Sentences with phrase «workers union seiu»

Cuomo, speaking at a Feb. 22 rally sponsored by the health care workers union SEIU 1199, said repealing the Medicaid funding associated with the Affordable Care Act would cut $ 3.7 billion from the state budget and «devastate» health care in New York.

Cuomo, speaking at a February 22 rally sponsored by the health care workers union SEIU 1199, said repealing the Medicaid funding associated with the Affordable Care Act would cut $ 3.7 billion from the state budget and «devastate» health care in New York.

The labor representative on the board, Mike Fishman from the service workers union SEIU, says he'd like to all the way to a $ 15 dollar an hour rate.

The labor representative on the board, Mike Fishman, from the service workers union SEIU, says he'd like to raise it all the way to a $ 15 an hour rate.

The Service Employees International Union Local 1199, which represents health care workers; the influential state and city teachers unions, and building workers union SEIU Local 32BJ, are all backing Clinton.

Cuomo's also getting a boost from the health care workers union SEIU, a long time Cuomo ally, which is spending money on television advertising that features workers as well as photos of the governor.

In second place, is the health care workers union SEIU 1199, which spent nearly $ 7 million dollars on lobbying.

Not exact matches

Addressing the conference on Friday, the SEIU president, Mary Kay Henry, said the union's 2 million members supported the fast - food workers.

A physical therapy assistant's legal settlement has reversed the corrupt deal between Northwell Health and 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East (SEIU 1199) officials that forced her and her colleagues into union ranks without a vote.

I read an article in the Chicago Tribune today about the protest Wednesday and it said Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Mary Kay Henry called on the company to sit with a union at a national bargaining table and put some of its profits into the pockets of worUnion (SEIU) President Mary Kay Henry called on the company to sit with a union at a national bargaining table and put some of its profits into the pockets of worunion at a national bargaining table and put some of its profits into the pockets of workers.

Smitherman has been endorsed by the Working Families Party as well as a host of key labor groups: AFL - CIO, 1199 SEIU, 32 BJ SEIU, Hotel and Motel Trades Council, Communication Workers of America 1180, Communication Workers of America District 1, UAW, Transport Workers Union, Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, United Food and Commercial Workers.

Actually, these ads were made by SEIU 1199 (the healthcare workers union) during a budget battle with the former governor.

Another longstanding Cuomo labor ally, SEIU, the health care workers union, has also provided the governor with an early endorsement this year.

SEIU, the Service Employees Industrial Union, has 246,080 members in New York City including 150,000 in SEIU 1199 (hospital workers) and 70,000 in 32BJ (building services including janitors).

The healthcare workers union 1199 / SEIU gave $ 250,000 in 2015.

The two Cuomo - friendly unions — SEIU Local 32 BJ and Communications Workers of American Local 1 — pulled out of the WFP Friday because they said the party's leadership strayed from its original mission.

The labor organizations who banded together include: 1199 SEIU, 32BJ, the New York State Nurses Association, Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union, District Council 37, and locals of the United Auto Workers and Communications Workers of America.

He also lost the backing of the powerful health care workers union, SEIU / 1199, which worked hard to get him into office.

The Governor's alleged threats came after two Cuomo - friendly unions — SEIU Local 32BJ and Communications Workers of America — pulled out of the WFP.

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.

«This budget agreement puts our entire state on the path to a $ 15 minimum wage, which will lift up millions of hardworking New Yorkers, including healthcare workers, childcare workers and security guards,» said George Gresham, President of healthcare and homecare union SEIU 1199.

The endorsement, first reported by Crain's Insider, landed on top of a big pile of labor support, including SEIU 32BJ, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500 and Communication Workers of America District 1.

He has been endorsed by the SEIU, the United Food and Commercial Workers, the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.

And three days ago, building workers union 32BJ SEIU, which represents doormen, custodians and security guards, announced it would, too.

Menchaca is doing quite well in terms of institutional endorsements himself: he's been backed by many labor groups and elected officials, including the local union chapters for transportation, auto, and communications workers; SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, the Teamsters Joint Council 16, the Hotel Trades Council, and others.

1199 SEIU, the powerful health care workers» union, has decided to endorse Public Advocate Bill de Blasio in the Democratic primary for mayor, sources say.

In Brooklyn, Menchaca, a former top aide to Council Speaker Christine Quinn and before that to Borough President Marty Markowitz, has the support of Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, powerful unions, including SEIU 1199, which represents healthcare workers, 32BJ, representing building services employees, and the Hotel Trades Council, as well as the city's Central Labor Council.

