Sentences with phrase «worker justice groups»

Migrant worker justice groups have long advocated for an overhaul of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

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(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

The #NoCuts Coalition is comprised of the following groups and individuals: Community Voices Heard, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, Manhattan North District Council of Presidents, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA), New York Communities for Change, The Black Institute, CASA - New Settlement, MFY Legal Service, Coalition for the Homeless, Pratt Center for Community Development, Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Center for NYC Neighborhoods, GOLES, FUREE, Legal Aid Society, Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition, CAAAV, Brooklyn For Peace, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Community Service Society, Center for NYC Neighborhoods, Transport Workers Union Local 100, National Action Network, Racial & Economic Justice, Red Hook Initiative, Goddard Riverside Community Center, Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), DC37, Picture The Homeless, Greater New York LECET, Unique People Service, United Neighborhood Houses and Supportive Housing Network of New York.

«These community groups, which represent tens of thousands of working families, have been at the forefront of the Fight for $ 15, worker and immigrant rights, affordable housing, criminal justice reform, climate justice and more.

The BFAWU has agreed to work with Unite the Resistance and John McDonnell MP, along with other groups at a meeting on January 8th 2014 in order to discuss and hopefully address the lack of fairness and justice for workers in the UK's fast - food industry.

Since establishment of the Justice Center by the Cuomo administration, law enforcement and state labor union leaders say that group home workers are frequently turning to police to handle combative or emotionally disturbed people in their care.

The largest state worker union, the Civil Service Employees Association, calls it corporate welfare and a «tax giveaway to business at the expense of local communities and middle class jobs,» Ron Deutsch is with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, a coalition of unions, environmental and social justice groups.

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.

Among them were Tarana Burke (founder of the resurgent #MeToo movement), Saru Jayaraman (a workplace justice advocate for restaurant workers), Billie Jean King (tennis champion and founder of the Women's Tennis Association), and Marai Larasi (executive director of Imkaan, the group working to end violence against black and minority women).

Ciara Phillips created her prints and texts in collaboration with a protest group, Justice for Domestic Workers.

Notable participants include: choreographer and dancer Kyle Abraham; poet Elizabeth Alexander; performer Eric Berryman; performance and installation artist Tania Bruguera; urban revitalization strategist Majora Carter; innovator James Burling Chase; actress and playwright Eisa Davis; architect Elizabeth Diller; The Met's Kimberly Drew; photographer John Edmonds; juvenile justice reformer Adam Foss; writer and performance artist Malik Gaines; social practice artist Theaster Gates; filmmaker Tony Gerber; FLEXN dance pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray; trombonist, painter, and composer Dick Griffin; dancer and choreographer Francesca Harper; trombonist Craig Harris; vocalist Nona Hendryx; playwright Branden Jacobs - Jenkins; cinematographer Arthur Jafa; artist and cultural worker Shani Jamila; trumpeter JAWWAAD; gaming pioneers Navid and Vassiliki Khonsari; NYU Professor and musician Jason King; philosopher Gregg Lambert; composer and Bang on the Can co-founder David Lang; novelist, filmmaker, and curator Ernie Larsen; Wooster Group founding member and director Liz LeCompte; Harvard Professor Sarah Lewis; journalist Seamus McGraw; poet Aja Monet; jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran; performance studies professor Fred Moten; visual artist Shirin Neshat; playwright Lynn Nottage; professor of contemporary rhetorical theory Kendall Phillips; doctor Jeremy Richman; poet Carl Hancock Rux; performance artist Alexandro Segade; writer and activist Tanya Selvaratnam; guitarist and composer Marvin Sewell; playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith; conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas; performance artist Carmelita Tropicana; puppeteer Basil Twist; theater director Roberta Uno; vocalist and composer Imani Uzuri; and Wooster Group founding member and actress Kate Valk, among others.

She works with other artists but also social activist groups including Artlink Central in Glasgow, which works with the disabled, and Justice for Domestic Workers in London.

Her 2013 exhibition at London's Showroom - «Workshop (2010 - ongoing),» a project that in 2014 earned her a Turner Prize nomination - included an active screen - printing studio where she assisted the group Justice for Domestic Workers in preparing visually arresting protest materials.

