Sentences with phrase «of rail workers»

Lawyers of rail workers arrested in connection with Lac - Mégantic derailment say charges should be dropped, Montreal Gazette

Listed among the breakaway affiliates of the NLC and the Trade Union Congress are NUPENG, NUEE, Nigeria Union of Mine Workers, National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Employees, Nigeria Union of Rail Workers, National Union of Lottery Agents and Employees, Association of Nigeria Aviation, Professionals, National Association Aircraft Pilots and Engineers and others.

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But the president has long railed against US companies that hire and produce their goods abroad, touching on the concerns of American workers who have lost their jobs in manufacturing.

Southborough, MA — May 19th, 2017: RxAdvance today announced that the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART), one of North America's most dynamic and diverse unions with 216,000 members, has awarded its multi-year pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services contract to RxAdvance beginning on Jan. 1, 2018.

A number of modern urban newspapers, such as the Baltimore Sun, the Richmond Times — Dispatch, and the Hartford Courant ran advertisements before the Civil War for the sale of slaves or the recapture of runaways; all four of the major North American railroads own rail lines that were built with slave labor; the founder of Lehman Bros. bought slaves as workers for the firm when it was founded in pre — Civil War Alabama.

«That meddlesome regulation encouraging healthcare workers to obstruct needed treatment considered offensive,» Barbara Coombs Lee, the head of Compassion and Choices, railed on her blog, «allows ideologues in health care to place their own dogmatic beliefs above all.»

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R - Shirley) announced Thursday 11 union endorsements in his re-election bid, including the Suffolk County Correction Officers Association, Smart Transportation Divison of the Long Island Rail Road, Transport Workers Union Local 252 and Plumbers Local Union No. 200.

The MTA will audit safety procedures at the Long Island Rail Road after an NTSB report criticized the railroad for lax enforcement of rules that could have saved the life of a worker struck by a train last June, railroad officials said.

After conceding to pay a part of health insurance costs, unionized transit workers of Metro Bus and Rail are looking at potentially receiving their first pay raise in eight years.

On Monday, Cuomo railed against corporate CEOs when he spoke to union workers who are on strike against the Charter Communications Company, which provides cable service to much of New York under the name Spectrum.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, center, and Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Joe Lhota, right, on tracks, watch as a worker cuts a gap in a section of track to create a continuous welded rail at the Avenue M Subway Station in Brooklyn, on May 7.

Standing before a crowd of unionized hotel workers several hundred strong, the governor of New York rails against Republicans for feeding workers like them a lie all these years.

Heathrow Express workers: # 700 Network Rail: # 500 Docklands Light Railway: # 900 Virgin Rail: # 500 London Overground: # 600 London Underground: At least # 850 BAA staff: up to # 1,200 London Underground maintenance workers at Tube Lines: # 850 London Overground maintenance workers employed by Bombardier: # 650 Workers at the mayor of London's bike scheme: # 500 The latest TfL accounts for the full financial year 2011/12 show a budget surplus of # 759 mworkers: # 700 Network Rail: # 500 Docklands Light Railway: # 900 Virgin Rail: # 500 London Overground: # 600 London Underground: At least # 850 BAA staff: up to # 1,200 London Underground maintenance workers at Tube Lines: # 850 London Overground maintenance workers employed by Bombardier: # 650 Workers at the mayor of London's bike scheme: # 500 The latest TfL accounts for the full financial year 2011/12 show a budget surplus of # 759 mworkers at Tube Lines: # 850 London Overground maintenance workers employed by Bombardier: # 650 Workers at the mayor of London's bike scheme: # 500 The latest TfL accounts for the full financial year 2011/12 show a budget surplus of # 759 mworkers employed by Bombardier: # 650 Workers at the mayor of London's bike scheme: # 500 The latest TfL accounts for the full financial year 2011/12 show a budget surplus of # 759 mWorkers at the mayor of London's bike scheme: # 500 The latest TfL accounts for the full financial year 2011/12 show a budget surplus of # 759 million.

He told the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and unions representing 5,400 rail workers to «put the interests of New Yorkers first» by ending the standoff.

Mick Cash, general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, on BBC Radio 4's Today programme

Members of the unions representing most Long Island Rail Road workers have overwhelmingly approved the four - year contract that was negotiated last month.

Union funding of political parties also came under scrutiny, with Policy Exchange railing against the default position for union membership being a commitment to donation rather than allowing workers to «opt - in» if they so choose.

If months of negotiations fall short this week, the New Jersey rail workers who shuttle 105,000 commuters to and from the city each day could walk off the job at 12:01 a.m. March 13.

On Tuesday, sprinklers watered sod and seed while a handful of workers tied up loose ends like painting railings.

So far this year injures of workers on the Long Island Rail Road have increased more than 30 % while passenger injuries have increased about 20 %.

At its peak, the Bethlehem Steel plant employed over 25,000 workers and had over 7 million square feet of buildings, as well as almost 30 miles of rail track.

