Sentences with phrase «for labor rights»

Of course, along with playing the class clowns, the Malloys are also the hardest working members of Ocean's crew, often taking on multiple roles in each heist, and even going the distance on one particular occasion to help a group of Mexican factory workers fight for labor rights.

So too, the Conservative Party and the Working Families Party, and the AFL - CIO, fighting for labor rights for farmworkers, and the Farm Bureau opposing that cause.

They raise fears that protections for labor rights, state pensions, the Adirondack Park's «Forever Wild» Forest Preserve and our obligations to educate our children and care for the needy could be curtailed, or even overturned.

Not exact matches

Pilots and flight attendants plan to strike for four hours from 1 p.m. local time on Dec. 15, the Anpac union said in a letter to the airline, adding that they're campaigning for the right to negotiate collective labor agreements, as well as on issues including social security, health care and vacation planning.

For two legislative sessions, Indiana Democrats fought the divisive labor measure known as right - to - work.

Marches and other demonstrations for labor and immigrant rights were planned from Florida to New York to California on International Workers» Day and come amid similar actions worldwide.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Ben Wyatt's short - lived challenge for leadership of the Labor Party has highlighted the influence of the key powerbrokers, namely unions on both the right and left.

While this figure might not have market watchers jumping up for joy, «it is a positive sign that more people flowed into the labor force and shows the labor market is on the right track,» says Kurt Rankin, an economist at PNC Financial Services Group.

For Chromalloy, Foster was the right deal at the right time — a certified public accountant who, for several summers during his college years, had labored as one of the gang in a Cleveland foundry and later served briefly as its controllFor Chromalloy, Foster was the right deal at the right time — a certified public accountant who, for several summers during his college years, had labored as one of the gang in a Cleveland foundry and later served briefly as its controllfor several summers during his college years, had labored as one of the gang in a Cleveland foundry and later served briefly as its controller.

Right now, people are hungry for fast cash, college students are home for the holidays, and it's the absolute best time to get short - term workers and labor if need be.

The right - to - work drive in Michigan is the latest of a series of setbacks for labor unions in the United States, beginning in 2011, when Wisconsin's Walker pushed through the legislature limits on public sector unions such as teachers.

Puzder, the chief executive of CKE Restaurants, has been widely criticized by labor rights groups for underpaying workers, failing to offer benefits, and attempting to prevent employees from organizing.

«Li & Fung claims to be monitoring factory conditions, but they don't publicly release their investigation reports or even the full list of the factories they use, so it's impossible for independent organizations to assess the effectiveness of their monitoring,» said Tim Connor, a former labor rights advocacy coordinator for Oxfam.

Ellis - Lamkins herself has a diverse work background: She spent decades campaigning for labor reform, but also helped the musician Prince secure the rights to his musical masters in 2014.

The U.S. National Labor Relations Act guarantees workers, whether they are in a union or not, the right to engage in «concerted activities» for their «mutual aid or protection».

The study said Coca - Cola, one of 10 global companies looked at by KTC, has committed to conduct 28 country - level studies on child labor, forced labor, and land rights for its sugar supply chains by 2020.

Right after CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder was nominated for Labor Secretary on December 8th, both of its fast food chains — Hardee's and Carl's Jr. — lost perception ground.

The Department of Labor's fiduciary standard rule for advisors who serve up retirement - plan advice is here, all right.

In making its case for KORUS, the Obama Administration argues it will challenge violations of labor rights related to trade, as it may do with Guatemala.

Borzi, assistant secretary of Labor for DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration, stated at the meeting that DOL spent hours trying to ensure the rule struck the right balance between what constitutes education and what constitutes advice.

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Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

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The agency's mission includes oversight of work - related benefits and rights and improving working conditions for people at all levels of the U.S. labor force.

Where any customer issue is not caused by our negligence or oversight, we reserve the right to recover reasonable administrative costs spent addressing the customer issue, including costs related to technology deployed to address the customer's issue and compensation provided for our customer service representative's labor hours.

Michael Posner, assistant secretary for democracy, human rights and labor, urged countries with problems to continue to address them.

