Sentences with phrase «of sanitation workers»

A group of sanitation workers in the Çankaya district of Ankara, Turkey began collecting books that were set out in the trash.

A wall of sanitation workers carrying «I AM A MAN» placards and police in riot gear on the 28th; Dr. King returning to Memphis on the 3rd; giving his historic «Mountaintop» speech at the Mason Temple; and the memorial march to City Hall on the 8th are among his evocative, iconic images.

3:30 pm: The day kicks off as The Social Mirror, a mirror - clad Sanitation truck, encircles the Unisphere with a procession of sanitation workers.

As the months wore on, hundreds of sanitation workers took to the streets carrying signs reading, «I AM A MAN.»

The de Blasio administration had also reach an agreement in December 2014 with the rest of the sanitation workers represented by the Sanitation Officers Association and the Uniformed Sanitation Chiefs Association.

Up until six years ago, governors routinely signed legislation shielding NYPD, FDNY, Department of Corrections and Department of Sanitation workers from cuts made to disability payouts for civil servant in less hazardous fields — allowing them to receive 75 percent of their former salary.

Silver attributed the slow clean up to the size of the storm, and the fact that hundreds of sanitation workers have been laid off over the past year.

Mr. Halloran is one of the most colorful characters on the City Council, and his bio includes the fact that he is the leader of a local Pagan group, had a videotaped confrontation with a ticket agent, and sparked a Department of Investigations inquiry after he claimed that he personally knew of sanitation workers who deliberately sloughed off snow removal during a blizzard to protest Bloomberg administration policies (the investigation found no truth to the claims).

The widow of a NYC Department of Sanitation worker who was crushed to death by a runaway street sweeper won a $ 41.5 million negligence award against the city.

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The National Labor Relations Board last week concluded that a sanitation company, Browning - Ferris Industries, and a subcontractor are joint employers of workers.

San Diego Fast - Food Workers to Join Nationwide Protests on 50th Anniversary of Historic Memphis Sanitation Strike Times of San Diego Debbie L. Sklar Feb. 9, 2018

Please don't insult the sanitation workers by comparing them to the charlatans who come out of the Ivy League semataries.

(4) It consists of asking people to imagine themselves in a culture where nearly all the people in charge, from the President to the sanitation worker, are women, where all the «mothers» are men, and where the male body is seen as weak and unclean.

Finally, worker hygiene as well as production and storage area sanitation practices play a critical role in minimizing the potential for contamination of GF foods.

Partnered with national and state governments, we work to assist in educating mothers and children, teachers and students, doctors and village health workers, and a variety of community leaders, in the targeted areas of nutrition, health, water, hygiene, and sanitation.

So huge numbers of diapers, full of potentially infectious bacteria, are being dumped into our waste stream and posing potential health risks to sanitation workers and our public groundwater.

At noon, Albany fast food workers join nationwide protests on the anniversary of the Memphis sanitation strike and rally as part of the Fight for $ 15 movement, state Capitol, Albany.

At 1 p.m., unions and immigrant communities demand ICE release Eber Garcia Vasquez, a private sanitation worker and longtime member of the Teamsters union, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 26 Federal Pl., Manhattan.

Dr. King was in Memphis to lead a march protesting the working conditions and low wages of the city's sanitation workers, and in his final speech, he spoke of how racial and economic injustice are inextricably linked.

Halloran said five city workers, including two Department of Transportation and three Sanitation Department employees assigned to Queens, told him the day before that they were asked by supervisors «to take their time» plowing roads because the «mayor's office doesn't care about them.»

The workers told Halloran they were ordered to do this because of cuts the mayor made to the city Sanitation Department.

State Senator Bill Perkins, Assemblymembers Denny Farrell and Keith Wright, as well as several unions including District Council 37, United Federation of Teachers, New York State United Teachers, Civil Service Employees Association, Operating Engineers Local 891 and Sanitation Workers.

Speaker Sheldon Silver is taking a much different view of the NY Post article alleging that certain Sanitation department bosses specifically instructed workers to respond slowly to routes in order to make a point.

Nagle will present a brief overview of the history and structure of the DSNY and lead a discussion with a panel of DSNY sanitation workers.

