Sentences with phrase «trades council»
A "trades council" is a group or organization made up of workers from different trade unions. They work together to discuss and address issues related to workers' rights, wages, and overall working conditions. They advocate for their members and aim to improve their working lives through collective action. Full definition
There are still some China trade hawks in the administration who can keep Bannon's vision alive, including Lighthizer and White House National Trade Council director Peter Navarro.
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The B.C. Lumber Trade Council says the province exports $ 4.6 billion in softwood lumber to the U.S. each year.
Richard Sawaya of the National Foreign Trade Council estimates the provision in question could force American companies to exit more than $ 100 billion worth of offshore oil and gas projects worldwide.
Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trade Council of Greater New York, asked in one such statement.
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Director of the National Trade Council Peter Navarro have touted the new tariffs» potential to make US steel manufacturers more competitive and bring jobs back to American workers.
President Donald Trump's strategic pivot toward tariffs marks the ascent of National Trade Council Director and former University of California Irvine professor Peter Navarro, who has warned Americans for a decade against committing «Death by China.»
Members of the Wage Board will be: Heather C. Briccetti, President and CEO of the Business Council; Peter Ward, President of the New York Hotel Trade Council; and Timothy Grippen, Retired Broome County Executive.
Spokespeople for Cuomo, REBNY and the construction trades council did not immediately respond to requests for comment Saturday evening.
Gary LaBarbera, head of the building trades council in New York City, offered a succinct rebuttal to the claims of City Hall officials that a prevailing wage would prevent the construction of 17,000 units.
«They need to come to us, because we've tried to go to them,» said Brown, the president of the building trades council.
The theme of the paper, co-authored by Commerce Secretary nominee Wilbur Ross and White House National Trade Council head Peter Navarro, an economist and University of California at Irvine business professor, is shifting the ownership and operation of public works to the private sector.
Another name that has been floated is Peter Navarro, the director of the National Trade Council who strongly advocates protectionist trade policies.
«There's a difference between exemptions and country exclusions,» Peter Navarro, director of the National Trade Council at the White House, said Sunday on CNN's «State of the Union.»
Shi is scheduled to attend an annual meeting of the Canada - China Trade Council on November 25 and 26.
The British Columbia Lumber Trade Council continued to pay Quinn Gillespie and Associates through the final negotiations and beyond.
Between 2000 and this past April, the British Columbia Lumber Trade Council paid Quinn Gillespie & Associates nearly $ 3.7 million — or an average of more than half a million dollars per year.
Special guests included the Consul Anthony Achilles Mandap, Deputy Consul General of the Philippine Consulate General, and David McGrotty, Chair of the Philippines Canada Trade Council.
And Trump - style protectionists were scattered throughout his team, including Bannon as chief strategist, Navarro heading up an amorphous trade council, and Wilbur Ross as commerce secretary.
The Office of the Western Hemisphere also manages U.S. trade relations with the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the Caribbean Common Market (CARICOM), including bilateral trade councils with Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay.
Olga is also the president of the ten - person Fair Trade council, an assembly of employees elected by employees who lead decision - making processes concerning the use of funds allocated by Fair Trade USA for all workers.
As David Butler and Uwe Kitzinger write in their book on the 1975 referendum, «Union branches or sometimes trades councils formed the nucleus of anti-[Common] Market activity in many localities».
Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, the state United Teachers union, the New York State Trial Lawyers» Association and other influential groups and elected officials are joining in a Hotel & Motel Trade Council - led boycott of the Desmond Hotel in Colonie in the midst of a contract standoff with management
A major trades council that works closely with City Hall and the construction industry is backing Public Advocate Bill de Blasio for mayor.
Ms. Lynch has the endorsements of the Working Families Party and larger labor unions, including 32BJ SEIU, the Building and Constructions Trade Council, and another Teamsters local, but Mr. Grodenchik is the Queens Democratic Party's candidate.
