Sentences with phrase «striking workers at»

Striking workers at The Polytechnic Ibadan on Monday defied the last Friday's resumption order by the management of institution.

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.

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The second quarter will be impacted by strikes by France's national railway workers (SNCF) which affect the transportation by train of certain products and raw materials, and thus operations at certain sites, mainly in advanced materials.

Last week, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers that represent over 37,000 wireline employees said they had voted to go on strike, if needed, after their contract expired on Aug. 1 at midnight.

Workers at one of Macmahon Holdings» operations in Nigeria have launched strike action after disputing end - of - project redundancy payments.

His refusal to allow union workers at his mines eventually led to the Homestead strike in 1892, in which 10 men were killed and 60 were wounded.

Workers at Amazon «s main distribution hub in Italy are planning their first ever strike for Friday, trade unions said, while they are also striking at six warehouses in Germany, threatening to disrupt one of the year's busiest shopping days.

Unions said in a statement more than 500 Amazon workers at the Piacenza site in northern Italy had agreed to strike following a failure to negotiate bonuses with the company.

A report by Anzalone Research Group published by Fast Food Forward, the campaign behind the fast food strikes in New York, found that of the 500 fast food workers it surveyed in New York in April 2013, 84 % said that their employer had committed at least one form of wage theft in the past year.

Lear workers in Ajax, Ontario, widely rejected a tentative labour deal, prolonging a strike at a factory that supplies seats to a nearby Fiat Chrysler plant.Wednesday, May 2, 6:38 am ET

Nickel rose for the first time in three sessions as workers at a BHP Billiton Plc. mine in Colombia threatened to go on strike, spurring supply concerns.

After the meeting, Switchfoot's Jon Foreman said: «I would not have dropped everything and booked a ticket at the last minute to hear a social worker discuss the problems in Africa... I am a selfish, star - struck, rich, American, Anglo - Saxon fan of Bono.

Religious institutions may be caught in the middle of such changes: pro-Western religious orientations may suddenly become unpopular because of changes in trading alliances, peasants may turn to millenarian or folk religions to revitalize economically threatened communities, communist or nationalist movements among oppressed urban workers may strike out at traditional religious organizations, and so on.7

The workers at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk had listed twenty - one demands, including the right to strike, freedom of speech and a guaranteed pension.

Workers have been on strike for four years at the Congress, seeking better wages and health benefits.

Whether one looks at a Church of South India congregation in the «Harijan Wadi» of a village in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, or at a New Life Pentecostal congregation in the suburbs of Mumbai, whether one looks at a Syrian Orthodox community in Chungom, Kottayam, or at a Mizo Presbyterian Church in Mission Veng in Aizwal, whether one looks at the worshipers at the Indian mass celebrated at the National Biblical Catechetical and Liturgical Centre in Bangalore, or at a newly set up Baptist congregation among former estate workers in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, one thing that would strike even the most impartial observer is the reality of hybridity, hybridity which manifests itself not only in things external, but very often in terms of attitudes, thought - processes and historical self - understanding within the overall identity discourse.

In talking to the members of the union, another story came out: about how in the 1980s a group of secretaries, many of them single mothers — an identity that challenged the notion that the secretaries were working at Yale for pin money — had stood alongside the grounds and maintenance workers, the dining hall workers, the cooks and the plumbers, who went on strike so that the clerical workers union might be formed.

But not always the left: Around the same time, Polish workers who confronted their communist masters in a strike at the Gdansk shipyards adopted Solidarno as the name for their movement.

The video, shot in April 2012, was taken at Wyoming Premium Farms, a pig factory farm in Wheatland, Wyo., owned by Itoham America, Inc., and shows workers kicking living piglets like soccer balls, swinging sick piglets in circles by their hind legs, striking mother pigs with their fists and repeatedly and forcefully kicking them as they resisted leaving their young.

According to the ABC, workers at the Polar Fresh distribution centre in Truganina in Melbourne have gone on strike indefinitely asking for better pay and job security for casual employees.

The union Unite is angry that Cadbury's is breaking a long - standing deal struck with the workers at Cadbury's UK plants at Bourneville, Chirk, Marlbrook and Somerdale, -LSB-...]

