Sentences with phrase «unions for political purposes»

Dark money is money used by groups like nonprofit organizations, corporations, or labor unions for political purposes.

In the 1977 Abood decision, the Supreme Court ruled that agency fees were constitutional — so long as those fees were not used by unions for political purposes.

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This resulted in the outlawing of the use of trade union funds for political purposes.

Labour leadership candidate John McDonnell also condemned the plans, telling BBC Two's Daily Politics that the Hayden Phillips review was being used for «political purposes» by people who wanted to break the union link with Labour.

The ad, which is reaching homes in the congressional district in Queens and parts of Brooklyn, was criticized by Weprin and the firefighters» union as being in poor taste and using the Sept. 11 attacks for political purposes.

Needless to say, the unions have strong incentives to mobilize for political purposes, to participate actively in electoral campaigns, and to identify and recruit sympathetic candidates.

Crucially, the Court declined the plaintiffs» request to overturn a 1977 ruling in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education that allowed teachers unions to collect agency fees from nonmembers for costs related to «collective bargaining, contract administration, and grievance adjustment purposes» but forbid them to use such funds for political or ideological purposes.

Teachers» unions also joined their labor brethren nationwide to chip in at least $ 20 million to beat a proposal that would have have made it harder to collect dues for political purposes.

Unions will, of course, object to the use of litigation for political purposes, but that has been the strategy of school - finance litigants for decades: use a lawsuit to pressure the legislature to cave in to your demands.

Under Abood, public sector unions could collect «agency fees» from nonmembers, but those funds could not be used for ideological or political purposes.

The 144 - page report ties pro-voucher forces and religious conservatives to campaigns in several states to put new re-strictions on how unions — including teachers» unions — raise money for political purposes.

Today, Sean Higgins of the Washington Examiner turned his attention to the Employee Rights Act (ERA), specifically its provision requiring unions to get opt - in permission before using member dues for political purposes.

The California Teachers Association apparently thinks it scored a major legal victory last week when a federal judge in Santa Ana dismissed a lawsuit challenging the public teachers union's collection of fees from nonmember teachers for both collective bargaining purposes and political activity.

His observations during that campaign of the power and influence of the unions in our state led him to found the Education Alliance, a group dedicated to assisting independent school board candidates as well as authoring, qualifying, and chairing the 1998 Proposition 226, which would have required unions to receive permission to use their members» dues for political purposes.

Many unions have political action committees (PACs) for this very purpose.

Often used for explicitly political or even propagandistic purposes, such as the socialist realism used to prop up the Communist leaders of the Soviet Union, or Shepard Fairey's ubiquitous...

Gore's presentation at the meeting, plus the prominent presence of the Union of Concerned Scientists, an environmental advocacy organization, suggested to me that my area of science was being exploited for political purposes.

Marburger let government - financed scientific institutions slide further down and to the left, but his appointment did not save Bush from the usual accusations of «manipulating science for political purposes,» «censoring scientific results,» and «silencing the science,» all slogans shouted by the Union of Con Scientists and the rest of the attack pack.

Included in the Bill is a requirement for unions to disclose: a yearly balance sheet indicating their assets, liabilities, income and expenditures; the details of all transactions over $ 5,000, including the name and address of each party, a statement regarding the purpose of the transaction, and a description of each transaction; a statement indicating the total disbursements, including salary, made to each employee, contractor, officer, director or trustee; and a statement indicating the percentage of time each employee, contractor, officer, director or trustee dedicates to political activities.