Sentences with phrase «railway workers»

A former railway worker who was diagnosed with mesothelioma before Christmas last year makes a special appeal for more people to be aware of the dangers of asbestos.

Meanwhile, members of the Nigeria Union of Railway Workers and the Senior Staff Association, Nigerian Railway Corporation branch staged a protest against the planned concession of the 3,505 km narrow - guage railway track to General Electric without the payment of the workers» entitlements.

Cawkell also suggested Canada's harsh sentencing approach to heroin originally stems from discrimination against Chinese railway workers in the 1900s that included negative generalizations about their use of opium, Spies noted.

Misery for train passengers to and through France for the next two days as French railway workers go on strike.

Eurostar has cancelled a number of trains to and from Paris, Lille and Brussels today as French railway workers begin three months of rolling strikes.

In British Columbia, this includes Japanese internment camps, Chinese railway worker exploitation, and the Komagata Maru incident, which prompted the Canadian government to enact exclusion laws preventing Indians from immigrating.

A «high tea» treat in South Africa, this spicy pastry of sorts originated in India but was transferred to South Africa by railway workers.

The second quarter will be impacted by strikes by France's national railway workers (SNCF) which affect the transportation by train of certain products and raw materials, and thus operations at certain sites, mainly in advanced materials.

France has been engulfed in protests as students, opposing regionalization of educational services, have joined railway workers, protesting French President Emmanuel Macron's reforms in the field.

Reached after a night of informal talks, the proposed pact keeps 5,400 railway workers from walking off the job at 12:01 a.m. Sunday.

I want to use your platform to give the assurance the ministry is doing all within its power to ensure that railway workers get paid.»

Professor Cross said: «It has been known for some time that a team of proteins called TOGs sits on the tip of the growing microtubule track and works like a team of tiny railway workers to rapidly lay the new microtubule track.

Glory (Slava) is the brand of watch which railway worker Tsanko (Stefan Denolyubov) sets in the opening scenes of this interesting Bulgarian story.

Tourism here got its start when railway workers discovered a series of natural hot springs on Sulphur Mountain.

Chatting once more on the «plateform,» a friendly railway worker says, «Big delay.

It captures everything this beautiful country has to offer, from the towering peaks of the Andes and Machu Picchu, down to the thriving town of Aguas Calientes (meaning «hot waters» or «hot springs»), once a small railway workers» camp.

When the First World War broke out shortly thereafter, the Italian railway workers went home and the construction work between Gletsch and Disentis had to be postponed.

In 1883, three Canadian Pacific Railway workers happened to come across a cave containing natural hot springs.

It was stolen right down here in Oslo down at the sea in Norways warmest hole, probably planted there by Swedish Railway workers in the warm thirties.

Kelly advised Wenjack to follow the railroad tracks and to ask railway workers for food.

We've entered into 26th December and salary of railway workers have not been paid,» he said.

Striking railway workers have vowed to continue with their industrial action until all their grievances are addressed by government.

Railway workers in the Adirondacks have been trying to move a derailed locomotive that has been left running for a week.

Supposing a retired teacher or railway worker goes into politics, won't he be receiving his pensions??

French railway workers, striking over their retirement benefits, had shut down the commuter trains, preventing Baglin from reaching her office on the suburban campus of the Paris Observatory.

His comments come even as some organised labour groups including GHOSPA and railway workers are agitating over their placement on the single spine pay structure and poor remuneration, respectively.

However, during the winter of 1978 — 79 there were widespread strikes among lorry drivers, railway workers, car workers and local government and hospital workers in favour of higher pay - rises that caused significant disruption to everyday life.

The Railway Workers Union announced the withdrawal of passenger services from Accra to Tema and Accra to Nsawam last week [Friday, December, 18] following government's failure to pay their three - month salary arrears.

The Railway Workers Union also demanded the immediate dissolution...

The tour guides regaled us with the history of the city's working class education — the Workers» Education Association and seamen's and working men's libraries — citing a railway worker in 1945:

Striking railway workers have reiterated that they will not call off their industrial action until all their demands are addressed by government.

According to the General Secretary of the Railway Workers» Union of Ghana, Godwill Ntarmah, despite assurances that they would be paid on Christmas Day, those promises had not been kept.

The Railway Workers Union also demanded the immediate dissolution of the board of directors of the company and salary adjustments for the workers before they consider calling an end to their strike.

The Railway Workers Union announced the withdrawal of passenger services from Accra to Tema and Accra to Nsawam in December following government's failure to pay their three - month salary arrears.

In an interview with Citi News General Secretary of the Railway Workers Union, Godwill Ntarmah said the salary arrears had still not been paid hence their resolve to continue with the strike action.

Government had earlier resolved to pay the workers» salaries by Christmas day, according to Deputy Transport Minister, Joyce Bawa Mogtari, on Wednesday December 22 but that has not happened according to the Railway Workers Union.

«I am actually hoping that before the yuletide, the railway workers will be paid their salaries.

The railway workers and other civil servants were marching down the Boulevard Montparnasse, near Baglin's home, brandishing bright red flares that filled the air with chlorine - scented smoke; off the boulevard, platoons of shield - toting, armor - wearing riot police stood nervously at the ready.

Though facts are interspersed throughout — Neruda was a railway worker's son, he had a Dutch ex-wife and ailing young daughter he abandoned — Pablo Larrain is far more interested in Neruda's art and his symbolic place in the politics of Chile, than in chronology of events and biographic details.

Timothy Spall plays a railway worker who finds himself in an alternate world where that thing you wish hadn't happened actually never did.

But the $ 80,000 a year Noel earns as a railway worker isn't enough by itself to cover the mortgage and other expenses if Julie stays home to look after the kids.

Near the railway station is the Robertson Common, a remembrance park where a Memorial to the Railway Workers can be seen.

Born the son of a railway worker and a housewife in Havana, Cuba, Alberto Korda went on to photograph such important historical figures and luminaries as Nikita Khrushchev, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean - Paul Sartre, and was awarded the Cuban» Palma de Plata» in 1959 and the National Culture Distinction, Ministry of Culture, Cuba in 1994.

Remember the folk tale of John Henry, the railway worker who went head to head in a contest of efficiency with a steam - drill to prove that man was superior to machine?

So the moment the House came back from the Senate Chamber, the Prime Minister introduced Bill C - 1, but this time no dummy; this time a bill to end the strike and send the railway workers back to work, and it was put through all its stages, passed by both Houses, and received Royal Assent before either House considered the Speech from the Throne at all.

Chicago Labor & Employment partner Frank Saibert authored this «Labor Daze» column about the 7th Circuit reversing a ruling in a recent lawsuit in federal court involving a railway worker who claimed that his firing was a violation of the Federal Railroad Safety Act.