Sentences with phrase «industries workers union»

Kuwaiti oil sector employees sit in a shaded area on the first day of an official strike called by the Oil and Petrochemical Industries Workers Union over public sector pay Continue Reading

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The NLRB ruling, involving the Teamsters Union and waste recycler Browning - Ferris Industries, has become a highly politicized flashpoint between those who would like to expand the employment rights of the three million contract workers upon which the economy increasingly depends, and business owners who object to the increasing regulation of their affairs.

Crafting a common framework for two unions covering disparate industries and more than 300,000 workers will inevitably create tensions.

«Canada's media and cultural industries are being severely damaged by the tax loopholes that benefit foreign digital companies and platforms at the expense of Canadian producers and workers and that cost the federal government at least $ 1 billion in revenues,» the union wrote in a statement on its website.

The two unions represent over 300,000 workers in industries that run the gamut of Canada's economy, from carmaking to fisheries, phones, TV stations, casinos, retailers, life insurance, even freelance writers.

Unions in the utility industry, health care and manufacturing industries are using knowledge and skills as the key source of worker power by expanding apprenticeship training, creating partnership with community colleges, vocational schools, and employers to fill the «middle skills» gaps that exist today or will grow as skilled baby boomers retire.

Several U.S. employers engaged in age discrimination by placing recruitment ads on (fb) targeting younger workers, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday by a communications industry labor union.

PEOPLE Powerline Plus not only has the distinction of attracting the most experienced, union trained and certified workers in the industry, but these employees stay and grow with us over time.

Peter Rossman, a spokesman for the IUF, an international association of unions in the food industry, says Heinz workers are nervous, though its factory jobs have so far gone untouched.

Unions, working with employers, have come along way to making these workplaces safer over the past 30 years, but there's much more work to be done - particularly as we discover the toll these types of jobs take on workers mental health and as the Conservative government moves closer and closer to total industry self - regulation (something that puts all Canadians at risk).

A similar enterprise at the Evangelical Academy at Bad Boll, near Stuttgart, Germany, has made a significant start toward bridging the gap between the Church and the industrial worker by inviting representatives of the Trade Unions and Workers» Councils, including sometimes communists, to discuss the implications of Christianity, while on other occasions employers and Workers» Council leaders have met together for mutual discussion of the applications of the gospel to industry.

But the deal for meat workers — new to the national retail agreement — has been slammed by the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) as a «major loss for meat workers» conditions and a major loss to penalty rates».

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The Australian Meat Industry Council and the Meat Industry Employees» Union have accused the government of subsiding foreign workers who compete directly with Australian meatworkers for jobs with its five - year commitment to an initiative, Managing Abattoir, Training and Exchange of Skills, or MATES.

When you enter the food industry, be it from education or another profession, you may find that it's a very different environment that could feel lonely and alien to you, but if you join the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) you'll find that together, we're stronger.

«As a union that represents workers in an industry built on immigrant labor, we are excited to endorse Grace Meng for Congress,» said Ward.

For instance, in my research in the struggle for workers» control in the Venezuelan steel and aluminium industries, I found numerous trade union factions competing while also being strongly pro-Chávez.

With over 200 non-union hotels planning to open their doors in our city in the next few years we must use the resources the membership provided in the dues referendum and continue to focus all of our energy on making our union one that represents as many workers in the hotel industry as possible.

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Amalgamated Transit Union, ATU Local 726, ATU Local 1056, ATU Local 1179 ATU Local 1181 - 1061, American Council of Engineering Companies of New York Asian Americans for Equality, Center for Working Families, Citizens Committee for NYC, Common Cause / NY, Construction Industry Council, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, DC 37, DC 37 Local 375B, DC37 Local 1655, Empire State Transportation Alliance, Environmental Defense Fund, General Contractors Association of New York, League of Women Voters of the City of NY, League of Women Voters of New York State, Long Island Contractors» Association, Inc. (LICA), MTA Coalition of Unions, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, New York Building Congress, NY League of Conservation Voters, NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign, NYS Council of Machinists, NY State Legislative Conference Board, NYS Transportation Equity Alliance, PCAC to MTA, Pratt Center for Community Development, Regional Plan Association, Reinvent Albany, Teamsters Local 808, Transit Riders Action Committee, Transportation Alternatives, TWU Local 100, TWU Local 252, TWU Local2001, TWU Local 2054, Transport Workers International Union of America, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, UPROSE, We Act for Environmental Justice, Women's City Club.

-- New York City poised to join Airbnb crackdown effort backed by hotels, unions, by POLITICO's Sally Goldenberg: New York's City Council is plotting a crackdown on Airbnb, the largest home - sharing platform in the world, as the hotel industry and its unionized workers push lawmakers in some of the nation's biggest cities to blunt the $ 30 billion company's growth.

Hourly workers at the plant, which makes equipment for the scrap recycling industry, approved representation by the Ironworkers Shopmen's union last June and have been bargaining a first contract since then.

The industry and construction worker unions will be required in that time period to settle a dispute over whether to pay prevailing union wages for all of the projects.

Since many unions represent workers in variegated industries and there are several umbrella labor groups, it is difficult to place all of their money into tidy categories, but a breakdown of donations from specific locals shows that the tendency to favor Democrats in 2014 was widespread.

In the past week, health - care advocates brought in to advise Mr. Cuomo on Medicaid said he blind - sided them with back - room deals with the hospital industry and union workers.

