Sentences with phrase «biggest unions in»

Last July 2012, the leaders of the two biggest unions in Spain had a secret meeting with Angela Merkel in Berlin, only informing the Spanish Prime Minister afterwards on its content.

Four of the biggest unions in the UK — the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) and the University and College Union (UCU)- agreed to industrial action.

I am curious whether the BAA strike threat was a sign that the biggest union in the UK and Ireland is dipping its toe into the sea of unrest to test the waters for further industrial action.

Perhaps even more important to the president than AFL - CIO backing is the support of the biggest union in the country — the National Education Association.

In concert with six other organizations — including the American Federation of Teachers — the biggest union in the country has released «Excellent Teachers for Each and Every Child: A Guide for State Policy.»

So in political spending, the National Education Association, the biggest union in the country, doesn't come close to representing the majority of its members.

Not exact matches

The double - tracking has helped raise the average length of Union Pacific's intermodal trains — which are now less limited by the need to fit on sidings — from 158 cars in 2007 to 170 today, meaning that UP is handling far bigger volumes.

More than a dozen big chemical companies are building tens of billions of dollars in petrochemical plants along the Gulf Coast, and Union Pacific, boasting by far the region's best routes, is destined to get most of their rail business.

Just days later, the U.S. president made clear in his State of the Union address that when it came to the other big eco-controversy in America — hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to access natural gas reserves — he was siding with the oil and gas industry.

Many lenders are in the game: big banks ($ 10 billion - plus in assets), smaller, regional banks, credit unions, alternative lenders and, increasingly, institutional investors who buy loans on marketplace lending platforms.

The difference between the two approaches is a subtle one in that the central bank's current policy tool - a 101 trillion yen ($ 1 trillion) program of asset buying and lending - also expands the BOJ's balance sheet, which at a third of GDP is a bigger proportion of the economy compared with those of the U.S. and European Union's central banks.

May has said she wants a bigger majority in parliament to strengthen her hand as she goes into negotiations with the rest of the European Union about Britain's exit from the bloc.

A version of this article appears in the June 1, 2016 issue of Fortune with the headline «The European Union is in Big Trouble.»

TORONTO — The heads of two of Canada's biggest unions say they're resigning so new leaders can take the helm and expand the membership rolls as the groups join together in a merger that will create the country's largest private - sector union.

Expect to see more credit unions in Ontario, the big banks» heartland.

«It is incomprehensible that the union is calling for the biggest pay increase for the most well - paid group of staff,» Lufthansa board member Bettina Volkens said in a statement.

The famously successful investor Warren Buffett — who has raked in billions guided by his motto to «Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful» — probably took a big loss like the rest of us after the U.K. voted to leave the European Union last week.

Sayanogorsk, Rusal's third biggest aluminium plant, is where Deripaska began buying up workers» shares during Russia's privatisation drive after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

One Occupy rally I stumbled across here in Toronto featured speakers from a big trade union, members of which enjoy jobs that pay relatively well, and a representative of one of Canada's aboriginal groups, whose complaints are legitimate but have little to do with having been left behind by capitalism.

The former union leader won global admiration for transformative social policies that helped reduce stinging inequality in Latin America's biggest country.

They also want to make sure than any big enterprises in town provides union jobs.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Hotels are getting in on royal wedding mania, offering $ 50,000 packages fit for a queen, handing out condoms decorated with the Union Jack and hosting Champagne parties where the wedding will be shown on big - screen TVs.

It's a piece of European Union (EU) legislation that could have a far - reaching impact on some of the biggest technology firms in the world including Facebook and Google.

Lithuania only got to the games thanks to funding from small time donors and one big contributor: THE Grateful Dead (pictured), who commissioned the t - shirts in support of the team / country's recent independence from the Soviet Union.

Speaking at Fortune «s Most Powerful Women International Summit in London, Gavet, whose company owns travel sites such as Priceline.com, Kayak.com and booking.com, said the European Union's effort to create its much - touted «single digital market» is «the biggest question for tech startups here in Europe.»

«It is a big waste to have taken the huge step to adopt a single currency and continue to forgo the benefits that could be reaped by creating a true banking and capital markets union,» ECB Vice President Vítor Constâncio said in a report.

«This is a big deal, when you have that amount of data, and the privacy violations there are significant,» Senator Jeff Flake (R - AZ) said in an appearance on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday.

