Sentences with phrase «of campaign workers»

April 22, 2018 • «It's been far too long that workers in this industry have been exploited,» said Ihaab Syed, the secretary of the Campaign Workers Guild.

He said he was proud of his campaign workers who spread the word of his principles without spending the huge sums the Democratic and Republican parties did.

The complaint said Rose's campaign got sweetheart deals on services that included get - out - the vote operations, voter lists and the services of campaign workers.

Arroyo was reelected to the City Council in 2013 despite three of her campaign workers getting charged with forging almost 100 signatures on her primary ballot petitions, including Derek Jeter's and Kate Moss's.

As longstanding Nassau County legislator John Ciotti (D - Elmont) tries to distance himself from the racist and sexist shenanigans of his campaign workers, the sister of his opponent, Mickey Solages the victim of harassing taunts by a loose cannon that identifies as Republican, caught it all on tape.

After all, labor, especially the public - sector unions, spends big on politics — and also supplies legions of campaign workers to help its friends and fight its enemies.

«He doesn't have much more to go on, so he's chasing around a bunch of his campaign workers.

I especially want to give a shout out to all of the campaign workers, volunteers, and behind the scenes folks that really made this possible.

I am a die hard Michael Grimm supporter and also am one of his campaign workers.

Even though the workers know the jobs are temporary, lots of campaign workers are absolutely passionate about their jobs and their candidate.

In 2008, the Board of Elections began examining Castro's eligibility to run as a resident of the 86th district after allegations that numerous voters were registered at the same addresses as his home and that of campaign worker Steve Santana.

Chappaquiddick (****) This retelling of the death of campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara) during a car accident in 1969 while riding with Senator Ted Kennedy (Jason Clarke) is absolutely perfect.

The movie never made during Ted Kennedy's lifetime purports to examine his role in events leading to the death of campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara).

The film chronicles the tragedy when Ted Kennedy drove his car off a bridge, ending the life of campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne and his chance at the White House.

Not exact matches

The issues of globalisation and «social dumping» took centre - stage in France's campaign after Le Pen used the relocation of a Whirlpool factory in northern France to Poland to paint Macron as a globalist who did not care about workers.

The film alleges that the COS was only declared tax - exempt by the IRS after it waged a decades - long campaign against the agency, which included filing dozens of lawsuits against both the organization and individual IRS workers, and hiring private investors and fake journalists to dig up incriminating information about individual IRS workers.

On the campaign trail, she announced her opposition to the deal, citing failings such as its lack of support for U.S. workers.

We explore JPMorgan Chase's bold and urgent campaign to revive one of America's iconic industrial cities and Levi Strauss's effort to make life better for some of the 300,000 garment workers who make its jeans.

Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader who is half - heartedly campaigning for the U.K. to remain the E.U., is almost certainly another closet Brexit supporter, a Socialist who sees the E.U. as the stooge of global capitalism, eroding workers» rights with its neo-liberal focus on the Single Market.

Trump, known for his use of Twitter to drive political debate, tweeted about an Indiana air conditioner maker he featured in his election campaign as an emblem of trade deals he said were unfavorable to American workers.

The Fight for $ 15 campaign has galvanized workers across the country to demand the kind of living wages that they are entitled to receive.

A report by Anzalone Research Group published by Fast Food Forward, the campaign behind the fast food strikes in New York, found that of the 500 fast food workers it surveyed in New York in April 2013, 84 % said that their employer had committed at least one form of wage theft in the past year.

The campaigning workers have received considerable support from one of the country's largest unions, the Service Employees International Union.

The growing number of discrimination lawsuits against Tesla come as the company is also facing a unionization campaign from the United Auto Workers.

More than 1,000 fast - food workers gathered outside Chicago for a two - day convention which aimed to celebrate recent successes in the campaign for better workers» rights and drum up energy and ideas for a new wave of demonstrations.

Bob White and the auto workers captured the attention of many Canadians by breaking away from their American parent union in 1985 and then leading an inspired campaign against the Mulroney government's proposed free trade agreement with the United States.

