Sentences with phrase «against closures in»

The Justice Singers have played at Hirut Restaurant twice, for the community legal clinics» fight against closures in 2014, and for the Joe Hill tribute in 2015, and have toured to Hamilton, sponsored by the Hamilton & District Injured Workers» Group.

Culture secretary Andy Burnham, skills secretary John Denham, Welsh secretary Paul Murphy and chief whip Geoff Hoon have also campaigned against closures in their own constituencies.

As student representative of the course, she fought against its closure in the mid-198os.

Not exact matches

Macy's and other department stores, such as JCPenney, are facing off against Amazon — and coming up short, with hundreds of closures in recent years.

The last couple of months have brought a string of closure announcements, including that of the Redcar plant in Teeside, a symbol of previous against - the - odds survival.

The struggles include fighting for the rights of the child (International Convention of 1989) and in particular the right to organise and educate the growing number of children in work, for the freedom of trade unions, the right to strike, against company closures due to the search for greater profitability.

It lies, rather, in principled devotion to civil discourse» an open - ended discourse that conscientiously guards against premature closure, engaging varieties of moral vision and recognizing that decisions democratically made are subject to democratic review.

Alexander's life and thought was against the closures of totalism — whether political and ideological totalism, as in totalitarianism, or the total explanations proposed by theology or philosophy.

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The union is hosting a public meeting this evening (13) against the closure of the jobcentre in Camberwell, south London.

As the controversial president of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh takes his dictatorial rule against the media in the country, ECOWAS has on Monday condemned the closure of another Radio station.

It would probably be a Conservative / Labour marginal but in 2001 it was won by an Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern candidate, Dr Richard Taylor, on the back of a campaign against the closure of the casualty unit at Kidderminister hospital.

Cuomo, a Democrat, announced the upcoming closure in February; and earlier this month, Astorino asked the Board of Legislators to back him in a lawsuit against Cuomo for not conducting a review of the environmental and economic consequences of the shutdown.

Assemblyman Robert Carroll's office has received nearly 40 calls since Monday from people complaining about the closure who are in conversation with Schneiderman's office to help refund customers and possibly take action against the gym, said the assemblyman's chief of staff, Dan Campanelli.

The emails show in part the effort by Port Authority Executive Director Pat Foye, an appointee of Cuomo's, pushing back against the efforts by officials on the New Jersey side of the Port Authority to reverse the closures.

Ms. Elikplim Katahena told the meeting that a great deal of work had gone into combating negative practices against women and the girl - child including the virtual closure of witches camps such as the one in Gambaga.

Leading and participating in individual campaigns, from the living wage to library closures to campaigns against legal loan sharks.

Despite a formal public consultation the offices in major cities including London, Manchester, Glasgow, and Cardiff are to close, including award - winning jobcentres such as Camberwell where 2,000 local people signed a petition against its closure.

A New Jersey judge reversed a municipal court's finding of probable cause in an official - misconduct complaint against Gov. Chris Christie that stemmed from the George Washington Bridge lane - closure scandal.

Two offices in the public consultation will not now be closed: Edinburgh City and Old Swan on Merseyside, where there have been concerted PCS campaigns against closure.

Many have posited that Christie directed the closures to retaliate against Fort Lee's Democratic mayor, who declined to endorse the Republican incumbent in his 2013 re-election bid, though both governors have denied any knowledge of such a plot.

Competing for two seats on the Chester town board are incumbents Michael G. Packer and Stephen Durkish, challenged by broadband technology consultant Ava L. Ashendorff, and now Lauren Pereau, who has spoken out against the closure of Theriot Avenue in town.

«That this House opposes the Government's plans to impose a polyclinic, or GP - led health centre, in every primary care trust; regrets that this could result in the closure of up to 1,700 GP surgeries; is concerned that the imposition of polyclinics against the will of patients and GPs could be detrimental to standards of care, particularly for the elderly and vulnerable, by breaking the vital GP / patient link; further regrets that these plans are being imposed without consultation; is alarmed at the prospective loss of patient access to local GP services at a time when care closer to home should be strengthened; believes that the Government's plans would jeopardise the independence and commissioning capability of general practice in the future; supports the strengthening of access to diagnostic and therapeutic services without undermining the structure of GP services; and calls on the Government to reconsider its plans for polyclinics.

Although they don't want expectations to get too high they believe the campaigns against the 10p tax band and post office closures could produce excellent results for the Tories in May's local elections and in London - where Boris now leads by 13 %.

The Connecticut Working Families Party announced Thursday it had endorsed one candidate for the election: Shonta» Browdy, 41, a Hartford parent advocate who has been a fixture at city school board meetings for years and spoke out against the prospect of school closures in the North End.

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The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

In recent days, the candidates have weighed in on the closure of Indian Point and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fracking ban, and advocates are now making an aggressive push to get the campaigns of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton to come out against the proposed Constitution pipelinIn recent days, the candidates have weighed in on the closure of Indian Point and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fracking ban, and advocates are now making an aggressive push to get the campaigns of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton to come out against the proposed Constitution pipelinin on the closure of Indian Point and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fracking ban, and advocates are now making an aggressive push to get the campaigns of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton to come out against the proposed Constitution pipeline.

