Sentences with phrase «with leaders of the unions»

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Speaking to The Irish Times, Kenny said, «European leaders need to be over here talking to Republicans, Democrats and the administration about what membership of the European Union means and the relationship that it can have with as powerful an entity as the United States.»

This fall, a Facebook page gave thousands of Air Canada employees a forum to share with each other their dissatisfaction over their union leaders» negotiations, badly disrupting the collective bargaining process.

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.

«I find it important for Japan and the EU to cooperate with the United States as well to show to the world the flag of free trade as a model,» Abe told reporters before a meeting with European Union leaders in Brussels.

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.

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.

President Trump's decision puts off a move that could have enraged key American allies at a delicate moment, as the United States heads toward tricky negotiations with North Korea and is considering abandoning the Iran nuclear deal over the objections of European Union leaders.

The PSOE's party elders did not choose him for this role, but if Pedro Sánchez takes the lead, in Europe as much as in Spain, and reopens the debate about the euro, acknowledging that the current structure does not work and defining with the help of hindsight what vulnerabilities must be addressed in a reformed European Union, the party's new leader can halt the decline of the PSOE at home and reverse the ugly nationalism spreading through Europe.

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.

The leader of a faction in British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative party demanding a clean break from the European Union, has denied issuing an ultimatum after asking her to drop a proposal for a customs partnership with the bloc.

It was no secret that many of the strike leaders were associated with the radical Socialist Party and the One Big Union, the ominous sounding name of the union that the socialists hoped to crUnion, the ominous sounding name of the union that the socialists hoped to crunion that the socialists hoped to create.

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.

According to a story on ucanews.com, the website of the Union of Catholic Asian News, Christian leaders in Pakistan are urging their followers not to engage in discussions of Islamic doctrine with their Muslim neighbors.

lt is the union of the servant with the master, of follower with leader, of forgiven sinner with the Lord of mercy.

Some ugly and foolish thoughts expressed in slovenly language were put forth by President Ronald Reagan when, during a 1982 conference with some eastern Carribean leaders, he called Marxism a «virus»; when, in 1983, he labeled the Soviet Union an «evil empire,» telling the assembled National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, that communism «is the focus of evil in the modern world» and that «we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might»; and when, while conferring in 1984 with 19 conservative and religious leaders, he vowed to fight the «communist cancer.»

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Despite this, most dairy industry leaders, including the dairy wing of the National Farmers» Union (NFU), have rejected calls for a milk price regulator, preferring to find a solution on the open market and via negotiations with retailers.

Hostess Brands Inc agreed in court on Monday to enter private mediation with its lenders and leaders of a striking union to try to avert the liquidation of the maker of Twinkies snack cakes and Wonder Bread.

Also, a number of unions continue to support IDC Leader Jeff Klein in his primary battle with former NYC Councilman Oliver Koppell, though they are supporting — or at least promising to support — primary challengers to other IDC members, including former NYC Comptroller John Liu, who is running against the IDC's newest member, Queens Sen. Tony Avella.

NYC teachers union president Michael Mulgrew took shots at the de Blasio administration for the second time in two weeks — this time charging city leaders with gender bias over their handling of paid parental leave.

He said Cameron's resignation in response to the outcome of a referendum that supported Britain to leave the European Union «was a demonstration of courage by a democratic leader who respects the will of the people, even if he didn't agree with their decision.»

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.»

Mr Miliband has traditionally sought to avoid the confrontations with unions which characterised the time of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but there are some very concrete political advantages to a public spat with union leaders and many voices in his office are urging him to make the most of it.

Igor Dodon, de facto leader of the Socialists, has not only once stated its intentions to denounce the Association Agreement with the European Union and join the Eurasian Economic Union led by the Russian Federation, based his entire campaign on criticizing both EU and Romania («The Romanian gendarme will not be our master»).

The leader of the country's biggest union warned today (Saturday October 20) ahead of the anti-austerity march that a «poverty whirlwind» will sweep through Britain's communities if this government presses on with plans to impose savage cuts.

