Sentences with phrase «local union protests»

Local union protests the university's use of goats instead of human labor to clear brush from campus.

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They gathered at the local Western Union office forthwith for an indignation meeting, and a letter - of - protest drafting bee.

The protest is prompted by the Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles ending the arrangement where the DCLG collects trade union subscriptions via the «check off» system.

In the last few years, actions by Occupy, UK uncut, big local hospital protests and so on have been accompanied by some of the biggest trade union marches in British history.

Members of the union will join firefighters, civil servants and local government staff in the protest on Thursday, part of a dispute over pay and other issues.

The union's contract expired at the end of 2013, and as the local mayoral election heated up in Albany, blue - collar workers came out in force protesting Sheehan's pay increases for nonunion employees and demanded wage hikes.

«The Transport Workers Union, representing more than 200,000 active and retired workers, today endorsed the «Occupy Wall Street» protests taking place in New York City and called on TWU members and local unions to join similar efforts taking place across the country,» the TWU said in a statement.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew didn't mince words when he addressed hundreds of angry Transport Workers Union Local 100 members protesting the Metropolitan Transit Authority's attempt to overturn a binding arbitration ruling that awarded transit workers an 11 percent pay increase over three years.

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At a packed meeting, and with members of the local teachers» union protesting outside, the board voted 5 - 2 on June 8 to reduce the number of «local districts» from 11 to eight.

Courts in Iowa and Maryland last week denied requests from local teachers» unions to bar two children with herpes from attending school, sparking parents to withdraw their children from class in protest.

At the urging of local teachers union leaders, the staffs of at least 40 Seattle schools voted to reject their building - level budgets in protest.

That culture can be traced back to a strike in 1968 arising from state funding cuts, which prompted local administrators and the teachers union to join forces in protest.