A strike at Britain's leading chocolate maker Cadbury's, drew one step closer on Saturday 18 July as workers begin to vote on action against the company's broken pay promises.

Workers at the Somerton centre went on indefinite strike yesterday morning after negotiations between the company Coles outsources its labour - hire to, Toll Group, and the National Union of Workers broke down.

About 90 percent of the employees attending the meeting Saturday favored the «authorization to strike» vote, but Loza would not say how many workers actually attended the vote, which took place at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers hall in Cworkers actually attended the vote, which took place at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers hall in CWorkers hall in Chicago.

Workers at the Passport Office may go on strike over the growing backlog, as warnings emerge that hundreds of thousands of Brits could miss their summer holidays due to delays

AT&T Inc.'s wireless workers moved closer toward striking at the nation's second - largest carrier, citing a campaign pledge by Trump to keep U.S. jobs from being outsourced to other countries.

President, Ayuba Wabba, stated this in an address to Oyo workers at the union's secretariat in Ibadan said the strike will only be suspended when their demands were met.

Also at 12:30 p.m., Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United will march with workers in the May 1 General Strike, Washington Square Park S., Manhattan.

Railroad workers have been striking since mid-April, angry at plans to freeze salaries, cut over 120,000 jobs, and employ more private contractors.

From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., nurses and healthcare workers from Fresenius Dialysis, the largest dialysis provider in the U.S., will hold an informational picket and strike vote at various locations in Brooklyn and the Bronx.

At noon, Albany fast food workers join nationwide protests on the anniversary of the Memphis sanitation strike and rally as part of the Fight for $ 15 movement, state Capitol, Albany.

While protests took place at the UoL this week, the actor Jeremy Irons — who'd been due to speak at the university - stopped to talk to the striking workers.

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.

The Card Check / Neutrality agreement also includes an «interest arbitration» provision, which guarantees that the workers at Rivers will not have to go on strike to win a first contract.

Every previous attempt at unionization, including a general strike by New York City hotel and restaurant workers in 1912, had been crushed by the hotel owners.

Some 700 airport workers who provide curbside and terminal services for major airlines at all three New York travel hubs went on strike at 9 p.m. yesterday — potentially snarling flights for United Airlines, American Airlines and JetBlue.

The MTA will audit safety procedures at the Long Island Rail Road after an NTSB report criticized the railroad for lax enforcement of rules that could have saved the life of a worker struck by a train last June, railroad officials said.

The announcement comes as pressure grows on ministers to scrap a deal struck with civil servants in October, which allows existing workers to retire on a full pension at the age of 60, although new employees would have to work until 65.

The Senate moved to avert a planned strike Monday when it gave final legislative approval to a measure raising the wages of 19,000 workers who care for people with intellectual disabilities at private group homes and day programs across the state.

Two million workers are set to strike, resulting in the closure of 20,000 schools as well as disruption at airports, hospitals and ports.

And then there's the furore over British jobs for British workers, which came to a head with wildcat strikes at Lincolnshire's Lindsey oil refinery earlier this year.

A strike by millions of workers protesting at Government pension reforms will be called in November, a union leader revealed yesterday.

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.

Albany, NY - The Upper Hudson Green Party Statement of Support for Workers on Strike at Momentive Performance Materials

The purchasing director then testified about a contract to provide food to workers at the county Office of Emergency Management when superstorm Sandy struck later that year.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley says the union gave bad advice to workers who went on strike at a company he formerly owned in Pennsylvania.

The Royal Mail strike will begin at midnight tonight after talks broke down between postal workers» leaders and management.

Across the country, unionized workers at AT&T walked out Friday afternoon and will stay on strike until Monday morning.

Also at 6 p.m., fast - food, airport, retail, carwash and other workers strike and protest to demand $ 15 / hr and union rights for all, outside Grand Hyatt Hotel 109 East 42nd St., Manhattan.

All efforts to get a copy of the petition proved abortive as at the time of filing this report but a dependable source who wants to remain anonymous said the petitioner wrote the petition that it will be unjustifiable for the Governing Council to pay for the 12 months salaries the workers of the institution are allegedly claiming since they were on strike for about 9 months, saying the petitioner allegedly called on the two owner states to invoke no work no pay rule on the workers of the institution.