Sentences with phrase «include general strike»

This coverage does not include general strike scenarios where most of the workers of a county, city, province, or state cease working.

Every previous attempt at unionization, including a general strike by New York City hotel and restaurant workers in 1912, had been crushed by the hotel owners.

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Six Hezbollah members, including a top commander, and one Iranian general were confirmed killed in the strike, which was followed by threats of severe retaliation from Hezbollah and Tehran.

According to a report from Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair, Trump sees himself as being at «war» with Amazon and Bezos and is considering a number of ways to strike out, including canceling Amazon's potential multibillion - dollar contract with the Pentagon to provide cloud computing services and encouraging state attorneys general to investigate Amazon's business practices.

People keep sharing stories about how awful their General Anesthetics for various things were, including an Egyptian friend who thought they were going to call the security services when he came around from having his tonsils out yelling «Terrorists win» (he was a big Counter Strike fan) so I don't know if I'm going frying pan - > fire.

At our last London demonstration speakers included Sally Hunt UCU General Secretary, John McDonnell MP, Angela Rayner MP, Gordon Marsden MP, Shakira Martin NUS President, Kevin Courtney NEU General Secretary and many striking workers from across the union.

Maybe you have a different definition of «friend» than I do, but mine does include a general interest in my friends not being struck with nuclear weapons.

At the war's end, following the October Revolution, American authorities saw the threat of Communist revolution in the actions of organized labor, including such disparate cases as the Seattle General Strike and the Boston Police Strike and then in the bombing campaign directed by anarchist groups at political and business leaders.

However, since the decision to kill changes the status quo, Col. Powell must receive the authorization of higher - ups, who include folks in a U.K. room including General Frank Benson (the late Alan Rickman), who favors the military strike despite the possibility of killing the little girl, who is Alia Mo'Allim (Aisha Takow) and is selling bread just outside the building.

In terms of general education - related topics, participants shared links on a wide variety of matters, including diversity and social justice issues, and to articles on education news and policy matters, such as the Common Core State Standards and the Chicago Teachers Union strike that unfolded during the semester.

In a unanimous vote on 10/28/11, the OEA Executive Board endorsed Occupy Oakland's November 2 «General Strike / Mass Day of Action» and is urging members to participate in a variety of ways, including taking personal leave to join actions at Frank Ogawa Plaza, doing informational picketing at school sites, and holding teach - ins on the history of general strikes and organizing for economic jGeneral Strike / Mass Day of Action» and is urging members to participate in a variety of ways, including taking personal leave to join actions at Frank Ogawa Plaza, doing informational picketing at school sites, and holding teach - ins on the history of general strikes and organizing for economic jgeneral strikes and organizing for economic justice.

Other traits that reflect this include its eyes (which seem to represent the glowing torches held by Nightmarchers in legends), the general shadow type design motif (which seems awfully similar to the cloaks seen as a prominent part of the lore) and perhaps even its special Z - Move (Soul Stealing 7 Star Strike).

In 1999, when Rudy Giuliani was Mayor of New York, (Giuliani started his political career as Associate Attorney General under President Reagan, infamous for his ignorance and inaction during the AIDS epidemic, and his en masse firing of union air traffic controllers on strike in 1981) Giuliani sued the Brooklyn Museum for opening the much - hyped exhibit Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, which included the work of then - emerging British artists such as Chris Ofili and Damien Hirst.

A self - proclaimed dropout of the art world, Lozano rejected the commerciality of the art scene by committing an act of defiance, in four parts: General Strike Piece, a performance that began in February 1969 as a protest to the banality of the existing artistic atmosphere; Decide to Boycott Women, a twenty - seven year hiatus from contact with her female supporters, including artists, gallerists, and critics, begun in August 1971; Dialogue Piece, an invitation to dialogue that blurred the roles between artist as sender and viewer as receiver.

Human rights activists who have been honoured today include Reuben Herrera from Guatemala — an activist supporting indigenous protests against huge energy and mining projects in Huehuetenago, a delegation of syndicalists fighting for workers» rights in the Philippines, and Huber Ballesteros from Colombia — a union leader who was one of hundreds imprisoned after a general strike in 2013.

But while Krugman's grim outlook took me aback, what really struck me was the lack of surprise among audience members, including a lot of general counsel and in - house lawyers from national and global entities.