Sentences with phrase «of business lobbies»

They have the politics of the business lobbies married to the sensibilities of the been - to - grad - school credentialed professions.

The problem with Romney and the post-Romney Republican establishment is that they too often focused on the priorities of the business lobbies.

Ever since the poor white souitherner has been exploited and taken for granted by the interest of the business lobby in DC and reminded constantly that their «rights» (to discriminate, I guess) has been eroded.

The Globe and Mail reports that Ford's family business (in which he continues to retain a financial interest) helped a client of the business lobby the city «in an unsuccessful bid to conduct a strategic review of Toronto's $ 9 - million in - house printing division.»

Carolyn Fairbairn, director general of the business lobbying organisation the CBI, called on the government to «act with urgency to minimise the uncertainties that affect investment decisions and slow job creation.»

Not exact matches

But to the apparent surprise of the Trudeau government, and, frankly, to some of us who pay attention to these things, the opposition and the business lobby have decided to take a stand over a business owner's right to squeeze as much as he or she can from the tax system.

Yesterday, at Canadian Business for Social Responsibility's annual Forum, I got the chance to ask keynote speaker Stephen Lewis about the ethics of lobbying.

«One of the things I am doing is not just lobbying the British government but lobbying businesses to press upon their governments the fact that a hard Brexit would be bad for London and for Europe too,» Khan said.

But small business groups such as the National Federation of Independent Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are vocal opponents, and have lobbied extensively to fight the passage of wage reform bills in Cbusiness groups such as the National Federation of Independent Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are vocal opponents, and have lobbied extensively to fight the passage of wage reform bills in CBusiness and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are vocal opponents, and have lobbied extensively to fight the passage of wage reform bills in Congress.

This is another membership benefit which, like its current lobbying activity on behalf of motorists, doesn't derive a direct profit for the RAC but still sits comfortably with its core business.

Amid the countdown this week toward a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, a battle has escalated about funding for a small business lobby group.

But while the nonprofit, nonpartisan lobby group says it represents the interests of small business owners, some Democrats are raising questions about both its funding sources and its tax status.

That includes the creation of a CPP - supplemented Ontario Retirement Pension Plan, a scheme that business lobbies have derided as a payroll tax.

The praise is not completely unfounded: the ASBL points to «Sen. Obama's record of rising above the influence of big business lobbying.»

Prized by the business lobby, loathed by unionized labour, the temporary foreign worker program is either a solution to or an exacerbation of a problem that may or may not exist.

More alarmingly, it has been lobbying against traditional theater - only cinematic runs for new movie releases — leading John Fithian, CEO of the National Association of Theatre Owners trade organization, to call out Netflix at a recent conference as a «grave threat to the movie business.»

Not long ago, in the lobby of a hotel near Harvard Business School, I noticed a slightly disheveled man in a black ski jacket, singing softly to himself.

The inclusion of broader business lobbies is «an attempt to graduate to a new level of urgency» for policymakers to arrest the problem, said Jonathan Grella, a U.S. Travel vice president.

Over at the National Federation of Independent Business, the conservative lobbying group, tax counsel Chris Whitcomb says that the most urgent business in Washington is to postpone the tax cuts for evBusiness, the conservative lobbying group, tax counsel Chris Whitcomb says that the most urgent business in Washington is to postpone the tax cuts for evbusiness in Washington is to postpone the tax cuts for everybody.

While collecting this type of information can be valuable to business owners, if the collective outcry over the NSA's data - mining efforts is any indicator then customers may have a negative knee - jerk reaction to having their movements tracked and recorded every time they go to a coffee shop or pass through a hotel lobby.

More than 80 % of members of a U.S. business lobby in China say foreign companies are less welcome than in the past, a survey released on Wednesday showed, with most saying they have little confidence in China's vows to open its markets.

Regulatory changes had been in the wind for some time as the evidence against the program built up, yet employers relied on the lobbying efforts of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business to maintain the program rather than taking steps to improve domestic recruitment and training efforts or adjust wages and benefits to attract workers.

