Sentences with phrase «number of labor unions»

The group New Yorkers Against Corruption includes the NYS Conservative Party, a number of labor unions, Right to Life, Planned Parenthood, and local GOP and Democratic party chapters.

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Finally, a growing number of union leaders are abandoning the futile efforts to achieve incremental reforms of the current ossified and defunct labor law and instead are calling for opening up labor law to encourage and protect workers who experiment with these and other more fluid and varied activities free from reprisals.

What's more, a number of unions on college campuses are allying with non-governmental organizations, such as United Students against Sweatshops to hold corporations accountable for enforcing labor standards throughout their global supply chains.

Such congregations — perhaps because they are made up of a disproportionate number of parishioners who are in management — commonly think of labor unions as corrupt and grasping.

Yet in both labor unions and churches, the official group pronouncements are on a higher level of insight than the actual practices of great numbers of their membership.

The number of independent contractors in Australia has fallen in recent years — 1.11 million contractors in 2010 to 986,000 by 2013 — which the Abbott government has blamed on a «concerted attack» by the Tax Office and the Fair Work building and construction taskforce under the previous Labor government to push people into more union - friendly arrangements.

At the same time, a number of ex-convicts also had infiltrated stockholder lists and labor racketeers controlled the hiring of thousands of track employees, exacting kick - backs and managing union funds for their own benefit.

A state Board of Elections memorandum made public last week details allegations of a complex partnership between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a number of political consulting firms and labor unions and also county Democratic committees to influence contested state Senate races in 2014.

It might be tough for them to do so, especially if they're holding out hope of landing the Working Families Party line, since Cuomo's agenda includes a number of initiatives labor unions dislike — including the tax cap and a public employee wage freeze.

Arcuri voted «no» on the health care reform bill, which cost him the support of the labor - backed Working Families Party and a number of unions, including 1199 - SEIU.

A number of organized labor groups have lined up to provide early endorsements to Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he seeks a third term this fall and faces a new primary challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon, with the latest nod coming from the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1500, New York's largest supermarket workers union.

Despite the opposition from the Queens party establishment, Sanders maintains endorsements from a number of progressive groups and labor unions.

De Blasio, along with the Working Families Party and a number of the so - called progressive labor unions (HTC, 32 BJ, SEIU 1199 etc.), is supporting Sen. Eric Schneiderman for AG.

And, as a reader pointed out, it was produced and posted by the Senate Democrat - controlled (and taxpayer - funded) media services unit just two weeks before Espada faces off against his two primary opponents: Gustavo Rivera (who is being backed by a number of the majority leader's colleagues and labor unions) and Dan Padernacht.

Gov. Cuomo, backed by labor leaders including UFT President Michael Mulgrew (center), signs legislation at UFT headquarters to reduce the number of services that New York's public sector unions are obligated to provide to workers who do not pay to support those services.

The teachers union has a number of labor allies in this effort, including the new labor - backed Strong Economy for All Coalition, which is targeting nine senators around the state with a radio / mail campaign.

According to another labor source involved in these talks, a number of the largest and most significant unions — including 1199 SEIU, HTC, the laborers, RWDSU, and the UFT — were prepared to call it quits with the WFP, knowing that their withdrawal could very well lead to the party's «collapse.»

Much of that came in the form of smaller donations from individuals, as well as bigger funds from the many unions and organizations that have endorsed Rivera over the last month or so (like 1199 SEIU, the Committee of Interns and Residents, and a number of other labor groups.)

«One only needs to look to the Working Families Party (WFP)-- whose leadership includes a number of high - ranking labor union officials — to see what organized labor has been able to accomplish politically,» the group wrote in its report.

The Manhattan lawmaker has a number of heavyweight labor unions on his side to help get out the vote and has styled himself as the liberal go - to candidate for black, Latino and gay voters.

LaVenia says the party targeted registered Greens, who now number 18,000, but also registered members of the labor - sponsored Working Families Party, which rather humiliatingly caved in the face of an endorse - or - die ultimatum by Cuomo, who campaigned as a union - tamer.

«If unions or anyone give money to any of these groups, they can lose my number,» Mr. Cuomo said during a meeting with labor unions last week, according to Bill Lipton, state director of the Working Families Party.

Union officials say there are a number of affordable housing developments using union labor, including the huge Pacific Park (formerly Atlantic Yards) project in BrooUnion officials say there are a number of affordable housing developments using union labor, including the huge Pacific Park (formerly Atlantic Yards) project in Broounion labor, including the huge Pacific Park (formerly Atlantic Yards) project in Brooklyn.

A coalition of labor unions and contractors has opened a multimillion - dollar media and lobbying campaign to overhaul a housing program that they say swaps large tax breaks for a paltry number of apartments for poor and working - class New Yorkers.

The arrangement had many detractors, including a large number of carriage drivers and some other labor unions.

The deficit number could also go up depending on the outcome of contract negotiations with Westchester's largest labor union, the Civil Service Employee's Association.

Comrie has stockpiled an important number of endorsements, from labor unions to lawmakers, including Councilman I. Daneek Miller (D - St.

A 2011 report issued by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Status of the Geoscience Workforce, argued that based on graduation rates of geoscience graduate students (approximately 1500 per year) and job - growth numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there will be a U.S. workforce «shortfall» estimated at 30,000 geoscientists by 2018.

There will be a growing substitution of technology for labor and thus a steep decline in the number of teachers (and union members) per student; a dispersion of the teaching labor force, which will no longer be so geographically concentrated in districts (because online teachers can be anywhere); and a proliferation of new online providers and choice options, attracting away students, money, and jobs.

Unions for Jobs and the Environment (UJAE), an organization of 12 national and international labor unions, including the United Mine Workers, the Teamsters and the Sheet Metal Workers, thinks the ozone revision «would lead to significant job losses across the country during a period of high unemployment, due to the significant increase in the number of counties classified as nonattainment.&Unions for Jobs and the Environment (UJAE), an organization of 12 national and international labor unions, including the United Mine Workers, the Teamsters and the Sheet Metal Workers, thinks the ozone revision «would lead to significant job losses across the country during a period of high unemployment, due to the significant increase in the number of counties classified as nonattainment.&unions, including the United Mine Workers, the Teamsters and the Sheet Metal Workers, thinks the ozone revision «would lead to significant job losses across the country during a period of high unemployment, due to the significant increase in the number of counties classified as nonattainment.»

In Illinois, litigants involving pension funds representing labor unions frequently attach the unredacted list of all union members and their Social Security numbers.

We have represented clients in lawsuits against labor unions, taking a number of significant cases through successful jury trials.

Its representes both private and public sector employers in a number of traditional labor law matters, including employer defense in labor arbitrations of all types, employment discrimination litigation, wrongful discharge and related tort cases, union organizing campaigns, and collective bargaining negotiations.

Its representes both private and public sector employers in a number of traditional labor law matters, including employer defense in labor arbitrations of all types, employment discrimination litigation, wrongful discharge and related tort cases, union organizing campaigns, and collective bargaining negotiations.