Sentences with phrase «of decent working conditions»

«It's about hope of decent working conditions across Europe, about hope and free movement of people, about hope on environmental protection across the whole continent - you can't protect the environment within national borders.»

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What we have had in British political life under British common law is a procrustean class system, one of the most fixed in the world, confirming aristocratic and plutocratic class rule, rigidly preventing the overwhelming numbers of the lower class from gaining equality, representation in government, decent working conditions, the right to union organization, suffrage, and acceptable living standards until the end of the nineteenth century.

The historical forces now pushing those issues toward the top of the social agenda — and therefore toward serious consideration by the churches — are different from those of the turbulent 1920s and «30s, when the masses of working people in the United States were struggling for the basic right to have a union, a decent wage and tolerable working conditions.

And the sooner we stop fetishizing it as the core of what it means to be a mother and a woman, as some sort of sacred, higher, path for the female sex, the sooner we will see it for what it really is: difficult, necessary, and honorable work whose workers deserve dignified and decent working conditions.

The Rainforest Alliance has been working to strengthen the position of smallholder cocoa farmers since 2006 — both on the land and in the marketplace — by training them to conserve natural resources, increase productivity and secure decent living and working conditions.

For eighty years, RWDSU and Bloomingdale's management have negotiated contracts that provided decent wages, job security, good medical, dental and pension benefits, and a voice in the creation of respectful, healthy and safe working conditions,» the letter states.

It took years for workers to develop effective forms of organisation through trade unions and to name and diagnose the harms that underscored moral claims to limits on the working day, decent pay and conditions, and later to a social minimum from the surplus they produced.

It would be easy to look at those who have decent salaries and good terms and conditions and think of them as whingers when they stand up against changes to their contracts or working environments, but the very reason they have those good terms is usually because they have strong unions.

This strike in the UK is part of a global movement advocating for fair salaries and decent working conditions.

The very act of caring is so gendered, that type of work is so overwhelmingly female and then their supposed «natural» inclination to do it is almost used against them when they want to ask for decent wages and benefits and working conditions,» he said.

Mr. Posner also has been a prominent voice in support of fair, decent, and humane working conditions in factories throughout the global supply chain.

Yet, even though teachers are at the heart of the educational enterprise, they've had to struggle to gain competitive salaries, decent working conditions, and manageable class sizes.

So the answer to your question is that we need to work to create schools that are capable of retaining teachers, through the combination of decent pay, good working conditions, strong collegial support, solid leadership and sound educational policies.

In his tenure, he delivered education reform, abolished the death penalty in Illinois, improved nursing - home conditions for the elderly, legalized civil unions, walked across the state in support of decent health care for all citizens, proposed historic tax reform for working families, and prioritized animal welfare.

Decent work and economic growth: The project would lead to generation of direct and indirect employment and improving economic condition of the area.

The march commemorates the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, when 10,000 coal miners rose against the rule of the coal operators and fought for the basic right to live and work in decent conditions.

The Centre for Social Innovation was created in Toronto in 2004 (hence the Canadian spelling on the door) to be a home for social entrepreneurs who didn't have access to decent working conditions; it has evolved into a» home for a diverse community of people and organizations that are creating a better world.»

The Rainforest Alliance has been working to strengthen the position of smallholder cocoa farmers since 2006 — both on the land and in the marketplace — by training them to conserve natural resources, increase productivity and secure decent living and working conditions.

Of course - one could draw a direct line from battles for decent working conditions in North America to the struggles today to do the same around the world.

In addition the company is committed to building long - term relationships with manufacturers and adheres to fair trade labor practices, guaranteeing good working conditions with decent wages, no child labor, and the promotion of handicapped people and women coming from underprivileged areas.

It affirmed that health inequities are unacceptable, and noted that they arise from the societal conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, including early childhood development, education, economic status, employment and decent work, housing environment, and effective prevention and treatment of health problems.

Mayworks, the annual Festival of Working People and the Arts, is an example of this engagement, reflecting the premise that «workers and artists share a common struggle for decent wages, healthy working conditions and a living culture.Working People and the Arts, is an example of this engagement, reflecting the premise that «workers and artists share a common struggle for decent wages, healthy working conditions and a living culture.working conditions and a living culture.»

The Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario (AECEO) has been leading the charge to improve wages and working conditions for Registered Early Childhood Educators (RECEs) and staff in Ontario.The AECEO's Decent Work Task Force delivers our workforce strategy recommendations to the provincial government today - November 30th

The Ontario Early Childhood Sector Decent Work Charter has been developed by the Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario (AECEO) Decent Work Taskforce as one of the components to mobilizing a collective effort to achieve greater recognition and improved compensation and working conditions for those employed in the sector.

Workers at the lower end of the wage and skill spectrum find themselves struggling to make a decent living, with few or no benefits, little job security and minimal control over their work conditions.

The table legs also happened to be in decent condition so we made the decision to leave the table legs and chairs in their natural wood color (partly out of laziness and partly because we needed our kitchen table back) which definitely cut down on the work.