Sentences with phrase «of public sector union political»

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More than seven months after Republican Gov. John Kasich signed it into law, Ohioans have repealed SB 5, the anti-union legislation that would curb collective bargaining rights for 350,000 public workers and gut the political power of public - sector unions.

As Political Director of the New York City Central Labor Council, Carrión has forged deep partnerships among 300 local unions from every trade, occupation, and public and private sector of the New York economy, representing a wide spectrum of workers, including teachers, truck drivers, operating engineers, nurses, construction workers, electricians, firefighters, retail workers, janitors, train operators, bakers, and many more who are the face of today's workforce.

Taxpayer - subsidized political campaigns have the dream of unions — especially public - sector unions — as well as Democratic legislators for years.

That would be the Working Families Party, a laser - focused, hard - left - leaning coalition of militant private - sector unions, grasping public - sector unions and advantage - seeking hangers - on now masquerading as a «progressive» mainstream political party.

In what constitutes his first major political trip, the blue - state governor who has the GOP enthralled by his face - off with the public - sector unions — and his passing of a budget with surprising ease — will travel to some of the nation's hottest political battlegrounds in the coming weeks, including a stop in presidential proving ground Iowa.

The lineup of groups opposing a constitutional convention includes: environmental groups, gay rights organizations, New York City cops, Western New York auto industry workers, the state chapter of the National Rifle Association, every imaginable public and private - sector union, political leaders on the left and right and even a group called «Humanists of Long Island.»

After a lengthy political standoff, Wisconsin state Senate Republicans used a bit of legislative fancywork to pass a bill this evening that effectively strips public - sector unions of the right to collectively bargain.

It said: «The union's concern about the political direction of the Government, as well as the industrial concerns over continued calls for pay restraint in the public and private sectors while inflation busts through the Government's targets.

The lineup of opposition groups includes: environmental groups, gay rights organizations, New York City cops, Western New York auto industry workers, the state chapter of the National Rifle Association, every imaginable public and private - sector union, political leaders on the left and right and even a group called «Humanists of Long Island.»

The book documents the rise of public - sector unionism in an era when private - sector unions are dying; exposes the political fragility of school boards; and, inadvertently, reveals that the power of unions extends well beyond the bargaining table, even to the point of shaping education research itself.

Kennedy's point is obviously that you can not draw a line separating the political activities of public sector unions from everything else they do.

Roberts, Scalia, and Alito pointed out that the union position rests on a false assumption: that you can draw a clear line between the political and nonpolitical activities of public - sector unions.

Roberts, Scalia, and Alito pointed out that the union's position rests on a false assumption: that one can draw a clear line between the political and nonpolitical activities of public - sector unions.

CPAG is the host organisation for the Campaign to End Child Poverty coalition, which has members from across civil society including children's charities, faith groups, unions and other civic sector organisations, united in their campaigning for public and political commitment to ensure the goal of ending child poverty by 2020 is met.

But so long as public sector unions exist, to condone their destructive political agenda in exchange for personal gain, even via sins of omission, is unforgivable.

Prohibit public sector unions from engaging in political activity of any kind.