Sentences with phrase «powerful unions behind»

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

New York State's largest teachers union was once a powerful force behind the opt - out movement.

In 2014, some of the state's most powerful unions coalesced behind the Democrats efforts to retake the chamber.

On top of that, powerful interests close to Cuomo, like the hedge funders behind the charter school movement, some business people and municipal unions that have been fighting with the mayor (like the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association) could pounce if a challenger emerges, insiders say.

Silver, a liberal Democrat with powerful union ties who has repeatedly stymied efforts by the last three governors to restrain spending, said he was fully behind Cuomo's pledge to slash the budget to close a projected $ 8 billion deficit for the fiscal year beginning April 1.

After months of sitting on the sidelines, the city's powerful hotel trade union finally threw its support behind Mayor Bill de Blasio's in his...

While some of the most politically powerful unions like the United Federation of Teachers, 1199 SEIU and 32 BJ SEIU calculated that Bill Thompson, Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Christine Quinn were viable pro-labor choices for mayor, throwing their weight behind them, Mr. Seabrook ignored Mr. Liu's stagnant poll numbers.

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».

If you are a public - sector employee, you will suffer no tax increase at all — no matter how costly your health insurance — if the deal made behind closed doors between Democratic leaders in Congress, the White House, and powerful union officials goes through.

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act was a monumental achievement in 2001 — and the union's greatest political defeat in the modern era — but in subsequent years it was NCLB that found itself being transformed, and ultimately eviscerated, by powerful political blowback from unions and the intransigence of the districts.

Although there have been charter schools in Los Angeles since the early 1990s, the movement took flight early in this decade behind such figures as philanthropist Eli Broad, former school board president Caprice Young, former Mayor Richard Riordan and a long list of teachers and principals who were fed up by the ever - shifting reform agendas of Los Angeles Unified — and by what many saw as a recalcitrant teachers union, the powerful United Teachers Los Angeles.

The issue has long been a sticking point for the powerful New York State United Teachers union, which has thrown its support behind the bill and is hoping to convince lawmakers to act on it before the state's legislative session ends in mid-June.

When the California Teachers Association — the enormously powerful union that resists teacher accountability at every turn — gets behind a bill that claims to implement performance measures for educators, you know it's too good to be true.

The theory behind these laws was that profit - making entities and powerful unions would have too much control over the government if they could use their war chests to elect their favored candidates to Congress.