Sentences with phrase «of union efforts»

As the bulk of union effort in this race focuses on helping Corbyn, pragmatism will need to come from different sources.

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The move was in response to a union effort after a maid accused Dominique Strauss - Kahn, then - leader of the International Monetary Fund, of sexual assault.

But the effort, according to an outside organizer with the union, Local 32035 of the Baltimore - Washington Newspaper Guild, has «gone nowhere.»

In his complaint, McGlaughlin describes a history of «abusive» practices and conflict with supervisors that predated — and he says prompted — his union - organizing efforts, and continued after he began seeking to organize his fellow workers.

But operations were strictly Canadian until 2005, when new executives with connections to Noranda agreed to a joint venture with the former Canadian mining giant in Turkey — which was liberalizing its mining industry as part of ongoing efforts to join the European Union.

Western nations fear the Gulf rivalries playing out in Somalia could sideline their multi-billion dollar, U.N. - led efforts to build a functional Somali army to fight Shabaab before the withdrawal of African Union peacekeepers in 2020.

A drive to organize a union at a unit of Bloomberg LP has fizzled, and the employee leading the effort has been fired, Fortune has learned.

The Fight for $ 15, a worldwide effort to raise wages and strengthen unions, has successfully led to better pay in many places since its launch in 2012, and a proposed federal minimum wage of $ 15 an hour was part of the Democratic Party platform in 2016.

Finally, a growing number of union leaders are abandoning the futile efforts to achieve incremental reforms of the current ossified and defunct labor law and instead are calling for opening up labor law to encourage and protect workers who experiment with these and other more fluid and varied activities free from reprisals.

After some years of Cuban hostility following the Soviet Union's collapse and Russia's withdrawal of the vast subsidies it had provided for decades, the Kremlin has made new efforts to solidify the two countries» strategic bond.

On Saturday, workers voted in favor of including civil disobedience in their efforts to reach a $ 15 - per - hour minimum wage and the right to form a union without fear of retribution from employers.

Following the Paris attacks last year, the European Union (EU) regulators planned a crackdown on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in an effort to tackle the financing of terror.

On to this accusation of «working directly with union supporters»: Our story was done completely independent of any unionization efforts.

Few Albertans would shed tears or anxiously grip the edges of Grandpa Dwayne's wheelchair to hear of money - saving efforts to transfer cafeteria, security or pillowcase - folding duties to outside companies — and few outside of union halls will stand to applaud Notley if she highlights this level of public service job preservation.

The first person you should be aware of is the legendary financier Jay Cooke, a treasury bond salesman whose efforts helped fund the Union army during the civil war.

Apo - The European Union on Thursday launched a plan for thousands of 18 - year - old Europeans to travel in the bloc for free this summer as part of efforts to promote the EU.

LONDON (AP)-- British Prime Minister Theresa May has firmly rejected the notion of a second referendum on the country's membership in the European Union, insisting Wednesday that the U.K. wouldn't attempt a back - handed effort to remain in the bloc.

Does it count in her favor that a Russian Jewish atheist made heroic (yes, heroic) efforts to leave the Soviet Union and become an American citizen, and that she defended her adopted home for the rest of her life?

The chief Rabbi of wartime Rome had been sheltered by Jesuits, and he later paid eloquent and generous tribute to Pius XII and his collaborators for their rescue efforts, as did Dr. Raffael Contoni, head of Italy's wartime Jewish Assistance Committee and later president of the union of Italian Jewish communities.

Another surprise event at this year's convention was the decision to reject the effort by some to change the auxiliary status of the Woman's Missionary Union, a missions - support group, and bring it under the direct control of the convention.

After the June 1953 uprising in East Germany, the secretary of the communist party's writers union distributed leaflets declaring that the people had lost the confidence of the government and it would take redoubled efforts to win it back ¯ to which Brecht responded, «Would it not be easier in that case for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?»

In the past, an international body like the WJC was clearly necessary to coordinate Jewish efforts in, say, the campaign against the oppression of Jews in the Soviet Union.

Despite the efforts of the Modern Church People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional positions.

So, many of my arguments on this particular subject have been efforts on my part to get clear about what the expansion of the concept of marriage to include same - sex unions will mean for the social fabric.

His other challenge came out of my major moral claim, that any serious effort to reduce emissions by any significant amount, let alone the 60 - 80 % called for by the European Union and some of our presidential candidates, would destroy economies all over the world and condemn the poor to perpetual poverty - which is why China and India will have nothing to do with emissions caps.

The appearance of the Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry agreement of the World Council of Churches» Faith and Order Commission, the theological consensus statement of the Consultation on Church Union (COCU), and the proliferation of local ecumenical efforts in countless places offer new possibilities for effective unity.

The most powerful effort in the direction of Full Co-operatives, in Buber's opinion, has been the Village Communes which have taken the form of an organic union of agriculture, industry, and the handicrafts and of communal production and consumption.

Meanwhile, the World and National councils of churches, myriad regional and local councils, the many bilateral conversations, and unity efforts like the Consultation on Church Union have continued to do their work largely out of the public eye except for occasional moments of media - orchestrated controversy.

