Sentences with phrase «labor groups gathered»

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We spend a June weekend at Leen's (including children) and a smaller group gathers there on Labor Day.

Dozens of people from labor, faith, and community groups gathered to push for a legislative agenda this year that includes raising the minimum wage, closing corporate tax loopholes and reforming campaign finance.

Every year, union workers, young students, advocacy groups, and members of the New York City Fire Department gather at the site to remember the victims and bring awareness to the ongoing fight for labor reform.

Consequently, the Missouri team used population density as a proxy for social complexity, reasoning that when more people are concentrated in a geographic region, trade springs up between groups, there is greater division of labor, the gathering of food becomes more efficient, and interactions among individuals become richer and more varied.

Cronin gathered hundreds of articles of women's and girls» clothing from around the world to represent three specific tragedies: brightly - colored saris symbolize two Indian girls who were kidnapped, gang - raped, and lynched from a tree at the edge of their village; hijabs signify 276 Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in 2014 — over 200 of whom still remain missing; and gray and white aprons & uniforms symbolize those worn by «fallen women,» in forced labor at the Magdalene Asylums and Laundries in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the U.S.

Cronin gathered hundreds of articles of women's and girls» clothing from around the world to represent three specific tragedies: brightly - colored saris symbolize two Indian girls who were kidnapped, gang - raped, and lynched from a tree at the edge of their village; hijabs signify 276 Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in 2014 — over 200 of whom still remain missing; and gray and white aprons & uniforms symbolize those worn by «fallen women,» in forced labor at the Magdalene Asylums and Laundries in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the U.S. Moving from the marble alters and sacred architecture of Venice's sixteenth - century Chiesa di San Gallo to the secular gallery context of FLAG, Cronin will present the same three fabric sculptures, here piled on top of their shipping crates to now address human trafficking as well as human rights issues.

One morning a month we gather at a neighbors house and operate with the idea that «many hands make light work» on a manual labor project, like washing windows or planting garden beds, and then we rotate through the other members of the group one at a time each month.»

Charles Krugel, a labor and employment lawyer who started a LinkedIn Group in 2009 that now has almost 3,000 members, says he finds Groups to be a great resource for information gathering and research.