Sentences with phrase «of railway workers»

In an interview with Citi News General Secretary of the Railway Workers Union, Godwill Ntarmah said the salary arrears had still not been paid hence their resolve to continue with the strike action.

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Born the son of a railway worker and a housewife in Havana, Cuba, Alberto Korda went on to photograph such important historical figures and luminaries as Nikita Khrushchev, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean - Paul Sartre, and was awarded the Cuban» Palma de Plata» in 1959 and the National Culture Distinction, Ministry of Culture, Cuba in 1994.

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The second quarter will be impacted by strikes by France's national railway workers (SNCF) which affect the transportation by train of certain products and raw materials, and thus operations at certain sites, mainly in advanced materials.

Last year, three executives of a Chinese railway construction company were killed in a terrorist shooting in Mali, and in 2014 a series of kidnappings and attacks targeted Chinese workers in Nigeria, Zambia and Cameroon.

France has been engulfed in protests as students, opposing regionalization of educational services, have joined railway workers, protesting French President Emmanuel Macron's reforms in the field.

FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Corp. are desperate for talented workers and offering bonuses of up to $ 25,000 to fill jobs in...

Alongside Novak's picture of the abundance which capitalism produces there needs to be placed another equally significant image — that of decaying, broken - down bus and railway systems; underpaid teachers, policemen, firemen and social workers; overcrowded and understaffed public hospitals; jails and rehabilitation facilities extended far beyond their reasonable capacities.

A «high tea» treat in South Africa, this spicy pastry of sorts originated in India but was transferred to South Africa by railway workers.

The creation of these railways enabled the importation of workers, in order to meet the enormous need for labor.

Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum wage, the living wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection at age 11 damaged education for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).

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However, during the winter of 1978 — 79 there were widespread strikes among lorry drivers, railway workers, car workers and local government and hospital workers in favour of higher pay - rises that caused significant disruption to everyday life.

The Railway Workers Union announced the withdrawal of passenger services from Accra to Tema and Accra to Nsawam last week [Friday, December, 18] following government's failure to pay their three - month salary arrears.

The tour guides regaled us with the history of the city's working class education — the Workers» Education Association and seamen's and working men's libraries — citing a railway worker in 1945:

The Railway Workers Union announced the withdrawal of passenger services from Accra to Tema and Accra to Nsawam in December following government's failure to pay their three - month salary arrears.

Finally, she thanked her supporters and campaign workers, with special thanks to rail unions ASLEF and the TSSA who had nominated her, in the form of a ringing endorsement of the 13 year old repeated conference commitment to take the railways back into public ownership.

The railway workers and other civil servants were marching down the Boulevard Montparnasse, near Baglin's home, brandishing bright red flares that filled the air with chlorine - scented smoke; off the boulevard, platoons of shield - toting, armor - wearing riot police stood nervously at the ready.

Railway surgeons broke ground in the diagnosis of colorblindness, a cause of fatal accidents when impaired workers failed to correctly see colored signals and lights.

Although we'll never know for sure how they got there, one theory is that they traveled as invisible cargo in migrant construction workers hired to lay railway track from Mozambique to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).

Railway surgeons also performed preventive vaccinations on workers at risk of contracting malaria, smallpox and typhoid.

Professor Cross said: «It has been known for some time that a team of proteins called TOGs sits on the tip of the growing microtubule track and works like a team of tiny railway workers to rapidly lay the new microtubule track.

In 1898, according to numerous accounts and no fewer than three Hollywood movies, two male lions went on a nine - month killing spree around the Tsavo area of Kenya, devouring between 28 and 135 workers building the Kenya - Uganda railway.

Though facts are interspersed throughout — Neruda was a railway worker's son, he had a Dutch ex-wife and ailing young daughter he abandoned — Pablo Larrain is far more interested in Neruda's art and his symbolic place in the politics of Chile, than in chronology of events and biographic details.

