Sentences with phrase «organized labor community»
In the end, however, Schneiderman's long - standing relationship with the progressive arm of the state's organized labor community carried the day.
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But the guild has recently upped its efforts to organize the story - shapers behind some of the biggest hits on TV, and these cases have been seen by many in the labor law community as a hardball tactic in that crusade.
Organizing 2.0 leads online organizing and new media skills training for members and staff at community organizations, labor groups, and local campaigns and nonprofits.
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.»
Local campaign staff and candidates, staff at union locals labor organizations not based in DC, community organizing groups that aren't part of national networks, grassroots groups that aren't getting funding from the main backers of community organizing and progressive causes, staff working in local government, and the list goes on and on.
The pro-public financing banner is still be carried in Albany in the form of the labor - aligned Working Families Party and its community - organizing partner, Citizen Action of NY.
Trumka said he was impressed by the labor - community coalition organized by KARA.
Last Wednesday night, several of the groups, including the Real Rent Reform Campaign — made up of organized tenants, labor organizations and community groups that advocate for «progressive» pro-tenant legislation — held a well - attended town hall meeting in Brooklyn (they estimated the crowd at about 200 attendees) while the board of the influential Tenants PAC met separately and decided on endorsements for state legislative races.
«As a member of the County Board I will never forget the role organized labor plays in strengthening our community.»
«As a dedicated neighborhood activist for my entire career, I know the needs of my community and will be a tireless voice for organized labor and our City's progressive values.»
WSJ's Jacob Gershman reported recently that CSNY is reactivating in preparation for a battle over the so - called millionaire's tax, which would again set the business community up against organized labor.
In the meantime we will be working with legislative leaders — Democrats and Republicans — and continuing to do what we've been doing all along, and that is working with our community and our allies across New York, including those from communities of faith and organized labor, to earn the votes we need to bring the marriage equality bill to the floor of the Senate for passage.»
Since December, the supporters of the rich tax — an alliance of organized labor and community - activist groups — waged a campaign that further weakened Governor Paterson.
Chairing one of the most coveted committees in the Assembly, housing, has allowed him to cultivate ties with organized labor and the real estate community.
New York's Working Families Party was first organized in 1998 by a collation of labor unions, community organizations, and the variety of public interest groups such as Citizens Action of New York.
Sources said that Marco Carrión, Mr. de Blasio's new community affairs commissioner, singled out Ms. Lynch to join the unit because he knew her from organized labor circles.
Fifteen years of labor, strife and community organizing is about to pay off.
Local charter school leaders were supportive, but their naiveté about the political process stood in sharp contrast to the strategic organizing in the labor community.
«Building Labor / Community Tables to Organize and Win.»
Our campaign includes more than 50 education advocacy organizations plus teachers and school administrators, representatives of charter schools and traditional public schools, urban and rural interests, business and organized labor, faith - based groups and community groups.
A coalition of organizing, labor and civic groups presented an alternative «Newark Promise» plan that called for community schools and local control.
Nearly four decades after Lonidier exhibited his 1977 installation «The Health and Safety Game» at the Whitney, the artist continues to base his artistic practice in community organizing, and to reflect on the relevance of activism and the labor movement to the creation of art.
Matthew Friday works across a variety of media, contexts and institutions, focusing on organized labor, community agriculture and watershed remediation.
Joining forces with writers and intellectuals, these men and women — who came together at the progressive John Reed Club, founded in New York City directly after the crash — were dedicated to creating work that tackled a range of socially conscious themes, including class struggle, labor organizing, immigration, socialist mysticism, utopian communities, racial justice, and the Spanish Civil War, among others.
Day 2 in a two - part discussion organized by Arts & Labor at CUNY Murphy Institute, workers from the Queens Museum, Creative Capital, ProjectProjects, and W.A.G.E. responded to the Day 1 discussion and talked about strategies used to build community, advocate for artists and create sustainable institutions.
The Democratic Party, community - of - color groups, organized labor, big liberal donors, and even most big environmental groups have come out against it.