Sentences with phrase «won labor rights»

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In New York City, a coalition of labor, community and civil rights groups recently won the strongest ban on employment credit checks in the country.

If Christian fascists win, then «labor unions, civil - rights laws and public schools will be abolished.

This man wins dad of the year award for making his partner sushi while she's in labor, so she can have the raw fish she's been denied for nine months right after she gives birth.

Many in labor circles fear the Supreme Court will endorse this view, dealing a severe blow to union coffers if partial fee payers win the right to opt out of union membership entirely.

«He probably occupies the right space in that he is liberal enough that he won't be off - putting to labor — and he can win business support.»

When 2016 comes around (and the world will look very differnent then), labor and other left leaning causes will have to consider if they want to join in a centrist coalition or stay off to the side with the risk the right wins the Presidency.

The issue for labor unions is the possibility a convention would strip away hard - won rights, like collective bargaining.

It was how the workers» movement and its small farmer allies were able to build movements to win the universal franchise, to organize labor unions and cooperatives, and to effectively compete in elections against the older top - down parties of the landed and business elites that were based on their legislative caucuses and wealthy sponsors rather than a formal membership with democratic rights in their party.

CEJ is a non-profit based in the city of Buffalo that unites labor and community - based organizations to win needed policy changes related to economic development, corporate accountability and workers» rights at the local and state level.

A reformer who won the lion's share of labor endorsements in the race, including that of the Working Families Party, Torres was supported by State Senator Gustavo Rivera, who ousted disgraced and jailed incumbent Pedro Espada, Jr. in 2010, as well as by the Bronx's most popular elected official, Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. (who has broken with his father on social issues like LGBT rights and marriage equality).

Second, in the glory days of the American labor movement, under the visionary leadership of Walter Reuther and others, UAW fought epic battles that helped win working men and women the right to bargain collectively and helped make this a middle - class country.

According to decisions disclosed yesterday, November 1, by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), New York University's graduate, teaching, and research assistants have won the right to form a union.

The popular majorities — those who are forced to survive on wage labor, sometimes known as the 99 percent — are never able to win great substantial victories for democracy, but are forced to accept incremental steps towards achieving some small victories in the areas of progressive taxation, health care, universal education, retirement pensions, and environmental and consumer protections and civil rights.

Intertwining myriad voices, Wiley Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of the now forgotten struggle of the labor movement in early twentieth - century America - and pays tribute to the thousands of heroic women and men who risked their lives to win basic rights for all workers.

I would much rather have my works available and have a small audience than labor in obscurity to try to win over the right editor that would give me that big contract.»