Sentences with phrase «played by unions»

The report highlights the crucial role played by unions in anchoring pay, spreading innovation, upskilling workforces and sharing the proceeds of growth.

Charter schools don't play by union rules.

Not exact matches

Beattie says several airline unions are looking to play catch - up by trying to convince their employers to boost the hourly wage to match Jazz.

«Responsible lending by community banks and credit unions did not cause the financial crisis, and our mortgage rules reflect the fact that small institutions play a vital role in many communities,» CFPB Director Richard Cordray said in a press release.

Requesting that should the legislature move to limit corporate and union contributions for all local elections, that the province level the playing field by introducing tax credit eligibility for local election donations.

«12 Robert Neale, Professor of Theology and Psychology at Union Seminary, agrees that attitude is crucial, believing play is distinguished by a sense of «adventure» as well as «by those elements of peace, freedom, delight, and illusion that occur in the modes of story and game.

The play of the gin's juniper on the palate, its marriage to a grassy, slightly herbal dry vermouth — a union blessed by the twist of citrus that pulls it together and greets the nose even before the tongue saying, «You've made it this far today, keep your chin up» — all of this merits the appellation «king of cocktails» often accorded it.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

When this man handed you a pamphlet you took it no matter what the subject: the dangers of atomic power plants, the role played by the International Jewish Cartel in the overthrow of friendly governments, the CIA - Contra - cocaine connection, the farm workers» unions, the Jehovah's Witnesses (If You Can Answer These Ten Questions «Yes,» You Have Been SAVED!)

Grace Boyle, chair of the student union's Love Veggie society, played a key role in Ulster's adoption of MFM by starting a petition to gather support for the move, because of a lack of meat free and vegan options at Ulster, and because the university does not formally acknowledge that the meat and dairy industries are major contributors to climate change.

You can play Table Tennis by coming along to our Active Campus every Monday and Friday at the Union on our Manchester campus, between 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm.

The Minnesota Golden Gophers are headed to the Frozen Four Finals on Saturday to play against Union College, thanks to a goal by Justin Holl.

Thin - lipped personnel men laugh heartily as they splash around in the mustard with union stewards; paunchy executives play two innings of slow - pitch softball and then rush off to recuperate at their country clubs; the president kisses babies belonging to graveyard - shift workers and delivers a speech prepared by the PR boys about the glorious future awaiting those who continue to love grand old Amalgamated Sponge.

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But as Bill Center, an SI correspondent who has been covering soccer for the San Diego Union since 1968, notes, «One of the first things said by the owners of the original San Diego Toros was, «When the kids playing soccer today grow up, soccer in the U.S. will become the Number One spectator sport.»

«I think by playing those games against Cal High (San Ramon) and James Logan (Union City), I think it's brought some attention to our area.

Brian Schmetzer has revealed that the Seattle Sounders team are looking to secure a place in the play - offs by getting a victory against Philadelphia Union.

The match was the first time that a Rugby Championship match had been played outside of a traditional Sanzaar country and was arranged by the Argentina Rugby Union.

The first is about punishment: even with repeated interaction over infinite N periods, a defector member state that does not play by the «rules of the game» will be removed from the union, thereby hindering access to competitive advantages, be they technical learning through information exchange, energy development, increased trade and industrialisation, and so on.

Both manangement and the unions should be highly watched by the covereing media for playing self serving games.

HTC, a small but influential labor union that has played pivotal rolls at the Capitol in recent years on issues like the legalization of casino gaming, worked with the Real Estate Board of New York to counter a well - funded campaign backed by Airbnb.

At the critical juncture of 1991 (the fall of the Soviet Union), it looked like Iran could play a powerful or even destabilising role in Central Asia; however, it was hampered by its recent war with Iraq and a desire to normalise its relations with the West.

Drawing on six case studies, examining the role of ideology in mass killing by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union under Stalin, the Allied powers in their aerial bombardment of Germany and Japan, the terrorist campaigns of Daesh and Al Qaeda, the Rwandan Genocide and the Guatemalan Civil War, the project will develop theoretical and empirical understanding of the role ideology plays in mass killing.

And the responses suggest a growing divide between the nation and its highest court on constitutional questions that have moved to the heart of the American system, as the advent of super PACs and the abandonment of public financing by both parties in presidential elections have enabled wealthy donors, corporations and unions to play a greater role in political fund - raising.

A trade union increases the power of the employees by allowing them to bargain collectively with the employer: when the employer has too much power (e.g., the only job in town), a union can «level the playing field» by controlling a large % of skilled workers and negotiate a better pay or benefits which would otherwise be denied by the employer's access to other labor sources.

The union is highlighting the role played by private security officers (10 of the 24 32BJ members who perished held that job), who the ad says serve as the public's «eyes and ears» because they're often first on the scene of emergencies.

