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Right to Rise is a political action committee (PAC) created to support Jeb Bush in the 2016 presidential election. A Super PAC, Right to Rise is permitted to raise and spend unlimited amounts of corporate, union, and individual campaign contributions under the terms of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision. [1]
USA Freedom Corps was a White House office and fifth policy council (along with Domestic, Economic, National Security, and Homeland Security) within the Executive Office of the President of the United States under George W. Bush, who as President served as its chair. Bush announced its creation during his 2002 State of the Union Address, and ...
APWU – American Postal Workers Union, representing 250,000 [639] ATU – Amalgamated Transit Union, representing 190,000 [640] CWA – Communication Workers of America, representing 700,000 [641] ILWU – International Longshore and Warehouse Union, representing 50,000 [642] NNU - National Nurses United, representing 150,000 [643]
The climax came when President Ronald Reagan—a former union president—broke the illegal [43] Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) strike in 1981, dealing a major blow to unions. [37] [44] Republicans began to push through legislative blueprints to curb the power of public employee unions as well as eliminate business ...
Bush opposed the Kyoto Protocol, saying that the treaty neglected and exempted 80 percent of the world's population [43] and would have cost tens of billions of dollars per year. [44] Bush announced the Clear Skies Act of 2003, [45] aimed at amending the Clean Air Act to reduce air pollution through the use of emissions trading programs. The ...
Through previous administrations, the elder Bush had ubiquitously been known as "George Bush" or "President Bush", but following his son's election, the need to distinguish between them has made retronymic forms such as "George H. W. Bush" and "George Bush Sr." and colloquialisms such as "Bush 41" and "Bush the Elder" more common. [294]
By the 1960s and 1970s public-sector unions expanded rapidly to cover teachers, clerks, firemen, police, prison guards and others. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10988, upgrading the status of unions of federal workers. [17]
He contributed to the labor movement's two sides, economic and political, through the support of labor unions and social-democratic politics. He was the founder and became the Director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute , which coordinated the AFL-CIO's work on civil rights and economic justice.