Sentences with phrase «power of unions»

But we wouldn't have been able to do any of this without the collective power of our union.

We believe collaboration and communication are most successfully achieved when educators are organized and have the collective power of a union.

The Supreme Court's Bildisco decision required the airlines jump through some additional hoops before a judge can allow them to rip up a union contract, but the mere fact of its possibility weakens the bargaining power of unions by making companies less accountable to what they've promised workers.

It will also eviscerate the remaining power of unions.

Von Hayek and his comrades assert that the roots of the crisis are to be found in the ominous and excessive power of unions, and in a more general way, of the labour movement; according to them, unions have undermined the base of private accumulation (of investment) by their salary claims and by their pressure against the rise by the State of the parasitical social expenses without end.

We believe in the people power of unions like the Health Professionals and Allied Employees bringing tri-state nurses together, and the American Federation of Musicians, the world's largest union of musicians.

Takeovers by mayors have overcome the blocking power of unions and district bureaucracies in New York, Hartford, Connecticut, and other cities, but they only work for a while.

As Caldara said, «[for] anybody who cares about educational choice, about the incredible power of unions nationally and locally, about how a state that was red turns blue, this Douglas County fight is all of that in one tiny, explosive battle.»

Rebecca Friedrichs, a third - grade teacher in the Savanna School District, which serves portions of northwest Orange County, is the lead plaintiff in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a lawsuit brought by several teachers that challenged the hegemonic power of their union to collect fees from non-union members.

The judicial power of the United States is a constituent part of those concessions — that power is to be exercised by courts organized for the purpose, and brought into existence by an effort of the legislative power of the Union.

Supporting nurses who want the collective power of a union is therefore an important part of our work at the UFT.

On top of all this, governments of all stripes are diminishing the power of unions through legislation.

The Supreme Court will strike another blow to the power of unions by ruling — in a case known as Janus — that government workers may opt out of mandatory dues collection.

Therefore the first natural bond of human society is man and wife -LSB-...] He created the one out of the other, setting a sign also of the power of the union in the side, whence she was drawn -LSB-...] they are joined one to another side by side, who walk together, and look together whither they walk.

From then on, the remedy is clear to maintain a strong State, capable to break the power of the unions and to strictly control the evolution of the monetary mass (monetarist policy).

He blasted efforts that seek to limit the power of unions, be it right to work laws or limitations on dues, now being decided in Supreme Court cases.

There have been continuing tensions between workers and intellectuals, the role and power of the unions and - at least in the early period - whether to work within the political system and seek gradual change.

By proposing reforms to his party that could drastically reduce the power of the union bosses who made him Labour leader in the first place, Miliband could transform voters» views of his leadership, and by doing so blow away much of David Cameron's electoral advantage.

20 % of the kids coming out of our primary schools by modern standards are illiterate or innumerate and if you think you can solve that problem - which is one of the scandals of modern times - by being nice to people and cosying up to the vested interests of the trade unions, you just don't understand the powers of the unions.

Her union reforms - on the closed shop, ballots, picketing - were about reducing the power of union leaders to bully union members.

[154] She was committed to reducing the power of the unions, whose leadership she accused of undermining parliamentary democracy and economic performance through strike action.

But that nobody has challenged the mayor based on what's already on the public record speaks to the fundamental cowardice of the potential field and to the city's corrupt political culture — but most of all to the power of the unions.

In a second blow to Mr Balls's hopes, it emerged yesterday that the party's ruling National Executive Committee is planning to curb the power of unions to pressgang their members into supporting specific candidates.

His union might not have grabbed as many headlines as the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, or turned out as many voters to the polls as 1199 SEIU — but for more than two decades as the head of the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association, Norman Seabrook cultivated deep ties with politicians from both parties, solidifying the power of his union.

In the past it was Michael Foot, nuclear disarmament and the power of the unions that caused all the tension.

He's right that the power of the unions has produced a crazily expensive system long on bureaucracy and short on educational results.

The contest has exposed a growing tension among Corbyn supporters, between those who want to preserve the power of the unions who helped deliver the leadership and those who prioritise turning Labour into a member - led movement.

Labour and the SNP have both stated opposition to the UK government's Trade Union Bill, which would clamp down on the powers of unions.

But at the same time Conservative ministers hope popular annoyance will buttress support for their plans for further action to curb the power of unions.

We estimated the power of unions with the fraction of all teachers in a state who are union members.

The book documents the rise of public - sector unionism in an era when private - sector unions are dying; exposes the political fragility of school boards; and, inadvertently, reveals that the power of unions extends well beyond the bargaining table, even to the point of shaping education research itself.

In the Wall Street Journal, Stephanie Banchero notes that, while significantly outspent by teachers unions, Democrats for Education Reform and Stand for Children have spent about $ 3.5 million on local campaigns in an effort to challenge the power of unions.

sector unions are dying; exposes the political fragility of school boards; and, inadvertently, reveals that the power of unions extends well beyond the bargaining table, even to the point of shaping education research itself.

Yet even reformist Democrats, from Obama on down, have made it clear that they have no intention of taking action to limit collective bargaining or weaken the power of the unions.

Christian D'Andrea of the MacIver Institute can be heard on the Heartland Institute's podcast discussing his new article about how limits to the power of unions in Wisconsin have affected education policy in the state and what other states can learn from Wisconsin.

This intention is reinforced by a brute political fact: the power of the Democratic Party itself is highly dependent on the power of the unions, and thus on the continuation of collective bargaining.

He concludes that «reform unionism» is unlikely to lead to any major policy changes and that improving schools requires curbing the power of unions.

In the private sector, the power of unions is constrained by the competing organized interests of management.

The spring issue of American Educator on supporting students and families all year and the power of union activism.

With the power of a union behind us - and a union contract that protects us and our patients - we have the power to make these and other improvements in our workplaces.

The head of the nation's largest labor union says Republican efforts to restrain the power of unions has produced a middle - class backlash across the country that could cost Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and other GOP politicians their jobs.

Failure to put the interests of children over the power of unions is characteristic of California education policy.

Barrett, a founding CORE member, said the incumbents put out flyers warning that if CORE won, «the power of the union is handed off to the community and parent groups.»

The aim likely was to diminish the power of unions.

The Charter does not extend the field of application of Union law beyond the powers of the Union or establish any new power or task for the Union, or modify powers and tasks as defined in the Treaties.