Sentences with phrase «on public unions»

«Taking on the public unions, including the teachers unions, will certainly play well with Republicans in a competitive primary,» he said.

At least he tried to take on the public unions.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Two large union - organized rallies are planned in Athens on the holiday, with employees at many public services nominally on strike.

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

Two organizations, Canadian Union of Public Sector Employees (CUPE) and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) have publicly released their proposals on how the minimum wage should be increased in Ontario, with the CCPA proposal in particular showing some promise.

A recent Abacus Data poll, done on behalf of Public Response — an agency that works with labour — indicates that a majority of Canadians, 61 %, believe unions do a good job of protecting their members» jobs.

Tufts and Fairbanks put the blame squarely on the politicians who caved in to the powerful public - sector unions.

One recent victory for unions was in Ohio, where in November 2011, voters overturned a Republican - led effort to place restrictions on public sector unions, similar to that in Wisconsin.

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.

The Liberals are unlikely to make any final decision on drug testing until the Supreme Court of Canada rules on its legality in a case between Suncor and workers at its Alberta oil sands operation, said Troy Winters, senior health and safety officer with the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Elliot Schrage, Facebook's vice president for communications and public policy, and David Ginsberg, its director of research, said in a blog post on Monday that the company had made «real progress» in dealing with hoax stories and sham accounts since the 2016 election and the campaign, known as Brexit, to withdraw Britain from the European Union.

A board member and spokesman for the Quebec civil lawyers» and notaries» union — Les avocats et notaires de l'État québécois, or LANEQ — he tried in vain in May to find members who were willing to share their first - hand experiences on the picket lines during their historic four - month general strike, the longest in Canadian public service history.

David Robinson, in his capacity as trade and education consultant for Education International, a global union federation claiming to represent 30 million teachers and other education workers, met with WTO negotiators during the ministerial to discuss potential impacts on public education.

 This issue has a number of pieces on issues of inequality, including: Rising inequality is hurting our economy Labour rights, unions and the 99 % Canadian economy bleeding jobs; public sector cuts to intensify Recession and cuts hit Aboriginal and -LSB-...]

The newly elected Progressive Conservative government in Manitoba has moved quickly to cement its anti-worker bona fides with the radical right - wing by making it more difficult for non-union workers to join a union, and by opening up bidding on large scale public construction projects to non-union companies.

In 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that circumventing DRM on game devices may be legal under some circumstances, limiting the legal protection to only cover technological measures intended to prevent or eliminate unauthorised acts of reproduction, communication, public offer or distribution.

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.

In their rush to pass anti-labour laws that would force the province's largest union into a new contract and increase penalties public sector unions that enter illegal strikes, could Premier Alison Redford «s Government also be infringing on the free speech rights of ordinary Albertans?

That was for the parliamentary committee hearing on omnibus anti-union Bill C - 4, which guts federal public service union rights, and will force over a million workers to perform unsafe work.

The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), a member organization of the Trade Justice Network, released the following statement regarding the new NAFTA Advisory Council on the Environment:

Yet our government would have us agree to sweeping economic agreements like CETA and the TPP without providing us any facts at all, just empty slogans about how wonderful things will be after we sign on,» says Larry Brown, national secretary - treasurer of the National Union of Public and General Employees and co-chair of the Trade Justice Network.

The Hudak agenda and the Harper agenda don't differ much: slashing public services, breaking unions, rewarding their corporate friends on the backs of working people.

The ATO's attack on Exxon comes as unions continue a public campaign seeking to highlight the perceived lack of tax paid by the oil company.

Kuwaiti oil sector employees sit in a shaded area on the first day of an official strike called by the Oil and Petrochemical Industries Workers Union over public sector pay Continue Reading

Cut out the middle - man (the government) and feed the poor through non-profits and quit squandering tax dollars on the bloated, inefficient public unions, etc..

It is the intimate and indissoluble union of the two which prevents preaching from becoming merely a hortatory exercise or a public address, and which prevents the sacrament from becoming merely routine with suggestions which might seem to border on «magic.»

