Sentences with phrase «pitted against the unions»

The party has notoriously been divided on the issue, with its environmental wing pitted against the unions, which backed the project in hopes it would produce a significant amount of American jobs (which it won't).

In Capitol terms, what this meant was that any meaningful action by Paterson and the legislature to address the problem would pit them against unions with the means both to guarantee lawmakers easy re-election and to underwrite significant ad campaigns attacking them.

Deasy's refusal to compromise also pitted him against the union.

Not exact matches

This is a post that pits his formidable political skills against the Brexit trio of foreign secretary Boris Johnson, international trade secretary Liam Fox and David Davis, the secretary of state for exiting the European Union.

This strike, the first Chicago teachers strike in twenty - five years, pitted Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel against the Chicago Teachers Union.

The bill pitted public - employee unions against the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, the state - imposed county financial control board, over the issue of «step raises,» or salary hikes based on time on the job.

The coming power struggle pits the neoliberal capitalist class — big business and the banks with their friends in the media and their governing allies in the Tory party — against a weakened Labour party pushed on the back foot by a big election defeat and a trade union movement still hamstrung by Thatcher's legal minefield.

The teachers union has launched a multimillion - dollar TV campaign in opposition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education cuts with an ad that pits cut schoolchildren against wealthy Wall Street executives.

The governor vetoed a bill that would have allowed some public employees in Nassau County to receive «step» raises even when county wages are frozen — a measure that pitted public - employee unions against the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, the state - imposed county financial control board.

The issue, which came to a boil during a Council hearing on Friday, has pitted de Blasio against the city's uniformed unions and Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Our New York State trivia podcast matchup pitted Politico New York's Bill Mahoney, a well - known trivia whiz, against Times Union reporter Rick Karlin.

The big - money free - for - all is pitting New York City real state, business, and charter school interests — which support the Republicans — against the teachers unions and other liberal activists backing the Dems.

«Despite Cuomo's efforts to pit labor unions against community organizations like ours, the truth is that we stood with working people long before Andrew Cuomo, and we will stand with them long after.»

Brian Johnson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — A nationally significant lawsuit that pitted a local pipefitters union against a nonunion contractor has had its day in front of the Minnesota Supreme Court, but the final verdict may arrive until the...

But Powell said he didn't understand why the unions were pitting the schools against each other.

The film pits the tenacious Shaun (Gabrielle Union) against burglars attempting to steal a safe full of cash from her recently deceased father's (Damien Leake) sprawling Malibu ranch house, which is equipped with cameras, automatic locks, a drone, and a high - tech control room.

Gabrielle Union is pitted against a gang of fortune - seeking burglars in a house designed to be a thriller set piece.

At the lowest point of their relationship, when Violet and Tom go their separate ways and find solace in the arms of cartoonish new partners — a flamboyant Welsh psych professor (a gregarious Rhys Ifans) and a Zumba - obsessed California bimbo (Dakota Johnson, daughter of Don and Melanie Griffiths), respectively — the deck is so clearly stacked against these unions that pit boss Apatow should have demanded a rewrite.

The acrimonious negotiations have pitted the 5,000 - member union against the district and the Ohio education department, which took over the financially troubled district last year.

The struggle between management and teachers unions therefore plays itself out politically by pitting the «system» against the «teachers.»

Education reform often appears a zero - sum battle, one that pits crusaders demanding accountability and choice against much of the traditional education establishment, including teachers unions.

The merit - pay proposal pitted Scott and the Republican - led Legislature against the Florida Education Association, the state's largest teachers union.

Making an issue of using test scores to evaluate teachers means taking on powerful teacher unions, pitting a core Democratic interest group against a major goal of the Obama administration.

This was in response to the fact that New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg poured $ 1 million into the LA school board races which essentially pitted reform candidates against those supported by the teachers union.

The at - time unctuous, election - year parent trigger debate is pitting teachers» unions and parent groups against charter schools and for - profit management companies throughout the nation.

The nation's second - largest school system is once again inviting bidders to take over poorly performing and new campuses, in a school - control process that is, once again, pitting teachers and their union against independently operated charter schools, most of which are nonunion.

New York's Department of Education plans to release performance ratings for about 18,000 public school teachers Friday, the largest such disclosure in the country and the climax in a battle that has pitted the teachers union against parents, taxpayers and news organizations that demanded the data.

Dean Vogel, president of the state's other big teachers union, the California Teachers Association, called the lawsuit, which is financed by Students Matter, «an ideological red herring, financed by billionaires to pit parents against teachers.»

As Fox & Hounds Joel Fox points out, the election is a referendum on teachers unions, pitting reformer Marshall Tuck against incumbent Tom Torlakson, the bought - and - paid - for choice of the California Teachers Association.

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Lefkowitz, the attorney who will be leading the New York case, has successfully litigated other cases that pitted him against teachers unions.

Contract talks between the Chicago Board of Education and the Chicago Teachers Union were expected to resume on Monday after thousands of Chicago's teachers walked off of the job overnight in what has become a national test pitting a Democrat - controlled city against unionized former allies.

In Brill's telling, the education class war pits a heroic group of entrepreneurial philanthropists, highly successful hedge fund billionaires, and idealistic Ivy Leaguers who join Teach for America against somewhat grubby and grasping rank - and - file public school teachers and their union leaders, who often put their own selfish interests above those of the children.

Also unlike similar laws passed this legislative session that pitted teachers and their unions against lawmakers, teachers unions helped craft the law.

In this article, Greg Anrig compares the adversarial approach to school improvement typified by New York City under Bloomberg — which pits teachers and their unions against «reformist» district administrations — with a collaborative approach that a number of districts have adopted.

They're graciously taking on the case pro bono, but it's mutually beneficial — because California's Parent Trigger law is at the forefront of an ed - reform battle raging hotly across America, pitting charter operators and radical reformers against powerful teachers unions.

«There is no doubt that this pits teacher against teacher and will have a negative impact on collaboration,» said Rosemary Knab, associate director of the New Jersey Education Association, the teachers union.

From the end of World War II, the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a global struggle that pitted democracy and capitalism against Communism.

Pike is pitted against labor unions, which welcome the construction jobs and the few hundred high - paying jobs that would eventually result at the terminal.