Sentences with phrase «picket lines of»

Joining a picket line of the telecom company's striking workers, Sanders told them that Verizon is «just another major American corporation trying to destroy the lives of working Americans.»

Really, what we want is people to guard the picket line of acceptability.

Harman married Jack Dromey in 1982 in Brent, London, after meeting him on the picket line of the Grunwick dispute in 1977; she was legal advisor to the Grunwick Strike Committee.

As for unions, Tristram Hunt does part - time teaching without joining one and recently showed himself willing to cross a picket line of his colleagues at Queen Mary College.

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.

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).

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I think it's safe to say that pro-choice and pro-LGBT people are so incredibly hostile towards religious groups is because you don't see LGBT or Pro-choice people standing out in a picket line in front of churches like you would church groups in front of abortion clinics or gay parades.

Creating a culture of life isn't just about standing in a picket line with a «Choose Life» sign.

To gain entrance to a corporation head and insist on discussing his workers» plight with him is much more difficult than to march in a picket line, for it requires much more in the way of intelligence, ability, precise information, and strength of soul.

They were looked upon as a threat to the law of competition; therefore, the bosses hired detectives, ex-convicts, and thugs to attack the picket lines and to open the lines for production.

Ecklund reveals how scientists — believers and skeptics alike — are struggling to engage the increasing number of religious students in their classrooms and argues that many scientists are searching for «boundary pioneers» to cross the picket lines separating science and religion.

Christians follow a ladder shaker of the highest order, whose word reaches us not just from the yellowed notes that become sound in a lecture hall they have graced before, but from the anger of the picket lines where struggle is no stranger; nor should it be, in a world that has not yet been fully redeemed.

For teachers and students, and for the graduate student teaching assistants who were organizing as well, the issue was whether, in the event of a strike, classes should be moved off campus, so that no one would be crossing a picket line.

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.

A heroine of the pro-life cause, she is on the picket lines in front of the abortuaries, running the phone lines to get out the vote, and doing many other good things.

The picket line remains there this afternoon, and no trucks have been into or out of the centre since Monday.

Body on the line... A worker jumps in front of a truck in a bid to stop it crossing the picket line at Somerton yesterday.

Condie sees the importance of having white people on the picket lines.

Of course, the line that Rodney, Slider and Slugger defined was a rather unthreatening one, a white picket fence that simultaneously asked for privacy and advertised innocence: We're just like you.

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.

Outside parliament, Labour MPs rallied at a picket line to back workers who have refused to work in the Palace of Westminster.

«I think Cameron needs to get into the real world, get out of his mansion house in Oxfordshire and see some real people on a picket line.»

NHS workers on the picket line warn of future disruption to make their point on pay #NHSstrike http://t.co/UQMSd5TKbb pic.twitter.com/etUOei 7AGb

Last night a group of students occupied a university meeting room in support of the strike and UVW says that a number of LSE lecturers have been down to speak on the picket line.

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.

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

«Tomorrow, as thousands of public sector workers learn their fates, the one - man scourge of the Tories will not be on a demo, or a picket line, or even in a TV studio.

Shortly afterwards, the chair of the Criminal Bar Association announced that «we will not call for barristers to forgo work in opposition to the scheme», despite an internal survey finding 96 % of criminal law specialist barristers supported setting up picket lines.

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.

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.

A named official will be required to be available at all times to the police to oversee the picket including the numbers on the line, currently set at six, in an existing code of conduct.

The Mail on Sunday splashes on the decision of Sarah Montague and Evan Davies to cross picket lines and ensure yesterday's Today programme was broadcast:

Making it a criminal offence for seven people to be on a picket line is a waste of police time and not something you would expect in a country with a proud tradition of liberty.

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

[234][235][236] That same month he came under criticism from sectors of the left for urging RMT members to cross picket lines in a proposed Underground strike because the latest offer had been «extremely generous», leading RMT general secretary Bob Crow to step down as a TfL board member.

But the very purpose of a picket line is to exert influences, and it produces consequences, different from other modes of communication.

«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.

Incidentally, picket lines could also become a thing of the past, with new rules restricting their ability to be enforced also going for consultation today.

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

Leanne Wood has been a consistent supporter of picket lines and union rallies over the years in defence of pay and conditions for public sector workers -LSB-...]

More than 36,000 Verizon employees have hung up and joined the picket lines, opting to go on strike on April 13 after unions for field service workers failed to reach an agreement with the company after a 10 months of negotiations between them and corporate telecommunications company led to a stalemate.

The key issue working against Golden was not pension reform, but rather his crossing of a picket line when CWA members went on strike against Verizon last year.

They include the introduction of a 50 % turnout threshold on strike votes, a change to allow employers to bring in agency staff to cover work during industrial action, and a requirement for strike leaders to wear armbands on the picket line.

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

«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.

«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.

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

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.

The Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said he had seen «longer chip shop queues» than the number of staff protesting on the picket line today:

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.