Sentences with phrase «of striking the workers»

Kuwait's oil production is set to return to normal in three days after thousands of striking workers returned to their jobs Wednesday.

She was a spokesperson on behalf of striking workers, a volunteer teacher in night schools for railroad workers, and an active trade unionist.

As well as the monthly Masses for the Homeland, Fr Jerzy was organising relief for the families of striking workers — clothes, money and food.

That is wholly un-American,» Rice told a crowd of striking workers.

He also responded to the allegation that he travelled on the day government officials were expected to meet with leaders of the striking workers.

«I think instead of striking the workers and the management should be sitting around the table getting an end to this strike.

Consider, for example, starting a unit by showing students an image of two people or groups of people whose differences and known disagreements are likely to trigger historical or cultural assumptions (such as Native Americans and early Great Plains settlers, British and German soldiers from World War I, or police officers near a picket line of striking workers).

Not exact matches

The second quarter will be impacted by strikes by France's national railway workers (SNCF) which affect the transportation by train of certain products and raw materials, and thus operations at certain sites, mainly in advanced materials.

Protests of this nature don't constitute a legal strike for unionized workers, and the concept of striking in the strict sense doesn't exist for non-union workers.

Last week, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers that represent over 37,000 wireline employees said they had voted to go on strike, if needed, after their contract expired on Aug. 1 at midnight.

Uber's suspension of surge pricing to and from New York's JFK's airport on Saturday was met with mixed results since it coincided with a protest that swarmed the airport and a strike from the NY Taxi Workers Alliance.

«If Air Canada workers are so important that strike could damage health of Canada, then they deserve good pay + decent pensions.»

Thousands of low - paid workers striking in hundreds of cities across the country, demanding a minimum wage of up to $ 15 per hour to replace the current $ 7.25 minimum wage, showing that an increasing amount of those even in jobs are unhappy with their lot.

Workers at one of Macmahon Holdings» operations in Nigeria have launched strike action after disputing end - of - project redundancy payments.

Uber came under renewed pressure over the weekend for a Tweet promoting surge - free pricing during a taxi worker strike in support of immigrants impacted by Trump's Executive Order, which has been widely interpreted as a Muslim ban.

A tentative deal between the company and leaders of striking unions includes 1,400 new jobs and pay raises topping 10 percent, the company and unions representing about 40,000 workers said on Monday.

Thanks in large part to that same mobile technology, workers with marketable skills have more freedom than ever before to strike their own balance between the demands of their job and the rest of their lives.

This year presented its share of challenges: a $ 2 - billion lawsuit related a 2013 factory collapse in Bangladesh; the threat of strike action from some 12,000 workers; and an investigation from the Competition Bureau.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) presented Canada Post with a 72 - hour notice of job action on Thursday evening, hours ahead of a deadline to declare a strike mandate by midnight.

In 1946, however, a violent three - month strike put management itself in a state of war with Hamilton workers.

The difference, says Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and co-director of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC), a nonprofit dedicated to the rights of restaurant workers, is that this strike has a much broader mission.

But in morning, despite the orders to the contrary, textile workers left their work in several factories and sent delegates to ask for support of the strike... which led to mass strike... all went out into the streets.

Sanders maintained his support for the striking Verizon (vz) workers, and brushed aside the comments from executives of both Verizon and General Electric (ge).

It's likely going to mean a stoppage of work on Monday, but — contrary to popular belief — that's not because postal workers will be «on strike.»

Joining a picket line of the telecom company's striking workers, Sanders told them that Verizon is «just another major American corporation trying to destroy the lives of working Americans.»

This year brought the franchise industry some impressive highs, like the increasing growth of new jobs, and some difficult lows, such as the ongoing fast - food worker strikes.

Thousands of workers from chain restaurants including McDonald's, Burger King and Pizza Hut plan to go on strike this Thursday, reports Bloomberg.

Workers in support of the strike argue that their employers have failed to pay overtime or provide rest breaks, and offer scant opportunities for upward mobility.

The strike was called by the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers that jointly represent nearly 40,000 employees, such as customer services representatives and network technicians in Verizon's traditional wireline phone operations.

There is no official support for children who lose their parents in the air strikes and it is a struggle for aid workers to access them, so many rely on members of the community to take them in.

And, whether workers succeed in getting a pay raise or not, the strike and the surrounding scrutiny of the fast - food industry is going to affect everyone in the business.

Canadian Union of Postal Workers protest outside the main postal station of Halifax during a 2011 strike.

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

About 50,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers will be in a legal strike or lockout position as of Saturday.

But 66 other countries around the world still celebrate the May 1 rite of spring as International Workers» Day, with strikes for workers» Workers» Day, with strikes for workers» workers» rights.

Workers at Amazon «s main distribution hub in Italy are planning their first ever strike for Friday, trade unions said, while they are also striking at six warehouses in Germany, threatening to disrupt one of the year's busiest shopping days.

A report by Anzalone Research Group published by Fast Food Forward, the campaign behind the fast food strikes in New York, found that of the 500 fast food workers it surveyed in New York in April 2013, 84 % said that their employer had committed at least one form of wage theft in the past year.

In 1995, more than 200 workers walked out of the plant and, after striking for four days, voted to unionize.

As you might already know, thousands of Verizon workers were on strike during the month of May and consequently were counted as unemployed.

The strike was called by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers that jointly represent employees with such jobs as customer services representatives and network technicians in Verizon Communications Inc's (VZ.N) traditional wireline phone operations.

The Fight for $ 15 movement started with fast - food workers, with a one - day strike by 200 cooks and order - takers, but its strategists have maneuvered to transform it into a broad movement of low - wage workers.

The demonstrations were the latest in a series of strikes that began with fast - food workers in New York in November 2012.

Southwest Airlines Co. and Transport Workers Union of America Local 556 finally struck an agreement in principle after three years of negotiations.

Earlier this year, thousands of AT&T workers, members of the Communications Workers of America union, went on strike over issues like job security and outsoworkers, members of the Communications Workers of America union, went on strike over issues like job security and outsoWorkers of America union, went on strike over issues like job security and outsourcing.

Now — in a time of red state teachers madly striking, of fast - food workers demanding $ 15 an hour, of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter activists refusing to go away — it looks like our time could represent a cultural turn of its own.

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

The union says if CP declines to bargain or the talks fail, workers will provide 72 - hours» notice ahead of a strike.

Kuwaiti oil sector employees sit in a shaded area on the first day of an official strike called by the Oil and Petrochemical Industries Workers Union over public sector pay Continue Reading

During the «Day without Latinxs & Immigrants,» thousands of workers struck and thousands of students were absent from school Over 100 businesses closed during the march (partial list here) Photos here Video here Over ten thousand people marched in Waukesha today as part of a Day Without Latinxs & Immigrants statewide general strike.

Thus, in recent years the Supreme Court has invalidated a Connecticut law (passed to replace the prior Sunday closing law) allowing workers to select their Sabbath day as their day off from work, struck down a Massachusetts statute allowing churches and schools to object to the issuance of liquor licenses in their near vicinity, and abolished an Alabama law allowing students in public schools a moment of silence.