Sentences with phrase «union workers as»

Disney is currently in heated talks with union workers as the company's theme - park division thrives

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Chuck Atkinson, president of transportation District 140 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the company's largest union, described Rovinescu's pay in a letter to the president as «a personal insult and a slap in the face to all our members.»

We have always believed that the Employment Tribunal's decision from last year October was entirely correct in saying that our GMB member clients were entitled to workers» right such as the minimum wage and holiday pay,» said Nigel Mackay, employment solicitor at Leigh Day, the firm that represented the union members.

Maintenance tasks related to worker - management relations primarily entail: working with labor unions; handling grievances related to misconduct, such as theft or sexual harassment; and devising communication systems to foster cooperation and a shared sense of mission among employees.

Walt Disney Co. is finding itself in heated talks with union workers over pay and other issues as profits at the company's theme - park division soar.

Most of us don't think of Air Canada as a singing - and - dancing kind of brand, and the musical workers didn't look like the same angry people whose unions seem endlessly at war with the airline.

It is the latest successful legislative push targeting union power following a Republican sweep of statehouses in 2010, and if Gov. Mitch Daniels signs the bill as expected it will make Indiana the first Rust Belt state to ban contracts that require workers to pay mandatory union fees for representation.

(Nevertheless, the company offers other benefits and protections, such as health insurance through a partnership with Freelancer's Union, plans for business insurance, as well as payment guarantees for workers.)

That's one of the key reasons myRA, which President Obama announced during his 2014 State of the Union Address, was launched by the U.S. Treasury in 2015 as an easy way for all workers to begin saving for retirement.

Unions have become quite active trying to organize service workers in campaigns such as Fight for 15.

The attack comes just days after a separate incident involving union workers at a soon - to - be shuttered Goodyear plant in the French town of Amiens, who held two executives hostage as they sought to negotiate bonus and severance packages.

T.J. Bray, a Carrier worker who serves as a media representative for the manufacturer's United Steelworkers Local 1999 union, told Business Insider that all workers know «is what [Trump] and Carrier put on Twitter.»

«Andy Puzder is against unions, calls the minimum wage and overtime «restrictions» and employees «extra cost,» and even said he wants to fire workers like us and replace us with machines that can't take vacation or sue their employers when they break the law,» the nonprofit Interfaith Worker Justice quoted Rogelio Hernandez, a Carl's Jr. cook, as saying.

The laws passed by Republicans in Michigan last week would exempt existing contracts between employers and unions until they expire, such as the automakers» contract with the United Auto Workers union, which expires in 2015.

And the union that staged the protest is returning with the workers, who will see their pay and seniority respected by the new boss, who is decidedly not the same as the old boss.

Backed by labor groups such as the Service Employees International Union, workers have landed some victories as individual cities and states have raised their minimum wage.

About 50,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers will be in a legal strike or lockout position as of Saturday.

Unions say right - to - work laws infringe on workers» collective bargaining rights, and proponents call for a federal law as opposed to the current patchwork of state statutes.

And those other workers, by the way, were already unionized, making it a sneak attack not just on the employer, but a rival union as well.

That all those workers were already represented by another union makes the whole matter as farcical as it is undemocratic.

Unions in the utility industry, health care and manufacturing industries are using knowledge and skills as the key source of worker power by expanding apprenticeship training, creating partnership with community colleges, vocational schools, and employers to fill the «middle skills» gaps that exist today or will grow as skilled baby boomers retire.

Right - to - work laws bar so - called «closed shops,» where workers are required to join a union and pay union dues or pay equivalent fees as a condition of employment.

Rosser says in a good year, the business — which Jenkins founded in 1976, after years of scrimping and saving as a union sheet metal worker — made about $ 750,000 in revenue at the time.

She was as a union organizer as a worker with the UFW in 70s and early 80s.

Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) furloughed 3,900 workers in 2015 as rail traffic slowed.

Further, union workers have better benefits options, such as health insurance and paid time off.

Chris Martin, a care aid who chairs the HEU local at Nanaimo Seniors Village, has filed a grievance against what she saw as escalating harassment of union workers there.

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.

