This PEF report on consultant spending at the DOH is the fifth such report released in recent
weeks by the labor union, which represents nearly 54,000 professional, scientific and technical employees of the state, including more than 3,000 at DOH.
Not exact matches
Bullied and bludgeoned
by weeks of intense public debate over a longer school day, Chicago Teachers
Union President Karen Lewis fought back Friday
by filing an unfair
labor practices complaint against Chicago Public Schools leadership and accusing Emanuel of trying to intimidate her in a profanity - filled tirade recently at City Hall.
And, as a reader pointed out, it was produced and posted
by the Senate Democrat - controlled (and taxpayer - funded) media services unit just two
weeks before Espada faces off against his two primary opponents: Gustavo Rivera (who is being backed
by a number of the majority leader's colleagues and
labor unions) and Dan Padernacht.
The Buffalo News reported last
week that the one anti-Proposal 1 group, funded almost exclusively
by an array of
labor unions, has raised $ 1.5 million for its campaign to stop the convention.
Marshall, who is being challenged
by attorney Marc Leavitt and retired businessman Robert Schwartz for the Democratic nomination for borough president, has received the support of several
unions in recent
weeks and also has the backing of the
labor - backed Working Families Party.
Cuomo had blamed New York City mayor Bill de Blasio for presenting a 421 - a plan — blessed
by the machers of real estate but blasted
by most
labor unions — in the session's final
weeks.
In reporting on this race online last
week, Gay City News noted that Cabrera's website included endorsements
by Mayor Bill de Blasio as well as the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store
Union, which is headed
by out gay
labor leader Stuart Appelbaum.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused last
week to hear a challenge
by a group of Buffalo, N.Y., school
unions to a state fiscal - oversight board's power to set aside
labor contracts and impose a wage freeze to help the city and its school district emerge from a budget crisis.
A group of pro-charter teachers filed a formal complaint this
week with the state's Public Employment Relations Board contending that the teachers
union had engaged in unfair
labor practices
by failing to support them and waging a «nonstop hate campaign» against the charter advocates.
Clinton, who weighed in on the Dakota Access pipeline for the first time last
week in a noncommittal statement, finds herself torn between
labor unions on one side, who want the jobs created
by the project, and Native American activists and environments on the other side, who say the pipeline would pollute water and violate sacred land.