Sentences with phrase «of big unions»

And that is why it is time to set aside the rights of these big unions and bring back the rights of the individual.

In the 1994 leadership contest, Tony Blair swept up the union votes, although most of the heads of the big unions would have prevented him becoming leader, if only they had known how.

Unite went for Ed Miliband today - making a hat - trick for him of the big unions: Unison and the GMB are already on board.

Four of the biggest unions in the UK — the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) and the University and College Union (UCU)- agreed to industrial action.

My name is Bill de Blasio and I am mayor of the biggest union town in the United States of America,» he said.

Irwin's campaign disclosure form reads like a «who's who» of big union players, including max - out contributions from AFSCME, the California School Employees Association, the California State Council of Laborer's PAC, the California Teachers Association, Los Angeles County Firefighters Local 1014, SEIU United Long Term Care Workers Local 6434, Service Employees International Union Local 1000, the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California and the United Nurses Association

Initially, the odds of him winning were around 100 - 1, but his campaign was boosted when he won the support of two of the biggest unions, Unite and Unison, and became the only candidate to vote against the Conservatives» welfare bill while the others abstained.

Perhaps even more important to the president than AFL - CIO backing is the support of the biggest union in the country — the National Education Association.

Not exact matches

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

The double - tracking has helped raise the average length of Union Pacific's intermodal trains — which are now less limited by the need to fit on sidings — from 158 cars in 2007 to 170 today, meaning that UP is handling far bigger volumes.

More than a dozen big chemical companies are building tens of billions of dollars in petrochemical plants along the Gulf Coast, and Union Pacific, boasting by far the region's best routes, is destined to get most of their rail business.

Union Pacific owns a big chunk of Ferromex, or FXE, one of Mexico's leading railroads.

Around the conductor's waist hangs a yellow control box about the size of a small backpack, what Union Pacific calls the «big belt pack.»

Just days later, the U.S. president made clear in his State of the Union address that when it came to the other big eco-controversy in America — hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to access natural gas reserves — he was siding with the oil and gas industry.

Britain's exit from the European Union means that one of the biggest economies will stop making contributions to the bloc's budget.

The difference between the two approaches is a subtle one in that the central bank's current policy tool - a 101 trillion yen ($ 1 trillion) program of asset buying and lending - also expands the BOJ's balance sheet, which at a third of GDP is a bigger proportion of the economy compared with those of the U.S. and European Union's central banks.

May has said she wants a bigger majority in parliament to strengthen her hand as she goes into negotiations with the rest of the European Union about Britain's exit from the bloc.

It's been reported that the biggest German lender could move 4,000 jobs from the U.K. to the euro zone as a result of the British decision to leave the European Union.

A version of this article appears in the June 1, 2016 issue of Fortune with the headline «The European Union is in Big Trouble.»

TORONTO — The heads of two of Canada's biggest unions say they're resigning so new leaders can take the helm and expand the membership rolls as the groups join together in a merger that will create the country's largest private - sector union.

Politically, however, the creation of a middle category of worker would be a hard sell, with labor unions likely to oppose it, says Brishen Rogers, a professor of labor law at Temple University, out of fear that it might tempt many big employers to eliminate fuller - benefit jobs.

But most of that uninsured debt is held by one of the six biggest banks or a credit union.

All of the pomp and circumstance that surrounds a State of the Union address lets people know that it is indeed a big deal.

«It is incomprehensible that the union is calling for the biggest pay increase for the most well - paid group of staff,» Lufthansa board member Bettina Volkens said in a statement.

Union's people didn't pull off a big - time industry nod like that screwing off, er, making silly videos for the hell of it.

BRUSSELS — The European Union on Wednesday launched the long and politically fraught process of drawing up its new long - term spending plans, seeking a bigger budget to finance new priorities like defense and border control and plug the gap left by Britain's departure.

The famously successful investor Warren Buffett — who has raked in billions guided by his motto to «Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful» — probably took a big loss like the rest of us after the U.K. voted to leave the European Union last week.

