Sentences with phrase «with labor leaders»

He held roundtables with labor leaders, but could not define a high - profile trade agreement he was campaigning against in a moment so embarrassing it earned him a lengthy send - up on the Daily Show.

A senior member of the Obama administration met with labor leaders and advocates in Manhattan on Thursday morning to discuss efforts to bring paid family leave to New York, Donna Dolan, executive director of the New York State Paid Leave Coalition, said.

ALBANY — The most prominent elements of the Working Families Party spent Friday at war with one another, with labor leaders hoping to broker a deal to endorse Governor Andrew Cuomo threatening to formally, publicly secede, and activists digging in around the candidacy of Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout.

Some of the party's top members were summoned to a meeting with labor leaders on Friday at the Manhattan headquarters of the United Federation of Teachers.

ALBANY — Andrew Cuomo has made some progress recently with the labor leaders who make up the Working Families Party's executive committee.

In recent months, he invited public - sector unions to become his partners, even sending their leaders copies of «The Man Who Saved New York,» a biography of former Gov. Hugh L. Carey, which recounts how Mr. Carey, a Democrat, teamed up with labor leaders in similar fashion in the 1970s.

TIT FOR TAT: Cuomo's close working relationship with labor leaders, including Gary LaBarbera of the Building and Construction Trades Council, has been good for union members (and the governor) but not the general public.

Also at 11:30 a.m., groups representing immigrants will join with labor leaders and elected officials to urge New Yorkers to vote «no» on Nov. 7 on the ballot question that calls for a state constitutional convention, UFT headquarters, 52 Broadway, Manhattan.

The state Indian Point Closure Task Force is working with labor leaders to achieve a just transition for the workforce.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo pushed Monday for paid family leave legislation and an increase in the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour at a rally with labor leaders and elected Democrats in Hauppauge.

Cuomo took questions from reporters following a rally for increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15 with labor leaders, but all of the questions focused on homelessness.

The group, called NY Jobs Now, includes Heather Bricetti, the president and CEO of the state Business Council, along with labor leaders like the AFL - CIO's Mario Cilento, UFT President Michael Mulgrew, Gary LaBarbera of Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and former New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson.

Cuomo held a triumphant rally with labor leaders and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday after the wage deal was approved.

At 12:30 p.m., Heastie mets with labor leaders, Hilton Garden Inn Rochester / University & Medical Center, 30 Celebration Dr., Rochester.

State Sen. Diane Savino (D - Staten Island), who worked with labor leaders to win support for the school, joked that the election year calendar aided the cause.

A civil war has erupted within the Working Families Party over whether to back Cuomo for re-election, with labor leaders who support the governor pitted against party leaders and grass roots activists.

Senator Klein met privately with labor leaders at his Bronx office on Monday to strategize about how best to proceed.

On March 19, Public Advocate Letitia James, together with labor leaders, led a roundtable at the headquarters of DC 37 in Manhattan.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in Westchester County to appear at the Mario Cuomo Bridge and will later appear at a rally with labor leaders in Union Square.

Governor Cuomo has been cross-crossing the State with labor leaders making the case for $ 15 an hour.

Not exact matches

WA Labor is operating a cash - for - access Leaders» Forum — which charges wealthy company bosses about $ 25,000 a year for private meetings with the Premier and his ministers and is a carbon copy of a secretive Liberal Party fundraising venture slammed by Mark McGowan when he was in Opposition.

This week starts with a meeting of the world's top leaders in New York City and ends with a look at how the U.S. labor market fared in September.

If President Donald Trump decides to move forward with targeted tariffs or quotas on steel, Mattis recommended that the labor leaders and management of the impacted industries be convened by the president so they would understand that the tariffs and quotas are conditional.

A little - noticed difference between the federal Labor and Liberal parties is that the former ties itself in knots over whether or not to dispatch a leader who's on the nose with voters.

If business owners are like investors, healthcare providers, labor union leaders and a myriad of other people with vested interest in our policies, they're probably anxiously awaiting the results to see how their businesses — or sentiment — will fare in 2011.

