Sentences with phrase «union jobs during»

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Although the banks say the moves would be legal procedures that would have a minimum impact on their operations and jobs in Scotland, their warnings intensified concerns about an independent Scotland's ability to retain businesses — particularly during the months of financial uncertainty that would follow a vote to break the 307 - year union with England.

During this period the Government of Alberta introduced a $ 15 minimum wage; appointed a gender - balanced Cabinet; replaced a system of regressive flat taxes with a progressive income tax system; laid out a responsible fiscal plan that rejected austerity; implemented an ambitious jobs plan; reformed the royalty system; ended predatory lending practices while strengthening the credit union system and ATB, Alberta's publicly - owned bank; and implemented a climate change leadership plan — among many other important reforms.

Nassau's financial control board is objecting to proposed state legislation that would allow the county's union employees to get contractual step increases — salary hikes based on years in the job — even during a wage freeze.

During late night talks in Brussels, the Prime Minister made clear he would not back the front runner vying to take the European Union's top job and other leaders agreed they should look around for more candidates.

During the State of the Union, Clinton posted a statement on Facebook saying she should not have let her faith - based campaign adviser Burns Strider keep his job after a female staffer accused him of sexual harassment in 2007.

Construction worker Robert Baker holds a sign Tuesday during Milwaukee's Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee meeting at City Hall supporting the union jobs likely to accompany approval of a loan for the Moderne condo and apartment project.

Look at how many people change unions during the course of their career because one union is doing a better job than others.»

It had become a fairly routine occurrence over the years during contract negotiations for members of the correction officers union to briefly block the Rikers bridge as part of a job action.

Nted had said during union's National Executive Council meeting and special delegates conference in Lagos that the loss of jobs in the maritime sector was affecting the union as more workers were faced with insecurity and family challenges.

Wunder became «hooked» on the cinema in 1950 when his father took him to the premiere of George Pal's «DESTINATION MOON» Seminal films during Wunder's formative years as a critic were: The HORROR movies of the 1950's THE KILLING (1956) Dir: Kubrick VERTIGO (1958) Dir: Hitchcock ON THE BEACH (1959) Dir: Kramer MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) Dir: Frankenheimer 2001 (1968) Dir: Kubrick Wunder graduated from college in 1963 as an Electrical Engineer and immediately got a union job as an associate film editor for MPO, then, the largest producer of commercial and industrial films in the US.

Teachers know that if they lose their unions during a fiscal crisis, they will have no protection at all as long as state and local officials face enormous pressure to cut teaching jobs, compensation, and benefits.

But while Murray describes this as a decline in «virtue,» might it be a decline driven by the huge changes in the economy during this period, specifically, the decrease in good union - wage - paying manufacturing jobs?

President Woodrow Wilson demonstrated this during his tenure in the early 20th century, when he worked to remove blacks from important civil service posts in the federal bureaucracy, while Franklin Delano Roosevelt would deny jobs to black workers (at the behest of labor unions) with the passage of the Davis - Bacon Act two decades later.

The union still can organize job actions, as when schools had to be closed for four days last year during the Capitol protests, or influence board action by crowding School Board meetings, as when elementary teachers were unhappy with proposed changes to their planning time last spring.

Michelle A. Rhee butted heads frequently during her three - year tenure as schools chancellor of Washington with the president of the local teachers» union, George Parker, and eventually a voter backlash over the city's school reform wars cost both of them their jobs.

During her reign as head of the New York City teachers union, just 88 out of 80,000 teachers lost their jobs for poor performance over a three year period.

Unions for Jobs and the Environment (UJAE), an organization of 12 national and international labor unions, including the United Mine Workers, the Teamsters and the Sheet Metal Workers, thinks the ozone revision «would lead to significant job losses across the country during a period of high unemployment, due to the significant increase in the number of counties classified as nonattainment.&Unions for Jobs and the Environment (UJAE), an organization of 12 national and international labor unions, including the United Mine Workers, the Teamsters and the Sheet Metal Workers, thinks the ozone revision «would lead to significant job losses across the country during a period of high unemployment, due to the significant increase in the number of counties classified as nonattainment.&unions, including the United Mine Workers, the Teamsters and the Sheet Metal Workers, thinks the ozone revision «would lead to significant job losses across the country during a period of high unemployment, due to the significant increase in the number of counties classified as nonattainment.»

(21) However, it should be left to the host Member State to decide whether it will grant social assistance during the first three months of residence, or for a longer period in the case of job - seekers, to Union citizens other than those who are workers or self - employed persons or who retain that status or their family members, or maintenance assistance for studies, including vocational training, prior to acquisition of the right of permanent residence, to these same persons.»

Several teachers in the Broward Teachers Union criticized the bill during a job fair Monday designed to attract people to...

The retailer also expects to add 200 jobs or so during the next two years at its site development and operations organization near Union Square in San Francisco.