Sentences with phrase «organizing new workers»

Attorneys in SEIU's Legal Department engage in innovative lawyering to further the organization's interests in organizing new workers, improving working conditions, engaging in political action, and achieving social justice.

The new union would commit $ 50 million over five years to organizing new workers across all economic sectors, which is far higher than both unions currently contribute to organizing efforts.

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Early discussions also include possible new forms of membership among workers who are not traditionally organized, including unemployed workers, students, workers in contract, self - employed, temporary and freelance positions.

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

A Walmart worker organizes products for Christmas season at a Walmart store in Teterboro, New Jersey.

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.

The New York Taxi Workers Alliance sent emails to the news media calling attention to Uber's ties to Mr. Trump, and organized a protest at Uber's New York office for Thursday.

«For anyone driven crazy by the faux warm and fuzzy PR of the so - called sharing economy Steven Hill's Raw Deal: How the «Uber Economy» and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers should be required reading... Hill is an extremely well - informed skeptic who presents a satisfyingly blistering critique of high tech's disingenuous equating of sharing with profiteering... Hill includes two chapters listing potential solutions for the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.Workers should be required reading... Hill is an extremely well - informed skeptic who presents a satisfyingly blistering critique of high tech's disingenuous equating of sharing with profiteering... Hill includes two chapters listing potential solutions for the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.»

Whether among the secularized masses of industrial societies, the emerging new ideologies around which societies are organized, the resurging religions which people embrace, the movements of workers and political refugees, the people's search for liberation and justice, the uncertain pilgrimage of the younger generation into a future both full of promise and overshadowed by nuclear confrontation - the Church is called to be present and to articulate the meaning of God's love in Jesus Christ for every person and for every situation.

In a general sense, one can speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestations.

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

A number of organized labor groups have lined up to provide early endorsements to Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he seeks a third term this fall and faces a new primary challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon, with the latest nod coming from the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1500, New York's largest supermarket workers uninew primary challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon, with the latest nod coming from the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1500, New York's largest supermarket workersWorkers Local 1500, New York's largest supermarket workers uniNew York's largest supermarket workersworkers union.

The biggest shot Cuomo has taken at organized labor was the 2012 agreement to reduce pension benefits for new workers.

Hawkins not only supports but organizes on issues such as a $ 15 minimum wage, a ban on fracking, 100 % clean energy by 2030, full public campaign financing, single payer health care, the legalization of marijuana, worker rights, taxing the rich, an end to the New Jim Crow and mass incarceration, universal child care... the list goes on and on.

The National Labor Relations Board will review a United Auto Workers petition to organize graduate students at The New School because the issue «raises substantial issues,» it said in an order.

This is what happens when workers organize,» said Jonathan Westin, the executive director of New York Communities for Change, a liberal group.

New York labor unions will likely have a difficult time organizing workers, even with an influx of thousands of jobs at once.

After attending Dartmouth College in the early 1970s, Howie worked in construction in New England and helped organize a worker cooperative that specialized in energy efficiency and solar and wind installations.

Sarsour served as emcee for the 5,000 - strong rally and musical celebration called «Rise Up: Immigrant Rights and Workers» Rights,» organized by the New York Immigration Coalition, Make the Road New York, New York Teamsters and Churches United for Fair Housing.

Virtually all senior members of New York City's organized labor movement attended, including Mario Cilento (president of the NYS AFL - CIO), Gary LaBarbera (president of the Buildings & Trades Council), Vinnie Alvarez (president of the NYC Central Labor Council), Mike Mulgrew (president of the United Federation of Teachers), Randi Weingarten (president of the American Federation of Teachers), George Miranda (president of Teamsters Joint Council 16), Stuart Appelbaum (president of RWDSU), George Gresham (president of 1199) and Grand Marshall Edgar Romney of Workers Unite.

New York Communities for Change (NYCC) seeks a Lead Labor Organizer to help oversee NYCC's low - wage worker organizing campaigns.

After attending Dartmouth College, Howie worked in construction in New England in the 1970s and 1980s and helped organize a worker cooperative that specialized in energy efficiency and solar and wind installations.

An executive order by New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer last month granting family child - care providers the right to unionize is the latest sign of an aggressive push by organized labor to represent such workers, who care for small groups of children in the providers» own homes.

