Sentences with phrase «they went on strike»

«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.

They're either going on strike, coming off a strike or between strikes.»

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

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.

Ground staff at Berlin's two airports have gone on strike for the second time in four days, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights.

Relations were already troubled when he arrived on the scene: last May, Teamsters went on strike, costing CP significant revenue.

The decision comes after head teachers across England had suggested that they could go on strike as a result of forced academisation.

«There are tens of thousands of people going on strike,» she said.

Thousands of workers from chain restaurants including McDonald's, Burger King and Pizza Hut plan to go on strike this Thursday, reports Bloomberg.

In 1912, coal miners in Colorado and West Virginia went on strike.

Caption: NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 01: Uber drivers protest the company's recent fare cuts and go on strike in front of the car service's New York offices on February 1, 2016 in New York City.

When Uber ended expensive driver incentives in the country, drivers went on strike, crippling the service.

Perhaps most important, unlike the Hollywood guilds, the organizations that are now taking shape are not full - fledged unions with the authority to collectively bargain and go on strike but, rather, looser structures without much actual power to hold employers accountable.

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.

Earlier this year, thousands of AT&T workers, members of the Communications Workers of America union, went on strike over issues like job security and outsourcing.

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.

Air Canada also said it is prepared to increase capacity in the event that WestJet pilots go on strike.

If they go on strike or if they're fired because they complain about working conditions, all of a sudden their interest rate goes up on their credit card, all of a sudden they miss their mortgage payment, they're losing their home.

Overtired from working under increasingly tough conditions where understaffing has become the norm, the nurses went on strike to get lower nurse - patient ratios.

What makes the trading action in gold all the more remarkable is the fact that India's gold importing activities have ground to halt since the country's jewelers went on strike March 1st.

And even better: all the women in the Catholic Church need to leave or go on strike.

James Bogle, who's also part of Catholic Union, was speaking after barristers went on strike in support of criminal defence solicitors, who've seen a nine per cent pay drop since the government's reforms came into effect at the start of July.

Less than fifty years ago nearly the entire student body of CUA went on strike to protest the dismissal of Curran from his post as assistant professor of theology by the CUA Board of Trustees - composed entirely of American bishops.

Is there not reason for Man, become aware of the direction in which Life is taking him, to rebel at last; to go on strike against a blind course of evolution which may not, in any event, betoken any real progress?

hello God... give us cheaper gas... good luck with that... it isn't happening... to get cheaper gas, every American citizen, should all go on strike and not go to work, school, etc. one day..

King went to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968 to march in solidarity with that city's trash collectors, who had gone on strike for decent wages.

The workers» response was swift; they went on strike, demanding a rise in wages.

Recently generators at seven health centres in the besieged Gaza Strip stopped working due to a fuel shortage and Gaza's largest hospital cancelled all medical procedures because hospital cleaning staff went on strike.

While arguing the little people get nothing, or «time» will go on strike.

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.

Since they are American nuns, they will probably go on strike.

In 1920 the railroad workers went on strike.

They were going on strike, swelling up like balloons, and throwing in the towel along with any hopes of homemade Valentine's Day treats.

Coles has been forced to establish an alternative distribution measure for perishable items sold in its Victorian and Tasmania supermarkets whilst employees at its usual Distribution Centre go on strike.

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.

Schneiderlin even went public with his displeasure and did everything except going on strike.

If you remember, Dembele missed a chunk of pre-season going on strike to push through his move to Barca.

Sanchez was linked with City the entire summer and not once did he hand in a transfer request highly doubt he'd create a scene by going on strike, this is some BS created by some city fan boys.

The players went on strike in 1994 because the owners didn't believe baseball would survive without the kind of salary cap that has successfully and artificially suppressed salaries in the other major sports.

Reports are coming though that Sanchez is going on strike.

What did the players want to gain from going on strike?

Alexis Sanchez may not be playing for Arsenal again, he might go on strike.

Go on strike?

just pointing out that football is gone crazy and some players go on strike (i'm not saying Sanchez is) where dose it end?

Perhaps you should go on strike and not watch Arsenal, give back your season ticket -LRB-... oh wait), parade placards around the Emirates, hand in a petition at No. 10 — do something, anything but quit the wailing.

Los Angeles Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen suggested, «Maybe we have to go on strike.»

Southampton manager Mauricio Pellegrino has revealed that Virgil van Dijk has effectively gone on strike, as the former Liverpool target tries to force an exit.

The only way they do something is if we all go on strike and don't go to Emirate, they will react real fast, losing money not titles... Look at players, all secured and happy... Confotable as Wenger and board.

Chelsea rogue Diego Costa has threatened to go on strike over a bust - up with Antonio Conte after the Blues boss told him he wouldn't be part of his seasons plans via text message.

Also loved their club so well, one left immmediately and one went on strike.