Sentences with phrase «unions are an obstacle»

Not exact matches

«As experience has shown, the absence of sexual complementarity in these unions creates obstacles in the normal development of children who would be placed in the care of such persons.

But the obstacles to developing global labor unions able to meet on equal terms with transnational corporations are daunting.

As the Chicago case shows, the obstacles to putting healthy foods in school cafeterias are many: the high cost of organic meals, long - standing contracts for frozen and pre-packaged food and labor union issues.

Local Blairites have been so eager to suppress the goings on in Tower Hamlets that they used procedural obstacles to prevent a motion being raised at the last NEC that, with the support of Unite and other unions, would have seen Rahman back in the party.

Key figures who have previously been seen as potential obstacles to reform by the leadership, such as the party's deputy leader, Tom Watson, and Corbyn - sceptic unions, did not block the changes.

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

Silver and his allies in the state's teachers union were always seen as the chief obstacle to passage of the most popular initiative of the highly popular new governor.

MOSKOWITZ»S MOST DAUNTING OBSTACLE, APART from the Democratic incumbent himself, may be the same one that thwarted her bid for borough president in 2005: the city teachers» union.

Although the main obstacle would be the union vote, Miliband has been working hard to improve relations with the block that denied him the Labour leadership.

Teachers are increasingly frustrated that district and union leaders can not reach a new agreement to replace their long - expired contract.Business officials consider the city school district the greatest obstacle to the region's economic development.Political leaders are worried as well about the direction of the still - struggling city schools.Throughout the city, stakeholde...

The real obstacle is in Albany, where Governor Andrew Cuomo's unremitting hostility to teachers» unions extends to CUNY faculty and workers.

«There's one obstacle here: It's Dean Skelos,» Citizens Union Executive Director Dick Dadey said Tuesday.

The practices of yoga remove the obstacles that veil the truth, which is here and now and always.As Sage Patanjali teaches in Yoga Sutras I: I, the result of this discipline is union with presence, atha yoganushasanam ornow at this auspicious moment, yoga discipline begins.

You might anticipate Caleb's efforts being a painless cure - all in the world of homegrown films, but in fact a number of obstacles still stand in the way of the Holts» union being healthily restored.

There's a mission, clearly, which is to find Zeus» bolt and return it to its rightful owner, and there are a lot of obstacles, obviously, including a cow - hurling Minotaur, Medusa (Uma Thurman) in her gardens in New Jersey, a hydra comprised of janitors at the Parthenon in Nashville (strange that no one makes a union joke amidst all the one - liners thrown around), and the hypnotic lights and atmosphere of a Vegas casino (lotus flowers help).

The result is that, as our nation has struggled to improve its public schools, the teacher unions have emerged as the fiercest, most powerful defenders of the status quo, and the single greatest obstacle to the reform of American education.

The Republican nominee hoped to tap the deep vein of voters» mistrust — the conviction that teachers» unions are self - serving and power - hungry, and that they are chief obstacles to school reform.

The practical obstacles to such a system are formidable, not the least of which is the teacher unions» contention that all teachers are equal and thus deserve equal pay.

Another important factor on the side of charter school advocates is the greatly diminished power of the teachers union, which had often been an obstacle in earlier reform efforts.

School superintendents are intimately aware of the union - inspired obstacles which prevent school principals from hiring an effective teacher for every classroom.

The biggest obstacle to education reform is the existence of teachers unions.

Nelson Lichtenstein, a labor historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said the unions» strategy on testing follows years in which they have been under assault, by conservative leaders and by the bipartisan education - reform movement that has painted unions as a central obstacle to improving schools.

The mayor's comments came a day after Claypool told the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board that the teachers union was «the obstacle to... protecting our classrooms.»

The local teachers union, United Teachers Los Angeles, has also not been a major obstacle, Phelps said.

The developments have left the nation's two largest teachers unions in a quandary: how to alter the perception that they are obstacles to change while holding on to principles such as tenure that their members demand.

Yes, the teacher unions are a huge political obstacle in terms of reform but they are hardly the only one.

As for the call to involve parents in labor negotiations, Khoury said there could be legal obstacles because all unions would have to agree to them being part of the bargaining process.

Self - interest No. 3: New Front in the War on Unions — Today, unions are one of the last — and, unfortunately, weakening — obstacles to corporations» having complete control of the American political sUnions — Today, unions are one of the last — and, unfortunately, weakening — obstacles to corporations» having complete control of the American political sunions are one of the last — and, unfortunately, weakening — obstacles to corporations» having complete control of the American political system.

This approach to education reform is premised on a few notions that have most recently been mythologized by NBC with its Education Nation: tenure and teacher unions are the chief obstacles to reforming America's schools, and monetary incentives will motivate teachers to improve their ability to raise test scores.

Teachers are the biggest obstacle in the way of the corporate educational coup, which is why the billionaires, eagerly assisted by their servants in the Obama administration, have made demonization and eventual destruction of teachers unions their top priority.

Unfortunately, it would appear that the union's mindset will be a major obstacle to both constructive talks and positive change in the Chicago Public Schools.

This ancient struggle between old - fashioned unions and at - all - costs reformers has long been the No. 1 obstacle of controversial parent - empowerment laws.

The biggest (and perhaps only) obstacle to school choice is the powerful teacher's unions who oppose any attempts to to expand educational opportunities.

It should also help us to understand the obstacles our unions and all people interested in the future of public education are facing.

Teachers» unions have been described across the political spectrum as an obstacle to fixing the schools.

This accusation appears to spring from supporters of the «corporate reform» movement, which takes the ideologically driven position that «bad» teachers and teachers» unions are the major obstacles to improving American schooling.

Critics see them as obstacles to change; even union sympathizers agree that their voice in the education debate has been muted.

Some see them as obstacles to change, and even union sympathizers agree that their voice in the education debate has been muted.

However, 1979 also was the year Nancy Yieh, then 22 and a new graduate from Cooper Union with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, first entered the job market - determined not to let some transparent obstacle stop her.

While these groups file just 13 percent of CEQA lawsuits, they along with labor unions are one of the main obstacles to reforming CEQA in Sacramento.

But there are still significant obstacles to legal remedy in many countries and particularly at the heart of the European Union.

Removing obstacles to investment in infrastructure was the theme of the African Union's annual meeting, while the African Development Bank delivered its forecast for the continent's economy.