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French President Emmanuel Macron is preparing to take on France's powerful unions as he attempts to overhaul the country's labor code.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Speaking to The Irish Times, Kenny said, «European leaders need to be over here talking to Republicans, Democrats and the administration about what membership of the European Union means and the relationship that it can have with as powerful an entity as the United States.»

«The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 spawned thousands of powerful crime gangs — collectively known as the Russian mafia — and some of these groups, officials warn, are establishing bases among emigre communities in the United States, particularly in South Brooklyn.»

Speaking at Fortune «s Most Powerful Women International Summit in London, Gavet, whose company owns travel sites such as Priceline.com, Kayak.com and booking.com, said the European Union's effort to create its much - touted «single digital market» is «the biggest question for tech startups here in Europe.»

They note that he has been a powerful voice in defense of the sanctity of human life in all stages and conditions and marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife, though they do not praise him for that as I would.

But don't they all have to do with how we relate to each other and to Jesus Christ — whether we relate vertically as child to parent, as serf to free person, as baron to king, as alien to citizen, as tribal member to colonial usurper, as subject - wife to master - husband, as Third World country to powerful nation, as sharecropper to landed gentry, as migrant laborer to union or employer, as novice nun to mother superior, as female to male, as poor parishioner to monsignor - pastor, and on and on; or whether we relate horizontally as the grown - up heir now equal to his father, as world citizen to world citizen, as worker to worker, as minister to minister, as partner wife to partner husband, as sister to sister, and sister to brother?

To begin with, as mentioned above, nostalgia for the original union of praxis and theoria propels some of the most powerful currents of modern philosophy; it may even be said to be a kind of shibboleth of fashionably self «critical moderns.

The bizarre Jim Bunning as you never knew him: an unlikely power broker behind the birth of the all - powerful baseball players» union

At the same time it saw the strike as a way to take out the powerful trade union movement.

In 1987 Thatcher proclaimed «there is no such thing as society», 22 years later we have a community organiser, supported by the trade union movement, in the most powerful job in the world, President of the United States of America.

A former top aide to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Damien LaVera, has taken a new gig with the powerful state teaches union, NYSUT, as its communications director.

Before he was elected to Assembly, Tony served as the Vice-President of the powerful Correction Officers union.

He will have powerful backers from the unions and among the new members, as well as strategic and managerial input from a committed backroom team.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan), a staunch union ally, remained mum yesterday as The Post exclusively reported that Cuomo would tie the rating system to the state budget, an indication the Legislature's most powerful voice would not stand in the governor's way.

Bill Morris, former General Secretary of the Transport & General Workers Union (now part of Unite), once said that the most powerful position he had ever held was not at the TGWU, nor at the TUC, Bank of England, or BBC, but as chair of Labour's conference arrangements committee.

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.

Despite her more than two decades in the FBI, heading the Suffolk Police Department will bring her new challenges such as dealing with the powerful police labor unions, specifically the Police Benevolent Association, whose contract is up in 2019.

As culture secretary James Purnell said: «The union flag is a powerful symbol of both our heritage and modern, diverse Britain.

In Brooklyn, Menchaca, a former top aide to Council Speaker Christine Quinn and before that to Borough President Marty Markowitz, has the support of Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, powerful unions, including SEIU 1199, which represents healthcare workers, 32BJ, representing building services employees, and the Hotel Trades Council, as well as the city's Central Labor Council.

But many of his proposals — such as toughening up evaluation systems teachers barely agreed to in the first place, firing teachers with bad ratings, tying tenure to evaluations, and increasing the cap on charter schools — are sure to be met with ire from politically powerful state and city teachers union.

Jennifer Cunningham, a lobbyist for the state's gargantuan health - workers» union, which can be expected to provide the most powerful opposition to reforming New York's bloated Medicaid system, helped run Cuomo's 2006 race for attorney general and continues to serve as an informal adviser to him.

Cunningham, who thanks to her years of widely respected lobbying and consulting work in state politics is often referred to as the most powerful woman in Albany, first became known as a prominent labor strategist, serving as political director for the 1199 / SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the most politically potent union in the state (and perhaps the entire Northeast).

