Sentences with phrase «sanitation workers in»

A group of sanitation workers in the Çankaya district of Ankara, Turkey began collecting books that were set out in the trash.

A reinterpretation of the actual signs that were carried by 1,300 striking African American sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968, and which were made famous in Ernest Withers» photographs of the march, this small, roughly made painting combines layers of history, meaning, and physical material in a dense, resonant object.

Untitled (I Am a Man) is a reinterpretation of the signs carried by 1,300 striking African American sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968 and made famous in Ernest Withers» photographs of the march.

Ligon took the text and poster format from twenty years earlier, from striking black sanitation workers in Memphis.

Ligon has also lifted quotes, jokes, and poems from Ralph Ellison, Richard Pryor, Muhammad Ali, and Ernest C. Withers's indelible photograph of a 1968 strike of black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, in which each carries a sign reading «i am a man.»

Fifty years ago this month, black sanitation workers in Memphis went on strike to fight for their right to safe working conditions and for pay that was equal to their white counterparts.

«Airport workers have had enough and are continuing to stand up for themselves in the spirit of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who told striking sanitation workers in Memphis, «We've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end,»» said Councilmember Andy King.

The show interprets these practices broadly, encompassing both the reiteration of physical marks in a Yayoi Kusama painting and the repeated act undertaken by Mierle Laderman Ukeles for Touch Sanitation, a multi-year project that involved shaking hands with every sanitation worker in New York City.

I am writing in response to your job listing for a Sanitation Worker in the Daily Times.

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(4) It consists of asking people to imagine themselves in a culture where nearly all the people in charge, from the President to the sanitation worker, are women, where all the «mothers» are men, and where the male body is seen as weak and unclean.

Finally, worker hygiene as well as production and storage area sanitation practices play a critical role in minimizing the potential for contamination of GF foods.

And these kitchens are inspected by public health departments for safety & sanitation compliances and employees are required in most if not all states to have a food handlers / workers card / license.

Partnered with national and state governments, we work to assist in educating mothers and children, teachers and students, doctors and village health workers, and a variety of community leaders, in the targeted areas of nutrition, health, water, hygiene, and sanitation.

Dr. King was in Memphis to lead a march protesting the working conditions and low wages of the city's sanitation workers, and in his final speech, he spoke of how racial and economic injustice are inextricably linked.

City leaders said they will take a strong look at the allegation that sanitation workers intentionally avoided plowing side streets in Queens.

Speaker Sheldon Silver is taking a much different view of the NY Post article alleging that certain Sanitation department bosses specifically instructed workers to respond slowly to routes in order to make a point.

The city has also proposed privatizing the operation of four of the city's marine transfer stations for garbage, which would force the Department of Sanitation to shed 248 uniformed workers and an additional 54 civilian staffers through attrition in 2013.

Up until six years ago, governors routinely signed legislation shielding NYPD, FDNY, Department of Corrections and Department of Sanitation workers from cuts made to disability payouts for civil servant in less hazardous fields — allowing them to receive 75 percent of their former salary.

Marshall also honored Sanitation Department workers Semi Nkozi and Joseph Maneggio, who rescued a group of children from a burning Far Rockaway building in December; Detectives Richard Johnson and Charles Lo Presti, who arrested a suspect in the Jan. 1 firebombing of an Islamic center in Jamaica; and 91 - year - old World War II veteran Arno Heller of Rego Park.

Less than two weeks later on Feb. 9, 54 - year - old sanitation worker Joseph Benzinger was discovered lying unconscious on the floor in a room at the Crown Motor Inn, 74 - 01 Queens Blvd., about 11:40 p.m..

QUEENS — Officials and community leaders are urging members of the LGBT community in Queens to be on alert after the choking deaths of a former city sanitation worker and teacher in Elmhurst and East Elmhurst over the last two weeks.

In January, he had a private breakfast with Borough President James Oddo on the Island and greeted sanitation workers after a snowstorm.

Syracuse city councilors are hoping to convince state - level lawmakers to change a law that allows police, firefighters and sanitation workers to live outside the cities they work in.

A city sanitation worker was struck by a car and killed yesterday while crossing the street in Castle Hill.

In November, the mayor made a show of rolling out his labor support when he first declared for reelection, touting early endorsements from SEIU 32BJ, the Uniformed Sanitation Workers Union, and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.

Under the agreement, as described by Deputy Town Supervisor Greg Carman and CSEA President Jarvis Brown, the town will be able to have as many as 90 part - time employees per day in the sanitation department, which currently has 220 full - time workers.