It turned out that CalPERS had acted at the behest of Sean Harrigan, Executive Director of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, who was then also serving as president of CalPERS board.

The federal agency found merit to claims from three Tesla factory workers that they were harassed by supervisors and security guards as they handed out union leaflets.

With contract negotiations ongoing between Canada Post and representatives of the crown corporation's workers» union, Canadians are bracing for a service disruption that could start as early as Wednesday.

It came as unions issued a warning over the merger saying that thousands of workers could be affected and that # 500 million of potential savings could mean job losses or cuts to pay.

According to the Florida Times - Union, «Georgia - Pacific is considering offering severance packages to about 1,000 hourly workers at its Palatka paper mill as it tries to trim its head count without resorting to layoffs.

Credit unions are another option, especially if they are associated with your school (as an international student) or place of employment (as a temporary foreign worker).

Germany Europe's growing army of robot workers could be classed as «electronic persons» and their owners liable to paying social security for them if the European Union adopts a draft plan to address the realities of a new industrial revolution.

Unions, working with employers, have come along way to making these workplaces safer over the past 30 years, but there's much more work to be done - particularly as we discover the toll these types of jobs take on workers mental health and as the Conservative government moves closer and closer to total industry self - regulation (something that puts all Canadians at risk).

Robert Frick, corporate economist at the Navy Federal Credit Union, said the numbers reflect a healthy long - term trend — companies have hired an average of 200,000 workers each month this year — but flat wages concern him as the country hits 90 straight months of employment gains.

The United Auto Workers union said GM's new investments «have emerged as a result of the 2015» contract with the union.

• Note this, from the announcement of a press call on the unions» desired card - check legislation, when the bill was before Congress: «Prominent interfaith leaders, including Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Kim Bobo of Interfaith Worker Justice, Bishop Greg Rickel, and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, will hold a press conference call to talk about restoring workers» freedom to organize as a moral imperative and civil and human right.»

We ran into one cyclical recession in the» 70's, and the Republicans seized on it as an excuse to rig government and society for the benefit of people who are already rich, while taking away opportunities from everyone else... then they crushed the unions so that workers would never be able to get back better pay and better job security, while investors make more and more and pay less and less in taxes.

Employment in most cases requires union membership» there is no such thing as a right - to - work state in Mexico» and, if a worker is expelled from the union, he loses his job.

But don't they all have to do with how we relate to each other and to Jesus Christ — whether we relate vertically as child to parent, as serf to free person, as baron to king, as alien to citizen, as tribal member to colonial usurper, as subject - wife to master - husband, as Third World country to powerful nation, as sharecropper to landed gentry, as migrant laborer to union or employer, as novice nun to mother superior, as female to male, as poor parishioner to monsignor - pastor, and on and on; or whether we relate horizontally as the grown - up heir now equal to his father, as world citizen to world citizen, as worker to worker, as minister to minister, as partner wife to partner husband, as sister to sister, and sister to brother?

Nationalization, whether in the form of a monolithic public corporation, as in the old British system, or through so called «workers» control,» as in Yugoslavia, for example, merely puts the business firmly into the hands of bureaucratic or union elites, or indeed both.

The theory is that when economic growth goes far enough, as in a few countries in East Asia, the demand for workers drives wages up without benefit of unions or governmental involvement.

If he organizes a union with the intent of creating the power which can secure justice is he deficient in love because he recognizes himself as a worker and intends that the justice which is won shall benefit all workers including himself?

As recently as 1960, nearly a third of American workers were in unionAs recently as 1960, nearly a third of American workers were in unionas 1960, nearly a third of American workers were in unions.

And as for the Syllabus of Errors, not one article of it mentions democracy, workers» unions or newspapers, and if it rejects «pluralism» (not a concept anyone at the time was familiar with) it is mostly in the sense that any religion which claims to be true, rather than a matter of opinion, rejects it.

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.

Community leaders, unions and churches are backing a call for the club to increase the pay of workers employed by contractors, such as waitresses and cleaners.

When they resumed duty on the next day, the management and the police physically prevented them from entering the factory A recently published People's Union reports that the police then resorted to a lathi charge on 150 workers which was totally unprovoked as the workers were completely peaceful.