The mayor's words of support come as Johnson is being targeted, along with Deputy Senate Majority Leader Jeff Klein, by the AFL - CIO for his «yes» vote on charter schools, as well as a host of other issues with which the union is displeased.

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.

«Just yesterday, one of Britain's most prominent right - wing leaders, a man named Nigel Farage, who stoked anti-immigrant sentiment to win the referendum to have Britain leave the European Union, campaigned with Donald Trump,» she said.

This afternoon, Trump will have lunch with the administrator of the Small Business Administration, and then meet with trade union leaders.

With his encouragement, labor leaders and major unions like the United Federation of Teachers and 1199SEIU left the party.

Monserrate started to crack immediately, bombarded with calls from union leaders who were furious they might once again face a wall of Republican resistance to their agenda.

King added it is important for the mayor to sit down with NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and union leaders like Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, to make it clear — «not just as a matter of etiquette» — that he stands with the police officers.

9 CCD Councilman Bill Perkins, who won this seat in a Special Election earlier has a rematch with some of his earlier opponents & some others — District Leader Cordell Cleare, union official Marvin Holland, lawyer Pierre Gooding, teacher Tyson - Lord Gray, Marvin Spruill, Dianne Mack & Julius Tajiddin.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew on April 18 gave chapter leaders and delegates a sneak preview of the union's new app that offers a simple, fast way to connect with the union and take advantage of member - only resources and discounts.

Nothing to do with us, the first thing the new leader of Labour should do is give a cast iron promise to jettison Scotland from the Union.

«As leaders of unions representing over half a million working New Yorkers, we held a conversation with the Speaker candidates so they could hear our members» concerns and share their own plans for the future of working people in our city.

But the union leader did not agree with the idea of splitting the presidency into two leadership positions.

The vote came a few months after the state's teachers unions, closely aligned with the Assembly, claimed a victory in December when the Regents, prompted by the governor and Legislative leaders, placed a moratorium on the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

In the months leading up to a state - imposed negotiations deadline in January, the Real Estate Board of New York and union leaders came tantalizingly close to coming up with a deal to renew 421a, the controversial tax abatement program for new developments.

Last July 2012, the leaders of the two biggest unions in Spain had a secret meeting with Angela Merkel in Berlin, only informing the Spanish Prime Minister afterwards on its content.

«It beggars belief that the mayor who was elected in 2008 on a pledge to keep open every ticket office is now planning to close every single one, with all that means for safety and jobs,» Manuel Cortes, leader of the TSSA rail union, said.

The war of words among senior Conservatives over Britain's relationship with Europe has intensified, as David Cameron's attempt to make an upbeat case for staying in the European Union — styling himself the leader of «Project Fact» — was dismissed by Boris Johnson as «baloney».

Trade unions in Scotland have called for Jim Murphy to step down as leader of Scottish Labour as Neil Findlay who stood against Murphy for the leadership last year with the backing of the Left and almost all trade unions announced his resignation from the shadow cabinet at Holyrood where he held the fair work, skills and training brief.

But it could also strip the party of a major source of funding when it is still heavily in debt and drastically worsen relations with union leaders.

A squabbling Tory party with no plan for the UK when it leaves the European Union is in danger of creating a catastrophe out of Brexit, the leader of the country's biggest union, Unite will say tUnion is in danger of creating a catastrophe out of Brexit, the leader of the country's biggest union, Unite will say tunion, Unite will say today.

Currently, Nana Akufo Addo and Ken Ofori Atta are in touch with union group leaders of Lebanese living in Ghana for support.

I expect the legislative leaders and DiNapoli will express solidarity with the unions — particularly the state comptroller, who owes no small part of his victory over Republican Harry Wilson last year to the efforts on his behalf by organized labor.

These calls, which date back to the post-independence, has been met with complex opposition from some African leaders who argue that African economies have not yet reach the apex of developments to merit a union.

«The Chairperson of the Commission expresses the commitment of the African Union to working closely with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the leaders of the region, and to support their efforts.»