A pair
of labor unions on Friday announced they are withdrawing from the Working Families Party a day before Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon is potentially endorsed by the ballot line.
Not exact matches
The Service Trades Council
Union — a coalition
of various smaller
unions that represents workers at Disney World — officially filed a complaint with the National
Labor Relations Board over the withheld bonuses
on Monday.
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability
of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses
on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost
of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates
of certain aircraft; 6) the effect
on aircraft demand and build rates
of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect
of global economic conditions
on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result
of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect
of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution
of key milestones such as the receipt
of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation
of our announced acquisition
of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability
of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk
of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact
on Boeing's and Airbus» production
of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from
labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts
of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact
on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak
of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns
on pension plan assets and the impact
of future discount rate changes
on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition
of Asco
on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect
of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect
of changes in tax law, such as the effect
of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted
on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations
of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect
of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence
on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability
of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass
of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the
unions representing many
of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments
on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment
of interest
on, and principal
of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness
of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness
of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact
of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition
of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result
of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks
of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions
of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
Deep policy divisions appear to exist between the business and
labor groups: The report cites the «majority»
of members preferring to focus
on issues outside trade deficits in favor
of a «mutually beneficial» trade deal, sentiments to which the
labor union representatives dissent in favor
of promoting U.S. investment and jobs.
«I think it's too early to make any judgments
on what I would call the very short opening statement, and we'll see what happens as we go forward,» Gerard told reporters at a conference
of the BlueGreen Alliance, a coalition
of large
labor unions and environmental groups.
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton struggled with how to secure the endorsement
of labor unions while announcing her opposition to the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a project they supported but environmentalists opposed, according to leaked emails published by Wikileaks
on Friday.
Ben Wyatt's short - lived challenge for leadership
of the
Labor Party has highlighted the influence
of the key powerbrokers, namely
unions on both the right and left.
«John cares deeply and is committed to the dual mandate and has led extensive work
on the U.S.
labor markets and employment,» added Sara Horowitz, founder
of the Freelancers
Union, chair
of the New York Fed's board
of directors and co-chair
of the search committee.
The right - to - work drive in Michigan is the latest
of a series
of setbacks for
labor unions in the United States, beginning in 2011, when Wisconsin's Walker pushed through the legislature limits
on public sector
unions such as teachers.
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.
A simple approach to the problem, suggested originally by the CWA
labor union and reportedly under consideration by the Trump administration, would dole out the visas in order
of an employee's rank based
on salary.
Last month, the
union filed a complaint with a federal
labor board
on behalf
of scores
of workers who it says were laid off because they support the
union.
In order to implement
labor reforms, Macron is going to have to take
on the French
unions and reduce their political power, which is immense and which has been accumulated over decades
of French political infighting.
«We can not sit
on a council for a president who tolerates bigotry and domestic terrorism,» said a joint statement from Richard Trumka, the
labor union's president, and Thea Lee, its chief
of staff.
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.»
Over the past decade, it has funded the right's assault
on labor unions, climate scientists, public schools, economic regulations, and the very premise
of activist government.
As
of the end
of 2016, about 88 %
of that was managed
on behalf
of institutional clients (corporations,
labor unions, pension funds, and the like), while approximately 12 % was managed
on behalf
of individual clients, which are principally family offices and high - net - worth individuals.
But
on either view, baptism involves a lifelong engagement to grow in
union with Christ and
labor in the service
of the gospel.
When,
on the wall
of a
labor union headquarters, we read, «Love thy neighbor, but organize him,» we see the necessity; yet we instinctively sense the threat that every organization,
labor unions no more than any other, makes to the free personal relationship.
There are many forms
of community in existence — family, neighborhood, school, the people one works with or plays with, the team one plays
on or cheers for, bridge clubs, political parties,
labor unions, Rotary clubs, Masons, the «solid south,» Florida versus California, the nation, and a host
of other groupings in between.
In any case, it is clear that, as every papal encyclical and major Protestant pronouncement in this century
on labor has affirmed, trade
unions are an essential instrument
of justice for working people and an indispensable and positive part
of democratic societies.
Thus, many people have been able to assume that our leaders were justified in lying about the Cambodian bombings, that a
labor union can pursue a policy which its members would deem immoral
on the level
of individual behavior, that a committee to re-elect a president is perhaps justified in engaging in acts not acceptable in private behavior.
A UN Commission
on Transnational Corporations devoted about 15 years
of study and negotiation
on a draft Code
of Conduct for Transnational Corporations that included a general provision requiring transnational corporations to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms in the countries where they operate and more detailed provisions
on observance
of laws
on labor relations and involvement
of trade
unions.
Perusing the index
of Origins, the weekly publication
of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy
on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing
of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities
of the Association
of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism
of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and
labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions
of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.
