Sentences with phrase «powerful labor unions»

The party has strong ties to some of the state's most powerful labor unions and special interests.

A coalition of so - called progressive advocacy organizations — including a number of powerful labor unions and the labor - backed Working Families Party — has formed a new entity to support and push for the wide - reaching liberal agenda proposed this session by the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus.

Maloney hit the ground running, posting some strong fundraising numbers and also locking up the endorsements of several powerful labor unions.

The Cuomo campaign is relying on institutional support from the state's most powerful labor unions for the primary.

Next month, one of the most powerful labor unions in NYC can begin organizing workers at Tavern on the Green, which had been a union shop for decades.

Both Democrats voted «no» on health care reform in 2010 — Arcuri was one of only two Democrats nationwide to change their vote from «yes» to «no» on the bill — and both lost the support of the WFP and various powerful labor unions as a result.

New York's powerful labor unions steered millions of dollars in members» dues into campaign coffers.

The governor is also expected push for a tougher teacher evaluation system by linking some, if not all, of the promised 4 percent increase in education aid while also overhauling the state pension system — two moves that will put him on a collision course with powerful labor unions.

Politico reported last week that one of the president's top political advisers, Patrick Gaspard, took home nearly $ 40,000 last year from one of the country's most powerful labor unions — without telling a soul.

An adviser to Gov. Jerry Brown, Glazer was Public Enemy No. 1 of the state's powerful labor unions in the June 2014 primary for the 16th Assembly District.

The poll comes a day after McGrath's campaign was bolstered by the endorsement of powerful labor union 1199 SEIU.

Mittal created the world's largest steelmaker (MT) by pursuing a decades - long, impossibly audacious plan of consolidation — working with governments, powerful labor unions, and other constituencies to rewrite the rules of the old steel industry in tough times.

When she defeated James Callaghan in 1979, the United Kingdom was a country with many nationalized industries, large, powerful labor unions, and a governing elite so thoroughly socialized into the command - and - control outlook that few could imagine alternatives.

For years Joliet's powerful labor unions were always first to be promised work by city fathers during negotiations with construction firms seeking permission to build.

The powerful labor union 1199 SEIU endorsed Republican state Senate hopeful Chris McGrath on Friday in the crucial special election to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in Nassau County.

Cuomo has amassed a war chest of more than $ 30 million and has already been endorsed by several powerful labor unions.

The statewide Business Council, which former Gov. George Pataki blamed for abandoning his early efforts to stand up to the state's powerful labor unions, was cited as especially reluctant to participate.

The powerful labor union 1199 / SEIU plans to help IDC Democrats, political director Kevin Finnegan said last month.

The powerful labor union 1199 / SEIU on Monday rolled out a pair of endorsements in two key congressional primaries on Long Island, a week before voters head to the polls in battleground districts.

The powerful labor union 1199SEIU on Monday will release a letter stepping up its opposition to a proposed storage plan for liquid petroleum gas in the Finger Lakes region.

Federal Department of Labor filings, however, show in 2014 the state League of Women Voters received more than $ 18,000 from the New York State United Teachers, a powerful labor union, and has received other five - figure donations from the union in the past.

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.

Principal Vincent Pitta is the son of Vito Pitta, former Hotel Trades Council president, and the brother - in - law of the powerful labor union's current leader, Peter Ward.

McGrath was endorsed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the powerful labor union for service workers.

At a time when two Democratic lawmakers stand accused of bribery and public corruption, California's most powerful labor unions have kicked back more than a million dollars to the California Democratic Party.

«Powerful labor unions and New York City millionaires want to spend your money to support their political candidates and their tax - and - spend agenda.

A hefty 11th - hour campaign contribution from a powerful labor union, the Communications Workers of America, to the Nassau County Democratic Party to help Assemblyman Todd Kainsky's Senate campaign is raising eyebrows in light of the fund - raising scandal that has engulfed de Blasio.

But Schneiderman's team informed us the event has been moved around the block to Taste (45 Beaver St.) due to an ongoing dispute between 74 State's new owners and the Hotel & Motel Trades Council, a small but powerful labor union.

The powerful labor union, 1199 SEIU, endorsed McGrath, noting his legal work supporting Sept. 11 first responders.

Astorino said business leaders — he was careful to say that not everyone in the room here at the Sagamore Hotel in Bolton Landing was at fault — have not marshaled enough of a defense when criticized by liberal state lawmakers and organizations aligned with the state's powerful labor unions.

As an incumbent, he boasts higher name recognition than Stringer, and he remains close to the powerful labor unions who determine the course of many municipal elections.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. David Paterson says he won't support the Legislature's annual effort to sweeten pensions and other benefits for Albany's powerful labor unions.

The WFP was co-founded and is financed by the city's most powerful labor unions and leaders of left - leaning ACORN, renamed New York Communities for Change.

California's most powerful labor unions, representing teachers, firefighters, engineers and nurses, added $ 1.15 million to the California Democratic Party's already - sizable campaign war - chest Friday.

A hefty 11th - hour campaign contribution from a powerful labor union to the Nassau County Democratic Party is raising eyebrows in light of the fund - raising scandal that has engulfed Mayor de...

They have sought to delay or foil endorsements of one of her Democratic rivals, State Senator Eric T. Schneiderman, by two powerful labor unions, and to persuade another, Sean Coffey, to run instead for state comptroller.

A hefty 11th - hour campaign contribution from a powerful labor union to the Nassau County Democratic Party is raising eyebrows in light of the fund - raising scandal that has engulfed Mayor de Blasio, The Post has learned.

According to state campaign finance records posted Monday evening, the Democratic State Central Committee of CA accepted a total of $ 1.59 million in campaign contributions on Sept. 19 — with the overwhelming majority of those funds coming from the state's powerful labor unions, representing teachers, firefighters, engineers and nurses.

Another Democrat said progressives might be better off just focusing on Hochul since it would be more a battle of «two relatively unknowns» — even though she would likely be supported by Cuomo's bulging campaign warchest and the powerful labor unions that are aligned with the governor.

Many of the city's most powerful labor unions were pushing hard for Mark - Viverito.