Sentences with phrase «over union power»

Not exact matches

In order to implement labor reforms, Macron is going to have to take on the French unions and reduce their political power, which is immense and which has been accumulated over decades of French political infighting.

The continued use of the Euro, without adopting the necessary institutions like political union, is simply lunacy and proof of the power of political interest over economic necessity.

At Google, she had her hands full with the European Union's battle with the search giant over limiting the power of its services.

Communist (extreme left wing) and fascist (extreme right wing) governments are totalitarian in nature and, as such, they opposed organized religion the same way that they opposed unions; because they held rival power over people.

One can talk about «the fallen powers» or Christ's victory in resurrection over the «principalities and powers» but that, in and of itself, is not talk about the politics of the Soviet Union or the United States.

Each person depends upon Jesus for his salvation and union with God (reflected in the objective order of the ecclesiastical hierarchy), but must also freely give himself over to the power of grace through growth in the spiritual life (the hierarchy of the stages of the spiritual life).

«We believe this dispute is about unions wanting to enforce their power over an external company and the wages being offered.»

Beyond that it would seem that the Superpowers — NBC and the Soviet Union — should just be expected to circle each other, the former with its control over all the cameras and the latter with its power to pull the plug.

First, the state Education Department and the teachers unions must resolve a lawsuit over the evaluations or Cuomo will insert his own plan into the 30 - day amendments (taking advantage of the broad powers the governor has over the budget in New York).

Over 400 MEPs signed a European Parliament declaration on curbing the abuse of power by supermarkets in the European Union.

As far as I can see, all the criticism of the veto is empty rhetoric, ignoring the true question: do you wish to have fiscal union, with the EU having powers over nation budgets?

Johnson's decision to award a regulator power over who student unions are and are not allowed to invite is diabolically stupid.

This is mainly due to the destruction of Union power over the last 30 years.

But the Conservatives are prioritising power over the preservation of the union.

Despite attempts to curb union power, they still exert a huge amount of influence over the Labour Party.

It would also be an affront to trade unions and working class voters who would lose the one influence they have over the metropolitan elites who currently wield power in all major parties.

There are also raw, long - term battles being fought on new fronts: The teachers» unions, for instance, hate Cuomo's proposed tax breaks for private schools, and the governor disdains the unions» power over public schools.

The police unions have been fighting this issue since New York's top court, the Court of Appeals, in 2006 unanimously affirmed a police commissioner's power over disciplinary matters.

The National Farming Union's conference provides another stark reminder of the importance of stopping Westminster from seizing control of powers over agriculture after Brexit and ensuring Welsh farmers receive not one penny less once we've left.

Whilst the myth may be «union power» swaying leadership elections, the truth is that MPs exert too much power over the process (why should they be more important than councillors etc).

While the power of its endorsement has been questioned (the union backed Bill Thompson over now - Mayor Bill de Blasio in the Democratic mayoral primary last year), the nod serves as another sign that establishment support is divided over Mr. Rangel, who is seeking a 23rd term.

While party bosses across the country have seen their power diminished over the past 40 years because of changes to civil service law and the rise of municipal unions, Dawidziak says Mondello remains the unquestioned leader of the Nassau GOP.

Now, further concerns are mounting about the extent of the unions» power over the Labour Party's selection procedures.

In their last act before their Easter break, Assembly members have passed emergency legislation laying claim to all powers over devolved matters that are currently in the hands of the European Union.

De Blasio's ostensible allies among the Senate Democrats are more aligned with the teachers» union view that mayoral control gives parents and local school boards too little power over city schools.

«We fight for unions and the reforms that reduce the power of big money over our elections.

Both the Scottish government and Scottish Labour have taken legal advice over the Trade Union Bill, which could put curbs on trade union powers and make it more difficult to call strUnion Bill, which could put curbs on trade union powers and make it more difficult to call strunion powers and make it more difficult to call strikes.

