Sentences with phrase «union steward for»

«I was a union steward for approximately 20 years, which involved negotiating several contracts on behalf of CAW employees.

I became a union steward for the district very early on as a young teacher, and that allowed me to begin understanding the governance process, interacting with the many superintendents who were in this district, and getting directly involved with leadership.

The California contract covers only students involved in teaching, said Rajan Mehta, head union steward for the Berkeley campus, where he is a graduate student in math.

In service to his fellow workers, he also serves as Professional Administrators» At - Large Union Steward for NYSUT Local 1845 OCC Federation of Teachers and Administrators, as well as Delegate to the Greater Syracuse Labor Council.

His father Ray, an operating engineer (also called Barney), and mother Dorothy, a punch - press operator and chief union steward for the local Amalgamated Meat Cutters, Fur and Leather Workers, are divorced now.

Prior to being elected, Barb was a union steward for the United Food and Commercial Workers local 401.

Not exact matches

Krogman, 48, has worked for Oscar Mayer in Madison since April 1990, first on the sanitation crew and now as union secretary / treasurer and chief steward.

While Oakey implies that the union leadership is somehow unaccountable, able to do whatever it wants, the reality is that union leaders at all levels — from shop stewards to presidents — are elected to their roles for fixed terms by either workplace colleagues or the broader membership.

We're a colorful group, composed of members of the great right - wing conspiracy like me, old - time Southern Democrats, retired union stewards, tree huggers, school teachers, Jews, evangelicals, atheists, Catholics ¯ but we are united in our passion for simple, honest government, and that isn't a partisan issue.

We had asked for an office in TSA and his union to send his steward and chaplin down to try and work through what was going to be a no about going back to work.

During his time as a radio announcer at WNEW, Justin jumped into labor activism and served as shop steward where he represented and defended the interests of his fellow employees and advocated to get all union members retroactively paid for decades of overtime work on weekends and overnights.

For a time he was a shop steward for his union, the Communications Workers of AmeriFor a time he was a shop steward for his union, the Communications Workers of Amerifor his union, the Communications Workers of America.

An infrastructure of union shop stewards, academics, the «peace movement», union - financed research and constituency activists which had sustained Labour's left in the early 1980s — and almost won the deputy leadership for Tony Benn — had all but disappeared over the following decades.

However, union members are being dispatched to picket outside Verizon Wireless stores as a strategic move, as the division is the most profitable business unit of Verizon, explained Elaine Maddox, Chief Steward for the Communication Workers of America (CWA) union Local 1105.

He was a shop steward and works» convenor for the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) but also took correspondence courses to qualify for a BA in social science at Wolverhampton Polytechnic (now Wolverhampton University).

TWU shop steward Anthony Staley said there are currently 300 overnight station cleaners who, under union contracts, get paid an extra $ 150 to $ 200 every two weeks for the night shifts.

«It took them a little while, but (Governors Office of Employee Relations) gave them permission,» said Craig Hammer, a DOH employee and health and safety steward for the Public Employees Federation union.

As a union steward, Gulack has advocated for employee health concerns and has closely monitored the EPA's actions since 9/11.

As Whip pours his booze down the drain in one scene and orders another drink in the next, we are pulling for his recovery — and for much of the film it's easy to also root for his acquittal in the National Transportation Safety Board's crash investigation, where Whip is represented by his union steward (Bruce Greenwood) and a sly attorney (Don Cheadle).

Young people are telling us that they are paying attention to how we have failed to be stewards of a «more perfect union» for our Posterity, that they can command the attention of the media, that they can energize their peers in great numbers — and that they want change.

...... I've also been a union member for over 25 years, a union steward and a union vice president (negotiating contracts).......

I even bought bandanas for them with Union Steward marked on his.

At NYU, Carrera has co-curated the Music Department Colloquium Series and has served as a shop steward and unit representative for GSOC - UAW 2110, the first graduate employee union at a private university in the U.S..

He earned his BFA from The Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art in 2009 and received the Jack Steward Memorial Prize for excellence in painting.

When I interviewed Solis a few years ago for the Sierra Club's magazine, Sierra, she talked about the air pollution and toxic - waste problems that have plagued her neighborhood for decades; the myth that minorities don't care about the environment; the efforts of her immigrant father — a union shop steward in Mexico — to get safety equipment for his coworkers; and her own push to create parkland in her largely Hispanic and Asian working - class Southern California district.

The trade union solicitors told the air steward that unless he accepted the # 5,000, then they would stop acting for him.

«It was pretty difficult to sit in that courtroom and hear the judge, when he was offering up his reasons for judgment, say repeatedly that the Treaty 8 stewards of the land had no legal right or standing to be doing what they were doing,» said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs to rabble.

Advising in relation to the CFMEU campaign of disruption at Grocon's construction sites in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in pursuit of claims for access to sites and the engagement of union shop stewards

Successfully defended company in labor arbitration against a claim that the Union had the right to take union stewards away from work for Union business without notification to or approval from the comUnion had the right to take union stewards away from work for Union business without notification to or approval from the comunion stewards away from work for Union business without notification to or approval from the comUnion business without notification to or approval from the company.

On - site union representative for xxxxx following the vote: scheduled and conducted union orientations for 450 xxxx workers, training 30 union stewards, diplomatically worked with HR as well as all levels of management to integrate the union into the workplace, overcoming strong animosity and working through ambiguous contract language.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Unite Here / Harrah's Casino Hotel & Casino, Robinsonville • MS 2000 — Present Union Representative (2005 — Present) Server (2000 — Present) Began at Harrah's as a cocktail server and became Union Representative while simultaneously working as shop steward for Harrah's employees.

Background includes active participation in management and Human Resources issues for multiple business properties that evolved into senior union representation as Union Shop Steward for Harrah's Casino Hotel and Caunion representation as Union Shop Steward for Harrah's Casino Hotel and CaUnion Shop Steward for Harrah's Casino Hotel and Casino.