Sentences with phrase «striking workers in»

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.

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.

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...

Hon. Kola Oluwawole has again appealed to striking workers in the state civil service to consider the...

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.

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.

Not exact matches

In recent days, Sanders has stumped with striking Verizon workers, railing about large corporations destroying the middle class through cost - cutting and low wages that create economic stagnation and widen the gulf between the 1 percenters and everyone else.

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.

Protests of this nature don't constitute a legal strike for unionized workers, and the concept of striking in the strict sense doesn't exist for non-union workers.

«Finally they tell us that the air traffic control workers in Brazil have decided to go on strike so our plane can't take off.

True, Air Canada suffered labour disruptions in the past, including a two - week strike by ground workers in 1978 and a walkout in 1987.

In 2011, Verizon workers went on strike for two weeks after negotiations deadlocked.

Thousands of low - paid workers striking in hundreds of cities across the country, demanding a minimum wage of up to $ 15 per hour to replace the current $ 7.25 minimum wage, showing that an increasing amount of those even in jobs are unhappy with their lot.

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.

Uber came under renewed pressure over the weekend for a Tweet promoting surge - free pricing during a taxi worker strike in support of immigrants impacted by Trump's Executive Order, which has been widely interpreted as a Muslim ban.

The #DeleteUber hashtag initially trended after Uber lifted surge pricing around JFK Airport during a strike by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance in December.

Thanks in large part to that same mobile technology, workers with marketable skills have more freedom than ever before to strike their own balance between the demands of their job and the rest of their lives.

This year presented its share of challenges: a $ 2 - billion lawsuit related a 2013 factory collapse in Bangladesh; the threat of strike action from some 12,000 workers; and an investigation from the Competition Bureau.

In 1946, however, a violent three - month strike put management itself in a state of war with Hamilton workerIn 1946, however, a violent three - month strike put management itself in a state of war with Hamilton workerin a state of war with Hamilton workers.

Raising pressure on Germany's IG Metall union, the division's German CEO Michael Lohscheller underlined that new deals had now been struck with workers in Britain, Spain, Austria, Hungary and Poland, allowing investment in their sites.

But in morning, despite the orders to the contrary, textile workers left their work in several factories and sent delegates to ask for support of the strike... which led to mass strike... all went out into the streets.

With strikes planned in 150 cities, this could be fast - food workers» largest national protest yet.

Workers in support of the strike argue that their employers have failed to pay overtime or provide rest breaks, and offer scant opportunities for upward mobility.

The strike was called by the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers that jointly represent nearly 40,000 employees, such as customer services representatives and network technicians in Verizon's traditional wireline phone operations.

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There is no official support for children who lose their parents in the air strikes and it is a struggle for aid workers to access them, so many rely on members of the community to take them in.

In 1952, as a brash, ambitious attorney, he backed postal workers in an unprecedented strike against British authoritieIn 1952, as a brash, ambitious attorney, he backed postal workers in an unprecedented strike against British authoritiein an unprecedented strike against British authorities.

And, whether workers succeed in getting a pay raise or not, the strike and the surrounding scrutiny of the fast - food industry is going to affect everyone in the business.

About 50,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers will be in a legal strike or lockout position as of Saturday.

The union says in a release that the workers will be in a legal strike position on March 18, the day after their current contract expires.

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.

In 1995, more than 200 workers walked out of the plant and, after striking for four days, voted to unionize.

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

The strike was called by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers that jointly represent employees with such jobs as customer services representatives and network technicians in Verizon Communications Inc's (VZ.N) traditional wireline phone operations.

The demonstrations were the latest in a series of strikes that began with fast - food workers in New York in November 2012.

Southwest Airlines Co. and Transport Workers Union of America Local 556 finally struck an agreement in principle after three years of negotiations.

But in busting assumptions about female workers, the strike also represented a broader change in attitude toward gender that affected the entire labour movement.

A dynamic is put in place in which debt keeps labor down — not only by eating up its wages in debt service, but in making workers suffer sharp increases in the interest rates they have to pay or even risk losing their homes if they miss a payment by going on strike or being fired.

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.

Now — in a time of red state teachers madly striking, of fast - food workers demanding $ 15 an hour, of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter activists refusing to go away — it looks like our time could represent a cultural turn of its own.

In the time since, fast - food workers also have staged strikes, demanding the minimum wage be raised.

Kuwait's oil production is set to return to normal in three days after thousands of striking workers returned to their jobs Wednesday.

Kuwaiti oil sector employees sit in a shaded area on the first day of an official strike called by the Oil and Petrochemical Industries Workers Union over public sector pay Continue Reading

During the «Day without Latinxs & Immigrants,» thousands of workers struck and thousands of students were absent from school Over 100 businesses closed during the march (partial list here) Photos here Video here Over ten thousand people marched in Waukesha today as part of a Day Without Latinxs & Immigrants statewide general strike.

Thus, in recent years the Supreme Court has invalidated a Connecticut law (passed to replace the prior Sunday closing law) allowing workers to select their Sabbath day as their day off from work, struck down a Massachusetts statute allowing churches and schools to object to the issuance of liquor licenses in their near vicinity, and abolished an Alabama law allowing students in public schools a moment of silence.

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.

But what is striking is the extent to which the dissatisfaction of the assembly - line and blue - collar worker is mirrored in white - collar and even managerial positions.