Sentences with phrase «as picket lines»

«Please be advised that there is a labor dispute at the Albany Hilton Hotel, which involves a boycott called by the workers, as well as picket lines and rallies in front of the main entrance to the hotel and surrounding areas,» the memos state.

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They were looked upon as a threat to the law of competition; therefore, the bosses hired detectives, ex-convicts, and thugs to attack the picket lines and to open the lines for production.

The power relationship between students and teachers was not as stark as that between workers and management, and so some students did raise their hands in class to argue that no one should cross the picket line.

For teachers and students, and for the graduate student teaching assistants who were organizing as well, the issue was whether, in the event of a strike, classes should be moved off campus, so that no one would be crossing a picket line.

Strike action was solid across 17 London bus operators, as Unite members mounted picket lines across the capital bringing buses to a standstill and causing widespread disruption.

«Tomorrow, as thousands of public sector workers learn their fates, the one - man scourge of the Tories will not be on a demo, or a picket line, or even in a TV studio.

During the week, striking assistants were frequently joined on their picket line by members of other unions, such as TWU, CWA, NYSNA and SEIU 1199, said Rosalie Ray, one of the grad student organizers.

[234][235][236] That same month he came under criticism from sectors of the left for urging RMT members to cross picket lines in a proposed Underground strike because the latest offer had been «extremely generous», leading RMT general secretary Bob Crow to step down as a TfL board member.

As for unions, Tristram Hunt does part - time teaching without joining one and recently showed himself willing to cross a picket line of his colleagues at Queen Mary College.

«Publication in a newspaper, or by distribution of circulars, may convey the same information or make the same charge as do those patrolling a picket line.

While attending the same event as Ward and Barron on Saturday, the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell told the audience that he and Jeremy Corbyn would join junior doctors on the picket line today.

His schedule includes stops such as a peace vigil in Saratoga, the Troy farmers market, a discussion on climate change at Cornell University and the picket line outside Mott's apple - processing plant in Wayne County.

Picket lines were well attended across the country - including at my local Stroud Maternity hospital, where new mothers and pregnant women dropped by to demonstrate solidarity, and horns sounded as passing drivers showed their support.

As thousands of postal workers mounted picket lines in the first of two 24 hour walk - outs, further industrial action is expected to be announced in an escalation of the bitter Royal Mail dispute.

Picket lines were also mounted outside courts, council offices, job centres and fire stations across the country as well as outside the Houses of Parliament in London.

D √ © j √ † vu all over again, as this awards season threatens to be cloudy replay of last year's WGA strike, except with prettier picket lines.

which began filming earlier this week, follows the two actors as their characters find love and camaraderie on the picket line.

A recently ratified teachers» contract in Chicago promises to make the next several Septembers as forgettable as the last few: no strikes, no heated picket lines, and no delayed school openings.

Consider, for example, starting a unit by showing students an image of two people or groups of people whose differences and known disagreements are likely to trigger historical or cultural assumptions (such as Native Americans and early Great Plains settlers, British and German soldiers from World War I, or police officers near a picket line of striking workers).

We all know a teacher we admire, but are we watching too many of them yelling in state houses and on the picket line to continue to trust the teaching force as a whole?

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis is greeted by supporters while visiting the picket line at King College Preparatory High School April 1, 2016, as part of a one - day CTU strike in Chicago.

As late as 2003, the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the state's largest teachers» union, refused an affiliation with the local Hortonville Association of Teachers until all of the teachers who crossed the picket line were gonAs late as 2003, the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the state's largest teachers» union, refused an affiliation with the local Hortonville Association of Teachers until all of the teachers who crossed the picket line were gonas 2003, the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the state's largest teachers» union, refused an affiliation with the local Hortonville Association of Teachers until all of the teachers who crossed the picket line were gone.

The protection of due process, assured the teachers that did stand up to register to vote, serve as plaintiffs in lawsuits, or join picket lines that their jobs were not easily compromised.

I was spat upon and sworn at as a seven year old kid crossing the picket line during a teacher's strike just because I wanted to attend school and get an education.

As of the time of the video, and date of the blog post 8/21/17 the mechanics are still on the picket line.

They got pre-made as fonts for people who wouldn't know decent illustrations even if they were beaten into their heads at a picket line.

As I approached the gallery, a group of protesters pressed flyers into my hand and challenged me not to cross the «picket line».

The last video stages a picket line, precisely where Taiwanese in reality had acted as strikebreakers in a British - led protest against globalization.

They have received extensive media coverage for these events both in the UK and internationally, and become possible suspects for any London art protests, as in Matthew Collings» description of the opening of Tate Modern in 2000: «Guilt - free art lovers crossed picket lines put up by envious artist - outsiders.

As the strike at Toronto's York University enters its fifth week, students at Osgoode Hall Law School face the choice of crossing the picket line to attend classes, take all classes on a pass / fail basis or access a course remediation framework, which would delay 3L students in writing the June bar exam.

In 2006, during a prolonged strike at the Palace Casino in Edmonton, the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 401 («Union») videotaped the picket line, as did the employer.