Sentences with phrase «union worker jobs»

Just since 2005, 145,000 Union worker jobs have been lost at Big 3 facilities.

Not exact matches

The CWA said on Saturday that Verizon has not budged from its original proposal which they have said would increase workers» healthcare costs by thousands of dollars, eliminate job security and remove any restrictions on the company's right to contract out or offshore union jobs.

* Most thorny issue is job security for nearly 700 workers - union (Recasts, adds comments from Korean government, GM)

Politically, however, the creation of a middle category of worker would be a hard sell, with labor unions likely to oppose it, says Brishen Rogers, a professor of labor law at Temple University, out of fear that it might tempt many big employers to eliminate fuller - benefit jobs.

Nevertheless, while British union workers and students took to the streets to express anger over jobs reductions and tuition hikes, the general reaction to Osborne's measures was nothing like what has been taking place on the Continent.

Another example: In 2010 the United Autoworkers and the United Food and Commercial Workers unions spoke out in favour of the U.S. - South Korea Free Trade Agreement, arguing that it would «grow more jobs.»

A tentative deal between the company and leaders of striking unions includes 1,400 new jobs and pay raises topping 10 percent, the company and unions representing about 40,000 workers said on Monday.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) presented Canada Post with a 72 - hour notice of job action on Thursday evening, hours ahead of a deadline to declare a strike mandate by midnight.

While cutting huge swatches out of corporate overhead, Foster also began assessing his inherited union shop — which came complete with high - seniority workers in single - function jobs.

Despite comments suggesting that the Canadian Auto Workers and other unions are to blame for the loss of jobs at Electro - Motive and elsewhere, in reality their power has greatly declined.

On Feb. 1, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed a controversial right - to - work law prohibiting workers in union shops from being forced to pay union dues — less than 48 hours before Electro - Motive announced the closure of the London plant, its jobs expected to move to the Hoosier state.

The union representing the 4,800 rail workers who walked off the job claimed CP was angling to cut their pensions by up to 40 %, despite making a profit in the previous year.

Earlier this year, thousands of AT&T workers, members of the Communications Workers of America union, went on strike over issues like job security and outsoworkers, members of the Communications Workers of America union, went on strike over issues like job security and outsoWorkers of America union, went on strike over issues like job security and outsourcing.

Under a clause in the union's contract, if Madison's Oscar Mayer plant closes, its employees have the right to take over a job that's held by a worker with the least seniority at the Davenport factory.

It came as unions issued a warning over the merger saying that thousands of workers could be affected and that # 500 million of potential savings could mean job losses or cuts to pay.

The Fight for $ 15 began in 2012 when two hundred fast - food workers walked off the job to demand $ 15 / hr and union rights in New York City.

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.

Complains Tusk, «Labor unions should be pro contract workers getting benefits, but if everyone can have the flexibility of being an independent contractor while also enjoying benefits, why would anyone have jobs?»

Certain matters discussed in this press release are forward ‐ looking statements, including that Everstream Energy Capital Partners, North Sky Capital and New Energy Capital are planning to invest more than $ 67 million in a fund to support utility ‐ scale projects in Central and Southern California developed by SunEdison; that the projects will generate over 320,000 MWh of electricity annually, and create hundreds of jobs or up to 250,000 hours for California electrical and construction union workers.

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).

FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Corp. are desperate for talented workers and offering bonuses of up to $ 25,000 to fill jobs in...

A union is launching legal action on behalf of more than 1,800 Monarch airline workers who lost their jobs after the firm went into administration.

We ran into one cyclical recession in the» 70's, and the Republicans seized on it as an excuse to rig government and society for the benefit of people who are already rich, while taking away opportunities from everyone else... then they crushed the unions so that workers would never be able to get back better pay and better job security, while investors make more and more and pay less and less in taxes.

Employment in most cases requires union membership» there is no such thing as a right - to - work state in Mexico» and, if a worker is expelled from the union, he loses his job.

Part of Reagan's job at GE was to talk business - friendly conservatism to FDR - loving union Democrat workers.

It is not uncommon to find immigration lawyers (those who promote laws to make 5 - 20k from people to come here and take US jobs) trolling forums like this that espouse ideas favorable to US jobs, workers and unions.

