Sentences with phrase «union members demand»

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A senior member of her conservative bloc in parliament, Hans Michelbach, demanded on Sunday that the European Union stop aid to Turkey and ruled out any hopes that it would join the bloc.

The euro plunged from near two - year highs to a six - week low against the dollar in early November, after weak inflation figures stoked fears about demand in the 17 - member economy, according to Nawaz Ali, UK market analyst at Western Union Business Solutions.

The demands of the unions include the payment of earned allowances to members, a review of the governance system in universities, improved funding in line with UNESCO recommendations.

The ban is a key demand of the Prison Officers» Association since the ban on smoking in public places in 2007, with the union saying its members could otherwise be at risk of second hand smoke.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged a crowd of several hundred union members and others in Solvay on Wednesday to demand their state legislators pass a $ 15 an hour minimum wage this month as part of the state budget.

As Tony Blair's former EU adviser Roger Liddle points out in a new and forensically illuminating pamphlet «The Risk of Brexit» other EU members would be well within their rights to resent the UK's latest bout of stroppiness, refusing to join the Euro but demanding new rules to protect its influence, turning its back on the principle of ever closer union while asserting its right to be at the heart of all pivotal decision making.

Members of the NYC prison guards» union are demanding that the union stop paying for the legal defense bills of their troubled former leader, Norman Seabrook.

He demanded union party members should be given the right to choose Labour candidates in constituencies, have an «equal say» in the election of the party leader and the «right to a level playing field in the party where their views and votes count as much» as other party members.

At 1 p.m., unions and immigrant communities demand ICE release Eber Garcia Vasquez, a private sanitation worker and longtime member of the Teamsters union, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 26 Federal Pl., Manhattan.

That said, I spoke to a handful of union members in attendance who came because they asked / demanded to go, but who never saw anything from their International about Netroots Nation.

(Although encryption can not, of course, prevent a good old - fashioned leak, as happened this week when Buzzfeed revealed that ERG member Nadine Dorries posted to the group showing she didn't understand one of the group's most basic demands: exit from the Customs Union).

Its founding members are Arthur Cheliotes, the president of the Communications Workers of America union Local 1180, Hugo Neu Corporation CEO Wendy Neu, and NYCLASS, a group of animals rights activists who have demanded an end to horse - drawn carriage rides, which Quinn supports.

The workers, including members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic and Non-Academic Staff Union insisted that the gates of the institution would remain under lock and key until their demands were met by the Oyo state government.

New York City fast food workers, union leaders and City Council members rallied in front of a federal Labor Department office this morning to demand President - elect Donald Trump drop his nominee to head the agency — minimum wage critic and Hardees / Carl's Jr. chain CEO Andrew Puzder.

Tempers exploded among the NYPD's rank - and - file yesterday when insurgent PBA members blasted union President Pat Lynch for demanding an apology from de Blasio instead of focusing on the safety of officers.

New York City fast food workers, union leaders and Council members rallied in front of a federal Labor Department office to demand that Trump drop his nominee to head the agency — minimum wage critic and Hardees / Carl's Jr. chain CEO Andrew Puzder.

Tempers exploded among the NYPD's rank - and - file yesterday when insurgent PBA members blasted union President Pat Lynch for demanding an apology from Mayor de Blasio instead of focusing on the safety of officers.

In an interview with Citi News, Johnny Akpakli said: «Strikes certainly are one of the weapons that the unions use either to enforce demands or ventilate the grievances of their members.

The African Union Mission in Washington DC, which represents member states throughout the continent, is demanding an apology following its «shock, dismay and outrage».

May 9, 2018 • Members of the system's biggest union are demanding the «respect of fair wages and fair treatment.»

On May 20, members of the Newark Students Union overtook a district meeting chanting demands for One Newark's repeal and Anderson's ouster.

Socialistworker.org describes him as a «veteran union militant and community organizer» and explains that Caputo - Pearl's organizing plan includes ``... increased member involvement in political action, and putting a priority on linking community - based social justice demands to our contract negotiations.»

Still, the ordinance is gaining momentum while members of the Chicago Teachers Union and the TIF Ordinance coalition demand that the mayor properly fund the schools.

In January, the union's Big Bargaining Team, a group of about 40 union members that helps steer union demands, big - footed Lewis.

The Pittsburgh residency program seemed to have all the right stuff: «a smart, proven idea; a district demand; full funding from public and private sources; a supportive organizational network; and, crucially, buy - in from a union whose members might have found the program threatening.»

This petition demands broad and democratic discussion about the new evaluation system which would include that (1) our union immediately poll the membership with regard to the new measures agreed upon by our leadership (2) provide more frequent updates on the negotiations, (3) host forums at chapter, borough and city - wide levels where members can discuss this new system, and (4) open the New York Teacher newspaper and the Edwize blog to alternative viewpoints and information.

The developments have left the nation's two largest teachers unions in a quandary: how to alter the perception that they are obstacles to change while holding on to principles such as tenure that their members demand.

Rather than turn schools into punitive, zero - tolerance environments, the union is joining with community members to demand social workers, counselors, nurses, and other resources to support students who are facing challenges and trauma outside school.

The teacher unions are running Tustin Councilmember Rebecca Gomez and Irvine School Board member Michael Parham against Hammond and Williams to replace the current majority with a board majority that will bring the OC Board back to the days when charter school application appeals are routinely denied no matter the quality and demand by parents for a viable alternative to sometimes failing public schools their children are enrolled in.

Once Parents Union members began to organize and collectively demand a better school, district officials took action and discovered the dead animal carcasses rotting in the air vents!

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Oppositional unionism occurs when union members come together to contest the leadership of their union and transform the union's daily practices, priorities, and demands.

Next month, members of the teachers union will also vote on a new initiative to demand various things from LAUSD such as better pay, reduced class size, restored funding of early childhood...

And just how do the teachers unions, which demand defined benefit pension plans for its members, treat their own employees?

Appel and fellow spokesperson Audrey Snyder restated the student occupation's three primary demands: a reaffirmation by the Cooper Union administration of the school's commitment to free education; increased accountability and transparency from the board of trustees, including the appointment of student and faculty members to the board; and the removal of Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha.

Free Cooper Union has been advocating for board reform — including public minutes, voting student and faculty members, and mechanisms for the removal of trustees — since December 2012, when a set of demands were issued in conjunction with a week - long lock - in of the college's clocktower.

We welcome the renewed emphasis on energy in several Member countries and in the European Union, including efforts to expand domestic energy supplies and curb energy demand as appropriate.

Though money was the main public focus of the lawyers» contract demands (a pay increase of 10 per cent over four years, the same conditions an arbitrator awarded Quebec's 450 Crown counsel), Dion says the real driver that triggered the civil lawyers» strike on Oct. 24, 2016 — and fuelled their desire to stay out even after the LANEQ's war chest was depleted and many members were in dire personal financial straits — was their indignation over the government's refusal to grant them the same right to a binding arbitration process in exchange for the right to strike as they did to the province's 450 - member Crown attorneys» union (the Association des procureurs aux poursuites criminelles et pénales).