Sentences with phrase «of walkouts»

Students, media outlets and local residents were also posting footage of the walkouts to social media:

An Activision representative recently claimed that more staff would likely depart from the studio, though few can put a figure on the final number of walkouts.

The largest of these walkouts will be by the Seattle Education Association on Tuesday May 19 2015.

School districts around our nation have had their fair share of walkouts, strikes and labor disputes, but for some parents at Lusher Charter School, the way this panned out at their children's school was disheartening.

Showing no self - awareness and little knowledge of her own field, geography teacher Tony Henson said of the walkouts from more than 100 Oklahoma school districts, «It's like the Arab spring, but it's a teacher spring.»

Teachers in about 70 Oklahoma school districts staged a week of walkouts over low pay and slender school budgets.

This makes for a somewhat uncomfortable viewing experience, and it came as no surprise that the screening had plenty of walkouts; the general public likes to be entertained, and this film is clearly not in the business of entertaining.

The director's new film, «The House That Jack Built,» caused dozens of walkouts at its Cannes premiere due to its graphic violence.

After overblown stories of walkouts by critics during its Toronto film festival debut, «Rendition» proves to have enough substance, momentum, and drama to validate its entertainment value as a politically charged thriller.

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The day of walkouts comes at a time of daily threats, many unfounded, to schools around the region, causing lockdowns and increased security.

Unions have warned that strikes by public sector workers in the row over pensions will continue following a day of walkouts and protests.

The half day strike tomorrow morning follows a series of walkouts last summer, suspended to allow talks to be held with senior managers which have proved fruitless.

A national day of walkouts already was held in March, but Wind shook his head at the idea that one walkout day was sufficient.

The primary goal of our walkout is to allow students to have an open discussion about gun control.

After we connected, we immediately started working out the details of the walkout.

I think that's also the point of the walkout.

These are just some of the thousands of walkout events planned across the country on Wednesday.

The pro football strike has been over for five weekends, but now another kind of walkout is plaguing the NFL: Fans have been staying away from stadiums in vast numbers.

If the strike is not settled over the weekend, Monday will be the 15th day of the walkout, tying the record set in 1983 for the longest school strike in Chicago history.

However, shadow home secretary Andy Burnham angered many of his colleagues by insisting he would not be part of the walkout.

Finally in 2006, facing the threat of a walkout by his front bench team, he resigned from the leadership role and admitted he had undergone treatment for alcoholism.

A bipartisan group of Suffolk County legislators rallied with more than 150 striking union workers who are in the seventh week of their walkout with Verizon.

However, Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham sparked fury among his colleagues by insisting he would not be part of the walkout.

Elsewhere, fire chiefs urged people to take extra care because of the walkout between 10:00 and 19:00 BST - the 15th round of industrial action in the Fire Brigades Union's long - running row with the government.

About 330,000 students will lose a class day because of the walkout, even as CPS has worked to add more days to the academic calendar so kids can be in school.

Priest said a survey found 77 percent of her members indicated they were doubtful a continuation of the walkout would lead to any more funding gains.

On the day of the walkout school leaders need to make sure their priority is on teaching.

At the end of the walkout, with three minutes to spare, the team asked the students to take the time to meet new people and make new friends.

But the brazenness of the walkout matched the rhetoric that many students have used in recent days to express their outrage over the failures of adults to stop mass shootings.

Not exact matches

Last June, sales and service agents staged a three - day walkout, signing a deal only under threat of back - to - work legislation.

Ryanair said that the Anpac and FIT - CISL unions represent employees of Italian carrier Alitalia SpA and have «no role» at the Irish carrier, having threatened walkouts five times in the past only to call them off.

On Wednesday, students around the country are planning to leave class as part of the National School Walkout.

Another national walkout, organized by a different group of students, is planned for April 20, the 19th anniversary of the 1999 attack at Colorado's Columbine High School that killed 12 students and a teacher and left two dozen more injured.

An earlier version misstated the day of the planned student walkout.

Kenidra Woods, a 17 - year - old junior from St. Louis, was already advocating for more discussion of self - harm and mental health among teens before Parkland, after which she sprang into action to help conduct a walkout at her school in February in solidarity.

While many school districts were supportive of the protests, some schools threatened to punish students participating in walkouts.

«In just less than a month, there have been thousands of schools that have signed up to do this walkout,» McNaboe, from rural West Virginia, said.

«Students and staff have the right to teach and learn in an environment free from the worry of being gunned down in their classrooms or on their way home from school,» Women's March organizers, who are setting up the school walkout, said in a statement.

The walkout, «Stand for the Second,» is a response to the March 14 National School Walkout that called for gun control policy measures while honoring the one - month anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fwalkout, «Stand for the Second,» is a response to the March 14 National School Walkout that called for gun control policy measures while honoring the one - month anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FWalkout that called for gun control policy measures while honoring the one - month anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Students across the country are walking out of class at 10 am local time on Wednesday, March 14, for the National Student Walkout to honor the one - month anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

The walkout is just the first in a series of youth - led demonstrations of activism around gun violence.

Most walkouts took place at 10 am local time in each location and lasted 17 minutes: one minute for each of the victims at Stoneman Douglas.

Much like Wednesday's event, organizers of the #ENOUGH walkout are demanding that Congress take legislative action on gun control.

The walk out was part of Will Riley's «Stand for the Second» event; a nationwide call to counter nonstop gun control campaigns with a walkout in support of the Second Amendment and our founding principles.

Now, across the country, students are planning to stage walkouts in protest of gun violence on March 14 and April 20.

The walkouts are the latest surge of a protest movement that has already swept through West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky.

The week - long walkout was one of the biggest teacher protests in a year marked by job actions.

Another national walkout is slated for April 20, the nineteenth anniversary of the Columbine shooting in Colorado.

The political calendar in Washington — where Republicans are occupied with a make - or - break debate over tax legislation — means there is little prospect of a dramatic breakthrough or angry walkout in Mexico City this week.