Sentences with phrase «on labor strikes»

Classes lose their cadence, and their rhythm; reflective discussions and debates are jarringly interrupted by school bells that silence a student's closing comment on labor strikes or leave unanswered a question about the differences between representative and direct democracy.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio waded into private - sector labor relations last night on «Inside City Hall,» offering his opinion on the labor strike affecting Spectrum, a subsidiary of Charter Communications, and the company that owns NY1.

Not exact matches

It will also have to negotiate increased pressure on labor costs, with unions having called for a strike on Feb 22 to support demands for a 6 percent pay increase.

Pilots and flight attendants plan to strike for four hours from 1 p.m. local time on Dec. 15, the Anpac union said in a letter to the airline, adding that they're campaigning for the right to negotiate collective labor agreements, as well as on issues including social security, health care and vacation planning.

Incidentally, Trump Taj Mahal on Wednesday announced that it will be closing its doors after Labor Day, citing an ongoing employee strike as the reason; our foot traffic report shows the problems ran deeper.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The White House threatened on Tuesday to veto emergency House legislation that aims to avert a threatened national default, a pre-emptive strike issued as Republican Speaker John Boehner labored to line up enough votes in his own party to pass the measure.

On Wednesday, people across United States will partake in «A Day Without A Woman «-- a national strike that encourages women to take off from paid or unpaid labor, abstain from shopping, and wear red in solidarity.

These risks and uncertainties include competition and other economic conditions including fragmentation of the media landscape and competition from other media alternatives; changes in advertising demand, circulation levels and audience shares; the Company's ability to develop and grow its online businesses; the Company's reliance on revenue from printing and distributing third - party publications; changes in newsprint prices; macroeconomic trends and conditions; the Company's ability to adapt to technological changes; the Company's ability to realize benefits or synergies from acquisitions or divestitures or to operate its businesses effectively following acquisitions or divestitures; the Company's success in implementing expense mitigation efforts; the Company's reliance on third - party vendors for various services; adverse results from litigation, governmental investigations or tax - related proceedings or audits; the Company's ability to attract and retain employees; the Company's ability to satisfy pension and other postretirement employee benefit obligations; changes in accounting standards; the effect of labor strikes, lockouts and labor negotiations; regulatory and judicial rulings; the Company's indebtedness and ability to comply with debt covenants applicable to its debt facilities; the Company's ability to satisfy future capital and liquidity requirements; the Company's ability to access the credit and capital markets at the times and in the amounts needed and on acceptable terms; and other events beyond the Company's control that may result in unexpected adverse operating results.

As a result, political instability, labor strikes, natural disasters or other events resulting in the disruption of trade or transportation from other countries or the imposition of additional regulations relating to duties upon imports could cause significant delays or interruptions in the supply of our merchandise or increase our costs, either of which could have an adverse effect on our business.

A dynamic is put in place in which debt keeps labor down — not only by eating up its wages in debt service, but in making workers suffer sharp increases in the interest rates they have to pay or even risk losing their homes if they miss a payment by going on strike or being fired.

All eyes are on South Africa, where a labor strike, now in its fifth month, has brought a halt to the production of platinum and palladium.

Geopolitical unrest relating to mine production, such as a labor strike, can also have a large effect on metals prices.

Epidurals significantly interfere with some of the major hormones of labor and birth, which may explain their negative effect on the processes of labor.6 As the World Health Organization comments, «epidural analgesia is one of the most striking examples of the medicalization of normal birth, transforming a physiological event into a medical procedure.»

His book, From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century was recently published by Cambridge University Press, and he is currently working on a book on the political ethics of the strike.

As part of the project labor agreement, the union has agreed to an adjustment on shift premiums, a no - strike or - work stoppage clause and dispute mechanisms to prevent interruptions in the project work, NYCHA officials said.

Members of New York's congressional delegation issued a warning about a potential Long Island Rail Road strike: Don't rely on Congress to resolve the labor dispute.

Sen. Jack Martins, a Republican who represents Nassau County, called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo this afternoon to take an active role in the negotiations between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its labor union in order to avoid a strike on the Long Island Rail Road.

