Sentences with phrase «union workers out»

«How progressive is it to VOTE union workers out of a job?»

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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.

For six days, more than 200 union workers and their families camped out here to protest what they considered an egregious injustice.

More than 500 companies have expressed interest in rolling out student loan benefits to their workers next year, said Tim DeMello, founder and CEO of Gradifi, a platform that lets companies, including PwC, Connelly Partners and Western Union, pay off some of their employees» student loans.

Unifor was created out of last year's merger between the Canadian Auto Workers and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers unions.

Politically, however, the creation of a middle category of worker would be a hard sell, with labor unions likely to oppose it, says Brishen Rogers, a professor of labor law at Temple University, out of fear that it might tempt many big employers to eliminate fuller - benefit jobs.

The union accused Canada Post of preparing to lock workers out, and creating uncertainty by warning the public to avoid the post office.

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.»

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.

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.

Like many of the other union leaders we consulted, Darcy says that her union will continue to organize aggressively during hard times, noting that the HEU has successfully signed up workers at most of the health facilities where the Campbell government has contracted out support services.

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.

Ford's deal eliminates cost - of - living increases and freezes the pay of veteran workers while reducing the starting pay for new hires and stretching out the period when their wages can reach that of veteran workers, the union said.

It is considered a bit of a faux pas to point this out, but what we are talking about in part is a Democratic president, a largely Democratic professional administrative class in Washington, and an IRS whose workers belong to a union whose political action committee gave roughly 95 % of its political contributions last year to Democrats.

The gop has alienated so many people from so many walks of life that the only voter represented by them will be a 50 year old white man who mistrusts minorities and women and unions and non christians and seniors and government employees and teachers and librarians and nurses and postal workers and immigrants and firefighters and I have probably left out quite a few of you who they have managed to insult this past year.

In talking to the members of the union, another story came out: about how in the 1980s a group of secretaries, many of them single mothers — an identity that challenged the notion that the secretaries were working at Yale for pin money — had stood alongside the grounds and maintenance workers, the dining hall workers, the cooks and the plumbers, who went on strike so that the clerical workers union might be formed.

The union hit out at Woolworths on Thursday, and called on management to honour its commitment to growers, workers and the local region.

Addressing the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union annual conference in Bridlington, Ronnie Draper — General Secretary of the BFAWU told delegates that attacks on the NHS from the Tory led government were born out of resentment for achievements under the 1945 post war Labour administration.

TIMES UNION CHARGED WITH BREAKING THE LAW The Times Union broke the law when it walked workers out of the newspaper's offices when it was supposed to be negotiating criteria for layoffs, the National Labor Relations Board has charged.

He also pointed out that if the unions agree to a pay lag, workers don't lose any money at all — at least not in the long run — because they get the cash back at the end of their service to the state.

When Zephyr Teachout, then a little - known Fordham Law School professor, challenged Cuomo in a primary four years ago, one of the state's largest public workers unions, PEF, endorsed her, while NYSUT decided to sit out the governor's race entirely, declining to pick a favorite.

Does Tony Avella realize that when a union worker is out of work it devastates families?

The two Cuomo - friendly unions — SEIU Local 32 BJ and Communications Workers of American Local 1 — pulled out of the WFP Friday because they said the party's leadership strayed from its original mission.

The two major unions that pulled out of the party, Local 32BJ and Communication Workers of America Local 1, say Cuomo has delivered for working people by raising the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour and passing paid family leave.

Union leader John R. Durso, president of the Long Island Federation of Labor, blamed the dearth of good - paying jobs on the 2007 - 09 recession, which he said wiped out the retirement savings of older workers, causing them to postpone retirement.

The law, which was hammered out as part of this year's state budget talks, limits the free services that New York's public - sector unions must provide to workers who opt not to join the union.

The Communication Workers» Union — which has lost its Blairite general secretary to the House of Commons — threw out the Labour into Power document and the civil service union PTC rejected the Maastricht convergence critUnion — which has lost its Blairite general secretary to the House of Commons — threw out the Labour into Power document and the civil service union PTC rejected the Maastricht convergence critunion PTC rejected the Maastricht convergence criteria.

The Governor's alleged threats came after two Cuomo - friendly unions — SEIU Local 32BJ and Communications Workers of America — pulled out of the WFP.

