Sentences with phrase «by a workers council»

Two examples of internal quarrels: many managers were instantly sacked by workers councils.

Some of the replacement managers were subsequently sacked either by a council executive or by a workers council in general assembly.

For examples of the later, see the direct seizure of productive property by workers councils in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (this later develops from sit - in strikes, or work ins or general strikes with factory occupations).

Not exact matches

Closing the education gap faced by working - age men of color, for example, would boost their aggregate annual earnings by $ 170 billion; average weekly earnings among U.S. workers would rise 3.6 percent; and total U.S. GDP would increase by 1.8 percent, according to the Council of Economic Advisers.

Following the lead of voters in Seattle in 2016, the Chicago City Council passed an ordinance in October requiring hotels to provide panic buttons to workers by next summer if they work alone in guest rooms.

So you have it backward: In any SANE world, no amount of malfeasance by a democratic worker council could justify unilateral capitalist (or government) «appropriation of a multi-million dollar piece of property.»

Saunders, the president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, says that Canadian workers and their pensions are more exposed to risk during market trouble because of the successful campaign over the past decades to move from defined benefit pensions, which guarantee a certain monthly amount when you retire, to defined contribution plans, promoted by market enthusiasts.

This is important, given that the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council notes that 34.3 percent of US workers are employed by a business with fewer than 100 workers.

The debate got louder Thursday when members of Iron Workers Local 86 showed up at a rally in front of Amazon headquarters called by a socialist city council member.

Legislation introduced in September by D.C. Council member Vincent B. Orange (D - At Large) and backed by a hotel workers» union would limit hosts to one listing at a time and require hosts to live on - site during guests» stays.

According to a 2007 Mining Labour Market Transition study by the Mining Industry Human Resources Council (MiHR), the Canadian mining industry needs another 92,000 workers by 2017.

According to a newly published report co-sponsored by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, the Canada - ASEAN Business Council and the Business Council of Canada, a free trade agreement with ASEAN could generate between $ 4.8 - billion and $ 10.9 - billion in additional bilateral trade, benefiting a wide range of companies and many millions of workers on both sides of the Pacific.

According to a fact sheet accompanying a resolution filed by the Jacksonville City Council, JinkoSolar is now planning to invest only $ 50.5 million in its new Jacksonville facility, and hire only 200 workers to produce PV modules.

For Fr Jerzy, shaped by the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, the papal visit conirmed his commitment to serving ordinary Polish workers.

The results of a survey conducted by trade union reveals 85 per cent of shop workers oppose Belfast City Council's suggestion of extended Sunday trading.

A similar enterprise at the Evangelical Academy at Bad Boll, near Stuttgart, Germany, has made a significant start toward bridging the gap between the Church and the industrial worker by inviting representatives of the Trade Unions and Workers» Councils, including sometimes communists, to discuss the implications of Christianity, while on other occasions employers and Workers» Council leaders have met together for mutual discussion of the applications of the gospel to industry.

Olga is also the president of the ten - person Fair Trade council, an assembly of employees elected by employees who lead decision - making processes concerning the use of funds allocated by Fair Trade USA for all workers.

The Chicago Food Policy Action Council and the Food Chain Workers Alliance have played a leadership role in the City's adoption of the Program by supporting the Chicago Good Food Taskforce organized by the Mayor's Office including multiple City of Chicago Sister Agencies (Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Park District, Chicago City Colleges, Chicago Housing Authority) and Departments (Department of Public Health, Department of Family and Support Services, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Aviation, and Procurement).

Regina's services to children were recognized by the Ohio Department of Human Services in 1990 when she received the «Adoption Worker of the Year Award» She has also received a Triad Advocate award from Adoption Network and Sara Berman Speaker's award from NACAC (North American Council on Adoptable Children).

Smitherman has been endorsed by the Working Families Party as well as a host of key labor groups: AFL - CIO, 1199 SEIU, 32 BJ SEIU, Hotel and Motel Trades Council, Communication Workers of America 1180, Communication Workers of America District 1, UAW, Transport Workers Union, Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, United Food and Commercial Workers.

The Business Council and wall street tycoons who paid almost $ 10 million of own money in the anti-state worker campaign last year certainly have their own interests in mind by bankrolling Cuomo and his ideas.

Despite determined resistance by the owners of these hotels, after tough fights the even more determined workers secured the right to be represented by the union of their choice, the New York Hotel Trades Council, AFL - CIO.

This year's conference is brought to you by our partners: The Murphy Institute for Worker Education (CUNY), New York State AFL - CIO, New York City Central Labor Council, and the New York Civic Engagement Table.

This event is sponsored by the New York City Central Labor Council, the New York State AFL - CIO, the AFL - CIO, Organizing 2.0, the Consortium for Worker Education and the New York Paid Leave Coalition.

In fact, workers at the Evelyn Hotel and the Ludlow Hotel can claim the distinctions of having voted by a resounding 100 % to be represented by the Hotel Trades Council!

There seemed to be a consensus that workers should be better trained, but a bill requiring that has been blocked in the NYC Council by real estate interests.

