Sentences with phrase «strike over new contracts»

The row came as a group of former Gurkhas threatened to go on strike over new contracts placing them on zero hours.

The union's concerns dated to 2013, when the Bloomberg administration withstood a monthlong strike over a new contract that stripped job protections for the unionized drivers.

Not exact matches

It strikes me that we often hear this sort of thing when a player is in talks over a new contract and I think these snippets of «news» about a player wanting to move on are often leaked to the press in order to sharpen the pencil of the club trying to get their stats to extend their deals.

CHICAGO (Reuters)- Public school teachers in Chicago voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new three - year contract, ending a bitter dispute with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over school reforms that prompted the first strike of city teachers in 25 years.

As junior doctors stage their second strike this in a row over proposed new contracts, we ask just how tiring it is to work for the NHS.

After 16 months of tense negotiations that included a two - week strike last year, unions representing 45,000 Verizon employees announced tentative new contracts that call for an 8 percent pay raise over four years while requiring workers to pay more for health coverage.

Frustrated by a lack of progress over a new contract, faculty members and employees at the City University of New York voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if a mediator was unable to broker a deal with the administration, their union sanew contract, faculty members and employees at the City University of New York voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if a mediator was unable to broker a deal with the administration, their union saNew York voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if a mediator was unable to broker a deal with the administration, their union said.

The union had vowed to strike Monday if there was no agreement on a new contract, even though the district had offered a 16 percent raise over four years and the two sides had essentially agreed on a longer school day.

The new contract would includes a 10 percent raise over two years, likely bringing to an end the threat of a strike that has been in the air since the summer.

The new contract would includes a 10 percent raise over two years, likely bringing to an end the threat of a strike that has...