Sentences with phrase «union jobs in»

That's the company that has just taken over AT&T's landline, internet and television services in Connecticut in a deal that kept 3,500 union jobs in the state.

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Deep policy divisions appear to exist between the business and labor groups: The report cites the «majority» of members preferring to focus on issues outside trade deficits in favor of a «mutually beneficial» trade deal, sentiments to which the labor union representatives dissent in favor of promoting U.S. investment and jobs.

When Knight took the CFO job at Union Pacific in 2004, UP was the least profitable major railroad.

Gillian Thomas, senior staff attorney at American Civil Liberties Union Women's Rights Project, says that in order to create safer spaces for women, individuals in leadership positions must do a better job of setting a good example.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the manufacturing sector provided a growing share of middle class job opportunities, thanks to strong unions.

«Leaders will have a very rich agenda in front of them, which includes completing the banking union but also adding a fiscal dimension to the institutional mechanism and providing more job creation to [the] cyclical mechanism,» he said.

The unions want extra benefits in addition to job security provisions.

If our trading partners retaliate as they have threatened (the European Union says it will target blue jeans, orange juice, Kentucky bourbon, and Harley - Davidson motorcycles, among other products) American producers stand to lose billions in export revenues and thousands of Americans could lose their jobs.

«As usual when these union airlines fail, such as Monarch, Air Berlin and Alitalia in recent months, their pilots all come to Ryanair seeking jobs that pay up to $ 175,000 p.a., deliver a double bank holiday weekend every week, with the best promotions record and, the best job security in Europe,» O'Leary said.

Ty Trippet, a spokesman for Bloomberg LP, where no group of employees has ever voted to join a union, responded via email: «Even after repeated warnings, the employee refused to do his job and repeatedly behaved in an unprofessional manner.

He later learned, the Post reports, that only 730 of the production jobs would stay, while 550 union members would in fact lose their employment.

Before announcing in September 2015 that she opposed TransCanada Corp's proposal to build a pipeline from Canada to the United States, her campaign sought to «soften the blow» to labor unions by offering an energy infrastructure plan that would create jobs, according to the emails.

Oklahoma passed right - to - work legislation in 2001 but has a rural - based economy that produces comparatively fewer union jobs than Indiana.

Telstra has confirmed up to 103 job cuts in Perth and 326 nationally, with a union claiming the telecommunications giant's head count would be reduced by as much as 450.

Criticisms of the 1099 employment model, they say, are rooted in nostalgia for an age when blue - collar jobs came with lifelong union guarantees and fat pensions.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin favour of the U.S. - South Korea Free Trade Agreement, arguing that it would «grow more jobs.»

In the case of robotics technology geared toward commercial cleaning jobs, Brain Corp. would be wise to try to appeal to the 2 - million - member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents employees in a variety of labor fields, including janitorial serviceIn the case of robotics technology geared toward commercial cleaning jobs, Brain Corp. would be wise to try to appeal to the 2 - million - member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents employees in a variety of labor fields, including janitorial servicein a variety of labor fields, including janitorial services.

But only 46 % believe unions do a good job of improving their members» lives as well as the lives of others — in spite of data that proves the contrary time and time again.

Yet even if the Britain loses access to the European Union's single market, many firms have lowered their estimates for job losses in London, meaning the city will likely remain Europe's financial center.

«If we don't act, in the next five years we'll be saying the same things: that Greece isn't going well, that there are no jobs... that we have a new program by the International Monetary Fund and European Union to support us,» the 25 - year - old said.

In his first State of the Union address late Tuesday, President Donald Trump touted the country's job growth in his first year, the strengthening economy, and — a key part of his campaign — the surprising pop in the coal industry in 201In his first State of the Union address late Tuesday, President Donald Trump touted the country's job growth in his first year, the strengthening economy, and — a key part of his campaign — the surprising pop in the coal industry in 201in his first year, the strengthening economy, and — a key part of his campaign — the surprising pop in the coal industry in 201in the coal industry in 201in 2017.

Robots replaced three - quarters of the warehouse jobs at Boxed's fulfillment center in Union, N.J., the company announced Thursday.

One Occupy rally I stumbled across here in Toronto featured speakers from a big trade union, members of which enjoy jobs that pay relatively well, and a representative of one of Canada's aboriginal groups, whose complaints are legitimate but have little to do with having been left behind by capitalism.

