse of the man who would become my most important mentor and teacher.

For Long, the presence of both the Secretary of Education and Secretary of Labor at the summit was particularly significant, indicating a new link between the departments.

But the president fell short of the ambitious goals he set in the 1992 campaign, his former secretary of labor says in a new memoir.

Other sources say it was Matthew Macguire, a machinist and secretary for the Central Labor Union in New York.

New York — On Thursday, January 18, 2018, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) is expected to vote on the nomination of Kenneth Marcus to serve as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Education.

And as a former Secretary of Labor, I'm pleased to note this plan also has a workforce component, to help workers access the skills needed to build these new projects.

Downey brings some much - deserved attention to this political pioneer in The Woman Behind the New Deal: Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience.

Federal agencies and laws in Congress — The new Secretary of Labor was appointed in April 2017 and is still getting settled in the role.

We have litigated numerous matters before the Secretary of Labor, Labor Standards Administration, California and New York Labor Commissioners and state and federal courts involving California and New York State Prevailing Wage Laws, the Davis - Bacon Act, the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act, the Fitzgerald Act and related laws and regulations.

«Fareed Zakaria GPS,» 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on CNN: Saul Cornell, professor of American history at Fordham University; Adam Lankford, associate professor in criminology & criminal justice at the University of Alabama; Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies, history, and politics, New York University and Princeton University; David Sanger of The New York Times; Steve Phillips, founder of Democracy in Color; Hilda Solis, supervisor, Los Angeles County, District 1 and former U.S. secretary of labor.

Last week, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announced seven new grant awards totaling $ 39.7 million, an investment focused on helping non-custodial parents become better fathers by connecting them to job opportunities and teaching them the skills they need to keep these jobs and support their families financially.