Sentences with phrase «protest over the governor»

Even this year, when a number of lawmakers threatened to disrupt his annual State of the State address with protests over the governor's refusal to go along with legislative pay raises, Cuomo didn't plead with them or negotiate.

This isn't the first protest over the governor's fiscal priorities.

Not exact matches

Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, was rocked with a mass protest on Friday by interest groups which took over the streets to condemn the non-payment of workers» and alleged looting of the state treasury by Governor Ayo Fayose.

The NLC had earlier criticised Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, over what it described as the harassment, arrest and detention of workers who were protesting the government's policy to hand over public schools to individual in the guise of public, private partnership.

New York's Tea Party movement — which last fall helped drive the tax - protest defeat of two county executives — has been ga - ga of late over Buffalo millionaire developer Carl Paladino, who proposes to spend $ 10 million of his own money to run for governor this fall.

Eight people were arrested outside the governor's Manhattan office after they blocked traffic during a protest over planned hikes on rent - controlled apartments, two days before a hearing that will determine the new monthly cost for tenants.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was protested in Albany on April 23 over his policies on the environment and climate change.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

«We wrote protest letters to the governor, national secretariat over the looming crisis.

Information just reaching our newsroom is that Ngwa Youths have barricaded all roads leading in and out of Aba in protest against the Appeal court's ruling over the weekend which nullified the election of governor Ikpeazu of Abia state and ordered the immediate swearing - in of the APGA candidate Dr. Alex Otti.

The protest might be viewed as a wake - up call for the governor regarding how some of the cuts in his budget proposal might go over with the general public.

It was gathered that having quietly pressurized Akpabio for weeks, the staff ran out of patience and resorted to protesting on Monday to compel the governor to pay before handing over to his successor on Friday.

Some elderly people, who are owners of buildings demolished by the administration of Governor Rauf Aregbesola for the expansion of some road projects in Osogbo, Osun State, on Tuesday protested at the state House of Assembly over the non-payment of about N2bn promised them as compensation since four year ago.

Secondary school teachers employed by the Edo State Government on Wednesday staged a protest over the alleged reintroduction of the competency test by the State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki.

Teachers have been holding rallies all around the state protesting Governor Cuomo's education proposals, and hundreds are expected to converge on the Capitol late Monday to protest over reliance on standardized tests, and other issues.

You could argue the governor doesn't have any degree of control over these protests, but each group has a slate of demands, from school aid to pension security to a new contract.

Thousands of supporters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, on Friday shut down Port Harcourt, in protest over what they termed the killings of their members, harassment and blackmailing of security agencies by the Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, came to Buffalo today to lend his support to teachers and parents protesting the rushed action taken by the School Board to allow charter schools to take over their public schools facing closure.

School governors in West Sussex say they are staging a «strike» this week in a protest over funding shortages, the BBC has reported.

Even so, the planned overhaul triggered mass protests, forcing the governor to compromise: Edison received only twenty schools (its stock took a nosedive after this announcement), with competing private contractors brought in to take over others.

The lowest performing schools in Detroit will be taken over by a new authority created in partnership with the state, Detroit Public Schools and Eastern Michigan University, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) and DPS Emergency Manager Roy Roberts announced at a news conference to much fanfare and some protests.

They blog, post on Facebook, and organize protests against the efforts of Governor Haslam and Commissioner Kevin Huffman to take over their public schools and demoralize their children's teachers.

School governors in West Sussex say they are staging a «strike» this week in a protest over funding shortages.

Last week, over protests from thousands of Ohioans statewide, Governor John Kasich signed a budget into law without exercising his line - item veto to strike a Targeted Restriction of Abortion Providers (TRAP) provision prohibiting transfer agreements with public hospitals, a mandatory ultrasound provision, as well as a measure designed to block funds for preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health centers in Ohio.