Sentences with phrase «union protests»

Local union protests the university's use of goats instead of human labor to clear brush from campus.

Teachers unions protested outside the virtual charter school operator's shareholder meeting, while inside, investors voted down its proposal for executive pay.

Now, as teachers started standing up in union protests in Wisconsin, Diane Ravitch sat down and wrote an opinion piece for CNN's website, titled «Why America's Teachers are Enraged.»

About 280,000 civil servants will be balloted on strike action today as the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union protests against job losses and outsourcing.

New venture fund to focus on CPS education reform Teachers union protests idea as pushing privatization of schools

The Cooper Union protest is part of a global trend, said Angus Johnston, an expert in student activism at the City University of New York.

The debate erupted in August, when The Times published a database of the value - added scores of about 6,000 elementary school teachers based on seven years of testing data, prompting union protests and vows by the district to raise the issue during contract negotiations.

Members and supporters of the South African Federation of Trade Unions protest in Cape Town on April 25, 2018, with Table Mountain seen in the background.

This policy has prompted numerous union protests.

The Chicago Teachers Union protested budget cuts to the public school system at this July 2015 rally.

Linnertz and his boss, Mayor Stephanie Miner sparked union protests, neighborhood demonstrations and political criticism last year when they announced a plan to close Station 7 at 1039 E. Fayette St. and to reduce the number of firefighters per shift from 69 to 65.

Art Riot: Post-Soviet Actionism, is a new exhibition dedicated to Post-Soviet Union protest art over the past 25 years.

In 1872, this law was abolished, but various union protests and parades continued, and there was pressure to make Labour Day a national holiday.

The deputy sheriff's union protest outside the Hauppauge legislative building came even though Bellone aides earlier in the day said the county will immediately move to return $ 4 million in back pay that was deferred and declare an impasse in 6 - year - old contract talks and go to binding arbitration.

UPDATE: 6:44 p.m. Floyd Hammack, associate professor of Educational Sociology and Higher Education in Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, said the Cooper Union protest is not parallel to the Kimmel Occupation from three years ago, as NYU never had free tuition.

Two NYC Council members — Inez Barron of Brooklyn and I. Daneek Miller of Queens — were among 41 people arrested yesterday during an union protest against CUNY cuts outside Cuomo's Midtown office.

Recently, as the union protested outside of the governor's mansion, Cuomo refused to back down.

The union protested and pressed for the dismissed 6 to be reinstated.

Understandably, the unions protest about pay restraint.

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At a packed meeting, and with members of the local teachers» union protesting outside, the board voted 5 - 2 on June 8 to reduce the number of «local districts» from 11 to eight.

Republican State Senator Sonny Borrelli pointed to the «no» votes on the roll call screen — where «no» votes are indicated in red lighting — and declared, referring to the union protests, «That is not «Red for Ed.

The union protests that off - site fabrication is a deliberate effort to start outsourcing work from the plant and could become a trend that imperils employment levels.

The opening sets us firmly in the Thatcher era, with college student Mark Renton joining a union protest, thinking he'll score some street cred; in the bloody melee that follows, he acquires both a cynical eye and a nagging back complaint.