Sentences with phrase «unions campaigning against»

That way you wouldn't have public sector unions campaigning against you.

Labor unions often cooperate with business as in San Francisco where the building trades unions campaigned against the effort to establish a citywide height limitation.

Her Del - Boypolitics will undermine the trades union campaign against the Tory Government «sattacks on public sector workers

A company spokesman told a reporter that this issue arose as part of a union campaign against Smithfield, but that the company is looking into it nonetheless.

Not exact matches

Bob White and the auto workers captured the attention of many Canadians by breaking away from their American parent union in 1985 and then leading an inspired campaign against the Mulroney government's proposed free trade agreement with the United States.

The Elon Musk - led company went a step further as well, stating that the piece was an «ideologically motivated attack by an extremist organization working directly with union supporters to create a calculated disinformation campaign against Tesla.»

In the past, an international body like the WJC was clearly necessary to coordinate Jewish efforts in, say, the campaign against the oppression of Jews in the Soviet Union.

In this instance, however, the campaign against Chic - fil - a stems is gaining much more momentum than it perhaps should due to the simple fact that civil unions are a hot topic now.

Bev Jullien from Mother's Union, which is backing the campaign, told Premier why violence against women and girls is tolerated in so many societies around the world.

We point fingers at other countries for allowing Afghanistan to become a terrorist haven, but we were the ones who abandoned the Afghans to the feuding factions whom we had armed and whose fundamentalist Islamic passions we had ignited in the, campaign against the Soviet Union.

In recent years, Kirill and his «foreign minister,» Metropolitan Hilarion, have been mouthpieces for Russian president Vladimir Putin's efforts to reconstitute something like the old Soviet Union in the name of a «historic Russian space,» an exercise in Great Russian irredentism that has taken a particularly grave turn in Ukraine; concurrently, they've conducted a campaign of seduction in the Vatican and among American evangelical Protestants, putatively in service to a united front against western decadence and secularism.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, has been deeply disturbed to hear of a savage attack on trade union activists in Baghdad as part of an ongoing campaign of intimidation against the country's trade unions.

Although the odds remain against Smith, he will be hoping that an enthusiastic campaign over the next month will do enough to persuade Corbyn backers, including among the third tranche who can take part — the 70,000 union affiliates — to either switch their vote or not cast it at all.

- 68 is too late is a campaign launched by three trade unions - PCS, Unite and the National Union of Teachers - to mobilise the public against plans which could see the finishing line for access to state pensions moved ever further forward.

The Sussex Against Privatisation Campaign originally sought support from the existing union branches on campus — Unite, Unison and UCU — but were rebuffed by what they see as a conservative leadership presiding over an ossified system.

A senior Labour strategist has submitted a proposal to the group campaigning against independence for a game between two teams of union supporting legends.

WAMC's David Guistina speaks with Mike Spain, Associated Editor of The Times Union, about a complaint filed against Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan's election campaign.

And we'll campaign against loan sharks and pay day lenders; helping to develop community banks, credit unions and building financial literacy and resilience.

Share Better, a partnership between hotel union and industry leaders aiming to expose illegal Airbnb activity, is running a «guerilla campaign» against the industry.

«I don't think state Sen. Jesus H. Christ could win as a Republican in New York state,» Michael Caputo, a political operative who worked on President Donald Trump's campaign and guided Carl Paladino's 2010 bid against Cuomo, told the Times Union this week.

Biviano is running a catch - up campaign against Jo Anne Simon, district leader for the past decade, and Pete Sikora, legislative director for the communication workers union, to replace long - time Assemblymember Joan Millman.

The governor - elect repeated his warning that he'd fire back at public employee unions or others if they launch campaigns against what he said will be a stringent budget plan for the coming fiscal year.

Brooklyn State Senator Marty Golden may be a conservative Republican, but he can still rack up influential union endorsements as he campaigns for reelection against Democrat Andrew Gounardes.

The Government has come under fire as it launches its biggest campaign against trade unions in 30 years.

In Capitol terms, what this meant was that any meaningful action by Paterson and the legislature to address the problem would pit them against unions with the means both to guarantee lawmakers easy re-election and to underwrite significant ad campaigns attacking them.

