Sentences with phrase «union last election»

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Meanwhile, last month marked the largest show of dissent since the fall of the Soviet Union, when tens of thousands took to the streets over alleged tampering by Putin's United Russia party with parliamentary elections.

Kenyan authorities last week denied Mr. Mac Manu entry into the country to lead a team of election observers from the Democratic Union of Africa (DUA) ahead of Tuesday's polls.

Interestingly, the SNP wasted little time last week in framing the election in Scotland as a «two - horse race» between them and the Conservatives, a line repeated by first minister Nicola Sturgeon in her speech to the Scottish Trades Union Conference in Aviemore yesterday.

A state Board of Elections memorandum made public last week details allegations of a complex partnership between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a number of political consulting firms and labor unions and also county Democratic committees to influence contested state Senate races in 2014.

According to Sen. Diane Savino, a former labor leader who was monitoring the AFSCME election at the union's convention in Boston via BlackBerry while the Senate was in the final throes of its last day in Albany (for now, at least), Donohue received 648 votes to Lee Saunders» 652.

Given the absurd election rules ushered in under Ed Milliband (his most lasting legacy) and the unwavering backing from hard left union leadership, it is likely that Corbyn will emerge victorious.

Brennan Center Responds to Senator Skelos's False Claims Last week, Senate Republican Conference leader Dean Skelos published an op - ed in the Albany Times - Union arguing against public financing of state elections.

State Senate Democrats have reaped $ 85,000 in election - year campaign contributions from the state teachers union since they skipped last month's vote to cut pension benefits for new teachers and other public employees.

In the weeks leading up to the result I conducted some polling to compare the views of Labour members and union supporters with those of voters who moved away from the party at the last election.

The teachers union worked unsuccessfully in the last election to help Democrats running against incumbent Republicans.

Both Lamont and Davidson secured big majorities in the union section (65 % and 61 % respectively) whilst even Lamont failed to win a majority amongst individual members by a long way, winning less than 37 % in the first ballot — Davidson won just a quarter of that section, whilst Cathy Jamieson won about 43 % in the last Leadership election in 2008 (admittedly in the second ballot — Lamont may also have achieved that had this gone to another round).

While the biggest union, Unite, might back Corbyn, all that could change if its general secretary, Len McCluskey, is forced to rerun the election he won last year to stay in charge of Unite, and then loses.

Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB union, pointed out that the Conservatives formed a government after the last election despite winning fewer than 40 % of votes.

For the record, Martins and Curran, who face each other in the Nov. 7 election, said last week they won't raise taxes or lay off union employees if elected.

And for those who say that this weekend's Special Conference has cleverly bound the unions in for one last general election push, and if the reforms don't work they can be unpicked in five years?

Overall, unions have made 12,877 contributions totaling $ 29.2 million since the beginning of the last election cycle.

It's a perfect echo of what happened last year in the run - up to the Working Families Party convention, where Cuomo - aligned unions blocked the minor party from endorsing Zephyr Teachout, and spared Cuomo a mainstream, left - flank challenger on the general election ballot.

The money comes as an independent expenditure committee aligned with the state's teachers union has sought to bolster Democrats running for the Senate over the last several weeks with TV ads and mailers in the final weeks of the general election.

After the last round of elections, teachers union - backed candidates form the majority on the school boards of the three biggest districts in Erie County.

PoliticsHome reported last week that the union would be paying two general secretaries» salaries until the end of the election, as McCluskey will remain in post while Gail Cartmail also takes on the role of acting general secretary.

«My evidence is that if you're in a trade union and you're a man, at the last election you are much more likely to have voted Ukip.

Dressed in a cream - colored pantsuit at the State of the Union last night, First Lady Melania Trump seemed pointedly reminiscent of her husband's Democratic opponent from the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton.

While opposition forces, led by labor unions, have already begun to spend sizeable sums of money to encourage a «no» vote, it is unclear how rising populist sentiments indicated in last year's presidential election — especially through the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump — may factor in.

And whoever wins, given the disastrous electoral performance of all parties at the last election to the Left of Labour (with the sole exception of the Greens in Brighton), it will continue to deserve the support of the Left outside the Labour Party and in the trade unions.