An alternative business plan has been presented to the Government by the unions that proposes sweeping rationalisation to cut running costs, and entails the Government to play its part in securing an additional # 50million in public procurement contracts out of an annual total of # 126billion.

ALBANY — After years as a pro-charter school operative, Democratic state Senate candidate Micah Lasher is adopting a more union - friendly attitude on education issues, vowing in his campaign literature to «ensure that charter schools have to play by the same rules.»

Guests at the 10 - year celebration in the Cutler Union at the Memorial Art Gallery enjoyed a silent auction featuring high - end items like 5 nights in NYC, restaurant and spa gift baskets, and music played by city school educators Steve Copeland, Vito Cricati and Greg Detwiler.

Emery has previously been criticized by police union leaders who long bristled at the role played by the CCRB, which investigates and sometimes prosecutes cases of alleged police misconduct.

Unions and other outside groups played a huge role during that cycle by tarring - and - feathering Republicans as corrupt and wedded to the increasingly unpopular policies of President George W. Bush.

That's happened because Ed's recent victory surprised many, not least his brother and his brother's supporters, and some of Ed's people see a need to spin away the role played in Ed's victory by the two - thirds of the electorate who voted as union members, hence the suggestion that Labour «supporters» be added in some way to the electorate.

The union has demonstrated considerable electoral strength in Queens in recent elections by playing a pivotal role in the elections and re-elections of Senator Tony Avella, Assemblyman Phillip Goldfeder and Senator Shirley Huntley.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew, who supported the petition drive, called on the mayor to «stop playing political games,» and warned that if he went ahead with the cuts and layoffs, «the communities and this union will not sit idly by.»

Pay to play and domination by the unions and special interests has to end, but they do not address those issues.

DiGerolamo said the union, in spending money to boost local lawmakers, is merely playing by the rules established by the U.S. Supreme Court.

One of the pragmatic reasons the union officials who play such a big role in the WFP's operation wanted to give him its nomination rather than backing an obscure law professor whose lack of name recognition at the time was equaled only by her paucity of funding was that they felt more confident he could produce the 50,000 votes on the WFP line necessary to preserve its spot on the state ballot four years from now.

As Jimmy Vielkind noted, NYSUT has decided to play hardball with the Legislature — particularly the state Senate — by pulling its support of nine Democrats and 19 Republicans who had previously run with the union's support.

While crediting then Gov. Hugh Carey and the Legislature's role in saving the city, Cuomo said the unions played a crucial part by voluntarily agreeing to concessions and investing in city bonds with their pension funds in order to help with the bailout.

Heastie, backed by de Blasio and the teachers unions, sought to tie the renewal of the 15 - year - old program to the extension of local taxation authority for upstate municipalities largely controlled by Republicans — a play infuriating to Flanagan.

At the start of the 2013/14 season, 96 % of all head coaches at the 92 professional men's football clubs and 22 professional men's rugby union clubs in England and Wales had previously played their respective sports at an elite level, research by the University of Lincoln and Leeds Beckett University discovered.

Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland played a key role in the study, which was carried out as part of the LiPiDiDiet project funded by the European Union.

Wavering solar and wind power don't play well with baseload nuclear plants that prefer to run at full blast, so the French must find a way to cope with this imbalance if they are to meet the European Union's directive to generate 20 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2020.

The aim of the talk at the 2013 Meeting of the Americas, which is sponsored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), is to focus on the specific role geoscientists can play in disaster risk reduction and how their work should fit in with the roles played by other experts for any given community.

Lincoln must also deal with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln (portrayed by Sally Field), as she struggles with the deaths of several of their sons, and the estrangement he faces with his college - age son Robert (played by Joseph Gordon - Levitt), who returns home from Harvard to join the Union army.

And those betrayals are directly attributable to the rotten role played by the entire layer of middle class antiwar and civil rights leaders, along with black nationalists, Stalinists and trade union bureaucrats.

The group's leader, Mark Ashton, played by Ben Schnetzer, raises some much - needed money and finds a grateful union rep (Paddy Considine) in Onllwyn.

Cassavetes plays Axel North, an AWOL soldier who takes a job as a railroad worker, where he is bullied by bigot supervisor Charles Malik (Jack Warden), a union functionary appointed by the Mob.

Aided by excellent supporting performances including Don Cheadle («Iron Man 2») playing the pilot union's hotshot attorney seeking to get Whip off of any potential criminal prosecution; Bruce Greenwood as Whip's longtime friend and current pilot union rep and John Goodman as Whip's drug providing childhood friend, Zemeckis shows the various tools a functional alcoholic can use to fool themselves into thinking they have control.

WITH HER CHILDREN BEING HELD HOSTAGE by four burglars; would Shaun Russell's, played by Gabrielle Union (Deliver Us from Eva, Think Like a Man franchise) primal instinct to protect her children be more than a match for these criminals?