Sentences with phrase «to a labor group»

Deep policy divisions appear to exist between the business and labor groups: The report cites the «majority» of members preferring to focus on issues outside trade deficits in favor of a «mutually beneficial» trade deal, sentiments to which the labor union representatives dissent in favor of promoting U.S. investment and jobs.

(i) Assist companies in determining and interpreting their ratio (revenue stream number one); (ii) Sell the data back to companies to compare and explain ratios among their peers on an industry - by - industry basis, because average worker compensation for Bank of America will be different than that of Apple, for example (revenue stream number two); and (iii) Sell the data to labor groups to assist them in collective bargaining (revenue stream number three).

Labor groups on Tuesday said pockets of employment and wage growth overall are still too weak to warrant tighter financial conditions.

The task before Munoz was to upgrade United's product offerings, improve performance, and unite the labor groups fractured after the company's 2010 merger with Continental.

It's prudent for Brain Corp. to frame its machine as non-threatening in the eyes of organized labor groups.

In another email, he compared what the group does to how environmental and labor groups have operated for decades.

In Oakland at a later march, more than 1,000 people marched peacefully representing labor groups along with Mexican, Vietnamese, Chinese, Filipino and other immigrants.

The world's largest retailer raised wages for its hourly workers to $ 10 per hour earlier this year, but labor groups have called the raise inadequate.

Backed by labor groups such as the Service Employees International Union, workers have landed some victories as individual cities and states have raised their minimum wage.

Labor groups feel this is not enough.

Labor groups have been demanding $ 15 an hour from retailers including Wal - Mart.

Federal law prohibits corporations and labor groups from donating directly to candidates.

Lighthizer is expected to try to nix another transnational court for investment disputes, and he has backing from a wide variety of constitutional lawyers, environmental and labor groups, and conservative think tanks that say the special courts encroach on U.S. sovereignty.

He said efforts to revise the H - 2B guest worker program have been stalled by opposition from labor groups, which have argued that companies don't try hard enough to hire Americans or pay a living wage before turning to the program.

«What's impossible to sort out is how much of this is because of savings from the tax cuts, and how much is because of pressure they're receiving from employees and labor groups.»

This will be taken to Include political organizations; fraternal organizations; college and school groups; labor groups; industrial, business and professional organizations; religious orders; civic clubs, memorial and patriotic societies; philanthropic and reform societies (Anti-Tobacco League, for example); athletic organizations; women's groups, etc., which are in good standing.

In the Upper - Lower class, which is the chief labor group, there is much more drinking.

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For the primary campaigns of Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu, they're relying on a combination of grassroots support and labor groups that have endorsed them.

Smitherman has been endorsed by the Working Families Party as well as a host of key labor groups: AFL - CIO, 1199 SEIU, 32 BJ SEIU, Hotel and Motel Trades Council, Communication Workers of America 1180, Communication Workers of America District 1, UAW, Transport Workers Union, Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, United Food and Commercial Workers.

Keep in mind, too, that the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee — maligned for not keeping pace with their well - funded Republican counterparts — was able to marshal the help and resources from a variety of labor groups.

Organizing 2.0 leads online organizing and new media skills training for members and staff at community organizations, labor groups, and local campaigns and nonprofits.

Several labor groups, including CWA and 32BJ SEIU, left the WFP ahead of its vote on Saturday to back Nixon, an actress and public education advocate, over Cuomo, a two - term incumbent running for re-election.

The Working Families Party, along with a host of sympathetic labor groups and officials, will hold a rally in New York City at noon tomorrow on the steps of City Hall to push for a Democratic majority in the state Senate.

The campaign of Independent Democratic Conference Sen. Tony Avella announced Friday the Queens lawmaker had received the nod from 1199 / SEIU, a key labor group that was instrumental in helping Gov. Andrew Cuomo receive the endorsement of the Working Families Party.

HTC is a comparatively small labor group, but has over the years burnished a reputation for nimble politics and voter mobilization.

But labor groups — and Democratic lawmakers — have raised some concerns with how the details of the draft regulations.

Despite an onslaught from the city's tabloids and opposition from virtually every labor group, Spitzer ultimately polled 48 percent to Stringer's 52 percent.

The Hotel Trades Council, a politically key labor group that has grown in influence over the years, has endorsed Jamaal Bailey for the Senate seat being vacated by Democratic Sen. Ruth Hassell - Thompson.

The abatement expired in January after developers and private - sector labor groups could not reach an agreement on renewal.

The labor group that represents Long Island - based laundry workers have written to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan blasting him over the GOP - backed efforts to negotiate modifications to a proposed $ 15 minimum wage.

After years of setbacks and declining membership nationally, labor groups were seen as being on the offensive in the last year with successful efforts in some states to increase the minimum wage to $ 15 — a major union - led effort that initially began by focusing on fast food restaurants.

Several labor groups did pull out of the Working Families Party, including 32BJ last month.

The company has been waging a regulatory battle in New York at the both the state and city level over the last several years, which has spilled over into political campaigns as well and put the firms at odds with hotel chains and the influential labor group Hotel Trades Council.

The email from Forward NY — a collection of labor groups and advocacy organizations opposed to Spitzer's candidacy — criticizes Spitzer for not participating in the public financing system in New York City and «jetting around» to various talk shows on cable and network TV.

But not all unions have departed the WFP, however, with other labor groups like the UAW remaining in the fold.

Also at 9 a.m., NYC Councilman I. Daneek Miller, labor groups and advocates speak out against President Donald Trump's proposed cuts to the Department of Labor, as well as his executive orders regarding workplace safety regulations, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

In the face of a round of critical statements issued by organized labor groups allied with Gov. Andrew Cuomo following her oblique comments regarding the connection between union contracts and the high cost of digging NYC subway tunnels, Cynthia Nixon received some support from an unlikely source.

A coalition of faith and labor groups kick off a statewide «Fair and Faithful Budget» tour that will stretch from Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Wyandanch, LI to Back to Basics Ministries in Buffalo to rally for progressive, fair - share taxes in this year's state budget, due by April 1.

The influential NYC principals union endorsed Mayor Bill de Blasio for reelection last night, joining the teachers union and a host of other labor groups supporting the worker - friendly mayor, campaign officials said.

A number of organized labor groups have lined up to provide early endorsements to Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he seeks a third term this fall and faces a new primary challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon, with the latest nod coming from the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1500, New York's largest supermarket workers union.

The AFL - CIO has been pushing back hard in particular against the mayor's plan as well, while a rally of labor groups was held at the Capitol today to back the prevailing wage component.

There was the time Sanders was set to stay at a non-union hotel, a big no - no among people close to labor groups, and Yvanna Cancela, the union's political director called the campaign with a list of hotels he could stay at instead.

Cuomo publicly denounced the mayor's proposal, saying that it favored developers and only certain labor groups and didn't have a chance to pass.

They joined other major labor groups that fled the party years earlier, including the UFT, whose president said the union left because «it became evident that their focus was on personal, political agendas and a few egos.»

Paterson has come under pressure to bow out of next year's election from labor groups and others who worry his historically low popularity could jeopardize the party's fortunes statewide.

A rally to call for the ouster of Carl P. Paladino from the Buffalo School Board drew support from a wide variety of community groups, from teachers and parents to labor groups and the local affiliate of Black Lives Matter.

He told POLITICO New York that the MCCEJ is a «broad coalition» drawing funds from labor groups and others.

It would be pretty surprising if there isn't some sort of demonstration from labor groups at this event.

Perkins has previously received the endorsement of a range of labor groups including 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA Local 1, UAW, Professional Staff Congress and the Doctors Council SEIU.