Sentences with phrase «labor strike in»

With some 350,000 children from kindergarten to high school age out of school, the patience of their parents began to fray as hopes were dashed for a quick resolution to the biggest U.S. labor strike in a year.

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Joshua B. Freeman, labor historian and CUNY professor at Queens College in New York said he would call the contract a win for the union, while noting the increasing rarity of a strike of that size and length.

Verizon and the two striking unions were in contract discussions with the help of the U.S. Department of Labor.

Central banks strikes a mostly optimistic tone in touting rebound in economic activity in recent months and improvement in the labor market.

Pilots and flight attendants plan to strike for four hours from 1 p.m. local time on Dec. 15, the Anpac union said in a letter to the airline, adding that they're campaigning for the right to negotiate collective labor agreements, as well as on issues including social security, health care and vacation planning.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The White House threatened on Tuesday to veto emergency House legislation that aims to avert a threatened national default, a pre-emptive strike issued as Republican Speaker John Boehner labored to line up enough votes in his own party to pass the measure.

On Wednesday, people across United States will partake in «A Day Without A Woman «-- a national strike that encourages women to take off from paid or unpaid labor, abstain from shopping, and wear red in solidarity.

Meanwhile, Mr Costello side - stepped the Democrats and struck a deal with Labor, gaining full support for the entire package in exchange for tightening of anti-avoidance provisions.

These risks and uncertainties include competition and other economic conditions including fragmentation of the media landscape and competition from other media alternatives; changes in advertising demand, circulation levels and audience shares; the Company's ability to develop and grow its online businesses; the Company's reliance on revenue from printing and distributing third - party publications; changes in newsprint prices; macroeconomic trends and conditions; the Company's ability to adapt to technological changes; the Company's ability to realize benefits or synergies from acquisitions or divestitures or to operate its businesses effectively following acquisitions or divestitures; the Company's success in implementing expense mitigation efforts; the Company's reliance on third - party vendors for various services; adverse results from litigation, governmental investigations or tax - related proceedings or audits; the Company's ability to attract and retain employees; the Company's ability to satisfy pension and other postretirement employee benefit obligations; changes in accounting standards; the effect of labor strikes, lockouts and labor negotiations; regulatory and judicial rulings; the Company's indebtedness and ability to comply with debt covenants applicable to its debt facilities; the Company's ability to satisfy future capital and liquidity requirements; the Company's ability to access the credit and capital markets at the times and in the amounts needed and on acceptable terms; and other events beyond the Company's control that may result in unexpected adverse operating results.

As a result, political instability, labor strikes, natural disasters or other events resulting in the disruption of trade or transportation from other countries or the imposition of additional regulations relating to duties upon imports could cause significant delays or interruptions in the supply of our merchandise or increase our costs, either of which could have an adverse effect on our business.

A dynamic is put in place in which debt keeps labor down — not only by eating up its wages in debt service, but in making workers suffer sharp increases in the interest rates they have to pay or even risk losing their homes if they miss a payment by going on strike or being fired.

As investment bank Jefferies explained in a note, «unexpected disruptions» — including undercapitalization of mines and the risk of labor strikes at Chile's Escondida, the world's largest copper mine — will likely add to supply constraints.

What we find is quite striking: not only do those with higher education experience less unemployment, they are far more likely to be participating in the labor market.

All eyes are on South Africa, where a labor strike, now in its fifth month, has brought a halt to the production of platinum and palladium.

The labor strike hurt UNP's intermodal traffic and efficiency in early 2015.

Tony Clark might yet grow into a fine Executive Director, but in the present, there is work to be done and history to be taught, and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, who got his start in MLB's offices in labor negotiations, knew that and struck accordingly at the first opportunity back in 2016.

Unsophisticated in the ways of modern labor, striking carpenters came back to install seats at the new swimming pool.

I'm surprised the formula companies haven't started striking deals in which women come out of labor and delivery with adhesive stickers (with the name of the formula) stuck across our breasts so the only way even to try to breastfeed is to peel off the stickers first.

His book, From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century was recently published by Cambridge University Press, and he is currently working on a book on the political ethics of the strike.

Cuomo and PEF announced a three - year labor deal back in 2016, and he struck a five - year deal with the largest state worker union, CSEA, in 2017.

In Egypt, between 2004 and 2010, there were more than 3,000 labor actions, between protests and strikes, mobilized against a baggage of old anti-democratic and intricately corrupt state structures in what came to be called the «deep state»In Egypt, between 2004 and 2010, there were more than 3,000 labor actions, between protests and strikes, mobilized against a baggage of old anti-democratic and intricately corrupt state structures in what came to be called the «deep state»in what came to be called the «deep state».

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.

As part of the project labor agreement, the union has agreed to an adjustment on shift premiums, a no - strike or - work stoppage clause and dispute mechanisms to prevent interruptions in the project work, NYCHA officials said.

In August, I joined Governor Cuomo, the State Department of Labor and the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation to launch the «Bronx Works» strike force, which is putting unemployed Bronxites in direct contact with the employers who need theIn August, I joined Governor Cuomo, the State Department of Labor and the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation to launch the «Bronx Works» strike force, which is putting unemployed Bronxites in direct contact with the employers who need thein direct contact with the employers who need them.

Sen. Jack Martins, a Republican who represents Nassau County, called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo this afternoon to take an active role in the negotiations between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its labor union in order to avoid a strike on the Long Island Rail Road.

