Sentences with phrase «labor strikes at»

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.

In its fourth season, the episode «Last Exit to Springfield» poked fun at pseudo-intellectual talk shows by portraying its Smartline TV discussion hosted by anchor Kent Brockman and featuring Homer Simpson, Mr. Burns, and Dr. Joyce Brothers, who debate whether the labor strike at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant was an «argle - bargle or a foofaraw.»

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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.

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.

The trade groups hired Eugene Scalia, a former top lawyer at the Labor Department who has a strong record of getting courts to strike down government regulations.

Borzi, assistant secretary of Labor for DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration, stated at the meeting that DOL spent hours trying to ensure the rule struck the right balance between what constitutes education and what constitutes advice.

The labor strike is over and traffic at the two ports is picking back up as they work through the backlog.

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.

The labor union that represents CUNY faculty and staff, the Profession Staff Congress, has threatened to strike at the start of the next academic year if they do not receive a new contract.

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 leaderAt 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 leaderat political and business leaders.

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 SAt 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 Sat Nathan Littauer Hospital in Gloversville will walk off the job for a 1 - day unfair labor practice strike, 99 East State St.

Criticism of Quinn over the sick leave issue sparked spirited applause at the March 20 LGBT forum, but the tableau presented at City Hall on March 29 ---- with the speaker surrounded by more than a dozen Council members, major labor leaders, and fired up members of both 32BJ and Make the Road New York, a social justice organization ---- provided a striking contrast with the week before.

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 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 ways.

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.

School districts around our nation have had their fair share of walkouts, strikes and labor disputes, but for some parents at Lusher Charter School, the way this panned out at their children's school was disheartening.

«For them to say «You can't go on strike, but we can make a unilateral change in terms of employment by way of a 7 percent pay cut,» that's just an outrageous violation of the way labor law works,» CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey said at an afternoon news conference.

At the same time, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, is clear in both her support for Obama and her solidarity as Chicago's teaching force entered the third day of a strike over unfair labor practices.

After West Virginia educators» nine - day strike ended in a resounding labor victory last month that secured 5 percent pay raises, teachers in several more red states launched walkouts and rallied at state capitols this week.

If the Contracting Officer notifies the Contractor in writing that a strike or picketing: (a) is directed at the Contractor or subcontractor or any employee of either; and (b) impedes or threatens to impede access by any person to a DOT facility where the site of the work is located, the Contractor shall take all appropriate action to end such strike or picketing, including, if necessary, the filing of a charge of unfair labor practice with the National Labor Relations Board or the use of other available judicial or administrative remelabor practice with the National Labor Relations Board or the use of other available judicial or administrative remeLabor Relations Board or the use of other available judicial or administrative remedies.

Just in time for the holidays, workers at several Amazon retail distribution centers situated throughout Germany have staged a series of one - day strikes in an effort to force the retail giant's hand in terms of labor disputes involving pay rates and working conditions within the factory - like centers.

On October 21st of last year, SAG - AFTRA, a labor union coalition representing over 160,000 media professionals working in various mediums, began a strike after 19 months of failed attempts at negotiating deals with games industry employees regarding the poor treatment, conditions, and pay faced by voice actors.

On show here are works belonging to the Christian Democratic Appeal (a small clay figurine representing the importance of family values and faith), the Labor Party (a piece of a new kind of asphalt, more endurable under extreme temperatures, connoting stability, employment and freedom of movement for the working class), the Socialist Party (photos of a protest by harbor workers in Rotterdam that went on strike in 1979 to demand higher salaries), and Leefbar («Livable») Rotterdam (an image of tolerant multiculturalism, at odds with the ideological identity of the owners.)

The spectre of collective labor haunts Agnieszka Kurant's striking, timely exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art.

His striking images capture the physical aspects of their labor, as well as their social life in workers» camps at the edge of the fields.

At Travel Guard, we consider a strike foreseeable on the date labor union members vote to approve a strike.

Look closely at a travel insurance policy, as it pertains to labor strikes.

Your travel insurance may cover you if your trip is affected by a labor strike, but only if you buy your policy at the right time and if the strike lasts long enough.