Sentences with phrase «taking union money»

I'd you watched the media, politicians taking union money in return for policy promises were demonized while the same from corporations were treated as business as usual.

Not exact matches

That's why Western Union is interested in a pilot program — on a system like Bitcoin or Ripple, a transaction takes mere minutes to complete and at a much lower cost than traditional money transfers.

This allows credit unions to take the money coming in and turn it around as favorable interest rates.

While other provinces, most recently Ontario, and the federal government have moved to take big money out of politics, the Christy Clark government has not only said no to banning union and corporate donations, and no to municipal election spending limits — it has moved to eliminate pre-election spending limits in the 60 days prior to an election.

Credit unions are typically a better option for those who aren't in a rush: You'll have to become a member to qualify and it can take some time to get your money.

As the commenter above mentioned, the Rangers really don't have any leverage and the players union is strictly against letting players renegotiate their contracts to take less money.

Seabrook and hedge fund founder Murray Huberfeld were indicted on conspiracy and honest services wire fraud for a scheme in which Seabrook allegedly took a $ 60,000 payoff in return for steering $ 20 million in union pension money to Huberfeld's fund.

The AME and Bellone agreed this month to allow Bellone to take $ 12 million from the union's $ 24 million benefit fund this year and return the money over the next decade.

At present a political alliance of the party leadership and right wing trade union bureaucracy is spending unprecedented sums of money to try to take control of this NEC section.

Two other New York good - government groups, Common Cause (a national organization based in Washington D.C.) and Citizens Union (which started as a New York political party that once fought Tammany Hall), have taken money from a group closely within the orbit of NYSUT.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

«As soon as the so - called good government groups have anything to say about the unlimited money that unions pump into the coffers of Democrats or the dollars that Mayor de Blasio funnels to Upstate County Democrat Party Committees, we may start taking them seriously,» Reif said.

This public employee union is nothing more than a sham democratic party run leadership operation who coercively takes money from its members and spends it on their own personal politics.

«It shows that this campaign is far more about the union worker than it is about the working poor or the people who are struggling in this state, and secondly, the fact that this issue two weeks from its deadline is paralyzed shows that it doesn't take money when you have real - life, emotional stories from the people who are actually impacted,» Durant said.

The unions won't need to waste precious money and man - hours trying to take out I.D.C. incumbents, and Klein and his crew will have less to worry about their ranks being thinned.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

I know that MoneyGram or Western Union (and many other businesses) take a fee for money transers.

then the unions need to put their oen candidates forward has most of this party has we now isnt a true labour party but sadly who do you vote for has its more the same i cant see a way forward but you state the monies from the election 1997 then this must haver been tory money has blair was maggies product put into lanour to take em to the tory lite whot ever i can not in all my days say to my friends vote for them has untill the tb of this party go back to their tory party jeff3

Yes, we do still take some very big donations because we have to compete with the Labour Party who can literally pick up the phone to three unions and get the money, but we have massively broadened the number of people giving # 50,000.»

Cuomo has angered many of the groups from which he has taken money, particularly unions, others noted.

The first question Patterson took after showing up an hour late to a recent candidate's forum came from the Crown Heights Tenants Union, which asked if she had taken money from developers.

DC - 37, a union that represents thousands of municipal employees working in public hospitals and has donated heavily to Democrats, took the lead in lobbying for it, arguing that changing how the money was distributed was a matter of fairness.

CSEA also takes exception to the Governor once again calling on the union to reopen its state contracts even though we have repeatedly told him no and offered numerous other money saving suggestions.

They then hint obliquely that Labour should distance itself from the trade unions (its main voting base) and their funding when they say «there is a structural imperative for Labour to take down the influence of money in politics».

And in some instances, the same groups have taken money from organizations with clear interests before the Legislature, such as labor unions, and supported their causes.

While charter schools are popular alternatives to low - performing public schools in minority communities, Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, has long felt that they hurt those public schools by taking money and space from them, the same argument teachers» unions have made.