ACLU, Amnesty International, UNICEF, Doctor's Without Borders, Engineers Without Borders, Donors Choose, Oxfam, Kiva, Goodwill Industries, The Nature Conservancy, Rotary Fund, Seed Foundation, The Secular Humanist Aid and Relief Effort or S.H.A.R.E., The Union of Concerned Scientists, United Nations Children's Fund, The Wheelchair Foundation, The Anti Discrimination Support Network, The Tanzanian Children's Fund, PlanUSA, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Afghan Children's Fund, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (Superman was an atheist), Coalition to stop the use of child soldiers, Direct Relief International, The Halo Trust, Orbis....

@Bob Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF, World Health Organization, Greenpeace, Kiva, Donors Choose, Union of Concerned Scientists, ACLU, Amnesty International, Oxfam, Population Connection, Mercy Corps, Electronic Frontiers Foundation, International Peace Insti / tute, Secular Humanist Aid and Relief Effort, Atheist Relief Fund, Secular Center USA, HIVOS, Earthward Inc.... etc etc..

But others have pointed Out that individualism is not only a feature of the cultural landscape between Boston and Los Angeles; it is reinforced in all advanced industrial societies, even in the Soviet Union, by the state's efforts to supply services and legal guarantees.

Indeed, it was precisely his effort to incorporate the cosmic vision of Whitehead (especially the idea of experiencing all of reality as a single complex datum) into his own interpretation of religious experience that created such tension in his efforts to effect a union between religious experience and scientific method; for the task of science is to «prune down the objects [of experience] to the limits of its own powers of definition and minute examination,» while «religion must deal with the total concrete fact...» (RESM 53).

In any event, the saints have known that «union,» in the supreme sense intended by the mystics, is not attained by human effort but is (as they say) always a «gift» of God; while contemplation, in the strictest meaning of that term, is only possible for the few who are called to it — although there is an element of contemplation in all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall see.

It does not rise to the level of a serious effort to show that one can accept the idea that two persons of the same sex can marry while also holding that marriage is, as a matter of principle, the exclusive union of two people who forsake all others.

In recent years, Kirill and his «foreign minister,» Metropolitan Hilarion, have been mouthpieces for Russian president Vladimir Putin's efforts to reconstitute something like the old Soviet Union in the name of a «historic Russian space,» an exercise in Great Russian irredentism that has taken a particularly grave turn in Ukraine; concurrently, they've conducted a campaign of seduction in the Vatican and among American evangelical Protestants, putatively in service to a united front against western decadence and secularism.

Reconstruction refers to the effort to bring the South into the Union after the Civil War, a period that was followed by a curtailment of civil rights for Southern African - Americans.

Whatever the noble intentions and heroic efforts of many teachers, these unions are the enemy of the children of the poor.

The figure for the Soviet Union is open to question because it has not been possible in recent years to get accurate information concerning the fate of Islam under Communism and it is known that efforts have been made to curtail Islam, partly for ideological reasons and partly to break the ties of the Muslims with the Turkish and Iranian areas.

On 20 April 2007 the Wines of Chile Association was born with the objective of unifying the efforts of the previous trade unions, Viñas de Chile A.G. and ChileVid A.G..

Safer Internet Day is part of a wider and long established effort by the European Union to raise awareness of illegal and harmful content for children.

He is a Board Member of the Harvard Alumni Association, Union Theological Seminary, and the You Can Play Project, a groundbreaking effort to combat homophobia and transphobia in sports.

UPDATE 11/9/07 — The Parent Bloggers Network is leading a great effort with Consumers Union to protest the seemingly never - ending saga of toy recalls.

Even after a contract agreement through November 1994 was reached between the union, Service Employees International Local 106, and management, the Cemeteries Association of Greater Chicago, the effort to draft a bill continued.

The money for the Tibetans and the Dalai Lama was part of the CIA's worldwide effort during the height of the Cold War to undermine Communist governments, particularly in the Soviet Union and China.

Two of the four Democrats running in NY - 6 — Assemblywoman Grace Meng and Assemblyman Rory Lancman — were endorsed by two related unions that have been leading the charge against Wal - Mart's effort to build a store in NYC.

You can see this today, where despite the ongoing efforts of unions, areas other than e.g. factory work, where people are essentially interchageable parts, tend to be reluctant to unionize.

Even if such efforts have no chance of succeeding, it may complicate on - going negotiations over entry into the European Union.

«People are already mobilizing in New York — there's a major rally today with some of the state's leading unions and health care advocates,» Cuomo wrote in an email accompanying the video's release that also sought small - dollar donations for the state committee's effort.

In many ways, Merkel's visit is a test both of Putin's commitment to create the Eurasian Union, of which Moldova, just as Ukraine, would be inevitable members, and how it will react from now on to EU integration initiatives in countries, such as Ukraine and Moldova, which have made initial efforts to join the European Union.

Fruscher ominously notes that a «much more significant downsizing of our entire workforce lies ahead,» but the OTB is awaiting legislative approval for an early - retirement incentive program and a joint effort with the union that represents most of the operation's workforce in accordance with a MOU.