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Summary: NSEA stood with its labor allies and testified in support of AB154 which would level the playing field for union workers on public works projects such as public school construction.

«We believe in love and brotherhood and sisterhood, we believe in helping one another and standing up for one another,» Cuomo told a cheering crowd of health care union workers on July 17.

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The Service Trades Council Union — a coalition of various smaller unions that represents workers at Disney World — officially filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board over the withheld bonuses on Monday.

The Chamber of Minerals and Energy has fired back at union claims that the resources sector does nothing to train the state's workforce, but relies on migrants and poaching workers from other industri

The senator first met Rielle in early 2006 when he was in New York during a cross-country speaking tour with actor Danny Glover on behalf of hotel workers who wanted his help at union rallies.

SEOUL, April 26 - Unionized workers at General Motors Co's South Korean unit voted to approve a tentative wage deal agreed with the automaker, the union said on Thursday.

Union leaders urged Wisconsin teachers to return to work at schools that are open on Monday, but large protests were expected to continue at the Capitol against a plan to cut collective bargaining rights and benefits to state workers.

The CWA said on Saturday that Verizon has not budged from its original proposal which they have said would increase workers» healthcare costs by thousands of dollars, eliminate job security and remove any restrictions on the company's right to contract out or offshore union jobs.

«What happens with Facebook is you don't know what you don't know,» said David Lopez, a former general counsel for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission who is one of the lawyers at the firm Outten & Golden bringing the age - discrimination case on behalf of the communication workers union.

Nevertheless, while British union workers and students took to the streets to express anger over jobs reductions and tuition hikes, the general reaction to Osborne's measures was nothing like what has been taking place on the Continent.

«Canada's media and cultural industries are being severely damaged by the tax loopholes that benefit foreign digital companies and platforms at the expense of Canadian producers and workers and that cost the federal government at least $ 1 billion in revenues,» the union wrote in a statement on its website.

A tentative deal between the company and leaders of striking unions includes 1,400 new jobs and pay raises topping 10 percent, the company and unions representing about 40,000 workers said on Monday.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) presented Canada Post with a 72 - hour notice of job action on Thursday evening, hours ahead of a deadline to declare a strike mandate by midnight.

The Canadian Postmaster and Assistants Association, a smaller union representing 5,000 rural workers, reached a new collective agreement with Canada Post on Tuesday, August 16.

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.»

Raising pressure on Germany's IG Metall union, the division's German CEO Michael Lohscheller underlined that new deals had now been struck with workers in Britain, Spain, Austria, Hungary and Poland, allowing investment in their sites.

SEOUL, March 27 - General Motors said its loss - making South Korean operations would file for bankruptcy if its union did not agree to cut labor costs by April 20, heaping pressure on workers and the South Korean government to swiftly agree a rescue plan.

A U.S. port workers union has accused APM Terminals, a port operator of A.P. Moller - Maersk, of spying on union representatives in Los Angeles by tapping their phones.

Around the world, union members have traditionally marched on May 1 for workers» rights.

More broadly, concerns about trade and its impact on workers figured large in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and in Britain's referendum vote to leave the European Union, a free - trade bloc.

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.

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.

Unions complain that the election format is simply an opportunity for bosses to unleash a host of dirty tricks on workers and organizers.

The union says in a release that the workers will be in a legal strike position on March 18, the day after their current contract expires.

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.

Regardless of how one defines democracy, there's clearly an injustice afoot when two workers are able to certify an entire workforce simply because they happened to sign union cards on a Saturday when everyone else had the day off.

Trister points out that the European Union allows workers with five years of service to stay on a permanent basis, without having to leave and return.

Jerry Dias, president of the Unifor union which represents workers who assemble the Q400 and Global 7000 plane in Toronto said on Thursday the deal means Bombardier will keep the two programs in Canada.

The Liberals are unlikely to make any final decision on drug testing until the Supreme Court of Canada rules on its legality in a case between Suncor and workers at its Alberta oil sands operation, said Troy Winters, senior health and safety officer with the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union published a full - page advertisement in a national newspaper on Friday asking shareholders to focus on struggling wWorkers Union published a full - page advertisement in a national newspaper on Friday asking shareholders to focus on struggling workersworkers.

Though the trend is still at an early stage, it is worth paying attention to for two reasons: unions may represent a new source of capital for your company, and unions want to invest in worker - friendly businesses and therefore may one day have the same kind of impact on private - equity deals that socially responsible investors have already had on the stock market.

Several U.S. employers engaged in age discrimination by placing recruitment ads on (fb) targeting younger workers, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday by a communications industry labor union.

Back in the machine age, when a great many workers spent their days on assembly lines, unions fought for a 40 - hour week — and researchers backed them up.

The union that represents Ford Motor's Canadian manufacturing workers reached a tentative contract agreement on Tuesday, averting a strike but setting up what may be a difficult campaign to get the deal approved by members.

* COPPER: Chile's Escondida, the world's largest copper mine, said on Thursday early contract talks with its workers» union ended without an agreement, setting the stage for legally scheduled negotiations to begin in June.

On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Plaza has been «virtually closed» all week due to a labor dispute that has recently escalated, with union workers at the Plaza raising health and safety concerns with the hotel's manager, Fairmont.

On Saturday, workers voted in favor of including civil disobedience in their efforts to reach a $ 15 - per - hour minimum wage and the right to form a union without fear of retribution from employers.

Last month, the union filed a complaint with a federal labor board on behalf of scores of workers who it says were laid off because they support the union.

Addressing the conference on Friday, the SEIU president, Mary Kay Henry, said the union's 2 million members supported the fast - food workers.

What's going on is that thousands of oil workers are fleeing the state - run oil firm under the watch of its new military commander, who has quickly alienated the firm's embattled upper echelon and its rank - and - file, according to union leaders, a half - dozen current PDVSA workers, a dozen former PDVSA workers and a half - dozen executives at foreign companies operating in Venezuela.

An exemplar was Southwest Airlines, which paid $ 355 million of its more than $ 1 billion in corporate profits last year to union and nonunion workers and managers, on top of salaries.

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.

Mr. Obama, who invited labor leaders to fly with him here on Air Force One, said the «constant war against unions» undermined regular workers.

Southborough, MA — May 19th, 2017: RxAdvance today announced that the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART), one of North America's most dynamic and diverse unions with 216,000 members, has awarded its multi-year pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services contract to RxAdvance beginning on Jan. 1, 2018.

Earlier this year, thousands of AT&T workers, members of the Communications Workers of America union, went on strike over issues like job security and outsoworkers, members of the Communications Workers of America union, went on strike over issues like job security and outsoWorkers of America union, went on strike over issues like job security and outsourcing.

It has been really disheartening to see our media gang up on the workers and their unions with this disinformation, while doing little to criticize exorbitant finance sector and executive compensation, which even Bank of Canada governor Carney acknowledged were one of causes of the financial crisis.

The Labour Watch site provides detailed information and advice to individual workers and employers on how to fight unionization drives and how to decertify existing unions, including by -LSB-...]

The newly elected Progressive Conservative government in Manitoba has moved quickly to cement its anti-worker bona fides with the radical right - wing by making it more difficult for non-union workers to join a union, and by opening up bidding on large scale public construction projects to non-union companies.

We've already won raises for 22 million people across the country — including 10 million who are on their way to $ 15 / hr — all because workers came together and acted like a union.

Legislation introduced in September by D.C. Council member Vincent B. Orange (D - At Large) and backed by a hotel workers» union would limit hosts to one listing at a time and require hosts to live on - site during guests» stays.