Sentences with phrase «wage campaign»

He named the minimum wage campaign in his honor.

Indeed the Living Wage campaign only received a small plug at the talk's end.

They will accompany this move by waging a campaign against our irresponsibility of trying to sneak through an election without openly facing the threat that the growing funding shortfall poses for the long - term future of the NHS in the next Parliament.

Myanmar's military stands accused of waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya Muslims.

This year, Cuomo has named the $ 15 minimum wage campaign in New York after his late father, assembling a coalition of labor groups, led by 1199, to push for the issue.

Due to election law, assuming he doesn't change his party registration in the next couple months, Mr. Smith needs the support of at least three of the city's five Republican county leaders in order to even wage a campaign as a Republican in 2013, which is certainly no easy task when other GOP notables are also considering throwing their hat into the ring.

Have you not been proven right that the then opposition waged a campaign on the back of claims that indeed, free education would be introduced to ALL Ghanaian children in Senior High school?

She's now waging a campaign to have other lactivists, breastfeeding moms, and people who have common sense to join in and send letters to your affiliates.

At noon, tipped wage workers — restaurant servers, nail salon technicians, and car wash workers — alongside advocates, labor leaders, and elected officials — will kick - off the One Fair Wage campaign in New York.

I have waged a campaign focused on fighting for the middle class and those struggling to make it there.

Generals who are serious about the stakes wage campaigns with clearly defined goals.

This is not about trying to force churches to accept us or to marry us, this is about religion waging a campaign against the gay community to demonize us in order to get their voting congregation to pass laws that deny us equal rights.

In fact he so strongly feels the need to press his point that he has crossed over into the field of New Testament studies to wage his campaign there as well.1 And indeed Childs has performed a valuable and needed service in reminding us that what we have now is not just individual passages, nor is it just the «books» which as larger units give the individual pieces a place in the larger narrative.

CNN: Liberal Catholics use election results to battle bishops Emboldened by the re-election of President Barack Obama, a cadre of liberal Catholic activists and groups is waging a campaign alleging that America's Catholic bishops are out of touch with Catholic laypeople.

Since then, Uber has waged a campaign across the state, getting many public officials on board.

Set to testify to the Senate Labor Committee, which is chaired by potential congressional candidate Jack Martins, include labor leaders like George Gresham, the 1199 SEIU president who is leading the $ 15 minimum wage campaign named in honor of the late Gov. Mario Cuomo.

From revelations of his history of verbal and physical confrontations with rivals and critics, to media coverage of controversial former Assemblyman Ryan Karben's donations to his campaign, to, most memorably, the infamous Text-gate incident wherein he texted his plans to spy on opponent David Fried directly to Fried, Lacorte can not claim to have waged a campaign free from adversity.

«Despite significant encouragement from supporters of all political backgrounds and various community leaders to help raise the money necessary to successfully wage a campaign, I am calling a halt to my 2008 campaign for Congress,» Wolken said today.

At this point I think Anthropologie is secretly waging some campaign to make sure everyone sees our bras.

The school waged a campaign to save it from being shut down, asserting it served a special needs population in ways that weren't possible in a traditional school setting.

HSI is also waging campaigns in South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and other Asian nations to stop the dog meat trade.

However, with the price of food rising much faster than the global mean temperature, I suppose it is really not terribly surprising that financial analysts would seize on the potential catastrophe that is most immediate (especially if there are no major energy companies waging a campaign to confuse the issue).

The fake Heartland document, like the Climategate emails, is evidence of how warmists wage their campaign.

The fossil fuel industry has responded to these suits by fiercely waging a campaign that claims that any legal action against the fossil fuel companies for funding organizations engaged in climate change denial activities is tantamount to a legally inappropriate suppression of free speech (See: Climate change vs. free speech: Punishing fossil fuel companies for expressing doubt).

And now the Lib Dems have found something else to be unhappy about, with the discovery that government has forked out almost # 5m on ads for the National Living Wage campaign.

Andy Burnham said the government was «waging a campaign of demonisation against the unions» while Yvette Cooper said Labour should try to prevent the «divisive and damaging measures from coming into force».

For months government officials have waged a campaign against Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow - based maker of popular antivirus software.

Cuomo kicked off his minimum wage campaign in Buffalo earlier this week, and he plans to hold another rally in the Syracuse area later today.

For instance, the Civil War Preservation Trust is now waging a campaign to double the 25,000 acres of battlefield sites it has previously preserved.

When Restaurant Opportunities Centers United needed a website for their One Fair Wage campaign they came to LPS Campaigns.

«I've waged a campaign focused like a laser beam on fighting for the middle class and those struggling to make it,» the former congressman says in the spot.

«I'm waging this campaign on a bet and the bet is at the end of the day citizens care more about their future than about my past with my wife and my embarrassing things and if I turn out to be wrong you're going to find out in 45 days or so,» Weiner told Kramer.

The point is that in waging a campaign in the international community, bringing pressure to bear to keep the military in the barracks, our hope was that the quality of democracy would also have improved.

That's helped Marc Cohodes, an American short - seller, to wage campaigns against Canadian companies Concordia International and Home Capital.

These results may have been influenced by prospects for the wage campaign in the Victorian manufacturing sector, which has recently commenced.

Progressives once hailed natural gas as a «transition fuel» to renewables like solar and wind, but now they are waging a campaign to «keep it in the ground.»

Senate Democrats and state AGs are waging a campaign against a Trump administration decision not to require internet service providers treat content equally.

The union's endorsement also comes after questions were raised over whether Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who had organized labor groups to form the $ 15 minimum wage campaign, would make a concerted push on Kaminsky's behalf in the race.

On Long Island, meanwhile, 1199 — a health - care workers union that was instrumental in the $ 15 minimum wage campaign — also displayed pragmatism.

The fired U.S. attorney doesn't like politics, but his admirers are pressing him to wage a campaign to succeed Eric Schneiderman.

It is action by the poorest, and not simply for them, which has led to the extraordinary success of the Living Wage Campaign, and which has driven on the Just Money campaign against exploitative lending over the last four years.

Matthew Bolton, who is the lead London Citizens community organiser in east London and head of the Living Wage campaign, said: «James is very special to us.

I've known him six months and he's really connected with the community organising methods and our living wage campaign.

The minimum - wage campaign should at least give them greater relevance in the national Democratic conversation, if not a place on the ballot.

As Monroe County Democratic Party leaders decide who has enough support to wage a campaign for Louise Slaughter's vacant congressional seat, a local political observer says it's in the party's best interest to not have a special election.

Take, for example, the living wage campaign; if you force an employer to pay a living wage then a government would not have to worry about improving in work poverty through tax credits.

The wage campaign, which was named last year in honor of his late father, is now taking the form of a very Cuomo - like RV tour that will tout the proposal around the state.

Nevertheless, Cuomo was able to put down a primary challenge during his 2014 re-election, and he has since emphasized issues the left has sought, including the $ 15 wage campaign.