Sentences with phrase «organized labor more»

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While organized labor contends that a union workforce is a quality workforce, that argument, more often than not, doesn't resonate with business.

Germany, which enacted its labor reforms more than a decade ago, when economic growth in the rich world was much stronger than it is now, is home to an organized labor culture that is less combative than in places like Italy or France.

While organized labor contends that a union workforce is a quality workforce, that argument, more often than not, does not resonate with business.

More than 1,000 Uber drivers are banding together in New York — the birthplace of the organized U.S. labor movement — to create an association that can represent their collective interests to the ride - sharing company's management.

Much more cautious than Marx were those socialists who argued that labor would have to organize politically into trade - unions.

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.

No steam - driven machines, no telephone, telegraph or wireless, no organized labor, no fluctuating foreign exchange, and the other side of the ocean so far away that Thomas Jefferson could hope that Europe would never have more to do with us than with China!

It appealed more to the charity and sense of justice of the Christian middle class than to organized efforts on the part of labor and the poor.

Imperceptibly, but far more rapidly than we might imagine, we are entering a period in American history when the issues of work and organized labor may again become paramount.

For more than one hundred years, Western political culture has been organized around labor and capital — their conflicts, their common interests, and the different strategies for harmonizing them.

In all likelihood, over the last five years or so, more American money has gone to Nigeria to support gay rights than to labor organizing.

The New Deal rested on the support of a coalition of interests including: organized labor, farmers, blue collar workers, white southerners, minorities, and more.

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.»

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ALBANY — For the first time in recent New York history, unions and other groups representing organized labor gave substantially more money to Democratic candidates for the State Senate than to Republican ones.

Throughout much of the state, the question received more attention than any local contests, due in part to a multimillion - dollar spending campaign in which organized labor urged its members to show up and vote «no.»

Schneiderman's liberal leanings would likely make him a tough sell with more conservative Democrats upstate, though he has strong ties to organized labor, which helps at the ballot box.

LaBarbera and representatives of construction labor management funds, which advocate for companies that use organized labor and related unions, said it was clear the real estate lobbying group had more sway at City Hall than they did, given that they were not invited into the 421 - a discussions the administration and REBNY had engaged in.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been binding himself to organized labor ever more tightly as he faces a primary challenge from actress and education advocate Cynthia Nixon.

Figueroa dismissed the notion that unions failed to get what they really fought for as «a bit cynical» and said that the agreement advances the interests of labor while opening doors for organizing more non-union workers.

«You made Mario Cuomo the governor of the State of New York just on the backs of organized labor and I will never forget it,» said Cuomo, who had more than $ 19 million in his Cuomo 2018 account in July.

Speaking at a breakfast for organized labor workers in May 2014, Heastie remarked, «Raising the minimum wage for organized workers is the key to a good economy for all of us — when workers have more money, they put it right back into the state's economy.»

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- A Democrat widely viewed as a union favorite emerged Wednesday to challenge Gov. Scott Walker, a day after petition circulators spurred by anger over the Republican's moves against organized labor said they submitted more than enough signatures to force a recall election.

Mr. Heastie is no firebrand, but he is close to organized labor and would represent a more palatable option for City Hall than Mr. Morelle, a moderate Democrat close to Mr. Cuomo.

His former colleagues in the state Legislature always give him the loudest cheers at state events, he is a darling of organized labor and was elected in 2014 with more votes than either Schneiderman or Cuomo.

[5] While some workers from Hasköy and Güzeltepe actively participated in the organized labor movement to build a more just future, others, though not directly an organized part of this movement, still became workers within the atmosphere of a promising future generated by the working class and / or socialist movement.

Yet even as this week's organized - labor tantrum winds down, it already feels more like a reminder of a past era or a last gasp than a sign of things to come.

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.

If the California Board of Education does push for more so - called transparency, it will be interesting to see if the California legislature holds politically - connected labor unions who also organize under the radar to the same standards.

(A) The term «person» means one or more individuals partnerships, associations, labor organizations, corporations, business trusts, legal representatives, or any organized groups of persons.

For more than 25 years, Richard has advised U.S. corporations with regard to a wide variety of complex labor relations matters, such as large - scale union organizing and decertification campaigns, strikes and secondary boycotts, union jurisdictional disputes, and successor employer claims.

Covered reasons for trip cancellation and interruption include common carrier delays and / or cancellations resulting from adverse weather, mechanical breakdown of the aircraft, ship, boat, or motor coach you were scheduled to travel on, organized labor strikes that affect public transportation in addition to mandatory evacuations, terrorist acts, layoffs, and more.

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