Tourism here got its start when railway workers discovered a series of natural hot springs on Sulphur Mountain.

It captures everything this beautiful country has to offer, from the towering peaks of the Andes and Machu Picchu, down to the thriving town of Aguas Calientes (meaning «hot waters» or «hot springs»), once a small railway workers» camp.

Begun in 1917, shortly after the 3rd Australian Division captured this strategicallyimportant area, a German defensive point on the Passchendaele - Broodseinde road, Tyne Cot is believed to take its name from a barn which stood beside a railway level crossing in the area and which reminded soldiers of the British Northumberland Fusiliers of a traditional Tyneside worker's cottage: a «Tyne Cot».

WWF may refer to: World Wide Fund for Nature, a nature conservation organization previously named World Wildlife Fund (and still using the former name in some markets) World Wrestling Federation, the name used from 1979 to 2002 by the professional wrestling company now known as WWE Welded wire fabric, a reinforcing material typically used in poured concrete slabs Working Women's Forum, an organisation in India World Water Forum, an international forum for water issues Windows Workflow Foundation, Microsoft's workflow management framework Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway, a former 2 foot gauge railroad in Maine, United States WWF (file format), a campaign to produce PDF electronic documents that forbid printing Words with Friends, a game for Apple and Android platforms Waterside Workers» Federation, a former Australian trade union, now the Maritime Union of Australia

Artists such as Winslow Homer, Dorothea Lange, Elizabeth Catlett and Lewis Hine depict laborers throughout the changing landscape of America; from child and slave laborers to miners, railway and steel workers, to the modern gradual disappearance of the worker.

Chinese railway builders look up from their labors, workers trudge home in the slightly menacing twilight of Pyongyang, a new day or a new season fills the horizon.

[There are] fossils of unfathomable age, and fantastical trees such as Cedar of Lebanon, the Phoenix Palm, and the Methuselah tree, thought to be one of the oldest trees in the World at 4,847 years of age, as well as a railroad tie taken from the Panama Canal Railway, which claimed the lives of between 5,000 to 10,000 workers over its 50 year construction, and wood is salvaged from the remnants of the iconic Atlantic City boardwalk devastated by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Remember the folk tale of John Henry, the railway worker who went head to head in a contest of efficiency with a steam - drill to prove that man was superior to machine?

The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) represents over 80,000 members working across the transport industry including on buses and road freight, mainline and underground railways, as well as shipping and offshore.

The dispute began over a year ago between the driver workers and the parents company of the firm, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), amid safety concerns regarding the change of guards and driver only trains.

The Queen, 1984 CanLII 20 (SCC), (taxation); Canadian National Railway Co. v. Canada (Canadian Human Rights Commission), 1987 CanLII 109 (SCC), (administrative); Rizzo & Rizzo Shoes Ltd. (Re), 1998 CanLII 837 (SCC), (employment); R. v. Sharpe, 2001 SCC 2, (criminal) Bell ExpressVu Limited Partnership v. Rex, 2002 SCC 42, and Merk v. International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers, Local 771, 2005 SCC 70.

A former railway worker who was diagnosed with mesothelioma before Christmas last year makes a special appeal for more people to be aware of the dangers of asbestos.

Regulation 21 provides an exemption for workers where «continuity of service» is paramount, such as in the railway industry.

Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation for Injuries Act in 1886 (re-enacted in 1892), partly as a response to the rising number of injuries to railway workers.

The search was called off, and the Applicant was found approximately two days after, in a semi-conscious state, by a railway worker doing a routine inspection of the tracks.

Cawkell also suggested Canada's harsh sentencing approach to heroin originally stems from discrimination against Chinese railway workers in the 1900s that included negative generalizations about their use of opium, Spies noted.

Methods and Participants: To test the hypothesis that the presence of a depressive state is associated with future weight gain, a 4 - year prospective occupation - based cohort study was conducted in male adult workers... (N = 1730) at a railway company.