Sentences with phrase «striking workers»

"Striking workers" refers to employees who have stopped working in order to protest or demand better working conditions, higher wages, or other improved benefits. Full definition
Another member in his 70s, who had given interest - free loans and credit to striking workers in a time of widespread industrial unrest, died a broken and bankrupt man.
The new laws would force unions to give employers 14 days notice of strike action and allow them to bring in agency staff to cover for striking workers.
First it was Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Bob Duffy, then his running mate Andrew Cuomo and now Democratic attorney general contender Kathleen Rice is coming to the defense of striking workers at the Mott's manufacturing plant in Williamson, NY.
Also, speaking of the Dr. Pepper - owned Motts, I'm reminded of the time Cuomo sent Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy to meet with striking workers in Rochester during the campaign.
As we reported yesterday, Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Robert Duffy met with striking workers at the Mott's processing plant in Williamson, NY this afternoon.
Kuwait's oil production is set to return to normal in three days after thousands of striking workers returned to their jobs Wednesday.
The remaining issues in dispute relate to travel perks, which Unite says have been taken from striking workers.
Striking workers held rallies around the country with around 200 people gathered at Castle Square in Swansea and about 100 at an event in Wrexham.
If the Germans had decided to issue bonds to striking workers instead of money, bond prices would have been driven to ridiculously low levels, driving interest rates to extremely high levels, creating an unwillingness to hold currency (which does not bear interest), resulting in a rapid deterioration in the value of money, and hyperinflation just the same.
In another case, an Ontario court, in its determination of where striking workers were permitted to picket, described the campus of Queen's University as «buildings and property that are privately owned by Queen's University as well as municipally owned public streets and sidewalks.»
He closed two of his restaurants on May Day in solidarity with his staff and striking workers around the country, as well.
In the summer of 1980 striking workers occupying the Warsaw steel plant requested a priest to celebrate Sunday Mass for them and Fr Jerzy volunteered.
At our last London demonstration speakers included Sally Hunt UCU General Secretary, John McDonnell MP, Angela Rayner MP, Gordon Marsden MP, Shakira Martin NUS President, Kevin Courtney NEU General Secretary and many striking workers from across the union.
It's unclear why Tony Blair is better placed to advise the country on its profound human rights issues than the skilled global NGOs and international organisations who have, year after year, offered Kazakhstan advice on how, for instance, it can hold free elections, not murder striking workers and not silence bloggers or the country's few remaining independent journalists.
She even appears drunk on television leading striking workers in an a capella version of Satisfaction, which has the opposite effect that it would in any world except that of a movie.
Clashes between striking workers and Pinkerton guards in the 19th century formed a sad and bloody chapter in American history.
Loads can break loose and strike workers on the ground if the load was not properly secured.
The youth became agitated, entered the staff office and repeatedly struck the worker.
Canada was the first country to celebrate Labor Day, In 1872, they held a «Nine - Hour Movement» to show support for striking workers.
Detroit (Tessa Thompson) and Cassius (Lakeith Stanfield) join with striking workers at their telemarketing firm in Oakland.
On Sunday 15 August 10,000 striking workers at Huta Warszawa demanded that the mass should be held inside the iron and steel making complex.
If the Germans had decided to issue bonds to striking workers instead of money, bond prices would have been driven to ridiculously low levels, driving interest rates to extremely high levels, creating an unwillingness to hold non-interest bearing money, resulting in a rapid deterioration in the value of money, and hyperinflation just the same.
«I think instead of striking the workers and the management should be sitting around the table getting an end to this strike.
Striking workers in the six tertiary institutions owned by Oyo State government on Friday declared that contrary to speculation that they have suspended the strike, workers in the six institutions will not return to work until the state government headed by Senator Abiola Ajimobi pay their salaries ranging from 9 to 16 months.
Joining a picket line of the telecom company's striking workers, Sanders told them that Verizon is «just another major American corporation trying to destroy the lives of working Americans.»
She was a spokesperson on behalf of striking workers, a volunteer teacher in night schools for railroad workers, and an active trade unionist.
As well as the monthly Masses for the Homeland, Fr Jerzy was organising relief for the families of striking workers — clothes, money and food.
Stories of the hardship that striking workers would face were often told by those who had a vested interest in their not striking.
In all this the Church supported the striking workers.
That is wholly un-American,» Rice told a crowd of striking workers.
Duffy told the striking workers that he and his running mate, AG Andrew Cuomo, will do whatever they can to bring the two sides back to the negotiating table.
As tensions rose, this and other misinformation prompted a number of other community members to join the protest of the striking workers, transforming what had been a small and localised incident into something bigger and far more dangerous.
«The son of a union carpenter, Coffey commiserated with the striking workers, who have been on strike since May in response to a proposed contract of cut wages and increased health care cost, and pledged his full support.»
President Mahama on Wednesday urged the striking workers of CLOGSAG to end their two weeks strike because government can not succumb to their demand since it has resolved not to overspend in an election year.
«The addition of new, middle - class jobs at Verizon is a huge win not just for striking workers, but for our communities and our country as a whole,» said Chris Shelton, President of the Communications Workers of America.
State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli will be the next Albany politician to visit the Momentive chemical plant — where 700 striking workers have been manning a picket line for over three months.
According to him many of the reports centred on Governor Fayose's appeal to labour union leaders in the state and some contained in his media interviews, where he tried to falsify the state's debt portfolio in a manner that has become the standard practice of his regime in the bid to appeal to the striking workers.
With just a few hours to go before President - elect Donald Trump take office, New York's Working Families Party is using what it anticipates will be «wholesale attacks on working people» by the incoming administration and its allies to highlight the plight of several hundred striking workers at Momentive Performance Materials, a chemical plant in Waterford.
He also responded to the allegation that he travelled on the day government officials were expected to meet with leaders of the striking workers.
Yet none of that could convince the mayor's appointees on the panel from voting as a bloc to approve the lucrative contract at their Aug. 17 meeting as hundreds of striking workers and their supporters, including many teachers, protested.
The organised Labour in Kogi State has urged Nigerians to disregard the falsehood being peddled by the government that the striking workers in the state are...
This comes on the heels of a visit to the striking workers by Cuomo's LG running mate, Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy.
Earlier chairman of the ad - hoc committee and member representing Okura Constituency Hassan Abdullahi explained that the committee met three times with the striking workers and government but was yet to come to conclusion on the matter.
The communications company reached tentative agreements this weekend with two unions representing about 36,000 striking workers.
While appealing to the striking workers of the institution, Aregbesola said for the institution to grow all hands must be on deck to appreciate the financial difficulties currently facing the two owner states.
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