At a public meeting of labor and corporate officers last summer, Snyder said he deliberately pleaded with union leaders not to go forward with the ballot initiative.

«We refined the categories and tested them with other professors, entrepreneurs, policymakers, labor leaders, folks at think tanks, and ultimately settled on this list,» adds Brynjolfsson.

With Millennials practically owning the labor force these days (and into the future), business leaders are constantly looking for new ways to attract and retain these rising professionals.

Finally, a growing number of union leaders are abandoning the futile efforts to achieve incremental reforms of the current ossified and defunct labor law and instead are calling for opening up labor law to encourage and protect workers who experiment with these and other more fluid and varied activities free from reprisals.

After six long years, the specter of the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule has finally taken shape, although as one BD leader put it, the industry is still in a «state of flux» as it determines how to comply with all aspects of the rule.

Political Economy Research I am travelling in Europe for three weeks to discuss the global financial crisis with government officials, politicians and labor leaders.

Mr. Obama, who invited labor leaders to fly with him here on Air Force One, said the «constant war against unions» undermined regular workers.

The Obama Administration has made labor enforcement a top priority for trade policymaking and in so doing, has built trust with union leaders and members of Congress.

In support of this hypothesis, we saw that places with less - effective labor markets for CEOs were typically associated with a greater disparity in the performance of firms run by managers, relative to firms run by leaders.

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The governor's administration worked closely with the board of directors of the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, the port's staff, and business and labor leaders throughout the port to develop the very best, most effective capital program to improve commerce at the port of Philadelphia, and to prepare the port to meet industry trends for years to come.

In a statement, Seattle's mayor said she was alarmed by Amazon's announcement and added that she planned to work with members of Seattle's business, labor and community leaders in the coming days to find common ground.

While Müller sought to create an anti-Nazi coalition with former labor leaders, heroic priests worked to unite disparate groups into an effective opposition.

Their plight is so desperate and so little noticed outside of Colombia — that the labor union leaders in Bogotá who met with our delegation welcomed us with the words, «We have been waiting for you for 50 years.

This was largely through the so - called prophets, charismatic leaders who were devoted to Jahweh, spoke on his behalf, condemned any alien deities, and labored to establish him as the one and only god with whom humankind had to deal.

And the leaders of those churches are ready and able to articulate what this new sense of strength and self - confidence implies with regard to the traditional structures of relationship to the churches of the West, The challenge they pose is the fruit of our labors in world mission over the past 180 years.

I can't believe September is around the corner... As we enter Labor Day weekend, we are reminded of the late summer bounty, with zucchini being one of the leaders of the pack.

SA Liberal Party leader Steven Marshall said that state Labor policy had left South Australians with «the highest energy prices in Australia» and «the least reliable grid».

When Mitt met with the Labor Party opposition leader, the moderate socialist Ed Miliband, the photos.

In 2006, Eliot Spitzer's first day as governor - elect had him holding a news conference with his soon - to - be-predecessor and huddling with leaders from labor and business.

The vote will be preceded by a rally with advocates, and business and labor leaders on the City Hall steps.

Donohue's past endorsement of Republicans (namely former Gov. George Pataki) became an issue during this campaign, with the New York labor leader arguing perhaps more vociferously than his brothers and sisters in the movement that Democrats should not take them for granted and automatically expect to receive their support.

RWDSU and the TWU have joined a growing list of unions siding with Gustavo Rivera against Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. in the upcoming Sept. 14 primary, playing up his ties to organized labor and pledge to support «fair wages» and «good health care.»

Senate Deputy Majority Leader Jeff Klein, one of several Democrats targeted by a recent AFL - CIO leaflet campaign for leaving a «trail of broken promises» to labor unions, is hitting back with a mailer that highlights his support for public education.

«This much I can tell you: She leaves with a clean record, unlike many of her colleagues,» labor leader Ron McDougall said of his wife, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, who is not seeking re-election.