Sentences with phrase «organized labor on»

Partners with stakeholders including Federal, State, and local enforcement agencies, the motor carrier industry, safety groups, and organized labor on efforts to reduce bus and truck - related crashes.

To carry out its safety mandate, FMCSA partners with stakeholders, including Federal, State, and local enforcement agencies; the motor carrier industry; safety groups; commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers; and organized labor on efforts to reduce crashes involving CMVs.

To meet these goals, FMCSA partners with stakeholders, including Federal, State, and local enforcement agencies, the motor carrier industry, safety groups, and organized labor on efforts to reduce bus and truck - related crashes.

The developer may still sell the property and real industry insiders are bristling at the agreement to use higher - priced, organized labor on the project.

As proof of the value of organized labor on a major construction project, Donaldson cites the Ulster County Jail, which had a PLA.

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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.

Much organized opposition to NAFTA centered on the fear that the abolishment of trade barriers would spur U.S. firms to pack up and move to Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor.

-- The war on organized labor to reverse new deal protections continues to benefit from the 1947 Taft - Hartley act which can stymie efforts to effectively combat the power of big business.

After contemplating the profound networking opportunities on the dodgeball court, YouTube's Hunter Walk, Mint's Noah Kagan and I went about organizing the «First Annual Labor vs. Capital Dodgeball Tournament.»

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma González and civil - rights activist and organized - labor icon Dolores Huerta are among those being celebrated at the annual Diversity Honors on Friday, April 27, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in...

By the time things simmered down, Brooklyn's inner - city schools were in considerably worse shape, white liberals had become accustomed to making excuses for black violence, and the old alliances between the civil - rights movement, on the one hand, and the American labor movement and organized American Jewry, on the other, had been put under severe strain.

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.

Education in modern industrial society has been organized for maximum material production and consumption, on the premises that labor is scarce and that natural resources are boundless.

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.

They were organized on what was called the Manual Labor System.

To negotiate with highly mobile global capital, labor would have to be effectively organized on a global basis.

Through a number of events — organized on or around Labor Day — HMN will focus attention on the critical issue of preserving a woman's right to choose how and where she gives birth — a right that is rapidly disappearing.

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

Rep. Mike Arcuri, who is under fire from organized labor and the Working Families Party for switching his vote from «yes» to «no» on health care reform, is refusing to say definitively whether he is running for re-election this fall.

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.»

But most politicians and political campaigns still labor in the shadows of popular indifference (for instance on Twitter and even Facebook), and should not assume that people come to them — if one want them to be involved, one needs to mobilize and organize them, one at a time, on their terms, using their tools.

In the end, however, Wilson could simply not overcome organized labor, which was behind DiNapoli and pushed hard to get out the vote on his behalf.

But she says «the Governor stands with organized labor and will follow their lead» and is «100 percent» focused on «maintaining democratic unity and on taking back the house and the state senate this year».

On his website, Nicodemo lists five major issues that impact his district, including getting state funding for Yonkers schools, stricter gun laws, human and LGBT rights, education and fighting for unions and organized labor.

The union has also enabled Cuomo's divide - and - conquer strategy on organized labor, as he cozies up to private - sector unions while warring with public employees and schoolteachers.

Right now is an interesting moment: labor is organizing, but not focused on new member organizing.

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.

Malliotakis» expressed view matches that of much of organized labor, opposing a convention on fears that it could result in weakening or eliminating the existing state constitution's prohibition on reducing public employee pensions.

In 2010, when the party was under federal investigation and risked falling off the ballot in the following election, it agreed to endorse Cuomo after he made the party's leaders sign on to a pro-business platform that included fighting organized labor.

There are mixed reports as to whether Fossella really is interested in running during this cycle — perhaps the GOP's best shot at winning back the seat from Democratic Rep. Mike McMahon, who is on the outs with organized labor and the WFP for his «no» vote on health care reform — or is laying the groundwork for a run two years from now.

I expect the legislative leaders and DiNapoli will express solidarity with the unions — particularly the state comptroller, who owes no small part of his victory over Republican Harry Wilson last year to the efforts on his behalf by organized labor.

Cincinnati, Ohio (CNN)- Texas Gov. Rick Perry took sides Tuesday in the ongoing battle over organized labor in Ohio, coming down forcefully on the side of Republicans who want to drastically limit the collective bargaining ability of public sector unions.

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.

«Standing up for, and fighting on behalf of, the women and men of organized labor has defined my career,» Shorts said in a statement posted to his campaign's Facebook page.

«It's ironic to see state employee union leaders organizing a protest on budget cuts that are a direct result of their labor deal, which has sucked our budget dry,» Fasano said.

Nydia Velazquez is by no means a perfect pol from The Times standpoint — too slavishly devoted to organized labor and a little wobbly on Israel, but far far better than Erik Dilan, who is closely allied with Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Vito Lopez — a no - no from the paper's standpoint.

In her quarterly state of the town address at Southampton Town Hall on Friday, Supervisor Anna Throne - Holst painted a picture of a town on the comeback, with organized labor, local businesses, and the town board working in harmony.

And most significantly, organized labor focused most of its election - season efforts on defeating the referendum.

In New York City, allies of Mr. Bloomberg have organized such groups to lobby for the mayor's proposals on congestion pricing, charter schools and other issues, often in opposition to the municipal labor unions.

Cuomo then spent nearly 1,300 words attacking Trump and the «conservative zealots» in Washington who «drank the same Kool - Aid,» hitting on their views on immigration, taxes, sexual harassment, guns, organized labor and the environment.

«Organized labor built this middle class in the first place in this country and it is up to organized labor to rebuild it again and that's what we re doing in New York and that is the common theme on all these initiatives,» Cuomo said.

For a time, a grand bargain between idealists and pragmatists allowed the party to flourish with a simple formula: Cantor and company could strategize and dream big while organized labor underwrote the movement with cash and bodies on the ground.

«This means that his nomination will have a chilling effect on labor, labor organizing and the fight for workers to get what is right and just,» Mark - Viverito said.

Cuomo announced he will advance legislation codifying into state law an agreement between organized labor and developers on a lucrative tax incentive program for developments that include a certain percentage of affordable units in New York City.

In the letter, publisher Michael Kane insisted the bill won't impact the already existing Commercial Goods Transportation Fair Play Act and pointed out Sen. Diane Savino, a Democrat with ties to organized labor, backed the carrier bill in the Senate both in committee and on the floor.

Speaking to The Post's Fred Dicker on AM TALK 1300, Cuomo said he understands he'll be targeted by organized labor when he proposes deep cuts in his first executive budget, adding: «They will attack me.

Democratic Congressional hopeful Rory Lancman has received the backing of the powerful 32BJ service union, a move that backers hope will provide a major boost of on - the - ground politically aid from the well - organized labor group.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman celebrated the withdraw of businessman Andrew Puzder as labor secretary on Wednesday, a development that is also be feted by organized labor.

Lancman has also spent years shoring up his support among organized labor, making sure to be a visible figure on union picket lines over the years.

Next month, one of the most powerful labor unions in NYC can begin organizing workers at Tavern on the Green, which had been a union shop for decades.