Sentences with phrase «strike over government»

Jonathan spoke to State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, when he reacted to the threat by the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) to embark on strike over government's refusal to shift the date.

Thursday's strike over Government proposals on public sector pensions will bring to a head simmering tensions on several fronts.

The Ashanti regional council of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association (CLOGSAG) has declared its intention to strike over government's failure to pay their premium by the end of June.

Not exact matches

In 2007, The Laljis» company, Larco Group, struck a $ 1.7 - billion deal with the federal government to buy and then lease back seven Ottawa office buildings; the CBC reported in 2015 that the arrangement has been plagued by years of disputes between the two parties, including acrimony over repairs, contract tendering and even parking fees.

Westpac struck similar deals in Adelaide and Launceston, where it took over state - of - the - art Ansett call centres and received financial support from the respective State governments.

Eric Brammer, 30, an information technology specialist from Roanoke, Virginia, who describes himself as Democrat, said he expects tensions to continue over Russia's support of the government of President Bashar Assad in civil war - wracked Syria, where the U.S., Britain and France last week launched missile strikes against Syrian chemical weapons facilities.

At home, we've seen how a government can extract more from a pipeline proponent, after B.C. Premier Christy Clark struck a deal with Kinder Morgan Canada to collect as much as $ 1 - billion over 20 years if the company builds its Trans Mountain expansion.

He presents many other facts and findings of this sort — particularly striking is the one showing that German capitalists actually exerted pressure upon their government to avoid going to war over a colonial dispute, the one over Morocco in 1911, so as to preserve their profitable trading.

The point is not that we should rule the offensive illegal, which is why the courts are correct to strike down efforts to regulate speech that some people do not like, and even most speech that hurts; the advantages of yielding to the government so much power over what we say have never been shown to outweigh the dangers.

Up to two million public sector workers are striking over their pensions today, as union leaders» impasse with the government continues.

David Cameron addresses the Local Government Association's conference in Birmingham, two days before public sector workers strike over their pensions:

Nick Clegg struck a decidedly cautious tone over Syria today, raising questions about how much support there is in government for David Cameron's increasingly hawkish stance over the conflict.

He spoke out as sources at the civil service PCS union, which joined teachers on strike in June in a row over the Government's pension reforms, said its national executive had agreed to hold another one - day walkout in the autumn.

Republicans are not the only ones who could face political consequences over a potential government shutdown if lawmakers do not strike a deal on spending and immigration by the end of the week.

The organized labour on Wednesday threatened to resume their suspended strike over failure of government to honour the agreement reached with them.

After much deliberation on issues that led to the industrial dispute, the leader of the State Government delegation, elder Simon Achuba appealed to the labour leaders to call off their over six - weeks old industrial strike, which has paralysed government activities and has become a great concern to stakeholders in Government delegation, elder Simon Achuba appealed to the labour leaders to call off their over six - weeks old industrial strike, which has paralysed government activities and has become a great concern to stakeholders in government activities and has become a great concern to stakeholders in the state.

The strike starts a six - week programme of protests by the union's members working in environment and forms part of a civil service - wide campaign over the government's imposed cuts to pay, pensions, jobs and working conditions.

Adamu however, said the federal government was not happy over the way ASUU proceeded on strike, observing that it failed to follow due process by giving the government reasonable notice as the case should be.

The government will remain «very firm» in the face of union strikes over public sector pensions, David Cameron has said.

The State Attorneys declared a strike in October 2016 over government's failure to meet its demand for improved conditions of service.

The NASUWT and the NUT have now served notice to employers that NUT and NASUWT members in the North West of England * will be called upon to take strike action on 27 June 2013 in furtherance of the dispute with the Government over pensions, pay and conditions.

Hundreds of IT staff who work on contracts for five government departments and agencies are being balloted for a strike over pay, the Public and Commercial Services union announces.

Mark, who will be among the conference delegates asked to endorse a ballot for a national strike over cuts to jobs, pensions and pay, said: «As a rep I witness firsthand how the government's cuts are affecting people and communities, so as well as cycling I'll be campaigning for the alternative along the way.