While the MRT did propose a 4 percent cap and cuts, it also put forward a wage floor for home health workers; substantial rollbacks in the governor's proposed cuts to nursing homes and personal care; and a major overhaul of the home care industry that is likely to boost the union's membership over the long term.

The 421a abatement — the sine qua non of Mr. de Blasio's proposal to construct 60,000 new below - market apartments — expired in January after an ill - fated decision by Mr. Cuomo and the legislative leaders to have the real estate industry and unions negotiateinclude new prevailing wage requirements for construction workers.

«We supported the principle of prevailing wage,» said Hector Figueroa, president of SEIU Local 32 BJ, the building workers union, «but we always understood that in the construction of affordable housing units there had to be an understanding between the industry and the construction unions.»

We encourage connections between workers in different unions, workers centers, communities, industries, and countries to strengthen the movement — from the bottom up.

The lineup of groups opposing a constitutional convention includes: environmental groups, gay rights organizations, New York City cops, Western New York auto industry workers, the state chapter of the National Rifle Association, every imaginable public and private - sector union, political leaders on the left and right and even a group called «Humanists of Long Island.»

On 15 April 2015, thousands of fast food workers will lead a mass movement of around 60,000 low waged workers striking across the United States to raise the issue of poor wages and the lack of trade union rights within their industry.

The Transport Workers Union requested a state attorney general's probe into the connection between big bucks contributions de Blasio got from animal rights activists and his legislative push to ban or reduce the industry.

Filings with the city Campaign Finance Board show that the public advocate has been the leading recipient of union contributions, with tens of thousands of dollars in donations, alone, from local chapters nationwide of UNITE, which represents needle trades and textile industry workers.

In his welcome address, the National President of PENGASSAN, Comrade Francis Johnson, pledged the oil workers» union commitment to remain «true partners of progress in the nation's Oil & Gas Industry.»

Dr. Baru seized the opportunity of the event to commend the Petroleum & Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, and the Nigerian Union of Petroleum & Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, for their role in ensuring harmony in the nation's Oil and Gas Industry, saying this has helped stabilize petroleum products supply across the country.

The lineup of opposition groups includes: environmental groups, gay rights organizations, New York City cops, Western New York auto industry workers, the state chapter of the National Rifle Association, every imaginable public and private - sector union, political leaders on the left and right and even a group called «Humanists of Long Island.»

Food producers and the unions representing food industry workers clearly have a vested interest in the campaign.

Oddly, as I pointed out earlier, the Friends of Coal industry front group is not attacking the legislation's impacts on coal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utilities).

Cole has won the endorsement of the state Business and Industry Council and the West Virginia Coal Association, while Justice has won the endorsement of the United Mine Workers union and the two state teachers unions.

The workers and union maintain that they are more akin to the transportation industry, as their job involves sending out the items that are ordered via different websites within the EU; Amazon, for its part, holds that the workers are part of the logistics industry.

The workers union is trying to convince Amazon to accept collective bargaining agreements for staff under the mail order and retail industry sector as benchmarks for warehouse workers» pay at Amazon German distribution centers, but Amazon says the employees are making enough money and that they pay them the same as other distribution centers.

But the notable lack of any kind of strategic industrial, labour & (re) training policies has failed much of the workforce — from workers in dying industries abandoned to the depredations of unions («once a steelworker, always a steelworker»), all the way to students who still believe 4 years of college & a back - breaking student loan somehow guarantees their future.

They knew that they couldn't win on pure partisan politics, so they set about creating a coalition of union workers worried about their industry, middle - class families opposed to tax increases and religious communities motivated by their values.

The United Steel Workers Union (USW), which represents hundreds of thousands of workers, «in the most heavily - impacted industries, among them pulp & paper, steel, and rubber,» has takeWorkers Union (USW), which represents hundreds of thousands of workers, «in the most heavily - impacted industries, among them pulp & paper, steel, and rubber,» has takeworkers, «in the most heavily - impacted industries, among them pulp & paper, steel, and rubber,» has taken note.

Following claims by the United Fishermans and Allied Workers Union about pollution by the industry generally, the Vancouver Sun reported «Moore called the union's concerns «phoney», saying that we are not causing pollution and there is no such thing as genetic pollution.&rUnion about pollution by the industry generally, the Vancouver Sun reported «Moore called the union's concerns «phoney», saying that we are not causing pollution and there is no such thing as genetic pollution.&runion's concerns «phoney», saying that we are not causing pollution and there is no such thing as genetic pollution.»

Union workers don't just need tax relief; they need transition assistance, retraining, and protection for the industries in which many of their members work.

IBEW is a union representing individual electrical workers, while NECA is a trade organization that supports member electrical contracting firms and advocates for the industry.

«She did have reason for highlighting the possibility of global warming because the biggest threat to the UK energy security at the time was the stranglehold the Marxist National Union of Mine Workers had on the coal industry.

The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) represents over 80,000 members working across the transport industry including on buses and road freight, mainline and underground railways, as well as shipping and offshore.

In Derivative Discrimination Claim Still Not There on the 7th Circuit, Mike Fox writes about a (white) union steward, Dennis Walker, who complained to a warehouse manager at Mueller Industries Inc. about the company's treatment of its black workers, which included «co-workers singing racially derogatory songs,» references to African Americans as «monkeys,» and graffiti including «N - I - G - A» written throughout the warehouse.