Sentences with phrase «powerful labor groups»

Supporters of more aggressive teacher evaluations — which include a number of well - heeled business executives from Silicon Valley — have fought to a standstill over the issue with the California Teachers Association, one of the most powerful labor groups in the state.

The tougher choices down the road could include major cuts in state education spending — the political third rail for many lawmakers; or what are euphemistically called «revenue enhancers,» also known as higher or new taxes; or a cap on state spending, which such powerful labor groups as the teachers and health - care workers unions fight against tooth and nail.

The group spent heavily on ads to support the governor's agenda, particularly in his first year in office, and acted as a counterweight to the powerful labor groups who opposed some of Cuomo's policies.

After receiving an endorsement from what some consider New York's most powerful labor group, SEIU Local 1199, and and immigrants» rights group, the former secretary of state said this office would build on what President Barack Obama has done with immigration.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan in an interview on Wednesday said he isn't taking for granted the support of 1199 SEIU amid reports the powerful labor group will back the GOP conference for continued control of the chamber.

But the plan would also alter the politics of the city's education system by pulling the independently operated schools under the direct influence of a powerful labor group that has sought to limit charter expansion.

Not exact matches

But according to Senator Gavin Marshall, chairman of the «Left federal parliamentary Labor Party caucus,» writing in The Age, Gillard's decision to allow a «conscience vote» on «gay marriage» is «not democratic,» because it «exposes individual parliamentarians to powerful conservative lobby groups» and the retrograde opinions of those «stubbornly opposed to all social reforms.»

«It's disappointing that Governor Cuomo and some state lawmakers — pushed by powerful, labor - backed special interests — continue to pursue the use of tax dollars to fund partisan political campaigns,» said the group's executive director, Brian Sampson.

Around the table sat Mr. Cuomo; the leaders of New York's most powerful labor unions; Joseph Crowley, the top - ranked New York Democrat in the House of Representatives; and the two rival Democratic leaders of the State Senate — Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who leads the main group of Democrats, and Jeffrey D. Klein, who leads the breakaway group — among others.

Opposing the convention is a broad array of powerful interest groups — including most of state's unions and environmental advocates — who argue that it would give business interests and other well - financed groups an avenue to weaken existing labor and environmental protections.

At a meeting Monday with a group of influential labor leaders representing some of the state's powerful unions, including 1199 SEIU, 32BJ, the Hotel Trades Council and the Communications Workers of America, Cuomo said he couldn't pass a budget with campaign finance reform because of Senate opposition, and pressed the leaders to rein in the restive members of the Working Families Party, who vote on the party's endorsement.

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.

Longtime de Blasio pal Kevin Finnegan — a former political director of the powerful SEIU 1199 hospital - workers union — found ways for labor groups to funnel cash to the mayor's campaigns and causes in amounts above legal spending limits, a source tells the NY Post.

Among the labor groups in talks with Klein is the powerful health care Local 1199 - SEIU.

Longtime de Blasio pal Kevin Finnegan — a former political director of the powerful SEIU 1199 hospital - workers union — found ways for labor groups to funnel cash to de Blasio's campaigns and causes in amounts above legal spending limits, said a source familiar with the mayor's campaign practices.

According to today's Sun, in late May Spitzer assembled a group of powerful D.C. - based labor officials at the Manhattan office of his father's real - estate firm (where he's been working) and pitched them the idea of raising money to start «flipping» distressed real - estate assets.

Cuomo engineered the creation of the uber - powerful lobbying group to protect him from labor attacks during the budget process.

Now that the Sierra Club has joined with a coalition of environmental activist groups, labor unions, and other left - liberal groups to form the Democracy Initiative, the Sierra Club has an even more powerful platform to promote its radical agenda.