Sentences with phrase «with powerful labor unions»

The governor is also expected push for a tougher teacher evaluation system by linking some, if not all, of the promised 4 percent increase in education aid while also overhauling the state pension system — two moves that will put him on a collision course with powerful labor unions.

Not exact matches

Despite her more than two decades in the FBI, heading the Suffolk Police Department will bring her new challenges such as dealing with the powerful police labor unions, specifically the Police Benevolent Association, whose contract is up in 2019.

At a meeting Monday with a group of influential labor leaders representing some of the state's powerful unions, including 1199 SEIU, 32BJ, the Hotel Trades Council and the Communications Workers of America, Cuomo said he couldn't pass a budget with campaign finance reform because of Senate opposition, and pressed the leaders to rein in the restive members of the Working Families Party, who vote on the party's endorsement.

The Wall Street Journal reports Schneiderman's re-election campaign has purchased $ 1 million worth of advertising time with broadcast TV stations in New York, Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, New York's five biggest media markets; his endorsers include labor unions such as the powerful United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500 with 23,000 members in New York City, on Long Island, and in Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties.

Two powerful unions allied with Mr. Cuomo announced on Friday that they were withdrawing from the Working Families Party, a small but influential alliance of labor unions and progressive activists.

Longtime de Blasio pal Kevin Finnegan — a former political director of the powerful SEIU 1199 hospital - workers union — found ways for labor groups to funnel cash to de Blasio's campaigns and causes in amounts above legal spending limits, said a source familiar with the mayor's campaign practices.

According to state campaign finance records posted Monday evening, the Democratic State Central Committee of CA accepted a total of $ 1.59 million in campaign contributions on Sept. 19 — with the overwhelming majority of those funds coming from the state's powerful labor unions, representing teachers, firefighters, engineers and nurses.

Another Democrat said progressives might be better off just focusing on Hochul since it would be more a battle of «two relatively unknowns» — even though she would likely be supported by Cuomo's bulging campaign warchest and the powerful labor unions that are aligned with the governor.

Those who argue that collective bargaining for teachers is stacked, even undemocratic, say that, unlike in the private sector, where management and labor go head - to - head with clearly distinct interests, in the case of teachers, powerful unions are actively involved in electing school board members, essentially helping to pick the management team.

With almost 5 million members nationwide, teacher unions are one of the most powerful labor organizations in the country.

Now that the Sierra Club has joined with a coalition of environmental activist groups, labor unions, and other left - liberal groups to form the Democracy Initiative, the Sierra Club has an even more powerful platform to promote its radical agenda.