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Business Insider reported on Friday that Bank of America had been lobbying shareholders who own as few as 500 shares in the hopes of winning their votes.

Most of those cases were filed this year, according to a study released by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation's largest business lobbying group.

As executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, a Los Angeles - based lobby group for the porn business, Duke, who previously worked for Planned Parenthood, leads many of the industry's anti-piracy efforts.

Anyway, if you work in one of the few organizations that haven't yet been bitten by this egregiously awful management fad, here are 16 solid arguments why private offices, working from home, and even cubicles are better for business than these glorified hotel lobbies.

Business Insider reported last week, meanwhile, that the California State Teachers» Retirement System, one of the biggest pension funds in the world, was lobbying shareholders to vote against the proposal.

The Chamber on Monday launched the latest chapter of its on - going lobbying campaign, aiming to highlight the concerns its small - business members have with the legislation.

Much of the broader solar industry in the US, which is composed of businesses that install solar panels, lobbied against these tariffs.

Of course the taxi lobby and its cozy relationship with local government will never let a business like Uber exist!

Edward Walker, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles who focuses on grass - roots lobbying by businesses, said such a public call to mobilize against Airbnb was unusual.

The first blow has already fallen, says Fergal O'Brien of IBEC, a business lobby group.

That's part of the reason US companies spent the past few weeks lobbying against the proposed tariffs, arguing that they'd raise costs for their businesses and make Chinese - made goods, like iPhones, more expensive for US customers.

«We're 5 percent of the world population,» said Mr. Oberhelman, who spoke in his capacity as president of the Business Roundtable, a pro-trade lobby.

«We're making progress, but the pace of change in the private sector is so great and the pace of change in government is so slow, even to get a budget passed, let alone get a turnaround in the fiscal situation,» said Joe Brennan, president of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association, a lobbying group.

Moving beyond the old fashioned approach of lobbying government each time their interests seemed threatened, the CCCE (formerly the Business Council on National Issues) sought to anticipate governments» moves and strike before government could.

Emails WEDC released to the Wisconsin State Journal under the state open records law show that WMC, the state's largest business lobby, alerted WEDC in June that other states were seeking to lure Kraft Heinz facilities out of Wisconsin.

Indeed, the project quotes Chamber President Thomas Donohue as stating that «the Chamber is in the business of providing «reinsurance» to companies that need help lobbying for positions that aren't publicly or politically palatable.»

Instead, legislators appear to have bought into the false notion that pass - throughs are small businesses, and are responding to the organized efforts of trade groups composed of pass - throughs, who push that narrative aggressively (and with the help of pass - through lobbying firms).

Meanwhile, bigger businesses with deeper pockets also re-allocate resources towards lobbying efforts in hopes of gaining favored regulatory treatment and / or using regulations to limit competition.

Using nearly half of the 46 - page letter to promote his views on public policies, Dimon played to his roles as the public face of Wall Street and the chairman of the Business Roundtable, a CEO lobbying group.

In hindsight, Carney would have been wise to heed a particularly prescient warning by the Confederation of British Industries, the country's largest business lobby group, issued the month before his arrival in London.

In a week when business lobby groups are appearing before the House of Commons Committee on Finance and calling for more tax breaks, the federal R&D Panel appointed a year ago released a very good report saying Canada's very generous system of R&D tax incentives haven't been effective and what we need instead are more direct grants -LSB-...]

«Jack and I are going to do great things for small business,» Trump said, standing alongside the Alibaba founder in the lobby of Trump Tower.»

Aetna made an issue last year of its presence in Connecticut when it joined other businesses lobbying Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the General Assembly to roll back proposed tax increases.

That's why big business groups like the US Chamber of Commerce are ramping up their lobbying effort against the US negotiators» latest demands.

At the same retreat, Cantor and the House Republican leadership demonstrated that, while they are trying to learn to talk about the concerns of employees, they are practically focused on doing the bidding of the Washington business lobbies.

anyone who is in the lobby industry or marketing research knows about this business but the majority of the average forum readers have no clue that the person they are talking with is in character and secretly copying their info and telling some lobby if they agree or disagree with their agenda.