Sentences with phrase «pushed by labor»

The decision was pushed by labor unions, who have been trying to stem decades - long membership erosion by targeting small businesses like fast - food restaurants.

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Indiana is the latest Midwestern state where Republicans have pushed labor legislation with safe voting margins even as the efforts have drawn large protests by union backers and spawned recall efforts.

Wells Fargo is under investigation by the Labor Department, which wants to see whether the bank has been pushing people with cheaper corporate 401 (k) plans to transfer their holdings to Wells's more expensive individual retirement plans.

Subcontractors are swamped with work, and according to the Urban Land Institute, the labor shortage in urban, suburban, and rural areas is pushing back some projects by months.

Barack Obama's administration pushed for the Trans - Pacific Partnership, again over the objections of labor unions, this time joined by many public health groups.

Despite that distinction, President Barack Obama is one of her biggest fans: In his speech last year pushing the Department of Labor to press on with its fiduciary standard rule, he pointed out Garrett by name as an FA who puts the best interests of her clients first.

The improved employment situation supported by rising unit labor costs is pushing the core inflation rate higher.

The last point is one that is being pushed hard by Labor Secretary Robert Reich and may be an important part of the Clinton reelection campaign.

The number of independent contractors in Australia has fallen in recent years — 1.11 million contractors in 2010 to 986,000 by 2013 — which the Abbott government has blamed on a «concerted attack» by the Tax Office and the Fair Work building and construction taskforce under the previous Labor government to push people into more union - friendly arrangements.

Rupturing your membranes also puts you on a clock, has a greater chance of cord prolapse meaning emergency, increases your risk of infection and takes away your baby's buffer to the strong contractions caused by Pitocin, your epidural can slow labor, making you unable to move and / or push effectively, doesn't allow for proper fetal descent, you will most likely have a catheter placed to your bladder, increasing risk of bladder infections, and if all else fails, at 5PM, you will have a C / S at 5PM before your baby gets too tired or sick to continue laboring (because the doctor is tired of waiting).

Back labor can often be accompanied by an irregular contraction pattern, a labor that is slow to progress, and a prolonged pushing stage.

Other benefits of doing squats to induce labor include strengthening leg muscles, which will prove useful during the birthing process, and helping to reduce labor time by 11 minutes (if squatting when pushing during labor).

Every movie or television show where a mother is depicted going into labor and pushing out a baby is marked by seeing her lying on her back with her feet in stirrups.

This happens when the baby turns around with its head facing downwards in position for birtht The baby's head is at the mouth of the uterus and it is ready to move through the birth canal in the process of laboro Therefore when you are 38 weeks pregnant and lower back pain is experienced, you know you have to be prepared for labor and childbirtht When the baby is in position for birth and the abdominal lowering happens, it exerts a lot of pressure on the ligaments that are holding the uterus in positiono As the uterus prepares to push the baby out, the back pain and contractions become more intenses These contractions are very different from Braxton Hicks contractions which can be eased by adjusting your positiono Labor contractions increase and decrease rhythmically and are the strongest just before blabor and childbirtht When the baby is in position for birth and the abdominal lowering happens, it exerts a lot of pressure on the ligaments that are holding the uterus in positiono As the uterus prepares to push the baby out, the back pain and contractions become more intenses These contractions are very different from Braxton Hicks contractions which can be eased by adjusting your positiono Labor contractions increase and decrease rhythmically and are the strongest just before bLabor contractions increase and decrease rhythmically and are the strongest just before birtht

Squatting, hands and knees, standing, semi-reclining, on a birthing stool or an exercise ball — all of these positions can shorten the pushing stage of labor by letting gravity assist baby's descent.

Fetal distress caused by pushing and continuous contractions, and nothing in my pregnancy or earlier labor stages could have predicted or prevented that development.

In addition, you may reduce your odds of tearing by applying a warm compress to the perineum during the pushing phase of labor, says Dr. Ross.

Her first labor didn't go as planned «I was told by my amazing doctor numerous times that I had the hips to push out a baby, and I was all set on a natural birth.

by Claire Latham As soon as my son Jakob was born, after 63 hours of labor and three hours of pushing, the doctor asked me if I wanted him to go ahead and circumcise my baby.

My second son was born in a typical labor and delivery room, my twins were born in an OR because of increased risk which was a little uncomfortable but luckily from the time I got on the table at 12:06 both were born by 12:24 with a few pushes!

And he's pushing to boost business expenses by setting a $ 15 wage floor, which will force up labor costs across the board.

The labor - backed party is also fully embracing the NY -26-as-Medicare-referendum storyline being pushed by the Democrats, taking this opportunity to urge the Dems to, as WFP Executive Director Dan Cantor put it in an email to supporters this morning, «use this victory well, and stand up for what we know is right.»

