Sentences with phrase «worker justice campaigns»
Working - class black and brown women are leading worker justice campaigns that are winning higher minimum wages, stable scheduling practices and better benefits for all wage - earners.
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She has worked for over 20 years leading economic justice organizing campaigns to expand worker rights, immigrant rights, and the rights of low income and underrepresented communities of color.
In my last post I noted a recent memo from a higher - up at the Department of Justice, trying to intimidate public service workers who want to get involved in the current election campaign.
Local government pension scheme campaign Find out about how the T&G is fighting for pensions justice for workers in the local government pension scheme.
Amalgamated Transit Union, ATU Local 726, ATU Local 1056, ATU Local 1179 ATU Local 1181 - 1061, American Council of Engineering Companies of New York Asian Americans for Equality, Center for Working Families, Citizens Committee for NYC, Common Cause / NY, Construction Industry Council, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, DC 37, DC 37 Local 375B, DC37 Local 1655, Empire State Transportation Alliance, Environmental Defense Fund, General Contractors Association of New York, League of Women Voters of the City of NY, League of Women Voters of New York State, Long Island Contractors» Association, Inc. (LICA), MTA Coalition of Unions, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, New York Building Congress, NY League of Conservation Voters, NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign, NYS Council of Machinists, NY State Legislative Conference Board, NYS Transportation Equity Alliance, PCAC to MTA, Pratt Center for Community Development, Regional Plan Association, Reinvent Albany, Teamsters Local 808, Transit Riders Action Committee, Transportation Alternatives, TWU Local 100, TWU Local 252, TWU Local2001, TWU Local 2054, Transport Workers International Union of America, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, UPROSE, We Act for Environmental Justice, Women's City Club.
The march, which carried the banner of the governor's «Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice,» consisted mostly of members of healthcare workers union 1199 SEIU.
Miriam Colque, community and human rights advocate, Latin American Community Association (Latca) Luna Playback London Imagen Latina Justice 4 Cleaners (Soas) Carlos Cruz Garcia, United Migrants Education Project Colombian Solidarity Campaign Tres Coastas Campaign Unity Centre Right to Remain Bob Hughes, No One Is Illegal Karen Doyle, Movement for Justice Justice for Domestic Workers Awqapuma Colque and Nemequene Tundama, Tawantinsuyu Nation Zita Holbourne, national co-chair, Black Activists Rising Against Cuts (Barac)
In honor of my family's legacy with the labor community, the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice advocates for all workers and all families.
George Gresham is Chairman of the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice and president of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East.
He added: «This demonstration today is about workers rights, it is about collective endeavour but above all, it's a declaration that we're around to campaign as long as it takes, to bring about that social justice and that decency in society.»
«Near the end of his life, Dr. King recognized the intersectionality of many issues including ending the Vietnam War, the need for economic justice with the Poor People's Campaign, and the struggle for union workers, which brought him to Memphis, where he was ultimately killed fighting for those rights.
Groups involved in the Convergence include the Green Shadow Cabinet, Organic Consumer Association, Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, PopularResistance.org, System Change Not Climate Change, Alliance for Global Justice, Workers United, Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter, and many state Green Parties.
The solutions to school pushout supported by the Dignity in Schools campaign include shifting funding from school police to counselors and social workers; funding and using transformative and restorative justice, mediation and positive interventions; ensuring that states and districts focus on school climate under the Every Student Succeeds Act; and ending the pushout and arresting of students of color, LGBTQ youth, students who are homeless, and students with disabilities.
In connection to the Communal Knowledge project Using our hands to Organise New Zealand based artist Fiona Jack has invited Ed Hall the UK's foremost trade union and campaign banner artist to meet with Justice 4 Domestic Workers, to begin discussions towards a new banner for their ongoing campaign calling on the UK Government to protect the rights of Migrant Domestic Workers.
Faces of the Campaign is an ongoing series featuring our key organizers and stakeholders involved in «Put A Price On It, D.C.» Our coalition — more than 45 groups as of this writing — is comprised of racial justice activists, union workers, health advocates, moms, dads, kids, retirees, and business - owners alike.
Faces of the Campaign is an ongoing series featuring our key organizers and stakeholders involved in «Put A Price On It, D.C.» Our coalition of 70 organizations is comprised of racial justice activists, union workers, health advocates, moms, dads, kids, retirees, and business - owners alike.
Justice for Injured Workers Ride / Cyclothon Justice pour les accidentés du travail Long - time injured worker activists Richard Hudon and Peter Page led their third campaign on bike in May 2017 through southeastern Ontario, meeting fellow injured workers and raising public awareness of concerns with Ontario's workers» compensation Workers Ride / Cyclothon Justice pour les accidentés du travail Long - time injured worker activists Richard Hudon and Peter Page led their third campaign on bike in May 2017 through southeastern Ontario, meeting fellow injured workers and raising public awareness of concerns with Ontario's workers» compensation workers and raising public awareness of concerns with Ontario's workers» compensation workers» compensation system.
We often participate in joint campaigns and meetings with other injured workers» groups, and our members are are particularly active in the Justice Choir
This event is part of the «Better Healthcare» Campaign and is organized by Injured Workers Action for Justice and endorsed by IAVGO Community Legal Clinic and Justicia for Migrant Workers.
May 25 (Friday, 7 - 9 p.m. (Lester B. Pearson Civic Centre) Welcome and reception for ONIWG's Justice Bike Riders, with update on the Workers» Comp Is a Right Campaign and McIntyre Powder project.
A time of civic activism for social and environmental justice, labour campaigns were also protesting unregulated workplace health hazards and lack of worker rights over their own safety.
She later worked in collaboration with leaders at Fuerza Laboral, a worker center in her home state of Rhode Island, to advance campaigns, coalitions, and research efforts around immigrant rights and economic justice.