The European Union is, after all, an economic superpower in its own right — far too big and rich for America to have much direct influence — led by sophisticated people who should be able to manage their own affairs.

Having worked in a union environment for 15 years it is my firm belief that unions are as diabolical and untrustworthy as the big corporations they feed off.

In the wake of consumer ire over big bank fees, many of them turned to credit unions.

And Trump in late March announced he would temporarily suspend tariffs for Argentina, Australia, Brazil, South Korea, Canada, Mexico and the U.S.'s biggest trading partner — the European Union — until May 1, 2018.

We were curious about how it looks to the crew and the passengers in third class, so we made some calls to union leaders, anti-poverty activists, and various economists and historians who make it their business to study big business without being part of the action.»

Interestingly, the biggest move here wasn't from customers themselves but from the European Union Court of Justice, which upheld the Right to be Forgotten principle in a May ruling against Google.

Just last year, Vancity Credit Union — the biggest such union in the country — pledged to provide a living wage for its emploUnion — the biggest such union in the country — pledged to provide a living wage for its emplounion in the country — pledged to provide a living wage for its employees.

In what is considered a first step for even bigger foreign direct investment to Sri Lanka, TPG Capital announced in August it would invest $ 113 million to buy a majority stake in Union Bank, a small distressed financial institution based in ColombIn what is considered a first step for even bigger foreign direct investment to Sri Lanka, TPG Capital announced in August it would invest $ 113 million to buy a majority stake in Union Bank, a small distressed financial institution based in Colombin August it would invest $ 113 million to buy a majority stake in Union Bank, a small distressed financial institution based in Colombin Union Bank, a small distressed financial institution based in Colombin Colombo.

While other provinces, most recently Ontario, and the federal government have moved to take big money out of politics, the Christy Clark government has not only said no to banning union and corporate donations, and no to municipal election spending limits — it has moved to eliminate pre-election spending limits in the 60 days prior to an election.

The European Union's plans to tighten up cryptocurrency regulation is in the interest of big banks, according to a former MI5 officer.

This is a big problem in many countries because the rates on the peer to peer market (including tellers in this case) are sometimes abusive, and can easily be higher than the fees regular companies such as Western Union and Money Gram charge.

The companies surveyed - the biggest or most internationally - focused banks, insurers, asset managers, private equity firms and exchanges in Britain - were responding to questions about their plans in the event of a so - called «hard» Brexit, where the UK would leave not only the EU but also the single market and Customs Union.

«So we now have well over one hundred business trimming from some of the biggest banks in the world, to remuneration providers, to Western Union, MoneyGram.»

Given the big surprises of 2016 in regards to the Brexit vote to exit the European Union (EU) and the U.S. presidential election, we are especially attuned to the potential impact of events ahead on the global landscape as we head into 2017.

Now, governments aren't allowed to step in and bail them out, and I think that wounding down a big bank is absolutely politically toxic for any leader so faced with that choice, most leaders would just break the rules and completely undermine the banking union and that in itself could spark off bank runs as well.

PACs have become a big issue in Alberta politics since 2015, when the New Democratic Party government banned corporate and union donations to political parties as their first piece of legislation.

The latest round of U.S. sanctions represents the biggest escalation in Western action against Russia since Washington and the European Union first targeted oligarchs close to Putin and their businesses over the Ukraine crisis in 2014.

In this case, Canada and the European Union are both threatening to retaliate against the US after President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he planned to impose big tariffs on imported steel and aluminum by using an obscure trade law.

Included in the tariffs are the European Union, South Korea, and Australia, all of them among the biggest exporters of steel to the United States.

i got such a shock when i saw this image and comment, the image took me by suck surprise, after 8 months of not being in church, and not caring what you thought, to start crying in the students union, is kinda a big deal..

Many people believe that 1984 describes life in the Soviet Union, and Big Brother does bear a resemblance to Uncle Joe Stalin.

The American history boasts of the country being build on christian values, which obviously mean in the word of God, Gay unions are a definite big NO and yet looks like only a handful of true christian are there.

Blair omits the topic altogether, while Scanzoni and Mollenkott add only a brief postscript to their discussion, admitting that «for many Christians, the biggest barrier to accepting the possibility of homosexual unions pertains to an understanding of the creation accounts in chapters l, 2, and 5 of Genesis and in Jesus» commentary on them in Matthew, chapter 19.