Sentences with phrase «union leaders in the state»

According to him many of the reports centred on Governor Fayose's appeal to labour union leaders in the state and some contained in his media interviews, where he tried to falsify the state's debt portfolio in a manner that has become the standard practice of his regime in the bid to appeal to the striking workers.

His 35 - year tenure as president makes him one of the longest - serving union leaders in the state, and last night, NYSUT recognized his service.

Not exact matches

In the fall of 2013, hundreds of Target Canada head office staff piled into the auditorium at the Mississauga Living Arts Centre for a state - of - the - union address from their leaders.

«I find it important for Japan and the EU to cooperate with the United States as well to show to the world the flag of free trade as a model,» Abe told reporters before a meeting with European Union leaders in Brussels.

What's going on is that thousands of oil workers are fleeing the state - run oil firm under the watch of its new military commander, who has quickly alienated the firm's embattled upper echelon and its rank - and - file, according to union leaders, a half - dozen current PDVSA workers, a dozen former PDVSA workers and a half - dozen executives at foreign companies operating in Venezuela.

Currently the spiritual leader of Beth Messiah Congregation in Rockville, Maryland, he is president of the Union of Messianic Congregations, a new federation of 24 congregations (there are over 30 in the United States and Canada).

Jefferson was clearly saying that religious issues were in the various state's area of influence and control, not his as leader of the Federal Union.

The KGB archives, opened fleetingly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, proved what many Russians had known but few in the West had believed: that the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church were often forced to carry out the specific instructions of the more nefarious organs of state.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

The event was attended by Shri Sudarshan Bhagat, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Professor Swaminathan and leaders of the agriculture sector in India.

A key labor union for the New York Police Department on Wednesday threw its support to Republican state Senate hopeful Chris McGrath in the race to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

The plan, signed onto by the state party chairman and Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Vice Chairwoman Christine Quinn, Rep. Joe Crowley of Queens and union leader Hector Figueroa of 32BJ, is based on filling the soon - to - be-vacant seats in the Senate.

David Cameron has angered opponents in the Brexit battle by warning that the Islamic State leader would be happy if Britain opted to leave the European Union.

In relation to Brexit the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, stated on Monday that the Irish question could be solved by regulatory alignment across the UK, implying support for continued membership of the single market and customs» union.

The powerful labor union 1199 SEIU endorsed Republican state Senate hopeful Chris McGrath on Friday in the crucial special election to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in Nassau County.

At 12:30 p.m., Senate Labor Chairwoman Marisol Alcantara, joined by her fellow IDC members and leaders of major labor unions, will announce legislation to combat union - busting tactics used in right - to - work states spreading nationally, outside Senate chambers, 3rd Floor, State Capitol, Albany.

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.

The vote came a few months after the state's teachers unions, closely aligned with the Assembly, claimed a victory in December when the Regents, prompted by the governor and Legislative leaders, placed a moratorium on the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

Twenty states and Washington, DC, have sided with public sector unions in a Supreme Court case that union leaders say would upend governmental collective bargaining agreements.

In the months leading up to a state - imposed negotiations deadline in January, the Real Estate Board of New York and union leaders came tantalizingly close to coming up with a deal to renew 421a, the controversial tax abatement program for new developmentIn the months leading up to a state - imposed negotiations deadline in January, the Real Estate Board of New York and union leaders came tantalizingly close to coming up with a deal to renew 421a, the controversial tax abatement program for new developmentin January, the Real Estate Board of New York and union leaders came tantalizingly close to coming up with a deal to renew 421a, the controversial tax abatement program for new developments.

Some 14 years ago, at the EU Summit in Tampere, European leaders called on the European Union to develop common policies on asylum and immigration so that there is a harmonized or common way for immigrants and asylum seekers to seek and obtain entry to all EU states.

The high - level Democrats have joined Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the AFL - CIO and the Machinists Union International in pressuring Siemens to halt its plans to sell off part of the Wellsville business and move the rest out of state.

«This is what we need to do in every state,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew told the 500 - plus elected officials, labor leaders and union members assembled in Shanker Hall for the bill - signing ceremony.

In the video, which features Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, Assemblywoman Addie Russell, Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel, and Assemblywoman Latrice Walker, Cuomo is knocked for his posture toward the state's public teachers union.

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.

In an election year in which the front - running Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo is pitching a statewide property tax cap, New York State United Teachers» backing of Mangan may be calibrated to remind Democratic leaders of the union's political clouIn an election year in which the front - running Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo is pitching a statewide property tax cap, New York State United Teachers» backing of Mangan may be calibrated to remind Democratic leaders of the union's political clouin which the front - running Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo is pitching a statewide property tax cap, New York State United Teachers» backing of Mangan may be calibrated to remind Democratic leaders of the union's political clout.