The decision to outsource production will cost nearly 150 highly qualified jobs and the destruction of a modern production location in Geneva just for a short - term increase in profitability,» a spokesman for the Unia trade union said.

While cutting huge swatches out of corporate overhead, Foster also began assessing his inherited union shop — which came complete with high - seniority workers in single - function jobs.

By the late»70s Kallos was manning Union Plaza's main cage, a hectic job in which he processed the casino's cash and chips.

They also want to make sure than any big enterprises in town provides union jobs.

Online retailer Amazon (amzn) is set to create more than 5,000 jobs in Britain this year, the company said on Monday, boosting its investment in the country once more even as it prepares to leave the European Union.

The party has notoriously been divided on the issue, with its environmental wing pitted against the unions, which backed the project in hopes it would produce a significant amount of American jobs (which it won't).

Despite comments suggesting that the Canadian Auto Workers and other unions are to blame for the loss of jobs at Electro - Motive and elsewhere, in reality their power has greatly declined.

The tech giant says it «did a pretty good job» replying to the European Union's concerns that it blocks competitors in web search results.

On Feb. 1, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed a controversial right - to - work law prohibiting workers in union shops from being forced to pay union dues — less than 48 hours before Electro - Motive announced the closure of the London plant, its jobs expected to move to the Hoosier state.

Employee associations in education, hospitality and other industries are learning from the Freelancers Union in New York to offer benefits like health care, career counseling and job opening information.

The latter involves around 2,600 job cuts and reductions in benefits, and South Korean unions have provided fierce opposition.

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.

Last quarter the bank said it would slash 3,000 jobs and closing 200 branches as part of a cost - cutting exercise in the wake of Britain's vote to leave the European Union.

The union representing the 4,800 rail workers who walked off the job claimed CP was angling to cut their pensions by up to 40 %, despite making a profit in the previous year.

This time, the president - elect attacked the union chief who had sharply criticized Trump's claims to have saved more than 1,000 jobs at the Carrier plant in Indianapolis.

Since then Boeing has shed nearly 3,000 jobs in Washington, fueling tensions with its unions and state officials.

Declining wages and inequality are sometimes described as an inevitable, deterministic outcome of abstract economic forces, but none of the usual suspects seem to adequately explain what's happening to airline jobs in the US — not immigration (pilots and flight attendants must speak English), globalization (so - called cabotage laws have limited the scope of international outsourcing), automation (robots haven't yet displaced pilots), or the decline of unions (union density remains high).

The Fed appeared to be nearing another hike in June, but held off because of a weak U.S. jobs report and worries about the possible impact on financial markets of the then - pending British vote on whether to leave the European Union.

This nationalist discourse — Bob White declaring that he would «wrap the fucking flag» around himself to fight for union jobs — contrasted with an American localism that was ineffective in marshalling political support to stem the tide of rust.

We estimate from union data that something in the order of one - third of journalism jobs have been lost in the last six years.

Under a clause in the union's contract, if Madison's Oscar Mayer plant closes, its employees have the right to take over a job that's held by a worker with the least seniority at the Davenport factory.

Those jobs need to be protected and Canada needs to do more to make that happen, said union leader Ken Neumann, Canadian national director for the United Steelworkers, in a statement Tuesday.

Research by the International Trade Administration and the European Union found that that $ 1 billion in exports created roughly 6,000 jobs.

The Fight for $ 15 began in 2012 when two hundred fast - food workers walked off the job to demand $ 15 / hr and union rights in New York City.

Peter Rossman, a spokesman for the IUF, an international association of unions in the food industry, says Heinz workers are nervous, though its factory jobs have so far gone untouched.

The European Union's official statistics agency Monday that the proportion of the workforce without jobs rose to 12.1 % in May from 12.0 % in April to reach its highest level since records began in 1995.

Certain matters discussed in this press release are forward ‐ looking statements, including that Everstream Energy Capital Partners, North Sky Capital and New Energy Capital are planning to invest more than $ 67 million in a fund to support utility ‐ scale projects in Central and Southern California developed by SunEdison; that the projects will generate over 320,000 MWh of electricity annually, and create hundreds of jobs or up to 250,000 hours for California electrical and construction union workers.