Sentences with phrase «for striking workers»

I think Canadians take too much for granted, including that our country is inherently democratic and will remain so even if we loose the right to unionize, even if the government can mandate wages for striking workers, and even if we can be kicked out of public spaces for protesting (expressing an opinion).

The new laws would force unions to give employers 14 days notice of strike action and allow them to bring in agency staff to cover for striking workers.

Not exact matches

Protests of this nature don't constitute a legal strike for unionized workers, and the concept of striking in the strict sense doesn't exist for non-union workers.

In 2011, Verizon workers went on strike for two weeks after negotiations deadlocked.

Uber came under renewed pressure over the weekend for a Tweet promoting surge - free pricing during a taxi worker strike in support of immigrants impacted by Trump's Executive Order, which has been widely interpreted as a Muslim ban.

But in morning, despite the orders to the contrary, textile workers left their work in several factories and sent delegates to ask for support of the strike... which led to mass strike... all went out into the streets.

Sanders maintained his support for the striking Verizon (vz) workers, and brushed aside the comments from executives of both Verizon and General Electric (ge).

Workers in support of the strike argue that their employers have failed to pay overtime or provide rest breaks, and offer scant opportunities for upward mobility.

There is no official support for children who lose their parents in the air strikes and it is a struggle for aid workers to access them, so many rely on members of the community to take them in.

But 66 other countries around the world still celebrate the May 1 rite of spring as International Workers» Day, with strikes for workers» Workers» Day, with strikes for workers» workers» rights.

Workers at Amazon «s main distribution hub in Italy are planning their first ever strike for Friday, trade unions said, while they are also striking at six warehouses in Germany, threatening to disrupt one of the year's busiest shopping days.

In 1995, more than 200 workers walked out of the plant and, after striking for four days, voted to unionize.

The Fight for $ 15 movement started with fast - food workers, with a one - day strike by 200 cooks and order - takers, but its strategists have maneuvered to transform it into a broad movement of low - wage workers.

Nickel rose for the first time in three sessions as workers at a BHP Billiton Plc. mine in Colombia threatened to go on strike, spurring supply concerns.

Fight for $ 15 movement plans fast - food workers» strike across South The Guardian Steven Greenhouse February 1, 2018

Unions fought fiercely against the lay - off last year, the strike went on for three months and the workers were violently repressed by the police.

She was a spokesperson on behalf of striking workers, a volunteer teacher in night schools for railroad workers, and an active trade unionist.

As well as the monthly Masses for the Homeland, Fr Jerzy was organising relief for the families of striking workers — clothes, money and food.

In the summer of 1980 striking workers occupying the Warsaw steel plant requested a priest to celebrate Sunday Mass for them and Fr Jerzy volunteered.

Workers have been on strike for four years at the Congress, seeking better wages and health benefits.

The students had to prepare for the impact of a workers» strike.

In talking to the members of the union, another story came out: about how in the 1980s a group of secretaries, many of them single mothers — an identity that challenged the notion that the secretaries were working at Yale for pin money — had stood alongside the grounds and maintenance workers, the dining hall workers, the cooks and the plumbers, who went on strike so that the clerical workers union might be formed.

It was imported directly into English, where for a long time it has been a word of the left: class solidarity, workers» solidarity, solidarity strikes, and so forth.

But not always the left: Around the same time, Polish workers who confronted their communist masters in a strike at the Gdansk shipyards adopted Solidarno as the name for their movement.

According to the ABC, workers at the Polar Fresh distribution centre in Truganina in Melbourne have gone on strike indefinitely asking for better pay and job security for casual employees.

The Nigeria Employers» Consultative Association (NECA), which is an umbrella body for private - sector workers, as well as the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE) have also said they would not participate in the strike.

Right now, they have cancelled the first one (October 30) and they say that they will «keep updating» about the other days... UPDATE: Some newspaper claimed that, according to unofficial declarations of the organizers, the objective of the strike would not be so much to effectively perform the strike all of those days1 but to provide legal cover for workers to be free to leave their job (to attend protests, etc...)

Commenting, Unite London regional secretary, Peter Kavanagh, said:» Support for today's strike action is solid and shows that bus workers are willing to stand shoulder to shoulder to get the recognition they deserve in keeping London moving during the Olympics.

Following a London - wide bus strike, the first in decades, and six days of negotiations, London bus workers have overwhelmingly voted to accept an offer of an Olympic award, meaning most workers will get # 577 for the massive increase in workload over the Olympics.

The union representing the striking cleaners, United Voices of the World (UVW), are calling for the workers to receive the same sick pay, pension deal and maternity pay as those employed directly by the university.

At noon, Albany fast food workers join nationwide protests on the anniversary of the Memphis sanitation strike and rally as part of the Fight for $ 15 movement, state Capitol, Albany.

Management added 1,400 new jobs and a more than 10 percent raise for workers after the strike ended.

The workers launched wildcat strikes which led to rubbish piling up on the streets and calls from party members for the resignation of Kitcat.

Some 700 airport workers who provide curbside and terminal services for major airlines at all three New York travel hubs went on strike at 9 p.m. yesterday — potentially snarling flights for United Airlines, American Airlines and JetBlue.

The MTA will audit safety procedures at the Long Island Rail Road after an NTSB report criticized the railroad for lax enforcement of rules that could have saved the life of a worker struck by a train last June, railroad officials said.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli will be the next Albany politician to visit the Momentive chemical plant — where 700 striking workers have been manning a picket line for over three months.

He said: «When workers jump through draconian hurdles for their vote for strike action to be lawful, the employers can then ignore the will of their own workers.

The Senate moved to avert a planned strike Monday when it gave final legislative approval to a measure raising the wages of 19,000 workers who care for people with intellectual disabilities at private group homes and day programs across the state.

New Yorkers support allowing public employees to strike (currently barred by the Taylor Law) and also favor keeping the Triborough Amendment (56 - 34), although they back a one - year pay freeze for state workers.

The Mott's workers have been on strike since May 23 when the company implemented their final offer cutting wages by $ 1.50 an hour for all employees and cutting benefits including freezing pensions for all current employees and eliminating pensions for future employees.

Business secretary Sajid Javid to criminalise unlawful picketing, and make it harder for workers to strike legally and for Labour to get union funding

Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy, who has been praised by his running mate, AG Andrew Cuomo, for standing up to public employee unions, is scheduled to greet striking Mott's workers in Williamson tomorrow on behalf of the ticket.

And then there's the furore over British jobs for British workers, which came to a head with wildcat strikes at Lincolnshire's Lindsey oil refinery earlier this year.

Citizen Action's Karen Scharff: «We're out here today with workers striking McDonald's and other fast food companies because it's time we get fifteen dollars an hour and a union for fast food workers.»

Strike Poverty in the Hudson Valley is set to rally 4 pm, meeting at the corner of Main St. and South Grand Ave in Poughkeepsie, then marching over to the McDonald's on Main St. to hear from workers who are demanding fair wages for their work.

«Airport workers have had enough and are continuing to stand up for themselves in the spirit of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who told striking sanitation workers in Memphis, «We've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end,»» said Councilmember Andy King.

Albany, NY - The Upper Hudson Green Party Statement of Support for Workers on Strike at Momentive Performance Materials

Hundreds of water workers are due to take strike action later over United Utilities» plans for their staff pension scheme.

Strikes are rare and the decision to lose a day's pay is never an easy one - especially for public sector workers who have suffered many years of pay restraint.»

Washington (CNN)---- Fast food workers striking for higher wages in seven cities Monday are bound to be disappointed.