Two days after President Bush's 2004 State of the Union address, Schwartz published an op - ed piece in the New York Times, summarizing his book's message in order to cast doubt on the president's celebration of personal choice as public policy.

On the contrary the weight of authority was often in favour of a spirituality that abstained from critical issues of social and public life as being alien to, or a distraction from the deeper spiritual quest of union with God.

Public opinion on same sex marriage and unions in the United States thus reveals a great deal of change in a short period of time and significant regional disparity.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

Meanwhile, the World and National councils of churches, myriad regional and local councils, the many bilateral conversations, and unity efforts like the Consultation on Church Union have continued to do their work largely out of the public eye except for occasional moments of media - orchestrated controversy.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

What conservatives and libertarians are most animated about nowadays is the abuse of public - good authority, particularly as such authority has been misused for a very long time to tax and spend, not generally on public goods like defense but on wealth - transfer programs, such as social security, Medicare and Medicaid, and other entitlements — the kinds of programs, in other words, that have effectively bankrupted Greece, are threatening to bankrupt several other European nations, and are undermining the European Monetary Union.

If you care to believe the Hofstra University study on the matter there is more abuse percentage wise in our own public schools than there ever has been in the Catholic Church.Not justifying it but you must remember that our public schools have laws and unions that are protected by the laws of our very own government.

The Catholic view of matrimony, on the other hand, is that it is an objective bond, sealed with public vows that are ratified and completed by the private union of the flesh of a man and a woman who are members of the Body of Christ.

(CNN)-- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, and Ralph Reed, discuss on State of the Union with Candy Crowley whether a public servant can declare be a «non-believer.»

The result is that the black alliance within the Democratic party is not with other racial minorities but with ideologically based groupings» feminists, gays, unions» who are now divorced from the values of the party's traditional base, not to mention those of the black public (Jesse Jackson, for example, flip - flopped on almost all these issues once he decided to run for the nomination).

The Oregon chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union supported maintaining the ban on religious clothing in public schools, arguing that it protected students from improper religious influence.

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.

The first is the Traffic Light (TL) system, developed by the UK Food Standards Agency, where nutrients of greatest public health significance (total fat, saturated fat, sugar and sodium) are ranked and colour - coded as either high (red), medium (amber) or low (green), based on cut - points established by the European Regulation for Nutrition and Health Claims (Official Journal of the European Union, 2006).

The main reason the public - sector unions are on strike is the price of housing.

As Britain stands on the threshold of exiting the European Union, a paean to Brussels has been made public, in which the author, former British ambass -LRB-...)

Park District commissioners voted in May not to build a skate park on top of the reservoir after residents and Union Pacific officials testified at a public hearing that the site would be unsafe.

House Speaker Michael Madigan blamed teacher unions on Friday for killing a proposal to send tax dollars to private schools, claiming the powerful lobby doesn't want competition for Illinois public schools.

Commissioners voted last week not to build the facility on top of the city's central reservoir on Myrtle Avenue at the Union Pacific railroad line after residents and Union Pacific officials testified at a public hearing that the site would be unsafe.

With the publication of an Associated Press article regarding the CPSC government warning on baby slings and the Consumers Union's concerns about «bag - style» slings, the companies co-sponsoring this release are taking a stand to help educate the public on the differences between safe vs. unsafe baby slings and carriers as detailed below.

In part because human capital in these high quality sectors is deep and specific, so needs to be used to the full in exporting; in part because there are typically strong positive externalities to training and innovation systems from increased exports; in part because a tight fiscal policy constrains wage demands in the public sector from undermining restraint of export sector unions: these countries, as well as Japan and China for similar reasons, want no constraints on their exports through macroeconomic regulatory rules pressuring them to expand consumer demand.

The Public and Commercial Services union backed a strike on June 30th, the same day as industrial action planned by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and Association of Teachers and Lecturers (union backed a strike on June 30th, the same day as industrial action planned by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and Association of Teachers and Lecturers (Union of Teachers (NUT) and Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL).

If he can persuade the public that he is on their side, and that it's the medical establishment standing in the way of improved healthcare (for whatever reason, misguided or malign), and face down the unions then not only will the strikes falter in the face of rising public opposition but his will be a star in the ascendency.