Sentences with phrase «group of workers against»

«The Government's Trade Union Bill, if enacted, will place supply teachers and other agency workers in an invidious situation and is a clear attempt to set one group of workers against another.

«It's going to be a hard sell that this activity was either concerted or for mutual aid or protection, rather than simply venting or pitting one group of workers against the others, which does not sound very mutual,» Morantz said.

Not exact matches

Specifically, it comes against a backdrop of groups such as Fight for $ 15, which has been organizing fast food workers to demand higher wages.

Cook called for unity among Apple workers regardless of their political views, and came out against remarks Trump made during a Tuesday press conference equating far - right hate groups with the people protesting them.

At the same time, underlying shifts in the economy have again shifted the interest group politics — these days, manufacturing workers are a small share of overall US union membership, so the original impetus for the Democratic tilt against trade is going away.

Formed toward the end of the 1950s, two of these groups remain active today: the FARC (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces), which draws its primary strength from campesinos in the south, and the ELN (Army of National Liberation), whose strength is greater in the north among oil workers, indigenous groups defending their habitat against encroachment by the oil industry, and the Afro - Colombian population.

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

But even as I'm forced to take sides in a fight which pits the needs of kids against the leading trade group for school food workers, I try to regularly remind everyone that those workers themselves are doing a valiant job under difficult circumstances.

And Mayor Rahm Emanuel last week unveiled Chicago's response to concerns about the health effects of sugary soft drinks: Chicago will compete against San Antonio for a $ 5 million grant that a national beverage lobbying group will give to whichever metropolis's workers get healthiest.

Comedian Amy Poehler joined a group of One Fair Wage supporters in midtown to rally for tipped workers to be more fairly compensated and protected against sexual harassment, saying: «Let's just stop under - serving the many people who serve us.»

Turkey's military coups 1993 — Claims of a «covert coup» intended to prevent a peace settlement with the Kurdistan Workers» Party (PKK) 1980 — Military coup following armed conflict between right - wing and left - wing groups in the 1970s 1971 — Military coup known as the «coup by memorandum», which the military delivered instead of sending out tanks 1960 — Coup by group of young military officer outside chain of command, against the democratically - elected Democrat Party

Governor Andrew Cuomo is promising police and firefighters in New York City a better deal on their disability benefits, as a budget watch dog group warns against the proliferation of end of session bills that give union workers more benefits.

A representative group of workers from Unite, Britain's largest union, whose companies have been sold off by the John Lewis Partnership, will protest against the decision at the partners» meeting this Monday morning.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed a recommendation in a report by the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee that the «self - employed» should be given at least «worker» employment status unless the engager of their labour can prove otherwise.1 This is a recommendation that LITRG made in written evidence to a separate inquiry.2 LITRG believes that the denial of employment rights to people working in the «gig economy» and the exploitation of other flexible workers regarding their taxes share a common cause: the workers» own lack of knowledge, their reluctance to challenge their treatment because they lack confidence or just need the work and the businesses involved apparently having little fear of action being taken against them by public bodies.

For the past decade, trade unions representing thousands of workers, student unions, faith groups and local councils have mobilised to end UK complicity with Israel's repeated violations of international law in its policies against Palestinians.

A group of New York carwash owners has filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging that a law that officials say is meant to protect low - wage workers is illegally favoring unions.

Also at 11 a.m., former workers contracted inside Nassau County Correctional Center will join with a local good government group to speak out for the first time against controversial jail medical care provider Armor Correctional Health Services for what they believe was poor and abusive treatment of inmates, 100 Carman Ave., East Meadow, Long Island.

The state's top court also cleared the way for a group of 9/11 cleanup workers who became ill after cleaning up asbestos - laden debris to pursue legal claims against the Battery Park City Authority.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is promising police and firefighters in New York City a better deal on their disability benefits, as a budget watch dog group warns against the proliferation of end of session bills that give union workers more benefits.

The groups are filing a federal lawsuit against the governor's plan to strip most public workers of...

Governor Cuomo is promising police and firefighters in New York City a better deal on their disability benefits, as a budget watch dog group warns against the proliferation of end of session bills that give union workers more benefits.

The groups are filing a federal lawsuit against the governor's plan to strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights.

Last month, the group reported that Foxconn addressed several workplace concerns, such as enforcing ergonomic breaks, changing the design of workers» equipment to guard against repetitive stress injuries, and updating maintenance policies to ensure equipment is working properly.

Many of these groups still believe the law discriminates against American workers.

