Sentences with phrase «by labour disputes»

Beset by labour disputes and an inability to adapt to changing markets, the country's largest firms merged in 1968 as British Leyland before being nationalized in 1975.

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Faced with a potential strike by the airline's machinists union and a lockout of its pilots, federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt referred both disputes to the CIRB on March 8, then introduced back - to - work legislation four days later.

By now, you've probably heard that there's an ongoing labour dispute between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.

In The Wages of Wins, a book co-authored by three American economics professors, its writers debunk sports myths, including the notion that spectators desert leagues after labour disputes.

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

The inevitable battle between capital and labour, an especially important feature in Marxism, is replaced by disputes over the allocation of consumption and authority, disputes firmly set in a shared effort to make life good.

This was hotly disputed, on partisan grounds of course, by Labour and the Lib Dems.

The situation within the Labour Party has been described by many as a dispute between the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) and the membership.

There have been signs that the Government is backtracking on the idea, but ministers at today's session stood by the principle, even if they dispute the use of the term «regional pay» as you can see in this exchange between Labour's David Hanson and Wales Office Minister David Jones MP.

By 1913, faced with the opposition of the largest Trades Unions, the Liberal government passed the Trade Disputes Act to allow Trade Unions to fund Labour MPs once more.

By now you'll be on the point of spotting a trend, so we need not wait for Gordon Brown's memoirs to summarise the reactions of New Labour's senior figures to an account whose veracity none of them appears to dispute in any significant way.

After a hard - fought set of questions and answers the prime minister finished by offering a stark choice on Europe - one likely to be hotly disputed by Labour.

«This is as a result of the apprehension by my office of the various disputes in the sector in accordance and in compliance with the provisions of the labour laws of Nigeria,» it said.

Highlights were policies still claimed by Labour today as among its most significant achievements — the creation of the minimum wage, Scottish and Welsh devolution, and bills to reduce class sizes — as well as one key Brownite policy whose wisdom has now become disputed: independence for the Bank of England, which also involved removing its role as City regulator.

Labour is strongly disputing the idea that the bill really has financial implications, as the sums involved are small in the context of the overall budget and millions of pounds would have to be spent anyway on identifying 16 - and 17 - year - olds who will be eligible to vote by 2020.

Alan Johnson goes on to list a series of advances secured by Labour governments that few people, certainly not Jeremy Corbyn, would dispute.

Worse still, in the concluding paragraph of the Labour First motion we are told that the party should not be «distracted by internal dispute or concern about future rule changes.»

Acted as a Commissioner of school disputes, appointed by the Provincial Government (the Poirier Commission) and acted as a Special Inquirer in a labour dispute affecting the English education sector, 1976.

Represented a broadcaster in a major non-construction jurisdictional dispute leading to an amendment by the Ontario Labour Relations Board of a collective agreement scope clause.

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Company representation in labour disputes is always presided by the need to find a balance between the company's economic interests and corporate social responsibility.

Labour disputes are one of the most sensitive disputes by its nature.

Where strike action is limited in a way that substantially interferes with a meaningful process of collective bargaining, it is to be replaced by one of the meaningful dispute resolution mechanisms commonly used in labour relations.

Chinese law requires that disputes over certain subject matter, including intellectual property ownership, land ownership, labour laws, insolvency, certain aspects of joint ventures, and wholly foreign - owned enterprises, and certain matters relating to shares must be governed by Chinese law.

[25] Where strike action is limited in a way that substantially interferes with a meaningful process of collective bargaining, it must be replaced by one of the meaningful dispute resolution mechanisms commonly used in labour relations.

In labour relations, access to expedited processes are available if both parties agree (usually as part of a collective agreement) or if at least one party is not fussy about who adjudicates their dispute (through expedited processes mandated by statute).

The Canadian government is set to pass back to work legislation for certain categories of Air Canada employees to prevent any major disruption of air travel by a potential labour dispute following difficult and unsuccessful collective bargaining (see here).

Further, the provision of goods and services in our complex society can be seriously disrupted by long running labour disputes and strikes.

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The tribunal would be comprised of the chair or vice-chair of the Labour Relations Board and a representative appointed by each of the parties to the dispute.

The charges in question were apparently based on a strict and rigid interpretation of the SoPs, with the result that the labourers in question were prevented from carrying out work they had been performing safely and skillfully for decades, that was assigned to them under collective agreements, and that in some cases had already been the subject of jurisdictional dispute decisions by the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB).

As one might expect, as in labour and civil disputes, representation by an agent or mediator, has its advantages.