Sentences with phrase «opposition from labor»

In light of the opposition from Labor, the fate of Gonski 2.0 came down to the supportive cross-benchers: The Nick Xenophon Team, Pauline Hanson's One Nation, Derryn Hinch, Lucy Gichuhi and Jacqui Lambie.

... Avella was the original sponsor of a bill to ban horse carriages in the City Council in 2007, and has continued to call for the carriages to be banned, despite skepticism from the current Council and opposition from some labor groups and the Daily News.

Efforts to make changes to the measure have stalled in the face of opposition from labor groups as well as organizations that represent trial lawyers.

Despite strong opposition from labor and environmental groups, and many Democrats in the Senate and House of Representatives, lawmakers in both houses crafted a bipartisan bill last week grant Mr. Obama his requested fast - track authority.

He said efforts to revise the H - 2B guest worker program have been stalled by opposition from labor groups, which have argued that companies don't try hard enough to hire Americans or pay a living wage before turning to the program.

Not exact matches

But opposition is strong from the Democratic Party and labor unions.

Turnbull's conservative coalition has been resisting calls from the centre - left opposition Labor Party for such an inquiry for almost two years.

Despite an onslaught from the city's tabloids and opposition from virtually every labor group, Spitzer ultimately polled 48 percent to Stringer's 52 percent.

Despite the opposition from the Queens party establishment, Sanders maintains endorsements from a number of progressive groups and labor unions.

The «free trade» pact between the U.S. and 11 other nations has garnered intense opposition, particularly from labor unions.

And there's long - standing political opposition by labor unions and lawmakers who have for years pushed to have power generated in the state rather than imported from Quebec, which has substantial government - run hydroelectric plants.

Ride - sharing apps Uber and Lyft are finding some resistance to expanding upstate, including labor concerns in Assembly, opposition from taxi companies.

In June, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, the wage board's chairman and a longtime Cuomo ally, said he and his fellow members clearly believed «a substantial» increase was needed to bring fast food workers up the economic ladder — despite persistent opposition from the business community, which often found itself drowned out at public hearings that served more or less as labor rallies.

There's a variety of factors why Cuomo fares so poorly in some of these districts, ranging from staunch opposition SAFE Act to his truculent relationship with public - worker labor organizations (never mind that Tkaczyk, a Democrat who narrowly won her race by 18 votes in 2012, did not cast a vote for or against the legislation considering her race had not been resolved at that point).

Opposition to MMA legalization stems in part from women's groups who find the sport too violent, while labor unions that have feuded with UFC's ownership in Las Vegas have also backed an effort to oppose the measure.

There is also labor opposition from the Las Vegas - based culinary union, which is in a dispute with Ultimate Fighting Championship, a top MMA promoter which is lobbying on behalf of the bill.

CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc., parent company of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, has named Jason Marker as CEO, succeeding Andy Puzder, who was supposed to be Trump's Labor secretary but withdrew his name from consideration as opposition to his appointment mounted.

Also, agricultural employers shifted their focus from opposition to employer sanctions to a concerted campaign to secure alternative sources of foreign labor.

(CNN)-- It could have been a crucial piece of opposition research: The South Carolina Democratic Party accused Mark Sanford, who criticized his rival for taking union contributions, of receiving campaign cash from labor groups himself during a past run for Congress.

Gay City News on the shutdown of Brian Ellner's appointment to the Empire State Pride Agenda: «Nearly everyone who spoke to Gay City News — both advocates and foes of Ellner — cited the adamant opposition to him from board member Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, one of the city's most progressive labor leaders and a tough critic of Bloomberg.

They have done honorable work — largely figuring out how to cushion coal - state consumers and carbon - intensive industries from rising fossil fuel costs in a carbon constrained world — but the fruits of their labor have been demonized by the opposition as «cap and tax,» Rube Goldberg, etc..

The then Labor opposition leader Kevin Rudd rode a wave of support for strong climate action, and took office from a Coalition government perceived as weak on climate change.

Australian windfarms face $ 13 bln wipeout from political impasse Reuters Byron Kaye 9 February 2015 * PM Abbott wants to cut state support for industry * Labor opposition won't back cutting clean energy target * Uncertain support regime is causing a freeze in investment * Some predict an exodus of investment SYDNEY, Feb 8 (Reuters)-LSB-...]

[98] In the course of the Senate debate Senator John Faulkner tabled a letter [99] from Premier Peter Beattie to Opposition Leader Kim Beazley that contained the terms of a compromise reached between the Queensland Government and the federal Labor Party which informed the Opposition's vote in the Senate.