«Executives from Cambridge Analytica, hired by the Trump presidential campaign, have been caught on tape promising an extraordinary package of strategies to potential clients including filming opponents in compromising situations with Ukrainian sex workers,» The Daily Beast writes of U.K. station Channel 4's documentary.

Saunders, the president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, says that Canadian workers and their pensions are more exposed to risk during market trouble because of the successful campaign over the past decades to move from defined benefit pensions, which guarantee a certain monthly amount when you retire, to defined contribution plans, promoted by market enthusiasts.

Today, fast - food workers — who most often work for franchisees — are campaigning for a new minimum wage of $ 15 an hour.

In accordance with his campaign promises on the issue of trade, Trump's already starting to go after China for both its trade policies that hurt American workers and its geopolitical ambitions.

«This is a frivolous and blatant, politically - motivated complaint that makes a mockery of the Federal Election Commission process,» the Tillis campaign said in a statement, adding it «never employed foreign workers or improperly coordinated with outside groups.»

«Instead of Walmart paying its workers what they deserve for their work, Walmart is merely offering to pay more — for more work,» said Randy Parraz, director of Making Change at Walmart, a campaign run by the United Food and Commercial Workers Internationalworkers what they deserve for their work, Walmart is merely offering to pay more — for more work,» said Randy Parraz, director of Making Change at Walmart, a campaign run by the United Food and Commercial Workers InternationalWorkers International Union.

IG Metall's campaign follows a 6.3 per cent pay increase over two years secured for 2m public sector workers last month by Ver.di, the services union, after weeks of stoppages.

She has worked for over 20 years leading economic justice organizing campaigns to expand worker rights, immigrant rights, and the rights of low income and underrepresented communities of color.

My congratulations to all the PSAC members who ran as candidates, and to all of the other public service workers who ran and who worked hard on campaigns.

In my last post I noted a recent memo from a higher - up at the Department of Justice, trying to intimidate public service workers who want to get involved in the current election campaign.

As part of Royal Mail's Digital Pride campaign, which lets LGBT employees tell their stories about coming out, a box was painted in the colors of the rainbow flag, and trans workers spoke to press about transitioning while working for the Royal Mail.

The English Collective of Prostitutes was founded in 1982 to campaign for the decriminalisation of prostitution and to campaign for sex workers» rights and safety.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

But the past 100 years of missionary campaigning has brought to light an almost endless number of problems and difficulties about which these missionary workers — both those at the front and those administering the enterprise at home — have good reasons to hold divergent opinions.

Writing of his campaign to ensure that every American had health insurance, Kennedy told Benedict of his commitment to protect conscience rights for Catholic healthcare workers.

In choosing senior campaign workers, Hillary Clinton evidently valued loyalty above all other virtues, and defined loyalty as never being critical of the boss.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

The Sweetest Job campaign is a fantastic example of what can be done to support farmers to find the workers they need.

Today, a protest campaign in front of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) was held by hundreds of farmers and civil society supporters led by the National Women Farmers and Workers Association (NWFA) and Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (BAFLF).

Now, Nobis and other agricultural workers around the state are keeping an anxious eye on President Trump, who campaigned on tearing up trade deals he feels are bad for U.S.e workers, and is reportedly preparing to pull out of a free trade agreement with South Korea as early as this week.

With vacation days expiring for many workers at the end of the year, Hilton Hotels & Resorts announces «International Use It or Lose It Week,» a holiday campaign from November 18 — 22, 2013, that encourages working professionals everywhere to use their hard - earned vacation days and enjoy leisure time with friends and family this holiday season.

«Our Vacationitis campaign champions leisure travel and we're encouraging workers to take advantage of their unused vacation days before they expire.»

BFLG is campaigning for manufacturers and distributors to respect the law, stop spending millions on advertising, baby clubs, targeting of health workers etc..

Baby Milk Action has embarked on its «Say NO to formula company sponsorship «campaign in response to the many messages of concern we receive from health workers who are targeted by companies and also dismayed to see events they might otherwise attend being sponsored by companies.