A New York State effort to more tightly regulate the prepaid cards on which many employees receive their wages was struck down by a review board, which ruled that the state's Labor Department exceeded its authority in imposing fee limits and other restrictions on the cards.

Bill de Blasio and the teachers union struck a deal on a new contract, ending a nearly five - year labor dispute and potentially setting a template for negotiations with the city's other unions.

Crain's reported that Zell's construction manager on the site, recently penalized Lend Lease Construction, struck an agreement with the Building and Construction Trades Council that will reduce standard union labor costs by 20 percent.

Nevertheless, the Bloomberg administration's decision to push Empire Stores developer Don Capoccia to use all union labor on the project's construction struck many observers as unusual, given Bloomberg's general opposition to imposing those sorts of requirements on unwilling developers, his unwillingness in the past several years to subsidize retail projects, and Capoccia's longstanding preference for running an open shop.

Donohue made it clear this decision is a «direct result» of the deal struck last week by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders, in which organized labor believes the governor «traded» his approval on the LATFOR redistricting plans for lawmakers» support of pension reform.

Criticism of Quinn over the sick leave issue sparked spirited applause at the March 20 LGBT forum, but the tableau presented at City Hall on March 29 ---- with the speaker surrounded by more than a dozen Council members, major labor leaders, and fired up members of both 32BJ and Make the Road New York, a social justice organization ---- provided a striking contrast with the week before.

After becoming a laughingstock in the celebrity community, the none - too - bright model is recruited by a nefarious designer called Mugatu (Ferrell, Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back), and is brainwashed in order that he might assassinate the Malaysian Prime Minister, who cracked down on the child labor in Mugatu's Malaysian sweathouses.

And now: Made in Dagenham, a peppy, period labor drama about underpaid women at a Ford plant in suburban London in 1968, who go on strike for higher pay and wind up demanding wholesale societal change.

But once the enforced labor truce of World War II came to an end, the «strike wave» of 1946 led to some important revisions of the NLRA that cut back on union power.

Still, some say that the West Virginia teachers» strike was a harbinger of things to come, with increased labor activism on the horizon.

After 25 years of relative labor peace, CTU members went on strike for seven days in September 2012 before agreeing to a contract that expired June 30.

School funding is a powerful card for Labor, not only because it can capitalise on the Coalition's retreat from Gonski, but also because funding strikes an emotive tone in the public imagination.

A state labor panel on Thursday agreed to ask a judge to issue a temporary injunction against strikes like the one carried out by the Chicago Teachers Union on April 1 until the larger issue of whether such walkouts are legal is resolved.

«For them to say «You can't go on strike, but we can make a unilateral change in terms of employment by way of a 7 percent pay cut,» that's just an outrageous violation of the way labor law works,» CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey said at an afternoon news conference.

Moreover, math curriculum continued to have «striking» effects on earnings even after controlling for highest degree earned and college major as well as demographics, family, and school, suggesting that «there is a direct effect of math curriculum on labor market productivity, which works independently of the final degree attained.»

LAUSD to pay $ 1.1 billion for teacher pension rescue; Strike talk emerges on Caputo - Pearl's first day as union chief; LAUSD board approves labor deals — but not yet for teachers

On Labor Day, the Chicago Teachers Union held its protest in preparation for a strike that is set to begin on Sept. 10, unless negotiations with Chicago Public Schools result in a contract.The protest served two functions: first, as a sort of threat display designed to demonstrate to CPS officials and Mayor Rahm Emanuel that CTU is ready to sustain a lengthy strike; and second, to reinforce the union's message among its rank - and - file membershOn Labor Day, the Chicago Teachers Union held its protest in preparation for a strike that is set to begin on Sept. 10, unless negotiations with Chicago Public Schools result in a contract.The protest served two functions: first, as a sort of threat display designed to demonstrate to CPS officials and Mayor Rahm Emanuel that CTU is ready to sustain a lengthy strike; and second, to reinforce the union's message among its rank - and - file membershon Sept. 10, unless negotiations with Chicago Public Schools result in a contract.The protest served two functions: first, as a sort of threat display designed to demonstrate to CPS officials and Mayor Rahm Emanuel that CTU is ready to sustain a lengthy strike; and second, to reinforce the union's message among its rank - and - file membership

BEST OF THE WEEK Story snippet Goldstein shared on Twitter The NYT's Dana Goldstein seems to have made a grand return this week with her piece on the West Virginia teachers strike and the history behind teacher labor actions: Fighting Poverty, Drugs, and Even Violence, All on a Teacher's Salary.

