Sentences with phrase «cost of the boycotts»

The cost of the boycotts to Pampered Chef's kitchen consultants was so great that Berkshire discontinued its shareholder charitable contribution program, with Buffett commenting that he wouldn't continue a program, even one with merit, that hurt the livelihoods of company employees.

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A similar law enacted about a year ago in North Carolina prompted the relocation of sporting events and economic boycotts that were estimated to have cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.

The growing boycott of YouTube by advertisers could cost its parent company Google as much as $ 750 million in revenue, according to one Wall Street investment firm.

It will boycott advertisements on ICO tokens, trades, or wallets from March 28 — and this news saw the costs of all the primary digital forms of money slide by and by.

Another one of his big cases is the Stock Lending Antitrust Litigation that charges major Wall Street banks with conspiring to prevent the stock lending market from developing and maturing by boycotting other platforms designed to increase transparency and reduce costs.

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.

The boycott of Nestlé's other products will continue until this happens to give those practices a financial cost.

One kit contains: seven fact sheets, two mini-posters (2 of each poster), five «Breastfeeding Rights» pocket cards, WABA Action Folder 2008, sample press release, Baby - Friendly Checklist Pad, two «Cost of Formula» wheels, «Risks of Formula Feeding» brochure, Nestlé boycott information, three «Mother - Baby Friendly Communities» stickers.

That refusal further frustrated some employees who have disapproved of the union's tactics, namely the «Boycott the Desmond» campaign, which has cost the hotel at least a million dollars, according to management, and persuaded such patrons as New York State United Teachers, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and members of the Senate Democratic Conference to publicly withdraw their business.

The CDD report noted that the IPOB may attempt to enforce its call for boycott of the election at all cost and using all means to achieve that.

«In line with this, Okorocha mandated his commissioners and his LGA's transitional chairmen in all the 27 Local Government Areas of Imo State to move into the villages and communities to sensitized them to boycott the sit - at - home order at all cost, unfortunately, those mandated to do so could not do it because power belongs to the masses not those in Government.

Several Labour MPs boycotted the recall of the Commons today, citing the financial cost of the exercise and concerns around the use of the occasion for party political purposes.

Served as trial counsel for a major national manufacturer in a lengthy NLRB proceeding in which the client prevailed on bad faith bargaining, secondary boycott and threat of violence charges against the Teamsters Union, secured three separate federal court injunctions against the Union and won an unprecedented award of attorneys» fees and litigation costs [reported at 334 NLRB No. 137]

His decision sparked a boycott of Elsevier signed (at The Cost of Knowledge) by those researchers — approaching 6,000 names as I write — refusing to deal with Elsevier.

A 30 % reduction in fees for Very High Cost Cases has led to a boycott by criminal barristers, which resulted in the high - profile stay of a multi-defendant fraud trial at Southwark Crown Court last month (R v Crawley).

Senior barristers have been declining briefs for very high cost cases (VHCCs) at the proposed rates, while both sections of the profession boycotted courts during a half - day protest earlier this month and have indicated they may stage another protest mid-February.