Sentences with phrase «strike over wages»
Five hundred members of the United Auto Workers went on strike over wages Jan. 28.
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As U.S. fast - food workers continue to strike over wages, concerns build about what a wage hike might do to franchise owners and consumers.
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The strikes are fuelling a national debate over low wages in the US.
Strike Poverty in the Hudson Valley is set to rally 4 pm, meeting at the corner of Main St. and South Grand Ave in Poughkeepsie, then marching over to the McDonald's on Main St. to hear from workers who are demanding fair wages for their work.
An us - against - them tale of heroism that manages not to trip over it's own feet as the underpaid women at a Ford Automotive plant in England strike for better wages.
That concession was made in 2011 following a six - day strike — the first by government lawyers in Canadian history — in which both Quebec lawyers» unions walked off the job in protest over their wages, which were as much as 40 - per - cent lower than what provincial lawyers earned in neighbouring barometer - province Ontario.
The seeds of that discontent were sown in the aftermath of another strike that began on Feb. 8, 2011 when both the LANEQ and the Quebec Crown attorney's union (the Association des procureurs aux poursuites criminelles et pénales) took to the streets in protest over wages and working conditions.