Originally, it had been planned for the rally to also protest against the decision of the Justice Ministry to label the Dynasty Foundation — a prominent private research funder — as a «foreign agent,» which could result in its closure.

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In this case the two way zip closure is amazing because it'll actually serve as a barrier against snow getting inside (the worst!).

As John Wrathall commented in his Sight and Sound review, the newer film is just as unresolved yet its structure rebels against the teachings of industry screenwriting manuals that counsel rigorous trajectories and definitive closure.

The film explores how our mind fights against depression, often convincing the body that it has to carry out irrational tasks as a way to achieve metaphorical closure on a painful episode in life.

Set against a former co-worker's wedding — the season finale, not intended as a series finale, but forced to become one — left the characters in a place of open - endedness that nonetheless feels like closure.

Vincent Lindon stars as a worker fighting against the closure of his factory in the latest film from French writer - director Stéphane Brizé.

«We fought very hard against the attempt by the previous Labor - Green Government to forcibly close schools, and we remain categorically opposed to forced closures,» he said in a statement.

Then - U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy would dispatch officials from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to the County in order to assess how the federal government could help.21 In a summer of student protests against the continued closures, black and white leaders in the County finally landed on a plan to temporarily operate free private schools for black studentin order to assess how the federal government could help.21 In a summer of student protests against the continued closures, black and white leaders in the County finally landed on a plan to temporarily operate free private schools for black studentIn a summer of student protests against the continued closures, black and white leaders in the County finally landed on a plan to temporarily operate free private schools for black studentin the County finally landed on a plan to temporarily operate free private schools for black students.

Weingarten is being led away by police in Philadelphia last March when she protested against the closure of schools in Philadelphia.

TEACHERS / UNIONS BuzzFeed: Unions Ready to Use DeVos Against School Choice Democrats KQED: Unions prepare to lose in the courthouse, strike back in the statehouse WashPost: WV teachers traded classrooms for picket lines NPR: WV Teacher Walkouts, School Closures Continue The Atlantic: WV's Teachers Are Not Satisfied

Under the old system, any non-probationary teacher that had lost their position because of a drop in enrollment or school closure and could not secure a new position would be directly placed into another school, frequently against teacher and principal wishes.

«We believe in publicly funded public education and we believe that we can have a system in Chicago that is equal to or exceeds school districts in Finland or Japan,» she says of the colleagues with whom she has reshaped the Chicago Teachers Union into a leading force in the fight against school privatization, closures, cuts and the gimmickry that too often passes for education policy.

Education Minister Jeremy Rockcliff has long fought against such closures stating, «In many instances, schools are the lifeblood of regional communities, and we firmly believe it is up to local communities to determine their future, not have it imposed from on high against their wishes.»

In the spirit of May Day, International Workers Day, the unionized educators of Puerto Rico went out on strike against mass school closures, layoffs, and the school privatization.

Now RYH is sponsoring a petition against the Chicago Public Schools space utilization formula used to declare dozens of schools «underutilized» and therefore in danger of closure this year.

The United Federation of Teachers, joined by the NAACP and several public officials, filed suit against the New York City Department of Education on Wednesday in attempt to halt the city's closure of 22 schools and to prevent charter schools from using space in buildings that house public schools.

In the intro, I go into some pertinent publishing news: Kobo has become Tolino's tech partner, which makes it a much bigger player in the growing German ebook market; Amazon is opening a bookstore in New York City; while Barnes & Noble reported a 9 % decline in sales over the holiday period, there's discussion on the impact of the All Romance Ebooks closure, and once again, I talk about the importance of multiple streams of income, as well as multi - currency / multi-country income in order to weather the changes undoubtedly ahead and hedge against potential economic changeIn the intro, I go into some pertinent publishing news: Kobo has become Tolino's tech partner, which makes it a much bigger player in the growing German ebook market; Amazon is opening a bookstore in New York City; while Barnes & Noble reported a 9 % decline in sales over the holiday period, there's discussion on the impact of the All Romance Ebooks closure, and once again, I talk about the importance of multiple streams of income, as well as multi - currency / multi-country income in order to weather the changes undoubtedly ahead and hedge against potential economic changein the growing German ebook market; Amazon is opening a bookstore in New York City; while Barnes & Noble reported a 9 % decline in sales over the holiday period, there's discussion on the impact of the All Romance Ebooks closure, and once again, I talk about the importance of multiple streams of income, as well as multi - currency / multi-country income in order to weather the changes undoubtedly ahead and hedge against potential economic changein New York City; while Barnes & Noble reported a 9 % decline in sales over the holiday period, there's discussion on the impact of the All Romance Ebooks closure, and once again, I talk about the importance of multiple streams of income, as well as multi - currency / multi-country income in order to weather the changes undoubtedly ahead and hedge against potential economic changein sales over the holiday period, there's discussion on the impact of the All Romance Ebooks closure, and once again, I talk about the importance of multiple streams of income, as well as multi - currency / multi-country income in order to weather the changes undoubtedly ahead and hedge against potential economic changein order to weather the changes undoubtedly ahead and hedge against potential economic changes.

Global II has only a half billion in assets, against $ 9.3 billion in Global, so neither the size of the portfolio nor capacity constraints can explain the closure.