Author Joyce Maynard heard about my earlier post on the striking cover design of her new novel, Labor Day, and was nice enough to email over the weekend with some reflections of her own about the cover.

The Toronto Public Library system is headed towards a strike on May 2nd if a labor deal isn't reached with the union representing more than 2,000 staff members.

On October 21st of last year, SAG - AFTRA, a labor union coalition representing over 160,000 media professionals working in various mediums, began a strike after 19 months of failed attempts at negotiating deals with games industry employees regarding the poor treatment, conditions, and pay faced by voice actors.

Zheng's, often large, works on paper are striking and labor intensive.

On show here are works belonging to the Christian Democratic Appeal (a small clay figurine representing the importance of family values and faith), the Labor Party (a piece of a new kind of asphalt, more endurable under extreme temperatures, connoting stability, employment and freedom of movement for the working class), the Socialist Party (photos of a protest by harbor workers in Rotterdam that went on strike in 1979 to demand higher salaries), and Leefbar («Livable») Rotterdam (an image of tolerant multiculturalism, at odds with the ideological identity of the ownersOn show here are works belonging to the Christian Democratic Appeal (a small clay figurine representing the importance of family values and faith), the Labor Party (a piece of a new kind of asphalt, more endurable under extreme temperatures, connoting stability, employment and freedom of movement for the working class), the Socialist Party (photos of a protest by harbor workers in Rotterdam that went on strike in 1979 to demand higher salaries), and Leefbar («Livable») Rotterdam (an image of tolerant multiculturalism, at odds with the ideological identity of the ownerson strike in 1979 to demand higher salaries), and Leefbar («Livable») Rotterdam (an image of tolerant multiculturalism, at odds with the ideological identity of the owners.)

Thomas» striking billboard confronts the viewer head on as the first image the visitor sees upon entering the park, stimulating a dialogue on the relationship between land, labor, American history, and culture.

Activist Scott Parking wrote, «Midwest Rising was a convergence for climate and economic justice that brought together a diverse coalition of groups fighting home foreclosures in cities like Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh, communications workers on strike against Verizon Wireless, local labor organizers, Appalachian activists fighting mountaintop removal and climate justice activists from around the world.»

Under the Large - Scale Renewable Energy Target, a further $ 45 to $ 55 billion will be transferred from power consumers to wind power outfits via the REC Tax / Subsidy over the next 17 years; depending on whether Ian «Macca» Macfarlane and his youthful ward, Gregory Hunt strike a deal with Labor to cut the ultimate annual target from 41,000 GWh to 33,000 GWh (see our post here).

He goes on to add,» With rising labor and real estate costs, law firm leaders are far more interested in striking a balance between service and cost.

Covered reasons for trip cancellation and interruption include common carrier delays and / or cancellations resulting from adverse weather, mechanical breakdown of the aircraft, ship, boat, or motor coach you were scheduled to travel on, organized labor strikes that affect public transportation in addition to mandatory evacuations, terrorist acts, layoffs, and more.

At Travel Guard, we consider a strike foreseeable on the date labor union members vote to approve a strike.

A Strike is foreseeable on the date labor union members vote to approve a Strike and is not covered under the policy;

The Trip Protector Lite plan guarantees customers a 100 percent reimbursement up to $ 10,000 on trips that are cancelled or interrupted due to covered reasons such as natural disasters, terrorism, hospitalization of a host, labor strikes, traffic accidents or loss of employment.

Usually, a strike is considered foreseeable on the date labor union members vote to approve a strike.

A Strike is foreseeable on the date labor union members vote to approve a Strike.