Sentences with phrase «organized labor protests»

With her husband in New York City, Effa Manley organized labor protests in Harlem and founded the influential Negro League team that became the Newark Eagles.

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[«I have never seen any organized labor group protest so much over so little sacrifice they are being asked to make,»]

«It's ironic to see state employee union leaders organizing a protest on budget cuts that are a direct result of their labor deal, which has sucked our budget dry,» Fasano said.

The Service Employees International Union Local 1877, a union workers group, the California Labor Federation and other local political activists organized the protest.

Although a rich history of organized protest, opposition, and resistance by labor unions, professional syndicates, student groups, and Islamist organizations is prominent in both Egyptian and Tunisian modern histories, formulating policy and garnering political support were especially difficult for secular and liberal parties under the newly toppled dictatorships.

Could the recent spate of teacher - led protests in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and other states signal a resurgence of organized labor in education?

Although the AFT has scheduled a «labor action» during the convention (Sunday afternoon), instead of protesting against the Chicago attack on the teachers in six schools (and a few others not as complete or dramatic), the nation's teacher union will be protesting at a hospital (St. Joseph's) on the lakefront in support of the nurses and other hospital staff trying to organize medical workers at Resurrection hospitals in Chicago.

Meanwhile, Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, a Rockingham County Republican who's one of the most powerful policymakers in the state, implied this week that teachers» organized protest may be counter to the spirit, if not the letter, of North Carolina labor laws.

With these strong drawing cards we organized a series of affairs, a theatre performance to raise funds, on which occasion Asch and Raisin spoke between the acts; a mass meeting in Cooper Union at which Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Alex Cohen, Morris Sigman, and other prominent labor men publicly protested in behalf of Sasha.

Because of the long hours, unsafe and unsanitary working conditions, and poor treatment by management, labor unions organized and workers began holding strikes and protest rallies.