Sentences with phrase «representing carriage drivers»

The union representing the carriage drivers, Teamsters Local 553, has received support from the city's Municipal Labor Council as well as from Vinny Alvarez, president of the New York City Central Labor Council, and the Working Families Party.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council announced a deal «in concept» late on Sunday evening that would severely downsize the horse carriage industry in the city and confine it to Central Park, after weeks of intense of negotiation between the mayor, the City Council and the union representing the carriage drivers.

The union representing the carriage drivers is vehemently opposed to the ban and council members want to ensure there are no jobs lost if the carriages disappear.

But the deal collapsed after the union representing carriage drivers came out against it, and the council never took up the issue.

The postcard effort — a spokesman said there are 7,000 signed by NYCLASS supporters — is part of an ongoing process to wrangle the votes needed to pass the carriage - banning legislation, which is opposed by the labor union representing the carriage drivers.

NYCLASS, at least so far, has also met its match in the Teamsters union, representing the carriage drivers, and the Daily News, which has blasted the group in scathing editorials and launched a petition drive to keep the horses in Manhattan.

A deal wrangled by de Blasio — who famously vowed to ban the buggy rides his first week on the job — collapsed early last year after the union representing carriage drivers yanked their support.

Ms. Anderson is launching a new ad campaign with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in support of the arrangement, which the mayor forged with Council Speaker (and X-Phile) Melissa Mark - Viverito and the Teamsters union that represents the carriage drivers.

On the other, there were Mr. de Blasio's typical allies in the world of organized labor, who represent the carriage drivers and the jobs they might have lost if the industry had been banned completely.

Not exact matches

Horse - carriage drivers are represented by Teamsters Joint Council 16, which is a member of the W.F.P., and recently proposed a list of compromises to the administration.

That pits the Council against Teamsters Joint Council 16, which represents the horse - carriage drivers and is supporting the de Blasio plan, which not only calls for shrinking the horse carriage industry and moving it to Central Park, but also banning pedicabs from the park's southern, tourist - heavy precincts.

In an effort to fulfill that promise, he has worked out a compromise with City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and the Teamsters (who represent the horse carriage drivers) to shrink the number of horse carriages and house them in a more spacious stables in Central Park.

In a statement, George Miranda, president of Joint Council 16, said the bill had moved forward «without input from the union that represents these drivers,» though he insisted «the Teamsters and our members in the carriage industry are open to continued dialogue and discussion with the administration so we can find a solution that keeps the horses and drivers in Central Park.»

UPDATE: George Miranda, president of Teamsters Joint Council 16, which represents horse carriage drivers, said in a statement this morning that the de Blasio administration's bill to stop horse carriage rides by 2016 was done without input from the union, but that he and the members are «open to continued dialogue and discussion with the administration so we can find a solution that keeps the horses and drivers in Central Park.»

Over the holiday weekend, Mayor Bill de Blasio, the union representing horse carriage drivers and the City Council announced they had finally reached a deal to downsize the industry.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to corral the city's horse - carriages into Central Park is headed to the glue factory, after the union representing the drivers announced today it no longer backed the proposal.

(The Teamsters represent the carriage horse drivers.)

The union made headlines in the past year for representing horse - carriage drivers in their fight with Mr. de Blasio, who has sought to ban horse - drawn carriages from city streets.

Christina Hansen and Stephen Malone represent the community of working class carriage drivers, who fight a battle...