Perry had most recently prosecuted a successful $ 1 billion disability - fraud case involving Long Island Rail Road workers, and she'd risen to become deputy chief of the criminal division.

«If we're going to rebuild our economy and create new jobs, we need to connect all of our cities, businesses and workers with high speed rail,» Gillibrand said.

The late Bob Crow, the former head of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (the RMT), was perhaps the most prominent of these.

Long Island Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin announced 11 union endorsements in his re-election bid, including the Suffolk County Correction Officers Association, Smart Transportation Divison of the Long Island Rail Road, Transport Workers Union Local 252 and Plumbers Local Union No. 200.

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.

Laura Curran (D - Baldwin), one of two Democrats vying to challenge Martins in November, received the endorsement of three labor unions — the Sheet Metal Air - Rail - Transportation [SMART] Union's Transportation Division; Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union Local 1102 and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1049.

Some residents of Ido Local government area in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital and their counterparts from Odeda Local government area in Ogun state on Monday sacked Chinese construction workers handling the Ibadan - Lagos light rail project.

For rail workers and passengers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, train travel — while miraculous for the speed with which it carried people across vast distances — presented ghastly dangers.

The towers sway from side to side and a group of helmeted Japanese construction workers roar with laughter as you cling to the steel railings.

While working on the route of U.K.'s new high - speed rail line HS2, workers discovered an ancient coastline in a London suburb.

On May 10, 1869, rail workers drove a golden spike into the ground of Promontory Point, Utah.

In addition, 30 rail companies from around the world have pledged that if selected for high - speed rail contracts, they will hire American workers and expand their bases of operation in the United States.

«The District of Columbia is among the first in the nation to achieve SSO Program certification to strengthen rail transit passenger and worker safety,» said FTA Deputy Administrator K. Jane Williams.

To date, 30 rail companies from around the world have pledged that, if selected for high - speed rail contracts, they will hire American workers and expand their bases of operations in the United States.

«By investing in this light rail project, we are helping thousands of workers, seniors, students and others in Maricopa County connect with jobs, medical care, and all the services this region has to offer.»

They shipped in tons of ma - terial by rail, truck, and mule team and employed thousands of civilian workers.

Lately, it's been getting a bit of interest because some parties see it as a threat to much - loved Defined Benefit (DB) pension plans for federal government workers and Crown Corporation employees, (such as Canada Post, CBC, Via Rail, etc.).

A quick - thinking MTA worker yelled for them to lie in the trench between the rails, and the imperiled pair survived being run over by an A train.â $ ¨ â $ ¨ In the days that followed, word spread like wildfire about this amazing act of loyalty.

Following the completion of her 2009 - 2010 series on the US Mexico border, Sambunaris spent four years traveling from the southern border of Texas to the Permian Basin and the Gulf Coastal Plains, photographing and interviewing local residents, pipe layers, rail men, oil workers, shipping executives, fishermen, truckers, port workers and marine biologists.

Rail at Center of Stimulus Package China's high speed rail build - out is at the front and center of its stimulus spending, in large part out of fear: little is more intimidating to Beijing's leaders than the sight of thousands of unemployed workRail at Center of Stimulus Package China's high speed rail build - out is at the front and center of its stimulus spending, in large part out of fear: little is more intimidating to Beijing's leaders than the sight of thousands of unemployed workrail build - out is at the front and center of its stimulus spending, in large part out of fear: little is more intimidating to Beijing's leaders than the sight of thousands of unemployed workers.

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.

Our partner, John Cooper, has chaired the FELA Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice and its Railroad Law Section, and remains a widely recognized advocate for workers» rights in the field of rail and train accidents.

In a recent decision that will concern all employers, the Employment Appeal Tribunal («EAT») clarified the meaning of «equivalent period of compensatory rest» under Regulation 24 of the Working Time Regulations 1998 in Crawford v Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd. and held that an employer must provide workers with a 20 minute period of continuous rest for every 6 hours worked.

Leveraging its deeply embedded trade union relationships with clients including Unite the Union, Unison, Rail and Maritime Workers Union, and Fire Brigade Union, Thompsons Solicitors LLP is noted for its «excellent work» across the spectrum of personal injury cases, ranging from low - value matters to those of the utmost severity.

R (on the application of National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, Transport Salaried Staffs Association and Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen) v (1) Secretary of State for Transport (2) First Capital Connect [2014] EWHC (Admin).

This requirement to disclose personal employee information to a union does not breach PIPEDA, according to Via Rail Canada Inc. v. National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers» Union, National Council 4000, (2003) 116 LAC (4th) 407 because employees implicitly consent to their bargaining agent to having access to limited information that is of low sensitivity.

Some workers drive trains, some coordinate the activities of the trains, and others operate signals and switches in the rail yard.

Start up of EHS Departments included business development of programs, budget, as well as hiring personnel, filing workers compensation, establish contracts that included medical services, physicals, drug screening, waste disposal, rail car and tank truck loading / unloading operations, Fire Marshall plan review, and sprinkle...