Sentences with phrase «powerful union local»

«As the nation's largest, most powerful union local, the UFT can and should lead the charge for real innovation in schools.

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José Francisco Pereira, General Director of Monte Alegre farm said «This union agreement is based on a mutual trusting relationship and will make both companies more powerful on the local and international markets - combining Sucafina's global footprint with Monte Alegre's tradition in the Specialty Coffee Production.

Stuart Appelbaum, head of the Retail Workers and Department Store Union (RWDSU), the local labor leader who invited Trumka to the armory, said that «bringing the head of the AFL - CIO the first week after he is elected sends a powerful message about what working people want in economic development.

Unions like the powerful Service Employees International Union Local 1199, SEIU 32BJ, the state Nurse's Association, and the Communications Workers of America were among those who gave big amounts to the county committees though they never had before.

Last week at the behest of Governor Andrew Cuomo, the rupture between the progressive Working Families Party and progressive unions intensified, with two powerful SEIU and CWA locals withdrawing support for the WFP on the eve of its endorsement of Cuomo rival Cynthia Nixon.

A party for those whose priorities include the Welfare State, workers» rights, trade unionism, the co-operative movement, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation rather than environmentalism, fair taxation, full employment, public ownership, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, civil liberties, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, economic patriotism, balanced migration, a realist foreign policy, and a base of real property for every household to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.

The Wall Street Journal reports Schneiderman's re-election campaign has purchased $ 1 million worth of advertising time with broadcast TV stations in New York, Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, New York's five biggest media markets; his endorsers include labor unions such as the powerful United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500 with 23,000 members in New York City, on Long Island, and in Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties.

The powerful Service Employees International Union Local 1199 and the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council quit the WFP while the city United Federation of Teachers withdrew its funding.

The party stated Sunday that its local members as well as a list of public - and private - sector unions, some of them among the most powerful special interests in Albany, unanimously support Cuomo's platform, which he calls the New New York Agenda.

Calamia's complaint says that much of the big money that went to the Democratic committees on Long Island involved many of the same organizations Sugarman cited in her report as working with de Blasio, including Local 1199 of the powerful Service Employees International Union, Communications Workers of America District One, the state Nurse's Association and SEIU 32BJ.

The powerful Service Employees International Union Local 1199 withdrew its funding and membership in late 2014.

He made the announcement at an 11 a.m. rally at the Manhattan headquarters of Local 1199 SEIU, the powerful health care workers union.

But in 2014, the mayor was able to outmaneuver the leaders to put in Councilwoman Melissa Mark - Viverito as speaker with the help of the powerful health workers» union, Local 1199.

In the local credit union, they sheltered in a vault, but still struggled to hold the door closed against the powerful winds.

But — and here we have the best argument possible for increased local autonomy instead of less — because of state law, hammered out in back rooms by powerful union interests, local voters were denied their electoral rights.

For better or worse, unions are at their most powerful at the state and local levels, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana notwithstanding.

In an Education Week commentary essay about school boards in 2009, I wrote, «[M] y sense of things, after two stints on my local school board... is that school boards have been overtaken by the «educatocracy,» by powerful trade unions, certified specialists, certification agencies, state and federal rule - makers and legislators, grants with strings, billion - dollar - contractor lobbyists, textbook mega-companies, professional associations, and lawyers — the list could go on.»

They can't be in the classroom, but because of powerful local and state teachers unions, it is virtually impossible to fire them.

Once one of the most powerful unions in the American Federation of Teachers, the PFT, Local 3 of the AFT, has been undermined for more than a decade by a combination of corporate «school reform» and the attempts by the union's leadership to compromise with the union busting and privatization policies of local Democrats and state RepubliLocal 3 of the AFT, has been undermined for more than a decade by a combination of corporate «school reform» and the attempts by the union's leadership to compromise with the union busting and privatization policies of local Democrats and state Republilocal Democrats and state Republicans.

Over the last quarter century, the teachers unions have clearly been the most powerful force in American education, and they have clearly been using their extraordinary power — in collective bargaining at the local level, in the political process at the state and national levels — to undermine major reform and to burden the schools (via seniority provisions, the protection of bad teachers, and all the rest) with ineffective forms of organization.

To achieve badly needed education reforms in California, state legislators and local school board members must stand up to the powerful teachers unions.

Also, the outsized influence of the teachers» union in many local school board races requires a candidate to be a known and acceptable quantity to a powerful and trusted voting block.

We need to continue to send the message that we have a powerful voice only if we are active members of our local unions.

First, having been a member of what I considered to be a militant (most seem to be militant in my estimation) trade union (United Association of Steamfitters and Plumbers of America, Local 46, Toronto) for approximately ten years, I would concur with you vis a vis your apparent assumption that said unions have worn out their societal usefulness, and now serve only the purposes of their membership, and to hell with the public interest economically speaking, not to mention the absolute chaos the actions of powerful public sector unions create when they cause their entire membership to go on strike, for eg., the Toronto garbage workers» strike, the Toronto transit workers» strike etc..