Sentences with phrase «union slate of candidates»
In other districts informal civic groups will organize a slate of «reform» candidates for school board, and in at least one exurban Colorado school district, a bunch of people who were also leaders in the county Republican party where the school district was located put together a slate of unofficially Republican school board candidates to square off against a teacher's union slate of candidates.
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The labor union 32BJ announced a slate of early endorsements for New York City candidates, including backing the bids of citywide candidates for re-election.
In the 2009 elections, the union was part of an alliance that included the WFP and SEIU 1199 that successfully backed a host of insurgent NYC Council primary candidates against a slate of party - backed candidates.
On Saturday, Spence and other dissident union members plan to meet in the Albany area and launch an organization, dubbed NY Coup, to field a slate of candidates in the union's June elections.
The slate of candidates includes Joe Anthony and Mike Hernandez, union trustees in The Bronx who are currently under indictment in the scandal, sources said.
The good - government group Citizens Union on Friday unveiled a slate of candidate preferences, including the Democratic primary opponents to two under - indictment Senate Democrats, Malcolm Smith of Queens and Brooklyn's John Sampson.
A slate of candidates planning to challenge the leadership of PEF, one of New York's largest state workers unions, has broadened its geographic base, adding candidates from Buffalo and New York City as it gears up for June elections.
The union - backed slate of incumbents Shawn Lemay and Mark Mecca and newcomer Eric Borenstein were the top vote - getters in a field of seven candidates.
A slate of candidates planning to challenge the leadership of one of New York's largest state workers unions has broadened its geographic base, adding candidates from Buffalo and New York City as it gears up for June elections.
Similarly, in many school districts in Colorado, it isn't uncommon for the local teachers union to endorse one slate of candidates.
This week's election of a teachers» union - backed slate of school board candidates in Douglas County, Colorado is a major setback for school choice.
To this day it still isn't clear whether the 72 members of the Democratic State Central Committee were properly informed or even approved of the decision to re-direct $ 40,000 in scarce campaign resources to a slate of candidates that was committed to undermining Connecticut's teachers, teacher unions and the children and parents of Bridgeport.
In April, all four on the Mayor's slate for the school board — not one of them with a child in public school — defeated a slate of candidates from the teachers» union that has long battled the Mayor over school choice.
Yesterday, too, business organizations such as the Utah Technology Council and the School Improvement Association joined Niederhauser and Hughes in a fundraising webinar that promoted a slate of pro-Common Core candidates who happen to be not favored by or funded by national teacher's unions.
Not surprisingly, the teachers» union has endorsed a slate of union - friendly candidates, hoping to defeat Doreen and Bartola and their questioning of a proposed sweetheart contract granting teachers a 5 percent retroactive pay increase and 8 percent pay increases for the next several years.
The union is supporting a separate slate of candidates, including incumbent Steve Zimmer, who helped push through the new teacher evaluation system and who last year proposed a two - month moratorium on the approval of new charter schools.