Sentences with phrase «picket lines»

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

SEIU Local 1021 workers set up picket lines at the city's three courthouses, alleging that court management is bargaining over their labor contracts in bad faith.»

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.

I'm not arguing that everyone should abandon their community garden and head down to the picket lines, nor am I suggesting that protesters should all go home and start a solar company.

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.

It transforms into an amphitheatre resonating sounds of explosions in the ground, machines cutting the coal - face, shovels scratching the earth, and the distant melody of the Miner's Lament, all sung by Snowdown Colliery Welfare Male Voice Choir grouping in formations reminiscent of picket lines.

Friskies Tasty Treasures made them cross the picket lines and rejoin the family at dinner time!

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

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.

We will walk the picket lines.

And beyond the legislative uncertainty, the bottom line is that teachers across the Mountain State's 55 counties say the raise does little to assuage the bigger concerns that propelled them to the picket lines in the first place.

The protection of due process, assured the teachers that did stand up to register to vote, serve as plaintiffs in lawsuits, or join picket lines that their jobs were not easily compromised.

The Chicago struggle began long before the picket lines went up.

Further, the organization that had once forsworn the strike began taking to the picket lines.

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.

Yet many of the teachers who formed the picket lines were also concerned with social justice issues for their students.

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

«The EIS will have picket lines in place at all West Dunbartonshire secondary schools and will be holding a campaign rally today at Clydebank Town Hall, which we have invited representatives of all main political parties to attend.»

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.

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.

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.

Guild leaders have said that if the strike continues, they will not allow writers to work on the Oscars, either, which might leave nominees and other celebrities forced to choose between attending the biggest night in show business or staying home to avoid crossing picket lines.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — «No Country for Old Men» and «There Will Be Blood» led with eight Academy Awards nominations each Tuesday, among them best picture and acting honors for Daniel Day - Lewis and Javier Bardem — but it remained in doubt whether any stars would cross striking writers» picket lines to attend the ceremony.

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

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.

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.

Some disgruntled students showed their support for faculty at the picket lines, bringing donuts to protestors braving the cold weather.

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.»

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

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

Picket lines were also mounted outside courts, council offices, job centres and fire stations across the country as well as outside the Houses of Parliament in London.

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.

We need to be manning the picket lines and making the case for public sector workers however we can.

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».

A Welsh government spokesperson said: «Ministers will be undertaking government engagements and dealing with any matters that arise throughout the day but will not be crossing picket lines.»

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.

«Ministers will not be crossing picket lines.

Picket lines were well attended across the country - including at my local Stroud Maternity hospital, where new mothers and pregnant women dropped by to demonstrate solidarity, and horns sounded as passing drivers showed their support.

Labour's First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones, announced that his ministers would not be crossing any picket lines tomorrow.

Picket lines were well attended across the country - including at my local Stroud Maternity hospital

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

«Peter Hain refuses to condemn strike action Main Labour's Welsh First Minister says his ministers won't be crossing picket lines tomorrow»

The strikes had spread to the extent gravediggers had joined the picket lines leaving dead bodies waiting to be buried.

«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.

«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?

Picket lines will be placed outside government offices, museums, galleries and the Houses of Parliament.

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.

They faced boycotts and picket lines and other wedding vendors were threatened with similar action if they did business with Sweet Cakes.