'' [It will be] a democratic and campaigning union which will fight back for employees in the workplace, will take trade unionism out to the millions of unorganised workers, will stand up for equality for all and advance its members interests politically.

And why should state workers vote out the union?

An FRSC patrol team was carrying out its legitimate duties along the Kiyawa — Dutse road in Jigawa State when a team of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) officials challenged the team for daring to check vehicles for excessive overloading and installation of the Speed Limiting Devices.

New York Governor Cuomo, at a large union rally to raise the minimum wage in New York City's Union Square, called out fast food chains McDonald's and Burger King by name Thursday and accused them of «corporate greed» for underpaying worunion rally to raise the minimum wage in New York City's Union Square, called out fast food chains McDonald's and Burger King by name Thursday and accused them of «corporate greed» for underpaying worUnion Square, called out fast food chains McDonald's and Burger King by name Thursday and accused them of «corporate greed» for underpaying workers.

Citizen Action's Karen Scharff: «We're out here today with workers striking McDonald's and other fast food companies because it's time we get fifteen dollars an hour and a union for fast food workers.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio is facing backlash from the city's transport workers union for skipping out on funeral services for two transit workers killed on the job last month.

The Assembly effort is significant because the chamber dropped out of a three - way 2015 agreement with the Senate and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, because it and public union leaders found the proposal to apply to all public workers too broad.

I admire the mayor for making a full commitment to building affordable housing, but we can not build our way out of this,» said Frank Castillo, a building service worker who spoke on behalf of Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ.

«He has made this a more progressive, more fair, more forward looking state — and it's turned out to be good for the economy,» Mr. Clinton said at the headquarters of 1199 SEIU, the powerful healthcare workers union, in Manhattan.

Of the nearly 3,000 workers the state says were cheated out of prevailing wages this year through the end of June, the majority were union members, Cuomo aides said.

The UNISON trade union recently launched a new report which uses the voices of care workers — and those who rely on care — to clearly lay out the truth regarding the crisis that has engulfed the sector — a crisis that is not being addressed by the ideologically driven Tory government and its ruinous -LSB-...]

There are already several bills that seek to address Janus: One from IDC state Sen. Marisol Alcantara of Manhattan and Democratic Assemblyman Peter Abbate Jr. of Brooklyn would make it more difficult for workers to opt out of their union dues.

We have said, since the July announcement, that the RCE plan was ill - thought out and this has caused the people who receive mental health services and the people who deliver them great anxiety and upset, as there was no prior notification to the workers and the unions that represent them of either the initial announcement or yesterday's announcement.

The UFT president pointed out the loudest applause during Cuomo's budget speech came when the governor said New York «will be the state that protects workers and unions.»

Diaz, the entire Bronx Council delegation, along with members of the Northwest Bronx Comnunity and Clergy Coalition and the city's biggest retail workers union, fought for living wage jobs as part of a Community Benefits agreement with the developer, the Related Companies, but a deal couldn't be worked out.

«Instead of reaching out to union leaders to gain consensus on an affordable housing program that ensures middle - class wages for workers, (de Blasio) coordinated with a lobbying group — led by billionaire developers — to run an anti-union campaign that would lead to unsafe job sites and a low - wage workforce,» The Greater New York Laborers - Employers Cooperation and Education Trust and the New York City and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Corporation said in a joint statement.

Also at 11 a.m., World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein joins over 500 union construction workers and ublic officials, business leaders and representatives from the local community at a topping out ceremony for the 1,079 - foot tall 3 World Trade Center tower, Manhattan.

Cuomo has voiced support for Paterson's layoff plan, but the two largest state worker unions — CSEA and PEF — have been fighting hard to counter it, even calling on the governor to rescind the firings after learning that he has doled out some $ 17 million worth of pork prior to his impending departure from public office.

Dozens of trade union workers and Suffolk Off - Track Betting employees stormed out last night of a Medford community rally against building a $ 65 million video lottery gaming establishment.

The Metropolitan Opera continued talking early this morning with the unions representing its orchestra and chorus, going past the deadline it had set of midnight Sunday for either reaching a deal or locking out its workers a little more than a month before opening night.

The GMB union is calling for a referendum to highlight its opposition to the UK's opt - out from the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, which it argues will compromise workers» rights and prevent them from using EU law to appeal against unsatisfactory conditions.