All I got out of this is that Chad thinks slavery is just fine under the right scenarios and that there was no need for the state or a moral authority (like, say, god) to point out that alternate labor scenarios, as practiced in many cultures, might be preferable.

Ragansteve, And in those hundred years, we have seen women obtain the vote, the end of child labor, the end of Jim Crow laws, civil rights for blacks, the end of segregation, the end of the prohibition of mixed race marriages, and the list goes on and on.

I am willing to fight for awareness of that; And the numerous cults utilizing slave labor right in in the US.

By the time things simmered down, Brooklyn's inner - city schools were in considerably worse shape, white liberals had become accustomed to making excuses for black violence, and the old alliances between the civil - rights movement, on the one hand, and the American labor movement and organized American Jewry, on the other, had been put under severe strain.

right before Labor day and the first day of school for the kids.

Amnesty International has added its voice to the growing demand within Colombia for an end to mass arrests, torture of political prisoners, repression of labor organizations and other violations of human rights.

Globalization is the era of mega-competition, in other words, the competition among giant TNCs which accelerates the race for the bottom to make TNCs acquire more profit by further exploitation of labor including lowering the wages, cutting the welfare benefits, laying off employees, depriving workers of their labor rights, using cheap labor such as casual and even child labor, and also by further destruction of environment.

To labor for money is to secure the right to autonomy.

Racism... Child Labor Laws... Protections for the poor... Women's Rights... Labor Laws in general... Religious Persecution... Voting Rights... oh wait, the past sucked and the future can only be better as long as we embrace progressivism and abandon all that Dark Ages crap.

A year ago this week, more than 80 faith - based, civil rights, community and labor organizations came together under the title Coalition for Muslim School Holidays.

Of course she says nothing about her husband's policy of overlooking human rights violations by China, including the slave labor of uncounted thousands and forced abortions for pregnant women with more than one child.

It means also that the government s power will rest on a strict execution of justice, on the rights of the family and of labor, and on the proclamation of the gospel.60 Essay four, «On the Possibility of the Word of the Church to the World,» is unfinished but it poses the issue of the church's responsibility for answering particular problems in the world.

He closed with the following passage: «Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man - and when white will embrace what is right.»

You must be mistaken... why, the conservatives HAD to be at the forefront of assuring the rights of freed slaves, ending the deliberate government policy of destroying native cultures, extending the vote to ex-slaves and women, ending child labor, creating safer and better working conditions for laborers, etc?

It is pure speculation but the peoples were not ready for right relationships between labor and capital.

In Mexico I met prophets who had been beaten for their stand on labor rights, and others who had escaped from Guatemala to tell of incredible conditions on the coastal plantations.

The time was now right for a fearless renewal of the Church, precisely as the guardian of that «precious treasure» entrusted to her by Christ, and the council fathers committed themselves to the long labor of making that vision a reality.

They'd be great for forced labor... but after a while they'd be expensive to feed... I heard that there's this guy in Argentina with blueprints for these high capacity ovens... it's a biofuel... that's green right... MOTHER F'KER is this guy for real?

In obedience to this, Christians must oppose segregation at every level and in every form; they must support the rights of labor to organize for collective bargaining.

The equitable distribution of labor and materials is not a task for each nation alone, but one for the whole family of nations, working cooperatively to administer justly man's natural estate, which is entrusted to all men for the right use and service of all.

The story ends with a vision of the all - merciful God, compassionate over Nineveh and calling his representative to a similar outreach of saving goodwill — «And Yahweh said, Thou hast had regard for the gourd, for which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that can not discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?»

A UN Commission on Transnational Corporations devoted about 15 years of study and negotiation on a draft Code of Conduct for Transnational Corporations that included a general provision requiring transnational corporations to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms in the countries where they operate and more detailed provisions on observance of laws on labor relations and involvement of trade unions.

The detestation felt by workers for the conditions under which they labor is fierce and widespread; if their complaints are listened to with sympathy, it is possible to hear in them a cry for elemental rights.