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.
Neuhaus» National Catholic Register interview in which he said that the Cardinal's support
of labor unions was «a weakness rather than a strength,» I said that he «never spoke that way about the Cardinal's stand
on labor issues while the Cardinal was alive.»
Because
of the low wages they pay workers in South Africa and Latin America, treating their financial losses as tax write offs, when
labor negotiations were going
on and violence threatened, the companies certainly had the upper hand; the
unions accepted a substantial cut in wages and benefits.
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.
Former
Labor president and Health Services
Union secretary Michael Williamson was reportedly
on the board
of a radiology company selling ser...
The story behind Russia's vast success at Squaw Valley was the same as it had been at Cortina: a massive sports program enveloping schools and clubs and
labor unions and the military service, state encouragement, frequent outright aid to the specially talented, a fierce desire
on the part
of the individual to triumph, less for himself or his organization than for Mother Russia.
The rest
of the year she swims and runs
on a
labor union track team.
Now, we've entered a new, overt phase
of the
labor war where ownership, emboldened by a weakened players»
union, have focused
on greed above all, and baseball itself is in danger.
Information for the submission was drawn from Baby Milk Action (marketing
of breastmilk substitutes, water pumping in São Lourenço, Brazil), International
Labor Rights Forum (child slavery and labour in the cocoa supply chain, Labour rights abuses in Colombia),
Union of Filipro Employees (Labour rights abuses in the Philippines), Corporate Accountability International (Conflicts with communities over water resources), Attac Switzerland (Spying
on campaign organisations), with additional information drawn from Food Inc. published by the UK Food Group (reference in the submission, treatment
of dairy and coffee farmers).
AG Andrew Cuomo chose
Labor Day weekend to call
on state employee
unions to make sacrifices «in the spirit
of cooperation» like they did in the 1970s to help solve New York's fiscal crisis.
This weekend, Leslie Wayne reported in The Caucus that the very successful Democratic fundraising site ActBlue is trying to expand beyond its emphasis
on candidates and into the world
of fundraising for political action committees and
labor unions.
Cuomo has mostly stayed out
of the
labor dispute despite calls from the
union for him to put pressure
on Con Ed managers to end the lockout.
But we have given up
on staying in the single market (which would require us to accept European jurisdiction and the free movement
of labor) or the customs
union.
The New York Hotel Trades Council's Neal Kawatra did not take kindly to NYC Councilman Charles Barron's claim
on «Capital Tonight» yesterday that «most black and Latino people, people
of color» belong to public sector
labor unions, which are getting the cold shoulder from the Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner, AG Andrew Cuomo.
Democratic Senate candidate Todd Kaminsky is being endorsed
on Wednesday by 32BJ SEIU, a politically key
labor union that was part
of the successful drive to increase the state's minimum wage.
Conducted by the Retail Action Project, a community organizing group co-founded by the
union RWDSU, the survey
of more than 110 people
on 14 CUNY campuses — or one - quarter
of all CUNY food service workers — reported numerous instances
of what it says are workers being served «a steady diet
of low wages, few benefits, precarious schedules and
labor violations.»
After years
of setbacks and declining membership nationally,
labor groups were seen as being
on the offensive in the last year with successful efforts in some states to increase the minimum wage to $ 15 — a major
union - led effort that initially began by focusing
on fast food restaurants.
Unions on Thursday vowed to keep the pressure
on President Donald Trump's second nominee to fill the top post at the Department
of Labor after his first nominee for secretary withdrew from consideration.
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.
HTC, a small but influential
labor union that has played pivotal rolls at the Capitol in recent years
on issues like the legalization
of casino gaming, worked with the Real Estate Board
of New York to counter a well - funded campaign backed by Airbnb.
Two
of New York's political key
labor unions didn't put all
of their chips
on one party in the race for control
of the state Senate.
Signing onto the letter include groups ranging from the Working Families Party and their affiliated organizations and
labor unions as well as groups that advocate
on behalf
of the disabled.
Rep. Keith Ellison picked up the backing
of the politically active
labor union 32BJ SEIU
on Wednesday, which endorsed his bid for the chairmanship
of the Democratic National Committee.
A reader forwarded this invite to a reception the Queens Democratic Party is hosting
on April 23 in honor
of Hotel and Motel Trades Council President Peter Ward, whose
union broke ranks with its usual progressive
labor allies and backed the party's NY - 6 candidate, Assemblywoman Grace Meng, over her main primary rival, Assemblyman Rory Lancman.
The
labor union 32BJ
on Monday endorsed Bronx Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda for the open state Senate vacated by Ruben Diaz at the start
of the year.
The position does not include a prevailing wage component for construction workers, which
labor unions have pushed back hard
on — opposition that has won the tacit approval
of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.