If you are part of an environmental organization, social justice or environmental health organization that supports sustainability or a labor group that supports workers rights, we invite you to sign the Green Jobs Platform for Solar.

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.

Activist Scott Parking wrote, «Midwest Rising was a convergence for climate and economic justice that brought together a diverse coalition of groups fighting home foreclosures in cities like Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh, communications workers on strike against Verizon Wireless, local labor organizers, Appalachian activists fighting mountaintop removal and climate justice activists from around the world.»

In that decision — which has been criticized by some as hostile to free speech rights and humanitarian efforts — the justices found that a Patriot Act provision that prohibits providing «material support» to designated foreign terrorist organizations could be applied to conflict - resolution advice and legal services provided by human rights organizations to groups such as Turkey's Kurdistan Workers» Party and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

With three attorneys and a total of 18 staff members here to address your particular needs and assist you in seeking justice in filing a personal injury or workers» compensation claim, we at Pacific Attorney Group wish to provide you with the level of legal representation you need to face a better, brighter future.

In addition to being a North Carolina Board Certified Specialist in Workers» Compensation, Mr. Harbin is a member of the national organizations American Association for Justice and the Workplace Injury Litigation Group, as well as the North Carolina Advocates for Justice where he serves as Vice Chair of the Workers» Compensation Section.

The group will be welcoming the Justice for Injured Workers» Riders May 28 (scheduled to arrive at 4 p.m. at Fordview Park's Day of Mourning memorial).

Our partner, John Cooper, has chaired the FELA Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice and its Railroad Law Section, and remains a widely recognized advocate for workers» rights in the field of rail and train accidents.

In the letter signed by the clinic and ten advocacy groups including the Community Justice Project, the Miami Workers Center, Advocacy Partners Team, Catalyst Miami, and Florida Voices for Health, Newman demanded that the DCF immediately announce and implement a plan to reopen and add more registration sites for a more extended period.

In Dunmore v Ontario (Attorney General), 2001 SCC 94 at para 169, Justice L'Heureux - Dubé, in a concurring judgment, held that agricultural workers were generally disadvantaged and should be seen as a protected group under s. 15 (1).

The wider community embraces family and colleagues, labour unions, community legal clinics and worker representatives, disability groups, occupational health and safety groups, doctors and other health care workers, progressive politicians, researchers and social justice activists.

Temporary foreign workers, like other marginalized groups in Canada, are unable to access the justice system to enforce their legal rights because of the disadvantages they face resulting from their lower social and economic status.

We often participate in joint campaigns and meetings with other injured workers» groups, and our members are are particularly active in the Justice Choir

Seeking relief for those whose cases were denied or are already in the system, a lawsuit has been filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board and Ministry of Labour by labour law firm Goldblatt Partners, representing Ms Wardle, Injured Workers Consultants Community Legal Clinic and the Ontario Network of Injured Workers» Groups.

The Justice Singers have played at Hirut Restaurant twice, for the community legal clinics» fight against closures in 2014, and for the Joe Hill tribute in 2015, and have toured to Hamilton, sponsored by the Hamilton & District Injured Workers» Group.

«Justices seek to weigh anti-terrorism law, free - speech rights; The Supreme Court justices sound closely split over whether a USC professor illegally advised the Kurdistan Workers Party, listed as a foreign terrorist group»: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this newsJustices seek to weigh anti-terrorism law, free - speech rights; The Supreme Court justices sound closely split over whether a USC professor illegally advised the Kurdistan Workers Party, listed as a foreign terrorist group»: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this newsjustices sound closely split over whether a USC professor illegally advised the Kurdistan Workers Party, listed as a foreign terrorist group»: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this news update.

The Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) is once again supporting the fourth annual Justice for Injured Workers bike ride / Cycleton Justice pour les accidenté (e) s du travail.

Kathryn regularly provides interactive training on safeguarding, the family justice system, family law and court skills to local authorities, social workers and multi-disciplinary groups of public sector workers.

«Put the smoke through your hair, under your feet,» urges Clayton, an Aboriginal liaison worker, as he explains the significance of the different gum leaves he is burning to the group of youth justice clients and other staff members.

The Justice Project Worker will report to the Leadership Group — Co-Chairs of the Round Table and Chariperson RAJAC and work closely with other members of the Round Table supporting them in the planning and delivery of projects to improve outcomes.