Sentences with phrase «of labor strikes»

Certain CSA Travel Protection plans offer coverage for some effects of labor strikes.

So, how does travel insurance protect travelers in the case of labor strikes?

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.

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.

While the risk of labor strike is certainly present, Southwest has a longstanding history of negotiating deals with its employees, with only 1 work stoppage throughout its 45 - year history.

Calls for routine services including dead animal pickup, strays and other non-emergency calls will be delayed for the duration of the labor strike.

Not exact matches

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.

While it's too soon to know what economic effect the strike might have, significant participation could make an impact — after all, women make up nearly half of the U.S. labor force and influence about 73 % of all household spending.

By the end of Gilded Age, the work of muckraking journalists who had exposed the sordid abuses of workers helped fuel recurring labor strikes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Some industry critics say it too closely mimics the Department of Labor fiduciary rule that was struck down by the courts last week, while others say it doesn't go far enough.

For purposes of this clause, a fortuitous event shall include, but not be limited to: war, fire, labor strike, extreme weather or other emergency.

Although the language of May 1968 had a Maoist flavor and coincided with an enormous labor strike, the revolutionaries loathed the internal discipline and staunch nationalism of the Communist party and the social conservatism of the working class.

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

Whether you are struck by the nesting instinct or not is no indication of the health of your pregnancy or of whether you're getting close to going into labor.

Epidurals significantly interfere with some of the major hormones of labor and birth, which may explain their negative effect on the processes of labor.6 As the World Health Organization comments, «epidural analgesia is one of the most striking examples of the medicalization of normal birth, transforming a physiological event into a medical procedure.»

Berman ordered the Cemeteries Association of Greater Chicago to stop denying families access to burial plots that they own and to allow them to hire any labor they wanted - including the striking and locked - out workers - to prepare the graves.

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.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio waded into private - sector labor relations last night on «Inside City Hall,» offering his opinion on the labor strike affecting Spectrum, a subsidiary of Charter Communications, and the company that owns NY1.

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.

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».

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 them.

Verizon Communications and unions representing nearly 40,000 wireline workers have reached a tentative deal to end a strike that has stretched for more than month, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez said.

Members of New York's congressional delegation issued a warning about a potential Long Island Rail Road strike: Don't rely on Congress to resolve the labor dispute.

The Forum for Public Sector Registered Pension Schemes made up of the 12 public sector labor unions have called off their intended strike which was to begin today [Friday].

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 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.

That union's leader, Debora M. Hayes, who has a long history as a labor and strike leader, was recognized as the area's labor activist of the year.

But the right to bargain collectively is offset by the law's denial to public sector unions of labor's major lever to achieve its bargaining goals — the strike.

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.

[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.

More than 90 % of the union members have voted to authorize an unfair labor practices strike should one ever become necessary.

«If workers strike or are locked out of their jobs during a labor dispute, a utility might operate just fine, or there could be a major problem,» said Scott, an attorney who spent 10 years practicing energy and regulatory law before joining the OSU faculty.

Without limiting anything else in these Terms and Conditions or otherwise, neither the Endocrine Society nor its contractors will be liable for any loss resulting from failure of electronic or mechanical equipment or communication lines, telephone or other interconnect problems, computer viruses, unauthorized access, theft, operator errors, severe weather, earthquakes, natural disasters, strikes or other labor problems, wars, or governmental restrictions.

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.

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 tendencies.

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.

But once the enforced labor truce of World War II came to an end, the «strike wave» of 1946 led to some important revisions of the NLRA that cut back on union power.

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.