Sentences with phrase «picket line»

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

The bash was cancelled after actors refused to cross picket lines in support of the Writers» Guild of America strike.

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at Hull College and Harrogate College will be on picket lines in the latest development in a dispute over plans by the college to cut 231 full - time equivalent posts across the group's three campuses.

But proposals to ban picket lines of more than six people appear to have been dropped.

The Chicago Park District, which manages the concerts, dropped an alternate program for Saturday and Sunday nights that would have excluded the chorus after members of the orchestra declined to cross picket lines at a rehearsal site.

Opposition to these cuts has formed the basis of their election campaigns while some of these politicians have even joined picket lines against them.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, which has over 50,000 members in HM Revenue and Customs, will stage picket lines outside offices across the country.

• In the fall of 2012 Chicago parents walked picket lines with teachers who sought greater resources and better conditions for students, teachers and schools.

Airport and fast - food workers are expected to be joined on picket lines by child care workers, home care workers and graduate assistants, who are among the estimated 64 million U.S. workers who earn less than $ 15 an hour.

There was uncertainty as to whether the Oscars ceremony would take place at all this year, as many stars refused to cross picket lines during the writer's strike in Hollywood.

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.

Lancman has also spent years shoring up his support among organized labor, making sure to be a visible figure on union picket lines over the years.

On Wednesday, healthcare workers will form picket lines around the city's major hospitals.

«Labour's Welsh First Minister says his ministers won't be crossing picket lines tomorrow Main Labour peer blames overspending under Labour for the recession»

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.

Either way, the longer the dispute goes on, the harder it will be to keep Jeremy Corbyn and his allies away from picket lines.

Teachers in Providence, R.I., walked picket lines last week in a dispute over health - care coverage, while the mayor threatened to fire them if they did not return to work.

Another amendment makes «crossing or working behind a Union picket line» an act that would bring the union «into disrepute,» and potentially invite union charges and penalties against any member who does so.

Several of The Mash's teen reporters were at schools, at home, and even on picket lines Tuesday, the second day of the strike, and they shared some of their views and observations.

As thousands of postal workers mounted picket lines in the first of two 24 hour walk - outs, further industrial action is expected to be announced in an escalation of the bitter Royal Mail dispute.

He then stopped by a Verizon picket line in Brooklyn.

On a bare reading of the Act, information from a public protest or picket line does not fit within the definition of «publicly available».

Evangelical Protestants — historically the most anti-Catholic sector of the American Church — meet vibrantly faithful Catholics on the pro-life picket line, while Catholics realize that their best allies for upholding the definition of marriage happen to be Evangelicals.

Our organizing team and business agents tirelessly maintained a daily picket line in front of the hotel.

There are two public defenders offices in the area and some are scared they will metaphorically cross the metaphorical picket line.

At 5:45 p.m., de Blasio will stop by a Local 3 IBEW picket line to meet with cable technicians on strike, 22 - 85 31st St., Astoria, Queens.

One of the Labour councillors, Cllr Aaron Kiely spent his day in picket lines despite being a student.

The legendary Nottingham Forest manager stood on many picket lines during the miners» strike and donated regularly to trade unions.

Early indications from PCS picket lines show that about 84 % of PCS members across the UK have been out on strike today in the union's best supported day of industrial action.

There were more than 80 picket lines yesterday morning made up largely of women who had never taken direct action before.

Traditional picket lines feel outdated now that work is no longer a place that you go, but a thing that you do.

Campbell led picket lines in the 1984 — 85 miners» strike and was arrested twice.

There were well - attended picket lines between 11 am and 12 noon at the commission's main offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, London and Manchester.

«Please be advised that there is a labor dispute at the Albany Hilton Hotel, which involves a boycott called by the workers, as well as picket lines and rallies in front of the main entrance to the hotel and surrounding areas,» the memos state.

At the Nine Elms mail centre in Vauxhall, south London, dozens gathered from 6 am on one of the three main picket lines in the capital.

A memo from the Governor's Office of Employee Relations, sent in late October, noted picket lines and rallies by the hotel's front entrance and around the building and said, «Agencies should therefore refrain from booking new events or reserving rooms at the Albany Hilton Hotel until further notice.»

The most striking structures on the slide were the thousands upon thousands of rod - shaped bacteria forming a lengthy rank along the surface of the mucosa, palisaded like an irregular picket line of soldiers standing at attention.

D √ © j √ † vu all over again, as this awards season threatens to be cloudy replay of last year's WGA strike, except with prettier picket lines.

A recently ratified teachers» contract in Chicago promises to make the next several Septembers as forgettable as the last few: no strikes, no heated picket lines, and no delayed school openings.

TEACHERS / UNIONS BuzzFeed: Unions Ready to Use DeVos Against School Choice Democrats KQED: Unions prepare to lose in the courthouse, strike back in the statehouse WashPost: WV teachers traded classrooms for picket lines NPR: WV Teacher Walkouts, School Closures Continue The Atlantic: WV's Teachers Are Not Satisfied

Collaborative Croatian duo Fokus Grupa (Iva Kovač and Elvis Krstulović) work in a range of media, but are represented here by their ongoing series of pencil drawings depicting other artists» political and legal actions over the last century, including an artist picket line in New York in 1936, the first International Dada fair in 1920 in Berlin and the founding members of the first women's gallery cooperative at the A.I.R. Gallery in New York, in 1972.

An official picket line was drawn in February 2017 during the offensive neoliberal Artist's Political Action Network meeting, which was established by the Los Angeles art world élite.

They have received extensive media coverage for these events both in the UK and internationally, and become possible suspects for any London art protests, as in Matthew Collings» description of the opening of Tate Modern in 2000: «Guilt - free art lovers crossed picket lines put up by envious artist - outsiders.

«The experience actually confirmed my interest and I was proud to say I didn't cross the legal picket line and I expressed my solidarity with the workers.

Chicago labor and employment partner Frank Saibert looks at how the divided U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on the case of a striking employee fired after shouting racial slurs at temporary workers crossing an Ohio picket line.

The Court noted that police generally refuse to get involved in policing picket lines, unless there's violence involved.

For 2016, law students researched and argued the management and union side of a case centred on whether an employer could switch from a defined benefit pension plan to a defined contribution plan, and whether an employer could discipline two employees for picket line conduct.

The union sought judicial review claiming that the provisions of PIPA that prevent it from collecting, using and disclosing personal information obtained from its lawful picket line infringed s. 2 (b) of the Charter.

At Wyoming the Black Student Alliance said it would set up picket lines at the San Jose game.