An election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board is scheduled on July 24 in the library's community room as a last step to establish a union.

Unions backing out of the party over the last several years, a development that was seen when the party backed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

«The last three General Elections have shown that neither the Referendum Party nor UKIP can win a single Westminster seat, however strongly and fiercely they put their case for disengagement or withdrawal from the European Union.

... the teachers» union leadership opposed any alternative candidate to the governor in last year's election, from the mild - mannered liberal Democrat Zephyr Teachout who challenged Cuomo in the party primary, to the radical Green Party ticket of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones, who is himself a former New York City teacher.

A top union boss who twice backed Jeremy Corbyn to become Labour leader today warned he must come up with a plan to improve the party's fortunes following last night's by - election results.

Speaking at the European Union Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria (EU - SDGN) project launch held in Abuja on 1st February, Karlsen said all objectives of the new initiative were anchored on the federal government's priorities, while also building on the recommendations of the EU Election Observation Mission which visited the country in 2015, followed by another visit led by Mr. Santiago Fisas, a member of the European Parliament last October.

Sedlis» argument that unions have a «monopoly» on public schools comes after Governor Andrew Cuomo made a similar claim last week, incensing teachers just days before the election.

As the esteemed Peter Watt set out in a prescient post on party funding last year, in a typical non-general election year, trade union affiliation fees will total roughly # 8m.

This week, the Times Union's Chris Bragg reported that Board of Elections enforcement counsel Risa Sugarman had sued the Patterson campaign last month in an Albany court, arguing that some $ 5,000 donations were clearly over the legal limit and seeking both civic penalties and $ 10,000 fines.

He criticises the party's election rules, suggesting union levy payers should automatically be registered as party supporters, describing the 9 % turnout in last year's leadership contest as paltry.

Then on Friday, his attorneys continued that tack, examining the influence Buffalo Teachers Federation President Philip Rumore has over the school system and pressing one board member on how much union support she received during the last election.

Her talent, experience and commitment to the Labour and trade union movement makes me confident she will play a crucial role in building on last year's inspiring general election advance and taking our party forward to victory.

In the last mayoral election, most of the Democratic wannabes vowed to keep open dysfunctional city schools, just to preserve jobs for staff and cater to unions.

In a historical coincidence, Cuomo's father, Gov. Mario Cuomo, ended the last major LIRR strike in 1994 — also an election year — by forcing the MTA to capitulate to the unions.

In his State of the Union speech last night, President Obama praised the work of his bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration, emphasizing that it «has offered reforms so that no one has to wait more than a half hour to vote.»

Differential turnout on the other hand will be a major factor — it was for Jon Cruddas in the last deputy election where some union leaders worked hard to get his vote out (which is why I think the effect of the recommendation is only «arguable»).

The state Board of Elections launched an inquiry last year into a campaign group created by the Independent Democratic Conference, a key five - member bloc in the state Senate led by Bronx state Sen. Jeff Klein, the Times Union has learned.

It will chronicle his journey from senior official (and ultimately general secretary) of the Communication Workers Union through to Cabinet minister in the last Labour government, and ending with the party's election defeat in 2010.

Mr Miliband won the last leadership election largely thanks to support from unions, but Mr McCluskey said he suspected only 10 % of its one million members affiliated to Labour would opt to stay in if asked now.

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Actors and political activists come together to take a long, hard look at the State of the Union during the 2000 U.S. Presidential election in this documentary, a follow - up to 1993's The Last Party, in which actor Robert Downey Jr. followed the 1992 presidential campaign.

The choice of a new leader for the union representing teachers in the District of Columbia — the first since a financial scandal sent its former president to federal prison last year — won't be decided until a runoff election is held later this month.

Last year, the caucus helped 85 of its members get elected to the 350 - member union House of Representatives and promoted the election a union president who appears to be amenable to reforms; the union has since agreed to grant individual schools flexibility over the school calendar, hiring and assignment of teachers.

Mr. Allen noted that Wallace Wilkinson, the Democratic candidate in the Nov. 2 election, had declined several invitations since last November to meet with union officials.

Proposed ballot initiatives on teacher tenure and the political use of union dues qualified last week for the next statewide elections in California.