Richardson, an author of e-commerce books and former executive director of the Canada - Japan Trade Council, said Microsoft has been working on developing such an ID system as well as an on - line payment scheme referred to in the industry as Microsoft dollars.
«One of the big concerns is if you use it just to impose trade restrictions for economic purposes, rather than national security purposes, then you are sort of defining our economic security as our national security and every other country can do the same thing,» said Rufus Yerxa, president of the National Foreign Trade Council, which represents multinational companies on trade issues.
Trump is meeting Wednesday with Peter Ward, the president of the city's hotel trades council and Vincent Pitta, an influential lawyer and lobbyist in the city who is close to a number of municipal elected officials, according to a transition spokesman.
The BC Lumber Trade Council's John Allan, hitherto Canada's litigation hawk and our chief legal optimist, now warns that you never know what will happen in court.
On March 21st, he received the endorsement of the Building and Trade Council in the Appalachian city of Rochester.
Former advisor to the Trump campaign and now director of the National Trade Council Peter Navarro strongly supports a quasi-mercantilist view of the world, and has identified in China the main adversary.
Cohn had tangled with the president and Peter Navarro, the director of the White House National Trade Council, over tariffs on imports of aluminum and steel.
In December, Trump selected Peter Navarro, author of «Death by China: Confronting the Dragon,» to head the National Trade Council, a new White House office.
Politico reported that he has mediated trade disputes between free - trade - favoring Gary Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council, and the more protectionist Peter Navarro, the head of the National Trade Council.
He is also Chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council and served as U.S. Deputy Trade Representative.
Peter Navarro, director of the White House National Trade Council, said countries will not be excluded from the...
There has been no indication any countries will be spared, although Peter Navarro, director of the White House National Trade Council, said on Sunday there would be a mechanism to exempt some businesses from the metals tariffs.
That agreement was due to expire in April 2001 — one year after Quinn Gillespie & Associates first registered to represent the B.C. Lumber Trade Council — and U.S. producers had vowed to renew their efforts to obtain restrictions on Canadian imports.
In April 2000, bare months after opening its doors, the lobbying firm registered with Congress as representatives of the British Columbia Lumber Trade Council.
The other is that he is tapping University of California economist Peter Navarro for a brand new White House job, heading up something Trump is calling the National Trade Council.
7) Among the leading candidates to replace Cohn are reportedly Peter Navarro, the hardline protectionist who leads the White House National Trade Council, and Larry Kudlow, the hardline supply - sider who hosted a show on CNBC.
Peter Navarro, the director of the White House National Trade Council and a proponent of the tariffs, said on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday that he and Cohn have «differing opinions» on the matter but it's not that big of a deal.
He is also a Director and Past Chairman of the Forest Products Association of Canada and a Director of the Council of Forest Industries, Alberta Forest Products Association and the BC Lumber Trade Council.
Trump's director of the National Trade Council, Peter Navarro, argued in January that «there is no question» the U.S. needs a border adjustment tax (BAT) to bring jobs back and grow wages:
The chair of President Trump's new National Trade Council, Peter Navarro, has written extensively that trade deficits are a drag on U.S. economic growth.
The hard - line contingent — led by the president's chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, and the director of the National Trade Council, Peter Navarro — squared off against the more traditional group, which included two former Goldman Sachs executives, Gary D. Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council, and the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin.
«We repeatedly aired our concerns about China,» said Peter Navarro, director of the White House National Trade Council and a key architect of the measures.
Peter Navarro, a longtime harsh critic of China's trade practices as well as the author of Death by China and producer of a sensational documentary with the same title, was named head of the newly created National Trade Council.
Donald Trump's selection of Peter Navarro, an economics professor at the University of California at Irvine, to lead a newly formed White House National Trade Council has set off furious debates around the country and the world about some fairly basic questions on trade theory.
During the campaign, Mr. Navarro, now director of the White House National Trade Council, said that the administration's trade plans would allow it to eliminate trade deficit «within a year or two.»