Sentences with phrase «years fought union»

Not exact matches

And for the first two years of the war, the North fought to restore the Union, not to free the slaves, because even Lincoln felt that Northerners would cease fighting if that was the declared goal.

Unions fought fiercely against the lay - off last year, the strike went on for three months and the workers were violently repressed by the police.

The ten years (1979 - 1989) of war against Soviet Union occupation, fought with the military support of the USA, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, ruined the country enormously.

But that would mean getting legislators to partially dismantle the kind of advantages that powerful public employee unions have enjoyed for years, and which they are unlikely to give up without a fight.

President Obama has chosen his side in this fight, sending his Vice President last year to assure the nation's largest teachers union that «you should have no doubt about my affection for you and the President's commitment to you.»

The union has been heavily involved in policy battles at the state Capitol over the past year, weighing on the fight against both the soda tax and wine - in - grocery stores (both dead for the time being).

«Over the past year, city workers and their unions have had to fight major battles to protect rights that we fought hard to win as well as to preserve the vital safety - net services we provide to an ever - growing clientele.

The whole prevailing wage issue is a big one for the left - leaning labor unions and the WFP and was the focus of a fight last year regarding the development of the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx.

Republican state lawmakers only are flirting with introducing so - called right - to - work legislation next year, but construction unions still are girding themselves for a fight.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, seeking to avoid future budget gaps, wants to slash a $ 12,000 pension bonus paid each year to police and firefighter retirees, but public - employee unions have vowed to fight.

The unions have been fighting back cap increases for years.

But with the seat open this year, some observers believe the union will opt to stay on the sidelines and see how the race, which could prove crucial in the fight over who controls the chamber, plays out.

It is a much deserved recognition of its immense contribution to the fight for free and fair trade unions and to securing quality education for children and young people in Bahrain «This award will help to maintain the pressure on the Bahraini authorities to end their completely unjustified detention of Mahdi, who has spent the last four years in prison on false charges for simply exercising his right to freedom of assembly and demanding reforms to Bahrain's educational system.»

The powerful union boss said he and the leaders of the other main trade unions - which plough millions of pounds into Labour's coffers every year - wanted to sit down with the party's warring factions to end the in - fighting.

After previously opposing the union - driven «Fight for $ 15,» Mr. Cuomo made the cause his own midway through last year, eclipsing the mayor as its foremost advocate in the state.

-- «Inside Cablevision's War With Big Labor,» by M.L. Nestel in The Daily Beast: «the bruising three - year war of attrition that Dolan and Cablevision, the multibillion - dollar cable company he runs, have fought with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union that some employees voted to join in 2012.

And one of City Hall's most reliable and influential allies — the United Federation of Teachers — shied away from the fight again this year since the union is one of the very groups that does not support the current system.

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From Cuomo's point of view, it doesn't hurt that Spectrum is engaged in a bitter fight with Local 3 IBEW, the union representing its workers, who have been on strike for more than a year.

But with the big trade unions still vehemently pro-nukes, he ducked the fight at last year's conference and looks set to continue to do so.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is no longer pushing the dramatic education reforms he was advocating a few years ago, and recently has placed his focus on fighting the Trump administration, a battle in which the teachers union will be a likely ally.

Every year, union workers, young students, advocacy groups, and members of the New York City Fire Department gather at the site to remember the victims and bring awareness to the ongoing fight for labor reform.

«The millionaire's tax, which this union fought so hard for, is a critical source of revenue that brings in $ 2 billion a year,» said Mulgrew.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Wisconsin will no longer be obligated to bargain with its largest public employee unions after the weakened labor groups decided Thursday against seeking recertification votes in the state that was the forefront in this year's fight over union rights.

The drama has even led to proxy fights between the police unions and United Federation of Teachers — which took the first major contract with the city, setting a precedent for all other unions that uniformed unions have rejected because it contains some years without raises.

The union made headlines in the past year for representing horse - carriage drivers in their fight with Mr. de Blasio, who has sought to ban horse - drawn carriages from city streets.

When Skandera stepped down in June 2017 after seven years on the job, Martinez lauded her for being «relentlessly committed to helping us fight the status quo — like teachers unions and other entrenched special interests — to reform education and give our students, teachers, parents and schools more of what they need to succeed.»

