Sentences with phrase «union efforts»

To see just where union efforts lead in practical terms, one only need look at campaign finance disclosures.

She says union efforts to pump pay the college allowed her and her husband to buy a house and raise a family.

But it can contribute in a positive way to the larger union effort, and in some cases — when elections are close — it can even be pivotal.

Poland could halve its demand for coal by 2030 with a shift to renewable energies that would end its image as a laggard in European Union efforts to slow climate change, a study showed on Friday.

As the bulk of union effort in this race focuses on helping Corbyn, pragmatism will need to come from different sources.

UTLA President Warren Fletcher hailed the vote as an endorsement of union efforts to prevent the use of individual value - added scores in evaluations.

4 September 2009 Rutgers postdocs join their bosses» union as union efforts multiply across the continent.

But this effort raises the question whether the idea of «conciliar fellowship» has application to present union efforts in particular nations involving particular groups of churches.

He went on to cite African Union efforts to safeguard serving heads of states and governments from human rights charges.

The push to ban the carriages has become a polarizing issue in the Council as members try to navigate between a growing union effort in defense of the carriage industry and animal - rights groups that want Mayor Bill de Blasio to fulfill his campaign promise to impose the ban «by the end of the year.»

Al Shanker, the brilliant (if controversial) leader who led union efforts to win collective bargaining rights in New York City, denounced the idea of vouchers: «Without public education, there would be no America as we know it,» he cried.

There are increased union efforts to unionize charters and some big CMOs have slowed their expansion efforts in order to focus on quality.

United Nations World Travel Organisation secretary - general Taleb Rifai has welcomed European Union efforts to bolster socially responsible tourism across the continent.

This step is one of several recent developments on the small but growing number of campuses across the United States and Canada where union efforts are under way.

The move was in response to a union effort after a maid accused Dominique Strauss - Kahn, then - leader of the International Monetary Fund, of sexual assault.

McGlaughlin blames the failure of the union effort on «the tendency of white - collar workers to identify with management» as well as «the work environment at Bloomberg,» historically inhospitable to unions.

Last week, he said the increase also will help cover expenses related to union efforts.

Park officials noted legal costs related to the union efforts were minimal so far.

Another employee, also listed in the complaint, claimed he was demoted for his involvement in union efforts.

Most importantly, Grace has pledged her support for our Unions effort to hold Walmart accountable for reckless corporate policies that effect the worker families, small business owners, and women that live in the 6th Congressional.

«Most importantly, Grace has pledged her support for our Unions effort to hold Walmart accountable for reckless corporate policies that effect the worker families, small business owners, and women that live in the 6th Congressional,» Mr Both said in the statement.

With more than 80 percent of E4E members belonging to their union and many serving as elected union leaders, we support union efforts that will foster an equitable and excellent education system that provides all students the opportunity to succeed and elevates the teaching profession.

The variation in union strength identified in recent literature, the new policy experiments occurring in states across the country, and the sheer availability of large administrative datasets that link individual students to teachers in school across the country now allow a new field of highly focused questions that link educational outcomes to rules, regulations and conditions directly attributable to union efforts.

For example, in Oceanside, Calif., union efforts to defeat Republican City Councilman Gary Felien were successful.

-- A look at how Poland, the country hosting the next round of climate - treaty talks, is fighting European Union efforts to reform restrictions on greenhouse - gas emissions.

Access to U.S. LNG is a key aspect of renewed European Union efforts to improve energy security for European nations that «are still far too vulnerable» to supply disruptions, according to EU officials.

«Agency shop» arrangements violate educators» First Amendment guarantee to free speech and free association by forcing public school teachers to support powerful teachers» union efforts to advance their political agenda through collective bargaining.