Sentences with phrase «top labor leaders»

At Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom's annual convention party, top labor leaders huddled on a private balcony dotted with silver buckets containing chilled Veuve Clicquot while D.J. Spinderella played dance music.

EAST HARLEM — With a lineup of some of the top labor leaders in the state and city behind him, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an array of union support Monday for a tax increase on the wealthy to pay for his signature universal pre-K plan.

Also on tap to speak tonight: A group of top labor leaders — SEIU President Mary Kay Henry, Building Trades President Sean McGarvey, AFSCME President Lee Saunders, AFL - CIO President Richard Trumka, and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten — New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, chair of the Democratic Governors Association.

He calculated correctly that top labor leaders and top WFP leaders were not going to risk losing their influence as Democratic insiders and their ability to get Cuomo to implement their agenda.»

According to NY1's Zack Fink, Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio and top labor leaders met to discuss the IDC - Senate Democratic conference detente this week, with IDC leader Jeff Klein tentatively agreeing to a new power - sharing deal.

This GOP infighting comes a day after news broke about an internal squabble between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and four of the state's top labor leaders, who were bounced from the DNC convention at - large delegate list and told to they could only be reinstated if they personally called the governor to request that be done.

Not exact matches

This week starts with a meeting of the world's top leaders in New York City and ends with a look at how the U.S. labor market fared in September.

Despite seeing off Ben Wyatt's «challenge» for the top job, WA Labor leader Eric Ripper still has plenty to do if he wants to lead the party to the next election.

The Obama Administration has made labor enforcement a top priority for trade policymaking and in so doing, has built trust with union leaders and members of Congress.

A workforce development organization that provides training to New York City Housing Authority residents is urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the top leaders in the Assembly and Senate to include a design - build provision for improvements, but asked that they not include a project - labor agreement in a final deal.

If you believe Cuomo, the top Republicans in New York's state and federal legislative delegations, the state's mayors and leaders of both business and labor, the recently passed tax overhaul hurts the high - tax state and could crimp its economy and real estate markets.

ALBANY — A leading New York labor leader, citing the «stunning defeat» of the Democratic senatorial candidate in Massachusetts, yesterday became the first top Democrat to endorse Attorney General Andrew Cuomo over David Paterson for governor.

Around the table sat Mr. Cuomo; the leaders of New York's most powerful labor unions; Joseph Crowley, the top - ranked New York Democrat in the House of Representatives; and the two rival Democratic leaders of the State Senate — Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who leads the main group of Democrats, and Jeffrey D. Klein, who leads the breakaway group — among others.

Top union and business leaders say they have not witnessed so many victories for labor in decades, as the forces of public and private - sector unions came together to leave a remarkable footprint on the new $ 156 billion state budget.

Some of the party's top members were summoned to a meeting with labor leaders on Friday at the Manhattan headquarters of the United Federation of Teachers.

And labor leaders say the top union official in the state, Denis M. Hughes, the president of the New York State A.F.L. - C.I.O., is concerned about what could turn out to be a debilitating schism in the most unionized state in the country.

As in past large statewide campaigns, Cuomo's top donors form a Who's Who of leaders in business, law, health care, labor and entertainment who are backing him to take over from Gov. David A. Paterson.

I am presently still working as a labor leader for a local union, I beleive in working people and have been in my orgainzation from the bottom to the top and back in the middle you might say.

Labor, management collaboration key to teacher reform SI&A Cabinet Report: Ushering in what is being called a new era of education reform in California, top administrators, teachers, political and labor leaders said Monday they are willing to work together to implement suggestions for bettering the state's schLabor, management collaboration key to teacher reform SI&A Cabinet Report: Ushering in what is being called a new era of education reform in California, top administrators, teachers, political and labor leaders said Monday they are willing to work together to implement suggestions for bettering the state's schlabor leaders said Monday they are willing to work together to implement suggestions for bettering the state's schools.

* Cox is not on Commerce and Labor but is House Majority Leader, a position that propelled him into the ranks of top Dominion recipients.

Over the past year, legislation to expand Maryland's RPS law gained support from a broad base of faith, labor, health, social justice, and environmental constituencies — including the NAACP, Maryland Working Families, SEIU, seven Maryland bishops and top ecumenical leaders.

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