Brown said the original agreement that prohibited part - time workers in sanitation had been intended to protect full - time positions.

It was sanitation, it was sanitation,»» garnering raucous applause from the workers in attendance.

Two dozen expected vacancies in sanitation because of transfers will be replaced by full - time and part - time workers, he said.

The de Blasio administration had also reach an agreement in December 2014 with the rest of the sanitation workers represented by the Sanitation Officers Association and the Uniformed Sanitation Chiefs Assanitation workers represented by the Sanitation Officers Association and the Uniformed Sanitation Chiefs AsSanitation Officers Association and the Uniformed Sanitation Chiefs AsSanitation Chiefs Association.

Sanitation workers also gave up an effective guarantee of overtime work that had been in the previous contract.

De Blasio commended sanitation workers for their role in helping the city rebuild following Hurricane Sandy in 2012, as he battles the federal government over how effectively the city managed funds provided for the Build It Back program for homeowners and faces pressure from City Council members to speed up the rebuilding of homes.

She also discussed the effort by some to prohibit uniformed city workers, the NYPD, FDNY and Sanitation, from marching in uniform and under identifying banners.

The mayor has also began using Trump as a foil in his re-election campaign, warning the sanitation workers» union which endorsed him Monday that Washington may turn against labor unions.

DC 37, which has more than 125,000 members in various fields including nursing, sanitation and education workers, predominantly selected the Council's Queens incumbents for their election choices.

Another source said the effort from the Speaker was well - intentioned, and that Mark - Viverito and her staff are considering whether to include other uniformed workers in the legislation, such as sanitation workers.

Clinton pointed out that the legislation was signed on the same day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, during a period when he was fighting for better wages and working conditions for sanitation workers.

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Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech «I've Been to the Mountaintop» was delivered in Memphis in solidarity with the city's sanitation workers.

There's nothing quiet about the fireworks he sets off as a sanitation worker on the ropes in Fences.

February 1, 2018 • Thursday marks 50 years since two sanitation workers were killed in a grisly accident in Memphis.

Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to a mass meeting at the Mason Temple in support of striking sanitation workers.

In the city, firefighters, police, and sanitation workers had recently signed five - year contracts that awarded wage and benefit increases of 13.3 percent.

And yesterday, unions held rallies across the country in an attempt to channel Martin Luther King who died 43 years ago in Memphis while supporting striking sanitation workers.

Published during a moment of political upheaval and dissent against resurgent fascism in the United States, Bordowitz's book inserts Untitled (I Am a Man) into a history that includes the African - American sanitation workers» strike in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968, Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech «Ain't I A Woman?»

His work is based on the paradox between the visible and the invisible, with sanitation workers the main protagonists in his humorous installations and paintings.

Ernest C. Withers, American, 1922 - 2007, In Front of Clayborn Temple, Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, March 28, 1968, Gelatin silver print, printed from original negative in 1999, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art purchase with funds provided by Ernest and Dorothy Withers, Panopticon Gallery, Inc., Waltham, MA, Landon and Carol Butler, The Deupree Family Foundation, and The Turley Foundation 2005.3.32 © Withers Family TruIn Front of Clayborn Temple, Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, March 28, 1968, Gelatin silver print, printed from original negative in 1999, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art purchase with funds provided by Ernest and Dorothy Withers, Panopticon Gallery, Inc., Waltham, MA, Landon and Carol Butler, The Deupree Family Foundation, and The Turley Foundation 2005.3.32 © Withers Family Truin 1999, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art purchase with funds provided by Ernest and Dorothy Withers, Panopticon Gallery, Inc., Waltham, MA, Landon and Carol Butler, The Deupree Family Foundation, and The Turley Foundation 2005.3.32 © Withers Family Trust

A wall of sanitation workers carrying «I AM A MAN» placards and police in riot gear on the 28th; Dr. King returning to Memphis on the 3rd; giving his historic «Mountaintop» speech at the Mason Temple; and the memorial march to City Hall on the 8th are among his evocative, iconic images.

The slogan is adapted from the first line of Ralph Ellison's prologue to «Invisible Man»; Photographer Ernest Withers documented the strikers bearing the signs securing the image's prominence in civil rights history; And Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to address the sanitation workers and he was assassinated the next day.

In Thomas Hirschhorn's 1992 project Jemand kümmert sich um meine Arbeit (Somebody takes care of my work) he placed some of his sculptural objects on the sidewalk, only to watch how civic sanitation workers «took care» of them — by removing them along with the trash of other neighbourhood residents.