The mayor sent his own staffers to run campaigns against the Republicans and he got unions and people who do business with the city, like John Catsimatidis — to donate massive amounts of money.

New York City's largest police union is planning to launch an independent political campaign against Mayor Bill de Blasio's 2017 re-election bid, and its leader has already begun meeting with potential challengers.

A number of witnesses were to testify in favor of a marriage equality plank in the platform: Marc Solomon, national campaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Decampaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall DeCampaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Democrats.

It is anticipated that Unite members will join other public sector unions on 10 May as part of the on - going campaign against government attacks on public sector pensions.

Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo made it clear this morning he intends to back up his tough talk against the so - called «special interests» — chiefly, the public employee unions — with dollars in an air campaign war, if necessary.

The teachers union has launched a multimillion - dollar TV campaign in opposition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education cuts with an ad that pits cut schoolchildren against wealthy Wall Street executives.

The Public Employees Federation, the white - collar union that backed Teachout's failed campaign against Cuomo, provided $ 25,000 to the DSCC this past election cycle.

The unions» campaign - called 68 is too late, launched today - seeks to mobilise the public against plans which could see the finishing line for access to state pensions moved ever further forward.

«The House further urges the Nigerian Union to ensure more visibility in their campaign against prostitution, drug peddling and other domestic crimes.

They have been instrumental in the union's campaign against cuts to front line UK Border Agency staff in Kent, as well as a campaign against a cut in agreed allowances for UKBA staff working on immigration controls in northern France.

Delegates to the union's Department for Work and Pensions group conference - to be held on Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 May, before PCS's annual conference which opens the following day - will debate an emergency motion to launch a campaign against the closures.

Unions will continue to be able to campaign against exploitative working conditions, unequal pay and discrimination, but their influence in Westminster will be severely reduced.

Staff who administer the pensions of 1.5 million existing and retired civil servants have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action as part of a campaign against plans to privatise their work, the Public and Commercial Services union announces.

The «day one» strategy hit major roadblocks as the public, led by an unusually aggressive Daily News campaign that included a 40,000 - signature petition, pushed back against the banning of a beloved tourist attraction that employs about 300 drivers — drivers who just happen to belong to the Teamsters Union.

During the legislative session that's slated to end Wednesday, groups backed by some of the same unions have ramped up attacks against state Senate Republicans for refusing to close another quirk in campaign finance law, the so - called «LLC loophole,» that allows real estate interests to use limited liability companies to vastly multiply the power of their giving.

Lasher is running against Marisol Alcantara, a former union organizer for the New York State Nurses Association, and Robert Jackson, a former councilman who is also a plaintiff in a landmark case by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which argued that New York was under funding schools and not meeting its constitutional burden to provide children with a «sound basic education.»

Several of our RTC members are just back from Chicago where they supported teacher union members in their campaign against Mayor Rahm Emanuel's bid for re-election.

This campaign believed in what we, as a union, bring to the state of New York and highlighted the need for respect for public services, while speaking out against the negative impact of privatization and diminishment of vital state services.

*) He also assiduously courts labor unions and is looking to them as an essential component of his 2017 reelection campaign, weighing against a pro-ConCon position.

At the same time, our affiliated unions are campaigning against the cuts on a daily basis and urging stronger opposition to the Tories in Parliament.

As Labor historian Nick Dyrenfurth notes, these events have helped prime minister Tony Abbott wage a political campaign against both the unions and Labor.

«Today we are in the midst of something all - too familiar to those of us who remember the 1970s and 1980s — a hysterical smear campaign directed against trade unions because we represent the only real organised challenge in society to the values and views of our bankrupt establishment.

The rollout of Christie's full slate of endorsements began Monday night, at a New York City fundraiser for California gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman, the self - funding former eBay CEO who has made taking on the unions a linchpin of her campaign against Democrat Jerry Brown.

As the former foreign secretary Jack Straw said that Labour should consider reopening its Falkirk investigation in the wake of allegations that Stevie Deans used Grangemouth company facilities to campaign on behalf of the party, the Unite general secretary warned of an «hysterical smear campaign» against unions.

The NUT, alongside other unions, will continue to campaign against those proposals.