Sentences with phrase «organizing more workers»

It's time for labour to explore creative ideas and inclusive approaches to organizing more workers in this new economic era.

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You're also likely to have more difficulty terminating contractors, or even altering their schedules, once workers have officially organized, says Charles Cohen, senior counsel at Morgan Lewis and a former NLRB member.

Businesses say they like right - to - work laws because they make it more difficult for unions to organize workers and raise wage and benefit costs.

Some of the newer guilds are trying to speak for contingent workers of all kinds, making it far more difficult to organize and apply pressure against any one company or sector.

Across more and more of the economy, worker advocates are hoping to replicate the ways in which screenwriters, actors, and others in Hollywood have been organized since the 1920s and»30s.

The No. 1 piece of advice Fite has for gig economy workers who want to own a home is to spend time organizing all of your documentation, including proof of employment and income, the names and phone numbers of references, previous employers, landlords and more.

Saunders and BC Fed president Jim Sinclair both pointed to the need for more worker education as one component of organizing drives in hard times.

Can workers organize and demand more pay, shorter hours, and better working conditions as they did in the North Atlantic countries?

The New Deal rested on the support of a coalition of interests including: organized labor, farmers, blue collar workers, white southerners, minorities, and more.

Conducted by the Retail Action Project, a community organizing group co-founded by the union RWDSU, the survey of more than 110 people on 14 CUNY campuses — or one - quarter of all CUNY food service workers — reported numerous instances of what it says are workers being served «a steady diet of low wages, few benefits, precarious schedules and labor violations.»

What makes these organizing victories even more significant is that the workers at many of these shops did not have the benefit of a Card Check Neutrality Agreement.

Mainly organized by 32BJ SEIU Hudson Valley, a union of property service workers with more than 163,000 members, the bilingual rally called attention to the possible anti-immigration and anti-labor policies by President Donald Trump's administration.

Figueroa dismissed the notion that unions failed to get what they really fought for as «a bit cynical» and said that the agreement advances the interests of labor while opening doors for organizing more non-union workers.

Speaking at a breakfast for organized labor workers in May 2014, Heastie remarked, «Raising the minimum wage for organized workers is the key to a good economy for all of us — when workers have more money, they put it right back into the state's economy.»

«It's like a Faustian pact with the devil, with Flanagan trying to buy more time in power by giving Cuomo something that could devastate the state's economy while boosting the governor's standing with the unions, who want to organize higher - paid workers, and his prospects for president in 2020,» the source continued.

That's not the argument, the staffers said, that the senator «normally encounters on this issue,» adding that STEM - workers» views «would have more impact» if they «represented a large, organized group.»

She has been organizing immigrant women workers for more than two decades.

[5] While some workers from Hasköy and Güzeltepe actively participated in the organized labor movement to build a more just future, others, though not directly an organized part of this movement, still became workers within the atmosphere of a promising future generated by the working class and / or socialist movement.

More than 80 teachers from five Beijing migrant worker schools attended the «Multiple Intelligences Professional Training Day» held at Ivy Schools» Tiantong campus, which was jointly organized by the Multiple Intelligences (MI) Institute, Ivy Schools and A Bridge for Children International (ABC).

Coalition schools organize learning, teaching, and assessment around ten common principles, including students learning to use their minds well, «less is more,» personalization, student as worker, and exhibitions as demonstration of mastery.

Some realized that attacks on the organizing power of schools, i.e., teacher unions, are a deliberate attempt to weaken progressive causes, workers» rights more broadly, and women's power — for teaching remains an overwhelmingly pink profession.

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