Endorsements include: the Transportation Workers Union Local 100, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Workers Union, Plumbers Union Local 1, the Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York, Teamsters Joint Council 16, DC 9 IUPAT, Steamfitters Local 638, the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, the Detectives» Endowment Association, the National NYCPD 10 - 13 Organization, Port Authority PBA, the Uniformed Fire Officers Association, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Workers Union Local 338, the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association, the Sergeants Benevolent Association, 32BJ SEIU, the Metallic Lathers and Iron Workers Local 46, the Bridge and Tunnel Officers Benevolent Association, the International Union of Elevator Constructors, the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association Local 831, the Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen Local # 2, the NYS Troopers Police Benevolent Association and TWU Local 106.

As the longtime advocate for health care workers union 1199 SEIU, her paying gig is persuading lawmakers to send as many billions as possible to the hospitals and nursing homes that employ 1199 members.

De Blasio was joined at the rally by members of the health care workers» union, SEIU 1199, which has endorsed his campaign, but whose political director has also spoken positively about Quinn's work on behalf of St. Vincent's.

But some of the large unions — SEIU Local 1199, the Transport Workers Union and the United Federation of Teachers — have stopped writing checks to the WFP the past few years following disagreements over strategy.

Unions like the powerful Service Employees International Union Local 1199, SEIU 32BJ, the state Nurse's Association, and the Communications Workers of America were among those who gave big amounts to the county committees though they never had before.

One study — on the abuse of «housekeeping accounts» — did question political spending by the health care workers union 1199 SEIU, a close ally of Citizen Action, along with that of a number of corporate interests.

Left - leaning healthcare workers union 1199 SEIU has endorsed Brooklyn GOP State Senator Martin Golden for re-election — in spite of a vow earlier this year to work exclusively toward helping the Democrats win control of the upper house of the state legislature.

Kevin Finnegan, the political director of the powerful healthcare workers union, 1199 SEIU, also defended Quinn, saying there was nothing more she could have done to save the hospital from closing.

«The members of New York's largest health care workers union, 1199 SEIU, appreciate his efforts.

She told SEIU health care workers union President George Gresham that in order to implement an increase for home care workers who are often paid very low wages, Cuomo will have to re-examine the cap on Medicaid spending.

ohnson received thousands of dollars from the United Federation of Teachers, SEIU 32BJ and the Soft Drink Brewery Workers PAC, for a total of $ 13,200 from unions.

That's because in addition to advising Mayor de Blasio, Rosen's firm, BerlinRosen, also advises real estate companies — like Forest City Ratner and SL Green; labor unions, like SEIU and Communication Workers of America; and progressive advocacy groups like Coalition for the Homeless.

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«He has made this a more progressive, more fair, more forward looking state — and it's turned out to be good for the economy,» Mr. Clinton said at the headquarters of 1199 SEIU, the powerful healthcare workers union, in Manhattan.

They really get it,» Cuomo said at the Tuesday rally, gesturing to Peter Ward of the Hotel Trades Council, Hector Figueroa of SEIU 32BJ and top officials from SEIU 1199 and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Workers Union.

Mainly organized by 32BJ SEIU Hudson Valley, a union of property service workers with more than 163,000 members, the bilingual rally called attention to the possible anti-immigration and anti-labor policies by President Donald Trump's administration.

She is a labor organizer for SEIU Local 1199, a union representing health care workers.

In addition to the practical, there is the political: The primary union that represents such workers, SEIU 32BJ, is much closer to the mayor's base than construction unions.

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.

Early Endorsements include: Burt Cohen, former New Hampshire Senate majority leader (reported by Seven Days on May 26, 2015) Emily Hague, at - large Keene City Council member (announced June 6, 2015) Dudley Dudley, longtime Democratic activist; Executive Councilor in the 1970s (reported July 3, 2015) New Hampshire Postal Workers Union (announced Sept. 19, 2015) IBEW Local 490 in Concord SEIU Local 560 in Hanover (both announced Oct. 31, 2015)

And in New York City, Bill de Blasio is now the first Democratic mayor after two decades of Republican reign, thanks in part to early support from the health - care - workers» union, SEIU 1199.

The Daily News reported in April that two of its biggest organized - labor benefactors, the Hotel and Motel Trades Council and 1199 SEIU, the healthcare workers union and the state's largest, quietly withdrew their support for the WFP at the end of 2014.

For the first time in more than a decade, the State Senate Republicans isn't getting any money from the state's powerful health care workers» union, SEIU 1199, at election time.