Sentences with phrase «joined picket»

The strikes had spread to the extent gravediggers had joined the picket lines leaving dead bodies waiting to be buried.

More than 36,000 Verizon employees have hung up and joined the picket lines, opting to go on strike on April 13 after unions for field service workers failed to reach an agreement with the company after a 10 months of negotiations between them and corporate telecommunications company led to a stalemate.

Even the most widely supported strike could therefore be broken before a single person has joined the picket line.

A strike by refuse workers was opposed by the council leader while his deputy joined the picket line.

These supporters joined the picket lines to take a stand for a fairer and safer workplace.

Joining a picket line of the telecom company's striking workers, Sanders told them that Verizon is «just another major American corporation trying to destroy the lives of working Americans.»

Returning to her Alma mater, Cynthia Nixon joined picketing Columbia Graduate students who are looking to form a union but claim the university has denied them that right.

The protection of due process, assured the teachers that did stand up to register to vote, serve as plaintiffs in lawsuits, or join picket lines that their jobs were not easily compromised.

The union, Ontario Federation of Labour President Chris Buckley, and organizers with the Fight for $ 15 and Fairness campaign have announced they'll join picketing LAO lawyers tonight outside of a Liberal fundraiser in Toronto.

Not exact matches

Airport and fast - food workers are expected to be joined on picket lines by child care workers, home care workers and graduate assistants, who are among the estimated 64 million U.S. workers who earn less than $ 15 an hour.

Kirkridge's mission is to «picket and pray»: to join the work for peace and justice with a serious effort to grow in relationship with God.

Most often we accomplished that result by picketing in downtown Minneapolis for the striking truckmen, by announcing ourselves as atheist - humanists, by joining the local Trotskyite cell (Minneapolis was never a Stalinist town) or simply by going to various left - wing meeting places and singing «Solidarity forever.»

They would rather their leadership continue to negotiate and wait until the more prominent Labour - affiliated Unions are ready to either settle or join them on the picket line.

During the week, striking assistants were frequently joined on their picket line by members of other unions, such as TWU, CWA, NYSNA and SEIU 1199, said Rosalie Ray, one of the grad student organizers.

«Joining a trade union and peacefully picketing outside workplaces is a right not a privilege and restrictions have to be properly justified and proportionate.»

As for unions, Tristram Hunt does part - time teaching without joining one and recently showed himself willing to cross a picket line of his colleagues at Queen Mary College.

Angel R., a Field Technician in Manhattan for 27 years, also joined his co-workers in picketing, repeatedly blowing a loud whistle that seemed to irk passersby.

Michael Skrebutenas, HCR's Chief Operating Officer, joined New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua and President of Gotham Organization David L. Picket recently to break ground on Gotham West, a mixed - use development encompassing an entire city block in the Clinton neighborhood of Manhattan between West 44th & West 45th Streets and 10th & 11th Avenues.

This was after the unions insisted that they were not at the terminal to picket the airline, rather to sensitise the workers of their right to join the unions of their choice.

While attending the same event as Ward and Barron on Saturday, the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell told the audience that he and Jeremy Corbyn would join junior doctors on the picket line today.

I do not know what possessed these knuckleheads, but they actually asked black students like me who were already at the school to join them on the picket line.

I joined a throng of protesting teachers that day outside the school to picket his appearance and the corporate reform policies he was promoting.

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 justice.

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Show your support for the campaign to end puppy mills by joining our friends at Hearts United For Animals and the Lincoln Animal Ambassadors this Mother's Day, for a picket to honor the mothers of the pet store puppies.

Group Activities - New York Artist Union, the WPA, and the Art Workers Coalition Teach - in - Working Conditions Seminar with Precarious Workers Brigade (London), UKK (Young Art Workers, Copenhagen) and a representative of the Chilean Ministry of Culture - Ongoing discussions with representatives from local unions and working centers such as UWA, IWW, Teamster, Writer's Guild of America East, New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and others - Monthly book club on labor law, organizing, workplace occupations, and radical history - End Sotheby's Lockout Solidarity Action at the Whitney Biennial with Occupy Museums, Occupy Sotheby's and Arts & Culture - Joining other OWS labor affiliated working groups such as Labor Outreach Committee, Occupy Your Workplace, and 99 Pickets, as part of the Labor Alliance cluster

He joined Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Roy DeCarava, Felrath Hines, Raymond Saunders, Alice Neel, and others in picketing the infamous 1969 Harlem on My Mind show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In 1969, Lewis joined Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Clifford Joseph, Roy DeCarava, Alice Neel, and others in picketing the infamous Harlem on My Mind show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In support of the ongoing strike by Verizon workers, Midwest Rising activists will join a local picket to show support for protecting good jobs over greed.

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