Sentences with phrase «trade union workers»

The carpenters» union has about 700 members who build and fix things for various city agencies, and they are among about 10,000 members of skilled trade union workers who are governed by the prevailing wage law.

Dozens of trade union workers and Suffolk Off - Track Betting employees stormed out Wednesday night of a Medford community rally against building a $ 65 million video lottery gaming establishment.

Dozens of trade union workers and Suffolk Off - Track Betting employees stormed out last night of a Medford community rally against building a $ 65 million video lottery gaming establishment.

Because of that, maybe it explains his bizarre crusade to destroy the families of trade union workers?

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Another example: In 2010 the United Autoworkers and the United Food and Commercial Workers unions spoke out in favour of the U.S. - South Korea Free Trade Agreement, arguing that it would «grow more jobs.»

More broadly, concerns about trade and its impact on workers figured large in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and in Britain's referendum vote to leave the European Union, a free - trade bloc.

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.

Leaders of the United Auto Workers union regularly raise concerns about U.S. - China automotive trade.

Bob White and the auto workers captured the attention of many Canadians by breaking away from their American parent union in 1985 and then leading an inspired campaign against the Mulroney government's proposed free trade agreement with the United States.

David Robinson, in his capacity as trade and education consultant for Education International, a global union federation claiming to represent 30 million teachers and other education workers, met with WTO negotiators during the ministerial to discuss potential impacts on public education.

At the same time, underlying shifts in the economy have again shifted the interest group politics — these days, manufacturing workers are a small share of overall US union membership, so the original impetus for the Democratic tilt against trade is going away.

When German institutions — government, businesses and labor unions — negotiated among themselves at the turn of the century a sharp reduction in wage growth for its workers, they were obviously attempting to reduce German's high domestic unemployment by gaining trade competitiveness.

The In campaign is urging Britain to remain in the European Union, saying it promotes security and peace by uniting countries which were previously at war, encourages economic prosperity through its free trade agreement, and passes laws which protect workers and environment.

The new legislation was suggested by the Solidarity trade union in a bid to ensure workers can spend more time with their loved ones.

The results of a survey conducted by trade union reveals 85 per cent of shop workers oppose Belfast City... More

Unemployment enables employers and governments to reduce the rights of workers, restrict trade union rights especially in the free trade zones in the poor countries.

Some such experiences and actions can be seen in the successful action to re-conquer the earth by the farmers in Brazil or Madagascar, the initiatives for education and rural training of women in Senegal or in the exemplary battles of the South - Korean workers who demonstrated the possibility of constituting efficient inter-professional trade union organisations in the so - called emerging countries.

The results of a survey conducted by trade union reveals 85 per cent of shop workers oppose Belfast City Council's suggestion of extended Sunday trading.

A similar enterprise at the Evangelical Academy at Bad Boll, near Stuttgart, Germany, has made a significant start toward bridging the gap between the Church and the industrial worker by inviting representatives of the Trade Unions and Workers» Councils, including sometimes communists, to discuss the implications of Christianity, while on other occasions employers and Workers» Council leaders have met together for mutual discussion of the applications of the gospel to industry.

It was not freedom for workers to organize trade unions, for blacks to vote, for aboriginal peoples to retain their lands, or for women to have equal rights with men.

The list becomes longer every day: the landless farmers in Brazil, salaried workers and the unemployed in some European countries, trade unions uniting the vast majority of salaried workers (such as in Korea or South Africa), the young and students encouraging the people of the towns (like in Indonesia), all are involved in the struggle.

Workers» unions and agrarian cooperatives had called for a national demonstration in opposition to the Free Trade Agreement.

The Royal Commission Inquiry into Trade Union Governance and Corruption is currently considering a range of matters, including arrangements between the Transport Workers Union and Toll Holdings.

South Australian Premier Steven Marshall has accused new state Labor Party leader Peter Malinauskas of being captive to the retail workers» union that he ran before entering politics, as the two disagreed over plans to deregulate shop trading hours.

A CUB spokeswoman said trade unions» accusations that CUB had sacked the maintenance workers was wrong, because they were not direct employees.

Nestlé is also accused of trade union busting activities in Colombia and refusing to accept court rulings in the Philippines over workers» rights.

And number five, they say engage with target groups, for example trade unions, workers» rights organizations, women's groups and youth groups to protect the breastfeeding rights of women in the workplace.

engage with target groups, e.g. trade unions, workers rights organizations, human rights agencies, occupational health organizations, and women's and youth groups, to protect the breastfeeding rights of women in the workplace.

We analysed the government's new Trade Unions Bill and concluded that the new legislation marks the beginning of the removal of akk workers rights.

The trade unions will demonstrate their support for pensioners on 30 November and the POA urges all right thinking workers to demonstrate on that day.»

The court - validated Chairman of Trade Union Congress (TUC), Kolawole Olaiya, urged the EFCC to probe the whereabouts of the N9.6 billion bailout money released for the payment of workers, pensioners and past political office holders.

Now we have undeniable evidence that employers are using covert information to blacklist workers for legitimate trade union activities.

But he's like a trade union general secretary elected by the workers who faces a hostile executive or a company chairman constantly battling directors on the boardroom despite a mandate for reform from shareholders.

The general secretary of POA, the trade union for prisoner workers, insisted staff had never had a problem dealing with the parcels being sent in to jails, casting doubt on Graylings assertion that it would not be «secure or practical» to allow parcels to be sent to prisoners.

It is an important celebration for Worker's movements, Trade Unions and other leftist organisations.

There absolutely was a trade - union and labor movement in the U.S. from 1890 to 1950, including about 34 % of private sector workers in the late 1940s.

End private equity secrecy The UK's largest trade union has welcomed the government's plans for talks on greater protection and consultation rights for workers in companies taken over by private equity.

We need a plan for social security reform, stronger protection for workers and a repeal of the trade union act, and a wide review on workers rights, a real living wage, investment in local services, and reversing Tory cuts to policing.

It took years for workers to develop effective forms of organisation through trade unions and to name and diagnose the harms that underscored moral claims to limits on the working day, decent pay and conditions, and later to a social minimum from the surplus they produced.

For instance, in my research in the struggle for workers» control in the Venezuelan steel and aluminium industries, I found numerous trade union factions competing while also being strongly pro-Chávez.

He got together with the construction trades union and established that 421 - a should include a prevailing wage provision for workers.

«As a movement we will continue to push back against attempts to undermine and diminish workers» rights, to extend trade unions» reach into workplaces and to continue to ensure that unions remain a strong, progressive force in civil society.»

A trade union increases the power of the employees by allowing them to bargain collectively with the employer: when the employer has too much power (e.g., the only job in town), a union can «level the playing field» by controlling a large % of skilled workers and negotiate a better pay or benefits which would otherwise be denied by the employer's access to other labor sources.

«While it is important that the voices of workers and consumers should be represented, I can categorically tell you that this is not about mandating works councils, or the direct appointment of workers or trade union representatives on boards.

The staunch defence of trade unions offered hope to lower paid workers, most of whom are women, and a real living wage would improve women's economic equality.

13) Do you believe that there is a need for new laws to protect workers rights, or trades union rights?

From the workingmen's parties of the 1820s and 30s, to the trade union and reform movements of the 1840s through 60s, culminating in the Knights of Labor of the 1870s through 90s, the self - organization of workers was the prime expression of this labor republican conception of citizenship.

He [Lewis» father] joined a trade union and the workers were treated equally.

These conditions often mean that some workers are fearful of victimisation if they join a trade union.