But he took out Norman Seabrook, president of the powerful city correction officers» union, a handful of top NYPD brass and a top de Blasio money man, and a raft of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's most important aides and campaign donors.

«As soon as the so - called good government groups have anything to say about the unlimited money that unions pump into the coffers of Democrats or the dollars that Mayor de Blasio funnels to Upstate County Democrat Party Committees, we may start taking them seriously,» Scott Reif, spokesman for Senate Republicans, said in a statement.

The more «stimulus» money spent, the more the unions get, the more that gets taken from their paycheck to be funneled to Democrat campaigns.

Gabrielle Union plays Shaun, who inherits her childhood home and takes her two kids to spend a weekend there, only to bump into a gang of robbers looking for money stashed in a safe.

An article by Bruce Fuller in the Summer 2010 issue of Ed Next provides background on political tensions in LA Unified and battles over reform plans that took place when then - Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa «united working - class Latino parents, civil rights leaders, and big - money Democrats to challenge union leaders» in his quest to turn around the schools.

And judging by the survey results it looks as if about a quarter of the teachers might favor Governor Walker's proposals to ask unions to collect their own dues rather than have the government take the money directly from the teacher's paycheck.

Bill Rope, a third grade teacher at D.C.'s Phoebe Hearst Elementary, said, «If you look across the country and see what's going on... this union better take the money and run.»

Opponents of charter schools, led by the state teachers» union, say the schools will lack accountability and will take too much money out of the already under - funded education system.

It used to be, the teachers union leader told the crowd, that it didn't take much to win a school board race: a short statement in the election handbook, a little money for some mail and the shoe - leather to knock on doors and talk to voters.

They may play along with Gates for a while and take their money, but when push comes to shove the unions can only tolerate one dictator in education — the unions.

If the Janus vs AFSCME ruling takes away the ability of government unions to compel payment of agency fees, and imposes annual opt - in requirements for both agency fees and political dues, these unions will collect less money.

«An analysis by an organization analyzing itself is suspect,» complained A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, which has long despised charters because they take students - and the money that follows them - away from the failing schools that union members staff.

While charter schools are popular alternatives to low - performing public schools in minority communities, Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, has long felt that they hurt those public schools by taking money and space from them, the same argument teachers» unions have made.

But it's a «union shop» in more ways than just that — in a conveniently - timed reversal of a previous position, CMD takes money from labor unions, too.

So, the union forcibly takes money from teachers and spends much of it in a way that not only hurts children, but also goes against the political beliefs of many of its members.

The union's hellfire - and - brimstone document informs us that banks took advantage of poor lil» ol' educators by charging interest on money they never should have had to borrow in the first place.

Later, when Republicans take over the state, the union backs reforms but the grant money is long gone.

The most damaging area of privatization for organized labor is education, because the unions lose serious money when teachers take jobs in non-unionized, non-public schools.

These facts did not prevent the union's backers from repeating these simple solutions over and over again: «charter schools have resources while public schools are slashed» says the Chicago Teachers Solidarity Campaign, while «$ 250 million in TIF money is taken out of our schools each year to fund the projects of the wealthy.»

The teachers» union argues the program takes money away from public schools.

Asked whether Democrats take teachers» unions for granted, Van Roekel said that's not the issue and pointed to a different culprit: «There's so much money involved that somehow, some way, you have to get those deep pockets or you can't be in public service.»

In 2012, when the Newark Teachers Union announced a deal to institute peer evaluation of teachers, but also [Mark] Zuckerberg - funded, testing - influenced performance bonuses, you told me that there was «a very good possibility that the Newark Teachers Union, and Randi Weingarten, is taking Chris Christie to the cleaners» in terms of the amount of money in the deal --

Now that the union's president, Michael Mulgrew, has underwritten what many of his members took to be an anti-police protest, hundreds are asking for their money back.

I've never understood why it is all right to take money from special interests groups like the Gates Foundation, the Koch Brothers, or American's for Prosperity, yet it's the unions input that is all about self interest.