The contributions from labor come only three days after the Hotel Trades Council struck an agreement with Resorts World New York in Queens that will great increase the minimum pay for workers in the short and near term following a ruling by an independent arbitrator.

A New York State effort to more tightly regulate the prepaid cards on which many employees receive their wages was struck down by a review board, which ruled that the state's Labor Department exceeded its authority in imposing fee limits and other restrictions on the cards.

At 7 a.m., 130 RNs from the New York State Nurses Association at Nathan Littauer Hospital in Gloversville will walk off the job for a 1 - day unfair labor practice strike, 99 East State St.

(CNN)- President Barack Obama's trip to the West Coast next week that was set to include remarks to a labor group has been canceled so he can continue making the case for strikes in Syria, the White House said Thursday.

Klein and the I.D.C. have struck a sort of deal to make a deal with mainstream Democrats in the chamber as part of an agreement to unite Cuomo, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, the Working Families Party and its major labor affiliates in a push to flip the Senate into Democratic hands.

In an attempt to close the projected $ 1.7 billion deficit for the fiscal year that starts July 1, Republicans are assuming that Malloy will strike a deal with state employee unions for labor savings of $ 700 million in the first year of the two - year budget and $ 892 million in the second yeaIn an attempt to close the projected $ 1.7 billion deficit for the fiscal year that starts July 1, Republicans are assuming that Malloy will strike a deal with state employee unions for labor savings of $ 700 million in the first year of the two - year budget and $ 892 million in the second yeain the first year of the two - year budget and $ 892 million in the second yeain the second year.

Nevertheless, the Bloomberg administration's decision to push Empire Stores developer Don Capoccia to use all union labor on the project's construction struck many observers as unusual, given Bloomberg's general opposition to imposing those sorts of requirements on unwilling developers, his unwillingness in the past several years to subsidize retail projects, and Capoccia's longstanding preference for running an open shop.

Donohue made it clear this decision is a «direct result» of the deal struck last week by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders, in which organized labor believes the governor «traded» his approval on the LATFOR redistricting plans for lawmakers» support of pension reform.

[47] He has also expressed distaste for public service labor unions, which he has compared to pigs, [53] and is an outspoken critic of state laws such as the Wicks Law, which sets prevailing wage requirements, [49] and the Taylor Law, which gives unions significant negotiating advantages in exchange for prohibiting them from striking.

Most public - sector unions in the state can not legally strike — instead, unresolved labor disputes go to binding arbitration, which often leads to decisions that cities can not afford.

Like other labor disputes in recent years, the LIRR dispute sets up nicely for Cuomo — as long as there is not a crippling strike, analysts said.

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Though his family was middle - class, Jean - Pierre came of age amid the labor movement of the 1960s, missing school during strikes and witnessing rallies in the town center.

The general strike was called by unions in response to the conservative government's labor reforms, which let companies opt out of collective bargaining agreements and fire workers more cheaply.

After becoming a laughingstock in the celebrity community, the none - too - bright model is recruited by a nefarious designer called Mugatu (Ferrell, Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back), and is brainwashed in order that he might assassinate the Malaysian Prime Minister, who cracked down on the child labor in Mugatu's Malaysian sweathouses.

In examining the Bisbee deportation of 1917 — a shameful chapter in America's labor history, when 1,300 striking miners were forced out of the town under threat of violence — he's found a subject that perfect matches his larger philosophical concerns and aesthetic tendencieIn examining the Bisbee deportation of 1917 — a shameful chapter in America's labor history, when 1,300 striking miners were forced out of the town under threat of violence — he's found a subject that perfect matches his larger philosophical concerns and aesthetic tendenciein America's labor history, when 1,300 striking miners were forced out of the town under threat of violence — he's found a subject that perfect matches his larger philosophical concerns and aesthetic tendencies.

And now: Made in Dagenham, a peppy, period labor drama about underpaid women at a Ford plant in suburban London in 1968, who go on strike for higher pay and wind up demanding wholesale societal change.

In the 1930's labor strikes are taking place all around the country.

WHAT: Upon arriving in postwar Hong Kong, legendary Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man (Anthony Wong) begins teaching a new class of pupils amid a backdrop of poverty, labor strikes and police corruption.

In addition, the resolution of this episode before disaster struck is likely to further entrench the current system of gladiatorial combat between management and labor, which, in turn, increases long - term instability in the education sector in at least two wayIn addition, the resolution of this episode before disaster struck is likely to further entrench the current system of gladiatorial combat between management and labor, which, in turn, increases long - term instability in the education sector in at least two wayin turn, increases long - term instability in the education sector in at least two wayin the education sector in at least two wayin at least two ways.

This struck me as a triple win: the students had a high - quality learning experience, the teacher had a rewarding professional experience, and the burden of creating the unit was shared among a group of teachers rather than each teacher laboring in isolation.

Invoking a 1915 labor law, Gov. Roy Romer intervenes to head off a threatened strike of teachers in Denver.

Teachers there had called the strike, their first in 25 years, the day after Labor Day.

Using an article about labor leader Cesar Chavez's grape boycott and hunger strike, these students at Stuart - Hobson Middle School are doing a «close read,» a skill prized by the new Common Core State Standards being put into practice in the District of Columbia.

The Governor, who intervened in the Denver labor negotiations in January to prevent a threatened strike, wrote the contract after conducting a series of hearings to examine the issues separating the Denver Classroom Teachers Association and the city school board.