«There is a strong socialist case for staying in the European Union, just as there is also a powerful socialist case for reform and progressive change in Europe.»

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.

And so the two houses of the Legislature aligned against each other, each backed by a powerful interest group: charter school advocates who have contributed generously to Senate Republicans (and Gov. Andrew Cuomo) and teachers» unions that are core supporters of Assembly Democrats, and see charter schools as a persistent threat.

«Freelancers Union is growing a powerful political operation to give New York's freelancers a strong voice in Albany,» Sara Horowitz, executive director of Freelancers Union who founded it as Working Today in 1995, said in a statement.

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 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.

SEIU 1199, the powerful health care workers union, has entered the fray in NY - 19 with an ad that tries to portray GOP Rep. Chris Gibson as a Tea Party extremist.

At the same time, a source close to the Queens congressman told The Point, Crowley has channeled pressure from the national party as well as powerful liberal unions.

Witnesses to the wedding of mainline Dems and the IDC were Byron Brown, the mayor of Buffalo and chair of the New York State Democratic Committee; Christine Quinn, the party vice chair; Geoff Berman, the party's executive director; Peter Ward, president of the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council; and the leaders of other powerful unions, such as 1199, NYSUT and UFT, 32BJ, the Service Employees International Union, and the AFL - CIO.

In another private room, at The Capital Grille on 42nd Street, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, Rep. Joe Crowley, state party leaders and about 10 of New York's most powerful union heads spoke for more than an hour about taking back congressional seats held in New York by Republicans as well as taking over the State Senate to sweep its hold of state government.

The powerful health care workers union was also working on Schneiderman's behalf when he sought to succeed David Paterson as Senate minority leader — a fight he lost to now - Senate President Malcolm Smith.

Caught up in the lobby logjam recently were members of the state's most powerful public employees» and teachers» unions - there to «pick Silver's pockets,» as one lobbyist said to another.

After the agreement, Avella gained significant union support and endorsements from powerful Democrats, such as Mayor Bill de Blasio and U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (D - Melville).

And the business leaders, organizing as the Committee to Save New York, have found a surprising ally: one of the most powerful union officials in the state.

The leader of the country's biggest trade union said «powerful interests» were behind the «attempted political lynching» as he confirmed Unite «would stand by Jeremy».

«I don't see it as an idle threat,» said Richard Iannuzzi, president of the powerful New York State United Teachers union that has won far more battles than it's lost in Albany for its 600,000 - plus members.

Some senior Labour figures who know the inner circle well say that nothing will happen until Len McCluskey, his most powerful union backer, has secured re-election as the leader of Unite, in April.

Assemblyman Keith Wright, a leader in the state Democratic Party, and Kevin Finnegan, · the political director of 1199 SEIU, the powerful healthcare workers» union, spoke to about 100 members of the WFP state committee, stressing what they painted as Mr. Cuomo's lengthy progressive record.

As federal agents tell it, the kickback scheme that led to the arrest on Wednesday of Norman Seabrook, the powerful leader of the New York City correction officers» union, was hatched one night in late 2013 in a hotel room in the Dominican Republic.

The global financial crisis of 2008 would be seen as a turning point on par with the winter of discontent of 1978 (after which Margaret Thatcher persuaded Britain that «the state and the trade unions had grown too powerful and that markets needed to be given free reign») and on a par with the establishment of the welfare state in 1948.

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.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — Even when they're underground, nuclear tests can be detected in the skies — and as a result, global satellite networks could become a powerful new tool in the arsenal of weapons to help detect clandestine underground nuclear explosions, a team of scientists reported here today at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

The impact that produced the crater was two million times more powerful than the largest nuclear device ever tested, a 58 - megaton hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba, detonated by the Soviet Union in 1961.

We can sort of look at the European Union as a model where you have all these very powerful nations that have realized that war and militarism just made absolutely no sense anymore; and so they have created this set of treaties that acknowledge their inter-independence [interdependence] and make the possibility of, you know, a repeat of World War I or II extremely unlikely.

However, the fact is that God did create the idea of sex as a means of making the union between a married man and woman all the more powerful.

The idea of a resistance group as a union of vaguely overlapping, often conflicting instincts is a smart and powerful one.