Sentences with phrase «picket lines by»

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.

During the week, striking assistants were frequently joined on their picket line by members of other unions, such as TWU, CWA, NYSNA and SEIU 1199, said Rosalie Ray, one of the grad student organizers.

It is understood that they managed to avoid crossing a picket line by arriving at 3.30 am — before striking colleagues had arrived.

«Most teachers will be on the picket line by 3 p.m. [Friday],» Barbara Goodman, a spokeswoman for the 21,000 - member Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, said late last week.

Not exact matches

In addition to voting to authorize a dues increase in 2014 members also pledged a total of 249,568 hours of their free time to support the Union by attending rallies, picket lines, political events, and other important activities.

Katie Cusack spent time on the picket line and with the families of the workers impacted by the long strike that garnered national attention and stoked concerns about environmental safety.

UPDATE: I was just reminded that Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice, who was nominated at the Democratic convention in Rye by Appelbaum and has been endorsed by his union, was recently scheduled to swing by the Mott's picket line, too.

The loyalties and responses evoked and exacted by picket lines are unlike those flowing from appeals by printed word.»

A strike by refuse workers was opposed by the council leader while his deputy joined the picket line.

«Publication in a newspaper, or by distribution of circulars, may convey the same information or make the same charge as do those patrolling a picket line.

He then stopped by a Verizon picket line in Brooklyn.

«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.

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.

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».

Another big rally and picket line will kick off Thursday at JFK at 1:30 p.m. by Terminal 5, organizers said.

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.»

Sereboff got the ball rolling by calling former sitcom star Justine Bateman, whom he'd met on the picket line.

Consider, for example, starting a unit by showing students an image of two people or groups of people whose differences and known disagreements are likely to trigger historical or cultural assumptions (such as Native Americans and early Great Plains settlers, British and German soldiers from World War I, or police officers near a picket line of striking workers).

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis is greeted by supporters while visiting the picket line at King College Preparatory High School April 1, 2016, as part of a one - day CTU strike in Chicago.

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.

Not discouraged, the group thrived though the critics remained hostile, culminating in 1940 when the group formed a picket line in front of the Museum of Modern Art, protesting the lack of recognition and respect by such institutions.

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.

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.

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.

Criminal behaviour on the picket line is handled by local law enforcement.

The issue on this appeal is whether the union has a constitutionally protected right to collect images of persons crossing the picket line, and therefore whether an order by the respondent Commissioner preventing it from doing so should be set aside.

Traill was one of two students who refused to cross the picket line to attend classes at Osgoode, which was virtually unaffected by the strike.

... the personal information collected, used and disclosed by the Union was limited to images of individuals crossing a picket line and did not include intimate biographical details.

The dispute is over whether Cooper violated the National Labor Relations Act by firing an employee who yelled racist comments at a temporary worker who crossed the union's picket line during a lockout.

He was much admired by those who worked around him and could always be relied upon to be on the picket line.