Teachers, administrators and union leaders joined forces in what was termed the One Voice United rally, targeting the increasing reliance of the state's education system on standardized testing.

The tax overhaul plan passed Tuesday in the House of Representatives is drawing a mostly negative reaction from the state's union and business leaders.

Off topic question topics included whether the mayor and his wife have smoked marijuana inside Gracie Mansion, a Daily News call for the mayor to «accept responsibility for inflaming the police», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction ending.

As the leader of the largest union in the state, Mr. Gresham is close to both Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Cuomo — ensuring the needs of health care workers won't be ignored any time soon.

The union leader slammed the state government for failure to pay lecturers all outstanding salaries pointing that both academic and non academic staff in the institution have been living on failed promises under the Yahaya Bello administration.

Given the negative and selfish rhetoric we've heard from the leaders of the various public employee unions this year when Governor Paterson has asked them to share in the general belt - tightening that so many New Yorkers have been enduring as the result of the Great Recession, one might assume that if taxpayers knew that their gift was paying the salaries of state workers, they would not be so benevolently disposed toward our program.

«If you work in a district like that, no matter how effective you are you come out with a scarlet A on your head,» he said, to applause from the audience, which included state legislators, Board of Regents members, school board leaders and teachers union officials.

To much fanfare in 2011, Malloy and state employee union leaders entered into an agreement to find hundreds of millions in state budget savings.

Union leaders have been campaigning for their own Labor School at CUNY for years — with the New York State AFL - CIO approving a resolution back in 2012.

But in Oklahoma — unlike West Virginia — when state union leaders called members back to school, teachers returned, even though the legislature had budged no further.

The union's targeting of Miner - who spoke at a Fight for $ 15 rally in February at a Syracuse church - shows the no - holds - barred fight going on over the proposed minimum wage hike as the state's top political leaders are negotiating whether it will be included in the state budget.

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At a meeting Monday with a group of influential labor leaders representing some of the state's powerful unions, including 1199 SEIU, 32BJ, the Hotel Trades Council and the Communications Workers of America, Cuomo said he couldn't pass a budget with campaign finance reform because of Senate opposition, and pressed the leaders to rein in the restive members of the Working Families Party, who vote on the party's endorsement.

«We hope that our elected leaders in Albany will respond to the state's voters,» said Michael Rabinowitz, spokesman for the coalition of business, consumers, unions, wineries, grape growers and farms supporting legislation to allow people to buy wine in grocery stores.

The discussions between state Education Commissioner John B. King Jr. and teachers» union leaders are aimed at settling a lawsuit brought by the unions that threatened to block new job ratings for thousands of teachers which are due for release in June.

Cuomo has made it clear state workers are going to feel significant pain this year, perhaps facing the loss of up to 15,000 jobs, unless their union leaders agree to concessions in the upcoming contract negotiations.

The Communications Workers of America, a key union in the coalition that's trying to engineer a full Democratic takeover of the state Senate, endorsed on Monday Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein's re-election.

In the Reconstruction following the Civil War, later Union leaders like Andrew Johnson (Abraham Lincoln's successor), made only half - hearted efforts to really deeply assimilate the formerly Confederate states into the Union and when Reconstruction ended Confederate and white supremacist sympathies remained strong.

Twenty states and Washington, DC, led by New York AG Eric Schneiderman — have sided with public sector unions in a Supreme Court case that union leaders say would upend governmental collective - bargaining agreements.

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.

Also at noon, IDC Leader Jeff Klein and Sen. Marisol Alcántara along with state lawmakers and union leaders will push for the governor to sign a tax credit meant to bolster diversity in TV writing.

Chris Christie's long - shot presidential campaign got a lift on Saturday night with the endorsement of The New Hampshire Union Leader, an influential paper in the state where the New Jersey governor has camped out in the hopes of catching fire.

Rosa has garnered support from the state's teachers unions as well as test refusal leaders, but Common Core advocates are fearful that Rosa will undo the work of her predecessor, Tisch, who championed the Common Core and the use of student test scores in evaluating teachers.

At a rally in Manhattan, the Democratic governor shared the stage with national labor leaders after a state wage board recommended raising the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 and hour, delivering a key victory in a national push by unions — led by Service Employees International Union — to improve the lot of (and unionize) employees at McDonald's, Burger King and other chains.