Working Families Party

With the pro-labor Working Families Party on the rise, a coalition of New York business elites is laying the foundation to counteract its influence with a political operation of their own. The plan is to collaborate with the Independence...

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Last Updated: 3:47 AM, November 22, 2009 Posted: 3:47 AM, November 22, 2009 There's griping di rected at the labor- backed Working Families Party from a surprising quarter -- other labor leaders, according to sources. One source said...

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...the number of weekly hours they put in. Companies that give vacation days can count that toward the sick-pay total. The labor-backed Working Families Party, which supports the bill, estimates 1.3 million city employees have no paid sick...

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Last Updated: 2:05 AM, November 18, 2009 You'd think the far-left Working Families Party would be more sympa thetic to the plight of businesses in the city -- after all, it owns one. The union-backed political outfit rose to power in...

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...but Mayor Bloomberg hasn't embraced it for smaller companies, making for a potential showdown. The increasingly influential Working Families Party, which endorsed Bloomberg's foe this year, is pushing the bill. "I think there's...

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...the Kings County Democratic Party leader, backed Davila in the Democratic primary and again in the general election where she ran as a Working Families Party candidate. He sees the election result not as a repudiation of the Brooklyn...

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...shenanigans. Most recently, Nardiello gave new meaning to the word nit-picker by accusing the Lander campaign and his supporters from the Working Families Party (WFP) for putting out a campaign mailing without indicating who had paid for...

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...charged it skirted certain laws. Under attack from opponents over its field operation's compliance with campaign finance law, the Working Families Party has tapped Judith Kaye, the former chief judge of the state Court of Appeals, to lead a...

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Last Updated: 4:01 AM, November 4, 2009 Posted: 3:57 AM, November 4, 2009 The Working Families Party made serious inroads last night in its first foray into city races -- but it wasn't all good news for the small, union-backed party.

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