It appears that legislation intended to end discrimination against one group of workers, those middle - aged and older, has inadvertently increased the difficulties of another group, young workers struggling to get their careers underway.

On the basis of the current studies as well as previous reports on the use of intradermal immunization against influenza, hepatitis B, rabies, and other infectious diseases, 2,3,8 it is becoming clear that use of the intradermal route may at least partially overcome the relatively poor influenza - specific immune responses seen in certain at - risk populations, particularly the elderly, in whom the immune response in general is known to diminish with age.9 Moreover, in times of shortage, the dose - sparing intradermal approach might be particularly well suited to the young, healthy persons included in the CDC's high - priority group for vaccination, such as health care workers, as well as to younger, otherwise healthy populations in general.

Among them were Tarana Burke (founder of the resurgent #MeToo movement), Saru Jayaraman (a workplace justice advocate for restaurant workers), Billie Jean King (tennis champion and founder of the Women's Tennis Association), and Marai Larasi (executive director of Imkaan, the group working to end violence against black and minority women).

Irate defaulters constitute the largest group of people who have suits pending against ed workers, said Ted Skye, a department lawyer.

In May, protesters led by the Global Ultra Luxury Faction (GULF), a subset of activist group Gulf Labor, shut down the Guggenheim, just one in a series of demonstrations against the poor conditions facing the workers constructing the Guggenheim's offshoot in Abu Dhabi.

For example, AWC (Art Workers» Coalition), an important group and organization that not only protested the war, but also helped to create a community of artists and lessen the discrimination against African - American and Latino artists.

Activist Scott Parking wrote, «Midwest Rising was a convergence for climate and economic justice that brought together a diverse coalition of groups fighting home foreclosures in cities like Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh, communications workers on strike against Verizon Wireless, local labor organizers, Appalachian activists fighting mountaintop removal and climate justice activists from around the world.»

In this online resource, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD, the publisher of the award - winning ALEC Exposed investigation) tracks and unmasks the «wage crushers»: the corporations, trade associations, «think tanks,» and front groups lobbying hard against better wages, benefits, and job standards for workers, with help from ALEC and its spin - off group ACCE.

Some advocacy groups express particular concern that many of the sex workers at such high - profile sporting events are underage and are brought in against their will.

At the same time he drew attention to the Board's practice of «deeming» — «clawing back WSIB cheques based on made - up jobs they imagine injured people could be doing...» — acknowledging the efforts of the Hamilton & District Injured Workers» Support Group in speaking out against this practice.

Manoj Vaghela is representing Generali in relation to group litigation that has been brought against Morrisons regarding allegations that a former employee released the data of other workers.

We are a class action litigation firm that represents groups of workers who have the same or similar claims against their current or former employer.

Seeking relief for those whose cases were denied or are already in the system, a lawsuit has been filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board and Ministry of Labour by labour law firm Goldblatt Partners, representing Ms Wardle, Injured Workers Consultants Community Legal Clinic and the Ontario Network of Injured Workers» Groups.

The Ontario Network of Injured Workers» Groups is launching the province - wide Workers» Comp is a Right campaign because we need to stand up to the injustices that are being committed against us as injured wWorkers» Groups is launching the province - wide Workers» Comp is a Right campaign because we need to stand up to the injustices that are being committed against us as injured wWorkers» Comp is a Right campaign because we need to stand up to the injustices that are being committed against us as injured workersworkers.

Over 2014 a working group of community legal clinics, ONIWG and the OWA formed a strategy to challenge these practices of the Board as discriminatory against injured workers.

The British Columbia Court of Appeal ruled on Tuesday October 12, 2010, that a former sex worker and the Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United against Violence Society (a lobby group representing sex trade workers), can challenge the law provisions dealing with prostitution (operating a bawdy house, communicating in public to sell sex or living off the avails of prostitution), alleging that they violWorkers United against Violence Society (a lobby group representing sex trade workers), can challenge the law provisions dealing with prostitution (operating a bawdy house, communicating in public to sell sex or living off the avails of prostitution), alleging that they violworkers), can challenge the law provisions dealing with prostitution (operating a bawdy house, communicating in public to sell sex or living off the avails of prostitution), alleging that they violate ss.

The appeal judge rejected all of those arguments because the employer was a «substantial corporation» (two facilities with a total of 770 people) that was «within a broader group of companies»; the employer had been found guilty on three charges under the OHSA; it was proper to consider the prior conviction (which was in 2004); and the harm to the injured worker was «devastating»: he was rendered a paraplegic when a robot on which he was doing a «quick fix» pressed against him on his back.