Sayanogorsk, Rusal's third biggest aluminium plant, is where Deripaska began buying up workers» shares during Russia's privatisation drive after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

One Occupy rally I stumbled across here in Toronto featured speakers from a big trade union, members of which enjoy jobs that pay relatively well, and a representative of one of Canada's aboriginal groups, whose complaints are legitimate but have little to do with having been left behind by capitalism.

The brawling is about big salaries, offices, with soft leather chairs and jarrah - top tables, that overlook the Swan River, interstate and overseas trips, and the power to promote the next generation of young Laborites who, more often than not, hail from student union ranks on Perth's four publicly - owned tertiary campuses.

Time can also correct big market swings, like the one following the U.K. vote to leave the European Union, which can quickly erase a portion of your retirement savings.

Major airlines are having to adapt to changes, with Ryanair, Europe's biggest budget airline, reluctantly recognizing unions last year to avert a strike, after a shortage of standby pilots forced it to cancel 20,000 flights.

Bayer AG cleared one big hurdle for its $ 66 billion takeover of Monsanto, winning European Union approval for the deal after agreeing to bolster BASF SE by selling it seeds, pesticides and digital agriculture technology.

Unions, newly confident but reeling from years of what they would probably call a hostile work environment, can almost taste a big victory.

It's a piece of European Union (EU) legislation that could have a far - reaching impact on some of the biggest technology firms in the world including Facebook and Google.

Lithuania only got to the games thanks to funding from small time donors and one big contributor: THE Grateful Dead (pictured), who commissioned the t - shirts in support of the team / country's recent independence from the Soviet Union.

European Union countries along with the Marshall Islands, the world's second - biggest ship registry, had supported a goal of cutting emissions by 70 to 100 percent by 2050, compared with 2008 levels.

As the European Union tries to tackle the biggest migrant crisis it has been faced with since World War Two, it also seeks Turkey's help to stem the flow of refugees and is pressuring Ankara to hold up its part of a $ 3 billion (# 2.3 billion) deal struck a few months ago.

The conflict between the mail carrier and its biggest union sparked another instance of federal back - to - work legislation, but it didn't end the more than year - long dispute.

The European Union law, called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is the biggest overhaul of online privacy since the birth of the internet, giving Europeans the right to know what data is stored on them and the right to have it deleted.

«This is a big deal, when you have that amount of data, and the privacy violations there are significant,» Senator Jeff Flake (R - AZ) said in an appearance on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday.

While we've known for awhile that Freedom Communications would get to this point of a fresh bankruptcy filing, it is Tribune Publishing's spring purchase of the Union - Tribune that changes the business dynamics of the big market.

France Telecom SA, SFR's main competitor and the country's biggest phone operator, was rocked two years ago by a streak of employee suicides which unions blamed on stress caused by a reorganization aimed at making the company more competitive.

In the wake of consumer ire over big bank fees, many of them turned to credit unions.

We were curious about how it looks to the crew and the passengers in third class, so we made some calls to union leaders, anti-poverty activists, and various economists and historians who make it their business to study big business without being part of the action.»

Interestingly, the biggest move here wasn't from customers themselves but from the European Union Court of Justice, which upheld the Right to be Forgotten principle in a May ruling against Google.

We rounded off the list with some of the country's biggest credit unions with broad - based membership requirements.

While other provinces, most recently Ontario, and the federal government have moved to take big money out of politics, the Christy Clark government has not only said no to banning union and corporate donations, and no to municipal election spending limits — it has moved to eliminate pre-election spending limits in the 60 days prior to an election.

Even though the European Union has released policy statements that discuss potential future seizures of client bank accounts as a solution to prevent a TBTF (too big to fail) bank from failing, countless European citizens will continue to ignore such warnings as well.

For the calendar six months United Health, Foot Locker, Omnicare, Lear and CVS Health contributed most while National Oilwell Varco, Oracle, Union Pacific, Glencore and Bank of America were the biggest detractors from return.