Sentences with phrase «union organizing efforts»

Seth has helped employers develop comprehensive enterprise - wide labor relations strategies, advised employers on dozens of union organizing efforts, and negotiated collective - bargaining agreements for employers in the telecommunications, gaming, food service, logistics and produce wholesale industries.

The union opposes the referendum because the legislation that allowed for it does not include a labor peace provision that would stop casino owners from blocking union organizing efforts.

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In his complaint, McGlaughlin describes a history of «abusive» practices and conflict with supervisors that predated — and he says prompted — his union - organizing efforts, and continued after he began seeking to organize his fellow workers.

A drive to organize a union at a unit of Bloomberg LP has fizzled, and the employee leading the effort has been fired, Fortune has learned.

The new union would commit $ 50 million over five years to organizing new workers across all economic sectors, which is far higher than both unions currently contribute to organizing efforts.

Another important California social issue at the time was the effort by migratory farm workers to organize a union and obtain minimal wages and benefits.

Among the goals of this action was to provide additional means to the Union to allow it to bolster its organizing efforts.

At 8 a.m., more than than 100 community, law enforcement and religious officials participate in a «Cops, Community, Clergy» multi-faith prayer breakfast organized as part of efforts to improve community - police relations; Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway, Manhattan.

At our training event, you'll develop a deeper understanding of what makes the most sense for your union local, civic engagement project, nonprofit, advocacy campaign or grassroots organizing effort.

I expect the legislative leaders and DiNapoli will express solidarity with the unions — particularly the state comptroller, who owes no small part of his victory over Republican Harry Wilson last year to the efforts on his behalf by organized labor.

He said that Rowland turned his experience fighting public employee unions against efforts to organize Apple workers.

Asked about any formal or organized effort to discourage enforcement activity, Bratton said, «I'm not aware of any formal encouragement by union leadership in this matter.»

An organized effort formed, led by high - profile unions and advocates that focused on the state's «botched» implementation of the Common Core rather than the standards themselves.

New York Communities for Change (NYCC): A vibrant community organization of working New Yorkers united for social and economic justice, NYCC has worked with the UFT on several organizing and social justice initiatives, including our historic campaign to organize New York City's 28,000 family child care providers and our ongoing effort to bring charter school teachers into the union.

Fast food workers who were part of an organizing effort by unions and progressive groups are jubilant.

«We are a progressive, activist union that represents and organizes the most vulnerable and marginalized workers in our city today,» said Stuart Appelbaum, president of RWDSU, which has been particularly active recently in efforts to unionize car wash operators.

He also said there was no evidence of an organized effort by unions or others to discourage police from making arrests or writing summonses, but he has also encouraged NYPD brass to instruct officers to re-engage, reportedly threatening to take away days off and other work benefits.

Despite this apparently massive setback, the effort to organize teaching and research assistants on private campuses will continue, insists the United Auto Workers, the national union that the Brown graduate assistants were attempting to join.

Although the judge ruled on procedural grounds rather than the merits of the law, the decision gives hope to union organizers such as Andrea Jokisaari, a Ph.D. student in materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who has been active in the years - long effort to organize the campus's research assistants, The Chronicle» s Vimal Patel notes in another article.

The cast includes union organizers who claim to have the support of most UC postdocs, an employer that asserts neutrality, and an unknown number of postdocs who oppose the union and are working to defeat its efforts to organize their approximately 5800 colleagues.

But at Rutgers, the faculty's own union «pledge [d] total support» to the organizing effort, according to its then - president, Lisa Klein, a professor of materials science and engineering and herself a principal investigator (PI) who has supervised a dozen postdocs over her 30 - year career.

If some teachers could earn improvements in their wages and working conditions from their own efforts rather than from the efforts of their organized representatives or affiliated politicians, then more - effective teachers would have little reason to support the unions financially or politically.

The piece also helpfully explains the teachers unions» recent turn towards a dual strategy of critiquing low - performing charters (especially for - profit ones) via the Annenberg Standards while also embarking on a series of organizing efforts:

In New York, Boston and other cities, unions have ramped up their efforts to organize charter school teachers.

NEA members adopted a resolution last year that «encourages» organizing efforts in charters and directed the national office to share with local chapters «key information» about lessons from previous union drives.

He is also an authority on teachers» unions, private school vouchers, charter schools, turnaround school efforts, labor organizing and inequality in higher education.

One reason why I think the organizing efforts by the union were successful and a tentative agreement was reached is the platform the union created around bargaining, «The Schools LA Students Deserve.»

The Desert Trails parents organized a parent union and led an effort to educate parents.

As part of their ongoing efforts to weasel their way into workplaces and curtail employee rights, labor unions have aggressively pursued the creation of «micro-units» — subdivisions of a workplace that a union can organize one - by - one.

At the same time, black and Latino parents are growing increasingly impatient with lousy schools and are organizing in an effort to provide a counterweight to the unions.

Much of the union's growth hasn't come from the addition of teachers to the rank and file through its organizing effort, or from the growing ranks of early childhood teachers working in preschool programs.

The union's efforts to organize charter school teachers have come as membership has dwindled from 45,000 in 2008 to about 33,000.

The Madison teachers union is cited for its role in helping organize last spring's massive protests at the state Capitol in response to Walker's efforts to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public workers, as well as other legislation including strict voter ID requirements that are likely to limit voting by college students, the elderly, the poor and immigrants.

Union supporters say organized labor has not been given enough credit for its own efforts to reform education — for instance, efforts by UTLA to establish charter - like «pilot schools.»

Even those in the CEA leadership who understand the importance of organizing but still engage in lesser evilism will continue to postpone organizing efforts and claim that the unions aren't strong enough yet to pursue a strategy that doesn't include endorsing bad politicians.

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Free Cooper Union is the name of an organized effort to protest the 2011 proposed changes in the Cooper Union tuition policy.

The organizing committee posted a statement on the website of Service Employees International Union Local 500 that criticized the nonprofit for «the unexpected and unexplained path our leadership has taken in response to our efforts to unionize,» adding that «the actions of Media Matters executives have placed employees in the impossible position of continuing to produce content espousing pro-labor values for an employer who is challenging our right to unionize.»

Rahbek, a Dane, also wants to leverage the 6 - month Danish presidency of the European Union to focus efforts on organizing international support for protecting biodiversity.

Ready California is a cross-sector collaborative effort of legal services providers, community - based organizations, unions, faith - based organizing groups, ethnic media, foreign consulates, and more.

The judicial power of the United States is a constituent part of those concessions — that power is to be exercised by courts organized for the purpose, and brought into existence by an effort of the legislative power of the Union.

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