Sentences with phrase «of labor movements»

This is Vinebaum's newest work in an ongoing series featuring the language of labor movements past and present, and in particular the language of the International Ladies» Garment Workers» Union.

Through participation, action, and dialogue, The Worker's Art Coalition gives attention to the diverse individuals who actively shape the developing history of labor movements and union organizing.

The good news is a wide range of experiments with new forms of mobilization and worker representation is now underway inside and outside of the labor movement.

The withering of the labor movement will further kneecap Democrats, keeping them out of power for a generation.

In 1919 they wrote of the labor movement: «Gone... for the moment is its responsiveness to moral obligation.

The global mobility of capital has also diminished the power and significance of the labor movement.

«Part of their power is they're so focused on themselves and willing to support elected officials, even if it's to the detriment of the rest of the labor movement.»

«It is still my sincere hope and goal to improve our relationship with the Senate leadership and to advance the many important interests of the labor movement in doing so.

Wiley Norvell, a spokesman for the mayor, responded to Cuomo's comments here with this statement: «This mayor and administration have proven themselves ardent supporters of working people and of the labor movement — nobody can argue that isn't the case with a straight face.

Dell Smitherman spent years in the rank - and - file of the labor movement and has shown his talent for mobilizing the power of working people for real change, a welcome addition to Albany.»

«As an immigrant, and longtime member of the labor movement, Marisol Alcantara is a candidate that UNITE HERE Local 100 trusts to fight for our members day in and day out,» said UNITE HERE Local 100 President Bill Granfield.

He has done this despite the default of the labor movement of which he is an active part as a Teamster; New York unions by and large have have rejected political independence and have chosen the path of least resistance, endorsing «winners» like Andrew Cuomo for governor, in the hopes of picking up a few fallen crumbs off the bargaining table.

Western New York Labor Federation President Richard Lipsitz says economic and political justice on the job is a key goal of the labor movement.

Later that same day, delegates will participate in a program focused on the future of the labor movement by well - known labor and social justice activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. in the Hart Theatre of The Egg, at 2 p.m. Fletcher is currently the director of Field Services and Education for the American Federation of Government Employees.

Its five members today hail from New York City, Rockland County and Madison County, and the members include Sen. Diane Savino, a Staten Island Democrat who came out of the labor movement and with whom Klein has been romantically involved for several years.

De Blasio said that the support of «the entire spectrum of the labor movement» for his initiative would help him secure the support of state lawmakers, who must approve city tax increases.

«As a result of his outreach to local unions, Dan is very familiar with the goals, issues and initiatives of the labor movement in his district.

«When you see the whole cross-section of the labor movement here in common cause, people should recognize that this is an important moment,» he said Monday.

The president of the New York State United Teachers federation, Karen Magee, spoke to a large crowd about the accomplishments of the labor movement including better safety conditions, weekends and the 40 - hour work week.

More likely he suddenly panicked at the prospect of following a Republican lead in scrapping something as close to the heart of the labor movement as seniority.

Just as he changed the narrative of the labor movement that too often «forgot» to advocate for Latinos, immigrants, the poorest of the poor and people of color, he saw that in education, educational outcomes for kids were not always part of the debate nor were they a priority.

He was the Padrino of the Labor movement and a fierce champion for education and education reform.

A longtime ally of the labor movement, Sanders is backing the two candidates who are supported by the local teachers union in a race that could shift control of the nation's second largest school district.

This specific attack aims at public sector unions, the last high - density stronghold of the labor movement.

Intertwining myriad voices, Wiley Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of the now forgotten struggle of the labor movement in early twentieth - century America - and pays tribute to the thousands of heroic women and men who risked their lives to win basic rights for all workers.

Much of the labor movement has grown more outspoken on climate change.

The Solidarity movement that eventually led to the end of Soviet control grew out of the labor movement, she added.

The Russian revolution started on it, which really turned the day from green to red in the minds of Americans, many of whom do not think much of the labor movement.

If done properly, the clean energy transition will lead to a massive expansion of good jobs, providing one of the biggest opportunities for growth of the labor movement over the next generation.

In addition, the AFL - CIO Legal Department frequently presents the views of the labor movement on federal regulatory initiatives affecting workers.

Not exact matches

(«I do not view the labor movement as part of the problem,» President Barack Obama said this morning at a White House reception.

Instead, America needs to invent, support and grow a new and renewed labor movement that fits the needs of today and tomorrow's workers and economy.

The state is, after all, the cradle of the American labor movement and the closed shop.

«The labor movement has increasingly come to realize that small to midsize companies are creating most of the new jobs in America,» Steed says.

Last year, the figure was 333,000, of which 184,000 came from the E.U. Even if you accept, as most do, that immigration has expanded the tax base and kept the price of both food and services down, the influx — for which there is no end in sight — is changing the face of the country too fast for the population to stomach, and the E.U.'s rules on free movement of labor are an easy target.

More than 1,000 Uber drivers are banding together in New York — the birthplace of the organized U.S. labor movement — to create an association that can represent their collective interests to the ride - sharing company's management.

TQM was demonstrated on a grand scale by Japanese industry through the intervention of W. Edwards Deming — who, in consequence, and thanks to his missionary labors in the U.S. and across the world, has come to be viewed as the «father» of quality control, quality circles, and the quality movement generally.

The flip side of the movement of mothers into the labor force has been a dramatic decline in the share of mothers who are now stay - at - home moms.

But in Germany the labor movement remains strong, and on workplace issues the mainstream political parties, the Christian Democrats as well as the Social Democrats, are well to the left of their American and British counterparts.

In the United States and the United Kingdom, the parties of the center Left, the Democrats and the Labour Party, have today lost this focus, and the labor movements in both countries are in long - term decline.

Given the terrible plunge in Help Wanted advertising and the likelihood of smaller movement out of the labor force, my expectation is that the unemployment rate will jump from the current 4.5 % to somewhere between 4.8 % and 5 %.

Commenting on Mr. Greenspan's remarks, David Hale of Kemper / Zurich International pointed out that as a result of Europe's more «rigid» (that is, unionized) labor markets, «If France or Germany had enjoyed America's success in reducing unemployment, their trade union movements would be pushing up wages aggressively and setting the stage for a monetary tightening to slow down the economy's growth rate.»

Financial frictions to geographic mobility can reduce this movement of individuals across labor markets leading to less - efficient outcomes for the economy.

The primary drivers behind this bearish movement were the release of a worse - than - expected US labor report and a Philadelphia Fed manufacturing survey disclosing falling employment and a declining new orders outlook.

There would still need to be movement of labor, because a huge number of EU citizens work in the United Kingdom.

It's that his personal history — not only the two divorces, but also the repeated affairs and the way he behaved during the dissolution of his marriages — makes him the most compromised champion imaginable for a movement that's laboring to keep lifelong heterosexual monogamy on a legal and cultural pedestal.

Protestant Christians either initiated or were at the forefront of every major social movement from abolition to child labor, from suffrage to civil rights.

Mr. Lens, a Chicago - based labor leader and activist in peace and radical movements, is the author of a number of books, including, most recently, The Promise and Pitfalls of Revolution.

His part of Switzerland had been heavily under the influence of Ragaz of Zurich, the blazing prophet of social Christianity who, like his friend Walter Rauschenbusch, saw in the labor movement the greatest single contemporary salient of the advancing kingdom of God.

We need the Wal - Mart worker who depends on her job despite its poor benefits as well as the leader of the local movement to boycott the megachain for its labor abuses.