The city has also proposed privatizing the operation of four of the city's marine transfer stations for garbage, which would force the Department of Sanitation to shed 248 uniformed workers and an additional 54 civilian staffers through attrition in 2013.

Marshall also honored Sanitation Department workers Semi Nkozi and Joseph Maneggio, who rescued a group of children from a burning Far Rockaway building in December; Detectives Richard Johnson and Charles Lo Presti, who arrested a suspect in the Jan. 1 firebombing of an Islamic center in Jamaica; and 91 - year - old World War II veteran Arno Heller of Rego Park.

QUEENS — Officials and community leaders are urging members of the LGBT community in Queens to be on alert after the choking deaths of a former city sanitation worker and teacher in Elmhurst and East Elmhurst over the last two weeks.

Mayor Bill de Blasio already has the endorsement of several city unions, including the sanitation workers, Mulgrew noted.

«Airport workers have had enough and are continuing to stand up for themselves in the spirit of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who told striking sanitation workers in Memphis, «We've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end,»» said Councilmember Andy King.

Sanitation workers said they felt the mayor had looked out for them and weren't worried about some of the other criticisms of de Blasio.

Scrapping the payout would save the city an estimated $ 1 billion a year — «the equivalent cost of more than 10,000 teachers, police officers, firefighters, sanitation workers, and correction officers,» Bloomberg told legislators on Monday.

At 9:30 a.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at the funeral for sanitation worker Steven Frosch, St. Catherine of Sienna Roman Catholic Church, 990 Holzheimer St., Franklin Square.

Harry Nespoli, the straight - talking Sanitation workers president, summed it up at the City Council hearing when he said the storm simply «got ahead of us.»»

A sanitation worker moves garbage ahead of a snow plow at Union Square.

In November, the mayor made a show of rolling out his labor support when he first declared for reelection, touting early endorsements from SEIU 32BJ, the Uniformed Sanitation Workers Union, and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.

As part of the deal, the de Blasio administration and the sanitation workers» union will create a joint Labor - Management Committee on Productivity, which will review productivity targets related to the mayor's plan, announced last month, to cut all waste from landfills by 2030.

Two dozen expected vacancies in sanitation because of transfers will be replaced by full - time and part - time workers, he said.

Sanitation workers also gave up an effective guarantee of overtime work that had been in the previous contract.

De Blasio commended sanitation workers for their role in helping the city rebuild following Hurricane Sandy in 2012, as he battles the federal government over how effectively the city managed funds provided for the Build It Back program for homeowners and faces pressure from City Council members to speed up the rebuilding of homes.

But he said Bloomberg also shoulders some of the blame because neither he nor Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty appeared to fully appreciate the extent of the workers» anger or know what was going on on the ground.

Thousands of people plan actions to honor Dr. King's fight for basic freedom for sanitation workers and protest the rigged economy, just days before Supreme Court will hear case meant to attack working people Manhattan, NY — Today, leaders from -LSB-...]

Thus, «these huge debts need to be settled before effective delivery of services can be carried out» because these debts mean that the sanitation service providers argue, among other things, that «they needed fuel, they needed tires, they need to pay their workers so they were not able to collect the waste regularly the way we desire.»

But Quinn charged that instead of relying on the company's workers, the Sanitation Department spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire people to do the work that Cemusa was already required to do.

On the last day of his life, Dr. King was supporting a controversial movement for fair wages and safe working conditions for black sanitation workers.

Barry Grodenchik, a former assemblyman and deputy Queens borough president, announced he had secured the backing of Teamsters Local 831, which represents the city's sanitation workers.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

The SHARPS Disposal Program is an environmentally responsible method to dispose of unwanted needles, lancets and syringes, which are a potential danger to sanitation workers and the environment when disposed of improperly.

Workers are also fighting to get shelter, safe water and sanitation facilities into place even as the nation faces the added threat of a tropical storm later this week.

Occupations that may be at increased risk of exposure include health workers, laboratory workers, cleaning crews (for hospitals, ambulances, travel facilities, etc.), transportation workers (e.g., airlines, public transportation, taxis), sanitation workers, and morgue workers.

Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to a mass meeting at the Mason Temple in support of striking sanitation workers.