On March 8, 1857, garment workers staged one of the world's first organized actions by working women, striking against the inhumane working conditions in New York City textile factories.

The MI training was organized to equip teachers with new teaching tools and concepts and is part of a long term plan to upgrade the skills and motivation of the teachers at migrant worker schools.

The UAW has its sights set on organizing the new VW plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the AP says some workers at the plant have actually reached out to the union.

According to a statement that appeared in a New York Times article on the struggles Amazon has faced with locals, «In Germany, the idea that warehouse workers are going to be getting opposition from an employer when it comes to the right to organize, that's virtually unheard - of,» said Marcus Courtney, a technology and communications department head at Uni Global Union, a federation of trade unions based in Nyon, Switzerland.

The Unwinding journeys through the lives of several Americans, including Dean Price, the son of tobacco farmers, who becomes an evangelist for a new economy in the rural South; Tammy Thomas, a factory worker in the Rust Belt trying to survive the collapse of her city; Jeff Connaughton, a Washington insider oscillating between political idealism and the lure of organized money; and Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire who questions the Internet's significance and arrives at a radical vision of the future.

Group Activities - New York Artist Union, the WPA, and the Art Workers Coalition Teach - in - Working Conditions Seminar with Precarious Workers Brigade (London), UKK (Young Art Workers, Copenhagen) and a representative of the Chilean Ministry of Culture - Ongoing discussions with representatives from local unions and working centers such as UWA, IWW, Teamster, Writer's Guild of America East, New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and others - Monthly book club on labor law, organizing, workplace occupations, and radical history - End Sotheby's Lockout Solidarity Action at the Whitney Biennial with Occupy Museums, Occupy Sotheby's and Arts & Culture - Joining other OWS labor affiliated working groups such as Labor Outreach Committee, Occupy Your Workplace, and 99 Pickets, as part of the Labor Alliance cluster

Bourke - White and Mary Morris were the first female press photographers on staff at any daily newspaper in the U.S. Prominent in our exhibition are works by Morris Engel depicting an integrated school, children on New York streets, Coney Island scenes, and pictures of workers organizing to strike.

We organized three historic pro-nuclear marches in San Francisco, New York and Chicago with students, workers and environmentalists.

The Regulations introduce new employment standards (e.g. extending parental leave to 62 weeks, introducing critical illness leave for adult family members, and introducing Flexible Averaging Agreements) that will affect how employers organize their workforces to ensure they are employing enough workers to meet business needs.

The symposium was organized by the Institute and the Alberta Office of the Child and Youth Advocate, and was attended by 179 professionals, including academics, judges, lawyers, mental health professionals and social workers, coming from every province and territory except New Brunswick.

These skilled workers also have to plan and organize the working schedule for employees, for performing front end staff reviews and evaluations and for informing the staff regarding new safety procedures.

- Extensive working knowledge of heating and ventilation systems, remaining up to date on all new models and available technology - Excellent communication skills necessary to coordinate activities between engineers - Organized professional with administrative and evaluation experience - History in management and leadership, and experienced in delegating and organizing workers, resulting in streamlined processes - Strong upper body and tensile strength, and familiar performing installation

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS • Friendly attitude and excellent attention to detail • Compassionate nature • Hard worker and trustworthy — aspired to help others • Enthusiastic to take new challenges • Extremely organized with the ability to work independently

Typical work activities include coordinating and assigning work to volunteers, organizing training and orientation for volunteers and new employees, assessing the severity of emergency situations, collaborating with local emergency workers and managing budgets and resource allocation.

• Uniquely qualified Child and Youth Worker with extensive exposure to planning and organizing appropriate youth and community programs, and establishing new child and youth services, looking for a position at The Community Resource Hub.

Professional Experience Hammond Transportation, Inc. (Portland, TN) 08/2010 — 12/2010 Safety Director / Recruiter • Ensured safety and federal compliance regulations were enforced for equipment, vehicles, and transportation employees • Maintained a high level of compliance with CSA 2010 and related statutes • Responsible for workers compensation and accident cases • Managed accident register and employee files in an organized and professional manner • Performed background checks, verified past employment, and set up random and pre-employment drug screens • Notified all departments of new hire information and assisted with orientation • Performed all duties with positivity, integrity, and dedication to company goals