Sentences with phrase «where union efforts»

To see just where union efforts lead in practical terms, one only need look at campaign finance disclosures.

This step is one of several recent developments on the small but growing number of campuses across the United States and Canada where union efforts are under way.

Not exact matches

Indiana is the latest Midwestern state where Republicans have pushed though anti-labor legislation even as the efforts have drawn large protests by union backers and spawned recall efforts.

Indiana is the latest Midwestern state where Republicans have pushed labor legislation with safe voting margins even as the efforts have drawn large protests by union backers and spawned recall efforts.

One recent victory for unions was in Ohio, where in November 2011, voters overturned a Republican - led effort to place restrictions on public sector unions, similar to that in Wisconsin.

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.

You can see this today, where despite the ongoing efforts of unions, areas other than e.g. factory work, where people are essentially interchageable parts, tend to be reluctant to unionize.

Saying Ed M will take it is a hunch: YouGov showed DM stronger than is likely: ex-ForSec public name recognition means he will poll better among those least likely to vote, where turnout will be under 25 %; that the union endorsements, the campaigning efforts and union members response to campaign have probably helped EM more than DM.

A harbinger of what is to come was seen at some of this year's trade union conferences where the bureaucracy's efforts to keep in step with Blair for as long as possible already started to meet serious resistance from the ranks.

Most recently, this focus on secrecy was shown in the extraordinary efforts of the governor's aides to shield some of his records from public scrutiny in the State Archives, where a top Cuomo lieutenant spent nearly eight hours screening documents from Cuomo's years as attorney general that were sought by the Times Union under the Freedom of Information Law.

In the NY - 18 where five Democrats are vying at the chance to take on Republican Rep. Nan Hayworth, the labor group gave their endorsement to Maloney, who has worked to solidify union support as part of an overall GOTV effort.

Advocates of such primaries say they would prevent a repeat of Falkirk where a relatively small party threatened to be taken over by a union - backed effort to recruit new members.

Efforts to make the union's research policies more cohesive, for example through joint science programs where several countries share funding pots and priorities, have remained noncompulsory, complex, and slow to pick up steam.

In other words, that is the part where you sit still and wait with alert attention for «spontaneous awakening» or the pull of your own magnetic power of attraction toward union with Supreme Consciousness which requires no efforting on your part... this is where the caterpillar (you) waits in it's cocoon (gets still) until it naturally transforms (remember, it doesn't have to do anything for this to occur nor can it make it occur) into a butterfly.

The most telling example may be in New York, where the simultaneous effort to change testing and accountability fueled intense concerns about how the tests would affect teacher job security, engendering fierce backlash and strong teachers union support for the «opt - out» movement.

Thus, as a public union, the NEA (so too the American Federation of Teachers), is, essentially, spreading around tax dollars, money over which the taxpayer has no control, an income redistribution effort that could easily be mistaken for a kickback or, in states where union membership and dues are not voluntary, a not - so - hidden and not - so - representative tax.

There's also the rest of the state, especially the state capital of Harrisburg, where the union's affiliate, AFT Pennsylvania, has been battling Gov. Tom Corbett's oft - unsuccessful (and usually lackluster) efforts on the reform front.

«The contention that unions play a role in misallocating resources, sending them away from where they are most needed, is a distraction from efforts to address the persistent nature of achievement gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students.»

Notably, the San Antonio experience represented a collaborative effort between district leaders and the teacher union in a state where collective bargaining is not allowed under state law.

Local union - management collaborative teams that are participating in our TURN Regions are invited to partner with us as we establish Regional TURN Communities of Practice to support, showcase and share the work in ways where we learn from each other's efforts.

The district and union have also been supportive of efforts to design and implement a peer assistance and review process where teachers observe, give feedback, and evaluate each other.

Unfortunately, there have been too many instances where local teachers unions have refused to assist in cost - cutting efforts, forcing layoffs and cuts to student programs.

But such isn't the case in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island where opt out efforts continue to grow exponentially, all with the support of teacher unions and progressive organizations.

His teaching efforts began in the CEAC basement where he would run film workshops, and continue today with his active involvement in teaching film and video at a number of impressive schools in New York, at Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, Fordham University, and Millennium Film Workshop.