Sentences with phrase «on picket»

The wreaths on the picket fence are so creative... well, everything is so creative!

He was much admired by those who worked around him and could always be relied upon to be on the picket line.

In an article entitled «Bracing for trouble on the picket line ``, Craig comments on this year's picket - line battles suggesting that employers are going to be using hard bargaining, including potential lockouts, to make gains.

Many striking lawyers openly identified themselves and talked with journalists while on the picket lines, many of them carrying signs with hand - written slogans like Je me souviendrai!

A board member and spokesman for the Quebec civil lawyers» and notaries» union — Les avocats et notaires de l'État québécois, or LANEQ — he tried in vain in May to find members who were willing to share their first - hand experiences on the picket lines during their historic four - month general strike, the longest in Canadian public service history.

Criminal behaviour on the picket line is handled by local law enforcement.

«My message to the orcs on the picket line is simple: I will literally kill all of you and use the experience harvested from your corpses to become even more powerful,» Talion explained.

Although I have no photos of her on the picket line, the few bits of «evidence» I do have are, in their own way, far more informative.

Fighting as Privates Tom Parker and Bob Martin (also called Bob Morgan) they were known to have been exemplary soldiers; while on picket duty «Martin» killed three Union soldiers and was promoted to Sergeant.

Sitting on the middle seat would be about as comfortable as perching on a picket fence.

As of the time of the video, and date of the blog post 8/21/17 the mechanics are still on the picket line.

A strike in the spring of 1970 solidified UTLA, but the lack of a statewide collective bargaining law proved fatal to the first contract won by the educators, who sacrificed five weeks on the picket lines only to have the courts declare the agreement null and void.

But last week, Chicago's teachers were very visibly voting with their feet: According to Jihan, a CTU activist, union sign - ins suggest that each day 90 percent of teachers were on the picket line.

A strike in which teachers emphasize issues like class size, said Pelto, «actually provides a perfect opportunity to educate the Democratic base about what's going on... the good guys are the ones that are out on the picket line working to defend the profession.»

Despite his vocal support for the union during an unprecedented speech at its annual conference in March, the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn did not visit teachers on picket lines today, and Angela Rayner, the new shadow education secretary and a former trade union official, stopped short of backing the strike.

I do not know what possessed these knuckleheads, but they actually asked black students like me who were already at the school to join them on the picket line.

We all know a teacher we admire, but are we watching too many of them yelling in state houses and on the picket line to continue to trust the teaching force as a whole?

«Most teachers will be on the picket line by 3 p.m. [Friday],» Barbara Goodman, a spokeswoman for the 21,000 - member Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, said late last week.

Nearly 700 public school teachers in East St. Louis, Ill., have been on the picket lines since Sept. 5, and Roman Catholic teachers in the Camden, N.J., area walked out Sept. 9.

Sereboff got the ball rolling by calling former sitcom star Justine Bateman, whom he'd met on the picket line.

which began filming earlier this week, follows the two actors as their characters find love and camaraderie on the picket line.

I also voted for you on the picket fence and pinned this to our Halloween board!

But unlike the struggles of their grandparents» day, the current unionization dispute does not pit ragged men and women freezing on picket lines against bosses threatening workers and their children with starvation if the workers dare to organize.

He has supported us, stood on our picket lines, celebrated our successes, and campaigned alongside us for trade union rights.

You are not going to see him out on the picket line with S.E.I.U. over some janitor's strike.»

Of course Labour have been involved in the junior doctors strike — helping on the picket lines and promoting their cause locally.

Ms O'Grady said the changes would enable employers to «stick two fingers up» to workers by bringing in agency staff to break any strikes - and people standing on picket lines would be «subject to arrest».

The Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said he had seen «longer chip shop queues» than the number of staff protesting on the picket line today:

(Nixon, in fact, was on the picket lines for one.)

«I remember going with her to different developments in the Rockaways when balconies were falling and there were folks here who were being evicted, so I grew up on picket lines, but also in the living rooms of tenants,» Lynch said.

Who has fought with unions on picket lines in Alabama and Mississippi?

While attending the same event as Ward and Barron on Saturday, the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell told the audience that he and Jeremy Corbyn would join junior doctors on the picket line today.

They include the introduction of a 50 % turnout threshold on strike votes, a change to allow employers to bring in agency staff to cover work during industrial action, and a requirement for strike leaders to wear armbands on the picket line.

It's different than being the guy out there on the picket line.

Making it a criminal offence for seven people to be on a picket line is a waste of police time and not something you would expect in a country with a proud tradition of liberty.

«Jeff Klein is a leader that has always been there for the Teamsters, whether we needed him fighting for workers in Albany or standing with us on the picket line,» said Teamsters Joint Council 16 President George Miranda.

During the week, striking assistants were frequently joined on their picket line by members of other unions, such as TWU, CWA, NYSNA and SEIU 1199, said Rosalie Ray, one of the grad student organizers.

Katie Cusack spent time on the picket line and with the families of the workers impacted by the long strike that garnered national attention and stoked concerns about environmental safety.

Harman married Jack Dromey in 1982 in Brent, London, after meeting him on the picket line of the Grunwick dispute in 1977; she was legal advisor to the Grunwick Strike Committee.

They would rather their leadership continue to negotiate and wait until the more prominent Labour - affiliated Unions are ready to either settle or join them on the picket line.

Last night a group of students occupied a university meeting room in support of the strike and UVW says that a number of LSE lecturers have been down to speak on the picket line.

The latest to take a turn on the picket line in Williamson, Wayne County was AG contender Sean Coffey, who showed up in a suit and tie.

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«I think Cameron needs to get into the real world, get out of his mansion house in Oxfordshire and see some real people on a picket line.»

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I voted for BAM on Picket Fence!

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Condie sees the importance of having white people on the picket lines.

FFA chairman David Handley, who was on the picket line at Bridgwater plant, told DairyReporter.com that more protests are likely tonight if today's talks are not successful.

A heroine of the pro-life cause, she is on the picket lines in front of the abortuaries, running the phone lines to get out the vote, and doing many other good things.