Union activists, in the words of John Stocks, spoken two years earlier, are «social justice patriots» who «put the power of our soul to work to defend democracy, to fight for equal opportunity, and to create a more just society.»

This means not only fighting to loosen the stranglehold of the teachers» unions, as many reformers have tried to do for years, but also rethinking some of the premises and timeworn organizational arrangements of the American system of education.

In fact, for all the talk about the «democratic values» implicit in local control, the decibel level of the past few years has been caused less by a legitimate debate about the merits of the work than an internecine fight over which faction would control the local teachers union, a mayor's race pitting «old» vs. «new» Newark (read: Sharpe revanchists vs. Cory defenders), and the aspirations of what Curvin calls the «resource distributors» — those who view the power and wealth allocation opportunities of the school system as an end in itself.

Your self - serving argument may apply to the 30 - year union rep who has fought long and hard in district negotiations over decades.

The principals union still hasn't won its fight for retroactive pay, but President Ernest Logan has some good news for school leaders hoping for a lighter workload this year.

The state's dominant teachers unions had fought hard against any move to address seniority, a touchstone of debate for years, if not decades.

Public school teachers have been told for years that they are only respected by the general public because Big Union fights for them and gets them that respect.

Parent Power activists such as the Connecticut Parents Union are already gearing up for a fight with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association over expanding the reach of the state's Parent Trigger law; the fight is particularly tinged by revelations earlier this year of the AFT's presentation on how it unsuccessfully attempted to kibosh the passage of the Parent Power law and how it exacted revenge by ousting Jason Bartlett, the legislator who led the passage of the law and the neutralizing of his former colleague, Gary Holder - Winfield.

Del Grosso said the union chose not to fight Anderson's staffing policy last year because the 80 teachers left without classrooms were initially pleased with their assignments.

We've come a long way in two years, we've cleared the deck of John Deasy, drove a massive contract campaign, and we've prepared ourselves to be a fighting union into the future, and now we head into one of the biggest years in the history of UTLA.

Finally, just like we did last year through the Build the Future, Fund the Fight initiative, this year we must have a stone cold honest conversation with our co-workers, and get them to invest more in their union and in themselves — this time, into our political action fund, PACE.

Cuomo, who vowed to «save charter schools» at that 2014 rally, sidelined his education reform goals this year after a bitter fight with teachers» unions during the last session.

With the 107,000 - member Massachusetts Teachers Association gearing up for a fight — and also thinking that it wanted to avoid a protracted battle and a diversion of funds away from political causes in an important Senatorial election year, the unions sought compromise.

Pechthalt is probably right to suspect that even if his union and the CTA backed Bonilla's bill, even if union leaders agreed to change the probationary period to three years, education reformers would be unlikely to stop fighting for more concessions.

Last year, teachers in a high - profile New York City charter school fought to split from the local union only about a year after signing up.

According to an article by Michael Levinson in the Boston Globe (6.6.14), Barbara Madeloni «won her race by openly criticizing the current union president... for his record of negotiating with — rather than fighting — officials on the development of teacher assessments and the Common Core...» He went on to say: «Her agenda forcefully rejects those policies, which have gained increasing support from Republicans and Democrats over the last 20 years.

The teachers» unions have become accustomed in recent years to fighting off reform efforts by Republicans and think - tank do - gooders.

The CEA's strategy of lesser evilism and their reluctance in calling out their Democratic Party political «friends» over the last few years has hampered the union's ability to effectively fight for the schools we need.

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As a result of Amazon's move to block authors (and drastically impact their book sales), an uneasy union between writers and publishers has emerged after years spent fighting each other.

The Union County Sheriff's Officer arrested 50 - year - old Eric S. Cox of Lake Butler on multiple drug charges which stemmed from the search of his property; numerous animal fighting and animal cruelty charges are pending.

Last year, the group fought to elect alumni trustee Kevin Slavin and CUAA president John Leeper in an effort to reinvent Cooper Union's Board of Trustees.

I have been heavily involved with the fight to keep Cooper Union Free for about three years now.