Sources close to Jeremy Corbyn have made it clear he will oppose a push by his deputy Tom Watson to give MPs and unions more power over the choice of future Labour leaders.

at a benefit concert, or Billy Bragg's stirring rendition of «There Is Power in a Union» over the film's moving climax.

3 Human Rights Watch — The Power These Men Have Over Us: Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by African Union Forces in Somalia, released on September 2014

Human Rights Watch (2014, September) The Power These Men Have Over Us: Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by African Union Forces in Somalia, Published by Human Rights Watch, Washington DC, Vol ISBN: 978 -1-62313-1876, pg 98

Over time, union power dwindled, not because the bargaining structure was reformed, but because deregulation and greater foreign competition left labor fewer monopoly profits to extract in key industries such as automobile and steel.

My conclusion is that the current impulse to curtail the influence of the teachers unions may return some powers to management that over the years have gravitated to the unions.

Nowhere has the debate over the power and perquisites of schools» building engineers been more heated than in New York City, where the board of education is now engaged in contract negotiations with Local 891 of the International Union of Operating Engineers.

The answer, again, is that the teachers unions are opposed to performance - based evaluations (as are most districts), and they have used their power over the years to stand in the way of genuine reform.

For these and related reasons, the unions have major advantages over other groups, which can often translate into electoral power.

As I suggested in my Follow the Money post in August, «our philanthropist reformers» may just be «responding to what has been the outsized influence over the system exercised by private teacher unions, textbook and testing companies, and a web of high - powered lobbyists representing all manner of industry associations.»

Schwarzenegger also stepped into a dispute over the future of the state's largest school district, Los Angeles Unified, siding with Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa against the district's board and the teachers union (see «Power Struggle in Los Angeles,» forum, Summer 2007).

According to Reiss, he did not push harder for local control because once he took office he learned how much power the teachers unions held over many local school boards.

For decades, teachers unions have used their political power to exert enormous control over the country's education system.

Greater power over the curriculum and the choice of texts has been a long - standing goal of the California teachers unions, which have sought, unsuccessfully, to pass state legislation that would have placed the issue squarely into collective bargaining negotiations.

The famed Michelle Rhee came in as chancellor in 2007 after the district's school board was stripped of powers due to gross mismanagement over the previous four decades, including financial corruption, nepotism, and union heads going to jail for embezzlement.

In fact, for all the talk about the «democratic values» implicit in local control, the decibel level of the past few years has been caused less by a legitimate debate about the merits of the work than an internecine fight over which faction would control the local teachers union, a mayor's race pitting «old» vs. «new» Newark (read: Sharpe revanchists vs. Cory defenders), and the aspirations of what Curvin calls the «resource distributors» — those who view the power and wealth allocation opportunities of the school system as an end in itself.

The unions — in Chicago and other big cities — grew accustomed over the past four decades to holding veto power over all key education decisions.

As you might expect, with this kind of power, the teachers unions usually have their grubby paws all over school board races.

From the sounds of it, Duncan has just handed teachers unions throughout the country virtual veto power over future Race to the Top grants.

The case also became a battle over the power of teacher unions to preserve protections that are not always available to other public employees.

However, giving unions more negotiating power over evaluations would be a problem said Nancy Espinoza, a legislative advocate for the California School Boards Association in testimony before the Senate Education Committee a couple of weeks ago.

In writing Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy, I came to realize what life was like before unions had any real Unions, Race and Democracy, I came to realize what life was like before unions had any real unions had any real power.

Parent Power activists such as the Connecticut Parents Union are already gearing up for a fight with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association over expanding the reach of the state's Parent Trigger law; the fight is particularly tinged by revelations earlier this year of the AFT's presentation on how it unsuccessfully attempted to kibosh the passage of the Parent Power law and how it exacted revenge by ousting Jason Bartlett, the legislator who led the passage of the law and the neutralizing of his former colleague, Gary Holder - Winfield.