Sentences with phrase «public sector unions campaigning»

That way you wouldn't have public sector unions campaigning against you.

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IG Metall's campaign follows a 6.3 per cent pay increase over two years secured for 2m public sector workers last month by Ver.di, the services union, after weeks of stoppages.

After all, labor, especially the public - sector unions, spends big on politics — and also supplies legions of campaign workers to help its friends and fight its enemies.

Taxpayer - subsidized political campaigns have the dream of unions — especially public - sector unions — as well as Democratic legislators for years.

Oh, and the public - sector unions would be able to continue their campaign ground operations, which are of inestimable value, even as challengers would have to pay for every boot on the ground, eating into their spending cap.

It is anticipated that Unite members will join other public sector unions on 10 May as part of the on - going campaign against government attacks on public sector pensions.

The Cuomo campaign is very sensitive to possibly being labled «anti-union», and so is making a clear distinction between private unions that, as one source explained to me, «represent real working people», and public sector unions whose expensive contracts and pensions and refusals to agree to give - backs has labled them special interest No. 1 in many minds.

«On Friday we'll be hearing from Len McCluskey, the newly elected general secretary of Unite - a union like ours that represents workers in both the public and private sectors, a union that knows the importance of campaigning hard, and a union with which we will be signing a joint agreement to embed our new working relationship at every level.

That would require the approval of the Legislature, and many lawmakers in both parties have received significant campaign contributions from public sector unions.

ConservativeHome has been highlighting the role of the public sector unions as they pour money into Labour's marginal seats campaign and as they also build up a war chest to «unleash hell» on any incoming Tory government.

A very good source tells ConHome that the unions have as much as # 25m to spend on campaigns to oppose cuts in the public sector workforce and in public sector pay.

TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his fellow Republicans face a new hurdle in their campaign to curb public sector unions» power.

Her Del - Boypolitics will undermine the trades union campaign against the Tory Government «sattacks on public sector workers

Unions have been active in the recall campaign, which was driven by opposition to Walker's proposal passed last year that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for nearly all public sector workers.

CIVIC CENTER — The city's biggest private and public sector labor unions have rallied behind Bill de Blasio's mayoral campaign after being splintered during the primary race, in the hopes of electing the first Democratic mayor in two decades.

Just as liberals complain about the «one percent» corrupting our politics through unlimited campaign financing, so too do public sector unions thwart the public will by buying off officeholders with their own lavish spending and political muscle.

If you combine the campaign spending of all those entities it does not match the amount spent by the National Education Association, the public - sector labor union that represents some 2.3 million K — 12 public school teachers and nearly a million education support workers (bus drivers, custodians, food service employees), retirees, and college student members.

CPAG is the host organisation for the Campaign to End Child Poverty coalition, which has members from across civil society including children's charities, faith groups, unions and other civic sector organisations, united in their campaigning for public and political commitment to ensure the goal of ending child poverty by 2020 is met.

But when more money is spent on the recall elections than on the entire state legislative campaign last year, most of it coming from public - sector unions opposed to Gov. Scott Walker's successful effort to abolish collective bargaining, the politics are clearly national.

The NUT says it will work with other public sector unions in a concerted campaign against the cuts.

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Its representes both private and public sector employers in a number of traditional labor law matters, including employer defense in labor arbitrations of all types, employment discrimination litigation, wrongful discharge and related tort cases, union organizing campaigns, and collective bargaining negotiations.