Support for the main line project came just as Majority Leader John Flanagan was being pushed by a campaign launched by the business - backed Long Island Association and labor groups criticizing the lack of an agreement on the project.

«It's disappointing that Governor Cuomo and some state lawmakers — pushed by powerful, labor - backed special interests — continue to pursue the use of tax dollars to fund partisan political campaigns,» said the group's executive director, Brian Sampson.

According to the complaint, they sought Mr. Percoco's help in reversing a decision by the state's economic development agency that would have forced COR — Mr. Cuomo's largest donor in central New York — to make an expensive labor peace agreement; pushing the state to release payments that it owed to COR; and getting a $ 5,000 raise for Mr. Aiello's son, who worked for Mr. Percoco at the governor's office.

And there's long - standing political opposition by labor unions and lawmakers who have for years pushed to have power generated in the state rather than imported from Quebec, which has substantial government - run hydroelectric plants.

But support from the labor movement comes a coalition of groups backing the bill make a major end of session push for the measure, which is sponsored by Minority Leader John Sampson, D - Brooklyn, in the Senate.

That just so happens to be the position pushed by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the Senate Democrats, a host of labor unions and their progressive allies.

The split is part of a broader dispute within the WFP between its labor union founders and activist groups that have largely been funded by unions to push issues.

Noting his father launched his 1982 campaign for governor from the Labor Day Parade, Cuomo's remarks included a litany of the measures approved in the last year that had been pushed by unions (and the governor himself).

The governor is also expected push for a tougher teacher evaluation system by linking some, if not all, of the promised 4 percent increase in education aid while also overhauling the state pension system — two moves that will put him on a collision course with powerful labor unions.

The poll results come as state lawmakers once again are being pushed on the issue of public financing, this time by a coalition of good - government groups, labor organizations and even the former campaign apparatus of President Obama's re-election effort, Organizing for America.

De Blasio is pushing changes to a property tax abatement that are opposed by labor groups.

The party, made up of liberal activists and labor unions, has irked Mr. Cuomo for years by trying to push him to the left, though the governor will still appear on its ballot line on Election Day.

At a rally in Manhattan, the Democratic governor shared the stage with national labor leaders after a state wage board recommended raising the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 and hour, delivering a key victory in a national push by unions — led by Service Employees International Union — to improve the lot of (and unionize) employees at McDonald's, Burger King and other chains.

But by pushing for a $ 15 minimum wage, Cuomo has won praise from key labor unions and other parts of the institutional left that he had previously struggled to excite.

But the $ 15 minimum wage, as pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo this year after he set the wage for fast - food workers through a Department of Labor board, proved to be an especially bitter pill for some business groups to swallow.

The $ 15 wage push had been initially backed by fast - food workers and labor unions as well as anti-poverty advocates.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo — joined by Vice President Biden — is expected to push today for a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage for all workers statewide after the acting state labor commissioner gives final approval to a recommendation raising hourly pay for fast food workers to that amount.

He made peace with his biggest nemesis in the labor movement, the teachers unions, by denouncing much of the state education agenda he had pushed in his first term.

A source involved with Democrats and their labor - backed allies, who pushed Klein to the table by getting Cuomo to threaten him at the Working Families Party convention last month, predicted Kessner, Koppell and Clarkstown councilwoman Stephanie Hausner would all back down, eventually.

He said sticking points relate to labor and environmental issues, and to a campaign finance provision pushed by his Republican counterpart, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, to lift certain spending limits by party committees.

to freeze state worker salaries and push other policies that considered unpalatable by the labor community.

Leaders of several groups in the state's institutional left — VOCAL - NY, Citizen Action, and the labor - backed Strong Economy for All coalition — marched on Third Avenue in midtown, saying Cuomo should push the seven - member Independent Democratic Conference and wayward Sen. Simcha Felder to join with the 24 mainstream Democrats led by Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

Recent research suggests that a peanut ball can help shorten labor by 90 minutes and pushing by 23 and reduce c - section rate!

I was awestruck by the strength it must take and just knew I wanted to say that I had done it too.Since my current midwife says it sounds like my problem pushing Audrey out was likely her big head (14») and my petite body / tight muscles, there seems to be no reason at all that this next labor and birth shouldn't be absolutely beautiful and at home where I am most comfortable.

I SWEAR by RT as it made literally did the pushing for me as I lay in warm water tub juz deep breathing and less than 2 hours of active labor contractions and 20 mins of my body doing the pushing for me my 2nd baby was here?.

He had labored in their studio system for years, being pushed by producers as the successor to Bruce Lee following his untimely death.

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Ms. Pfeiffer pulls out all the stops in her final monologue which is meant to dispel 15 years of bad marriage in a moment, but is so poorly directed that, instead, what comes to mind is a woman in labor being coached by an overzealous obstetrician to «Push!