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) decided today to launch legal action with other unions against the government over unilateral changes to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme and hold a strike ballot amongst 270,000 PCS members working for the civil service and its related bodies

The government is refusing to active its emergency powers over the impending fuel strike at Grangemouth, with confidence high panic - buying can be avoided.

Labour leaders in Osun State may have adopted a hide and seek tactics with the state government over pressures being mounted on them by the administration of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola to call off its over 6 week old strike action over months of unpaid salaries.

Tragedy struck in Kadarko village, Kaura local government Area of Kaduna State over the weekend as a pregnant woman, including her two children, died over suspected...

«Therefore, be prepared for worst because in the state broadcast to mark 57th independence anniversary, government has not seen any reason to open dialogue with organised labour over the catalogue of workers» demands that led to he ongoing strike action.

Shockingly, the cabinet papers also show that the Tories were willing to go as far as declaring a state of emergency and deploying the Army in order to gain victory over the striking miners and the unions — confirmation that it was a central tenet of government policy to regard tax - paying, law - abiding colliery workers, locked in struggle to defend their jobs and their way of life, as (to use that awful phrase of Margaret Thatcher's) «the enemy within».

There will be no honeymoon period for the new government on education spending — particularly if the unions do vote to strike over the issue.

The National Union of Teachers has backed a motion to ballot members over strike action if no progress is made through talks on the issue with the new government by the autumn statement.

Critics say the row is similar to that over Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands, whose death on hunger strike in 1981 caused worldwide protests against the British government.

Critics have accused the government of presiding over a shambles in its response to the potential strike.

More than a quarter of a million public servants will be balloted today on possible strike action over Government pension plans.

Some believe the coordination meetings are necessary to prepare for a possible fuel shortage over the Easter break, but others have accused the government of embracing the potential strike as useful political dividing line with Labour.

Government workers in Ondo State on Wednesday embarked an indefinite strike over five month's arrears of unpaid salaries.

• The National Association of Probation Officers has said that its members in England and Wales are to be balloted for possible strike action over government plans to privatise the service.

It was fear of this that forced the Government to put up Alexander to go public on their case even while still in negotiations, throwing in concessions to the lowest paid to keep them in the scheme and to divide and rule the unions over any strike action.

'' We are part of the strike because in our office, over 95 % staff have not collected their monthly pay for over 10 months, even though we are generating revenue for the state government.

«While I personally like David Valesky, I have serious concerns that the deal his Independent Democratic Conference has struck will hand over the keys of state government to the New York City Democrats and the radical Working Families Party,» Dadey said in a statement this morning.

[38] The Mirror's continued support of the Labour government was in spite of its falling popularity over the previous few months which had been the result of the Winter of Discontent, where the country was crippled by numerous public sector strikes.

The coalition government faces the first industrial uprising against its austerity measures today as up to 750,000 public servants strike over planned changes to their pensions.

In a wide - ranging interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Monday, in which the prime minister conceded that his government had endured «a difficult month» amid rows over the budget, preparations for a possible fuel strike and the botched deportation of Abu Qatada, Cameron said he did not favour a referendum.

The union had on Jan. 8 embarked on an indefinite strike over the sacked of 21,780 primary school teachers who allegedly failed a competency test organised by the state government in June 2017.

The number of people killed in a powerful earthquake that struck Ecuador over the weekend has risen to about 350, the government has said.

The Kogi State Chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has refuted the claims from the Kogi State government that its over two month old strike...

The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Akwa Ibom state chapter on Friday, embarked on a strike action over unpaid salaries and allowances owed council...

More than a million public sector workers are expected to strike in a series of disputes with the government over pay, pensions and job cuts.

Teachers, firefighters and council workers joined the strike, which follows disputes with the government over pay, pensions and cuts.

Both the Scottish government and Scottish Labour have taken legal advice over the Trade Union Bill, which could put curbs on trade union powers and make it more difficult to call strikes.