Also Wednesday, the council greenlighted legislation requiring used car dealers to disclose details about a vehicle's recall history, regulating commercial bicyclists, studying the feasibility of allowing pedestrians to cross in any direction while vehicle traffic is stopped, and extending a prior legal limit on the conversion of hotels into non-hotel use — a bill backed by the city's hotel worker labor union.

The New Year's Eve event will be hosted by the Association for a Better New York, Blasters, Drillrunners and Miners Local 29, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, Central Park Conservancy, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Municipal Art Society of New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York Historical Society, the New York Mets, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Transit Museum, Partnership for New York City, Real Estate Board of New York, Regional Plan Association, NYC Sandhogs Local 147, Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

-- New York City poised to join Airbnb crackdown effort backed by hotels, unions, by POLITICO's Sally Goldenberg: New York's City Council is plotting a crackdown on Airbnb, the largest home - sharing platform in the world, as the hotel industry and its unionized workers push lawmakers in some of the nation's biggest cities to blunt the $ 30 billion company's growth.

New York City employers would need to grant paid time off to workers who claim to be victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse or other «family offense matters,» according to legislation passed by the NYC Council.

Olatoye, seated near the de Blasio administration's top lawyer, Zachary Carter, did not apologize, and council member after council member assailed her over several matters, including testimony in December before lawmakers in which she wrongly testified that more than 4,000 lead - paint abatements had been completed by workers with the proper certifications.

Anarcho - syndicalism is perhaps the most far left, approaching the utopia where nobody holds power over everybody else, by putting the means of production in hands of democratic councils, e.g. factories are owned by the workers etc..

Cuomo convened the mandate relief council in 2011, and during his first three years in office has helped localities by capturing cost increases in the Medicaid program and taking over its administration from counties, giving school districts more flexibility in how they set up bus transportation and imposing a less - generous pension plan for newly hired workers.

Menchaca is doing quite well in terms of institutional endorsements himself: he's been backed by many labor groups and elected officials, including the local union chapters for transportation, auto, and communications workers; SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, the Teamsters Joint Council 16, the Hotel Trades Council, and others.

Across Midtown, the smallest of of the Big Apple's businesses say they're getting ready for the City Council's proposed paid - sick - leave bill, which, according to a compromise announced by Council Speaker Christine Quinn last Thursday, would require companies of 15 or more employees to provide five paid sick days for each full - time worker by October 2015.

It was gathered that the attack by the herdsmen followed a disagreement with some of the council workers over a vegetable garden at the back of the secretariat.

At noon, acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez is joined by Steve McInnis, president of the New York City Council of Carpenters, to draw attention to the increasing number of worker fatalities, Cadman Plaza Park, Cadman Plaza West and Middagh Street, Brooklyn.

At the behest of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has insisted on tying prevailing wage standards to a government subsidy, the state tasked REBNY and the Building and Construction Trades Council with reaching an agreement on wage standards for construction workers by

A strike by refuse workers was opposed by the council leader while his deputy joined the picket line.

Early Endorsements include: Burt Cohen, former New Hampshire Senate majority leader (reported by Seven Days on May 26, 2015) Emily Hague, at - large Keene City Council member (announced June 6, 2015) Dudley Dudley, longtime Democratic activist; Executive Councilor in the 1970s (reported July 3, 2015) New Hampshire Postal Workers Union (announced Sept. 19, 2015) IBEW Local 490 in Concord SEIU Local 560 in Hanover (both announced Oct. 31, 2015)

At the behest of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has insisted on tying prevailing wage standards to a government subsidy, the state tasked REBNY and the Building and Construction Trades Council with reaching an agreement on wage standards for construction workers by mid-January of 2016.

«Right now, the state's taxpayers are being short - changed by economic development programs that ignore, and even undermine, the state's construction workers,» said James Cahill, President of the New York State Building and Construction Trades Council.

The contributions from labor come only three days after the Hotel Trades Council struck an agreement with Resorts World New York in Queens that will great increase the minimum pay for workers in the short and near term following a ruling by an independent arbitrator.

The council's healthcare workers visited the family of murdered Baby P 60 times but failed to prevent the infant being effectively used as a punchbag by his mother, her boyfriend and his lodger, throughout the 17 - month - old's short life.

Officials at the state Department of Labor are drafting a series of regulations that would be aimed at pre-empting worker schedule rules already in place by the city Council.

The City Council approved a construction safety bill in September, which requires workers to complete at least 40 hours of safety training by 2020.

Council housing is now on sale to tenants at a 75 % discount: once sold, many homes are snapped up by rack - renting landlords for multi-occupying itinerant workers who destabilise the community.

Flanked by Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority tenants in front of the Marine Drive complex where he lives Wednesday afternoon, the retired construction company owner and worker says he is not going to quit as a BMHA tenant commissioner and won't abandon the Council campaign.

The Building Trades Council came under fire after Investigative Post reported last fall that the diversity goal for the workers building the SolarCity factory at Riverbend had been lowered from the 25 percent originally proposed by the city to 15 percent, after union leaders and developer LPCiminelli said the higher number was unachievable.

Members of New Yorkers for Beverage Choices were joined by city council members and representatives from a local soft drink and beer workers» union to speak out against the proposal to restrict the size of sweetened drinks sold at certain stores to 16 ounces.