WORKERS at the struggling Rosella plant have been given assurances about their jobs for Christmas, a union says, but there are no guarantees yet.

The latest incident to spark widespread union outcry has centred on Carlton & United's Melbourne brewery, where dozens of long - serving maintenance workers were laid off and invited to reapply for their old jobs with a new contractor on inferior pay and conditions.

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.

About 350 McCains workers will walk off the job on Wednesday amid claims by the union its members are being denied requests for holidays made months in advance.

OAK FOREST — For the first time in the history of the Oak Forest Park District, employees will have representation on salary, benefits and job security after the board of commissioners approved a contract Tuesday night between a Chicago union and district workers.

Equally or perhaps more dangerously for Corbyn, he'd be on the wrong side of a Unite union which backed him to the hilt and serves as a Praetorian guard but is unlikely to sit back quietly if the jobs — and union subs — of the thousands of well - paid skilled workers it represents went down the Swanee with Trident.

At 11:30 a.m., low - wage tenants and workers and members of Real Affordability for All and building and construction unions call for real affordable housing and good union jobs from NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, City Hall Park, near Broadway and Park Place, Manhattan.

Southampton city council has become the first big local authority to ask its workers to take a pay cut or lose their jobs, triggering a row with unions.

«I don't see why we should be penalized because of somebody else's aggression,» said Lenwood McKoy, president of Transport Workers Union Local 225, after the Monday press event, at which union members held up signs that read, «Don't kill union jobs.&rUnion Local 225, after the Monday press event, at which union members held up signs that read, «Don't kill union jobs.&runion members held up signs that read, «Don't kill union jobs.&runion jobs.»

Initially it was felt that the extent of the required safety training favored union members and would jeopardize the jobs of minority and nonunion workers.

They also said Macri at times seemed uncomfortable with the tug and pull of the top union job, in which he represented a diverse membership of white - and blue - collar workers.

He worked as a union organizer fighting for good jobs and respect for workers and was elected President of the Community School Board for District 6, covering Washington Heights, Inwood and West Harlem.

Union leader John R. Durso, president of the Long Island Federation of Labor, blamed the dearth of good - paying jobs on the 2007 - 09 recession, which he said wiped out the retirement savings of older workers, causing them to postpone retirement.

A trade union increases the power of the employees by allowing them to bargain collectively with the employer: when the employer has too much power (e.g., the only job in town), a union can «level the playing field» by controlling a large % of skilled workers and negotiate a better pay or benefits which would otherwise be denied by the employer's access to other labor sources.

Fifty thousand tax workers are being balloted on a wide - ranging programme of industrial action in a dispute over job cuts, the Public and Commercial Services union announces.

The subway - workers union and transit watchdogs are questioning whether the MTA can meet its goal of hiring some 2,700 new maintenance staff as part of its new plan to fix the subways, pointing to problems recruiting for these specialized jobs.

In the past few months, the leaders of all the public sector unions threatened a mass strike of three million workers over pensions, while this week the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union balloted members on industrial action over civil service job cuts.

«'' So, this policy was reviewed in 2013 with technical assistance from international labour organisations and major stakeholders like employers were involved, workers» unions and this document was crystallised and this policy seeks to give decent jobs to people,.

Over a million public sector workers are set to take industrial action against the government in a series of rows over pay, pensions, jobs, conditions and spending cuts, according to union figures.

Alicia Glen, Mayor Bill de Blasio's deputy mayor for housing and economic development, told the City Council today that obligating developers who receive the controversial 421a tax break to pay construction workers prevailing wages could result in 17,000 badly - needed below - market apartments not getting built — and argued that the demand for low - cost housing trumps the call for union jobs.

And he says the presence of higher paid union workers in a job market helps boost the pay of the nonunion workers.

He said the union also wants to see stability in health insurance, as well as increased job training so workers can rise to better - paying positions.

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled today his solution to the ongoing conflict over pension payouts to cops, firefighters, corrections officers and sanitation workers hurt on the job — but union leaders said they remain unsatisfied.

The largest state worker union, the Civil Service Employees Association, calls it «corporate welfare» and a «tax giveaway to business at the expense of local communities and middle class jobs.»