Sentences with word «unionizing»

If religious institutions are so keen on unionizing workers why don't they start by unionizing the workers that work for their various organizations and affiliated institutions (churches, schools, hospitals, etc...)?

Kest was the head of New York Communities For Change and was deeply involved in unionizing workers and advocating on behalf of low - income New Yorkers.

Managements often use threats, surveillance and other intimidation tactics to try to bully workers into voting against unionizing.

AFSCME officials said a majority of the 44 employees they propose to represent have signed union cards and expressed an interest in unionizing.

They violate health codes, torture animals, pay minimum wages with minimum benefits, prevent workers from unionizing, import plastic crap from China (Walmart), pollute the environment (Tyson), drive once proud poultry farmers into becoming wage slaves (Tyson), sell cheap products with high - profits produces by «modern slaves» in China and other third - world countries (Walmart),... WWJB?

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decided in May that Chicago's St. Xavier's University can not prevent its adjunct faculty from unionizing.

California fast - food workers shift focus from minimum wage to unionizing Los Angeles Times Samantha Masunaga April 14, 2016

Elsewhere, other employment advocacy groups have made efforts at unionizing drivers.

It is the true story of Crystal Lee Sutton in North Carolina who succeeded in unionizing the mill where she worked, demonstrating that leadership does not always come from the top.

Although the ruling affects businesses that use contract workers, potentially making them a party to unionizing efforts workers undertake, it also has a specific impact on franchise owners.

Protests of this nature don't constitute a legal strike for unionized workers, and the concept of striking in the strict sense doesn't exist for non-union workers.

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.

Elevator construction and repair is a heavily unionized trade.

Seattle becomes the first city to let Lyft and Uber unionize, while the debate about workers in the sharing economy continues across the country.

(In a unionized workplace, employers must have just cause to fire someone or that person may be reinstated.)

Housekeepers in unionized, New York City hotels have been given panic buttons since 2013.

The briefing note from May 2017 also noted a downward shift in unionization rates that «contribute to rising inequality» because unionized workers earn, on average, $ 4 more per hour than their non-union counterparts.

And that's a problem, because Air Canada wants to launch a new low - cost brand, and they're telling shareholders that their unionized workers are standing in the way.

The positions being cut involve contractual, permanent, unionized and management positions in assembly, engineering, sales, service, after - sales and other support functions.

He continued: «The popularity of #deleteUber only exists because decent people around the country and world — including the unionized cab drivers Uber hates and targets — took to the streets, occupying airports in defense of refugees, immigrants, and Muslims.»

And both companies have put up fierce resistance to being unionized.

The forecast does not include the impact of tentative contract agreements the airline has reached with its unionized pilots and flight attendants.

JetBlue's roughly 5,000 flight attendants have voted to unionize, the New York - based airline said on Tuesday.

Most U.S. airlines» crews are unionized and JetBlue had been a non-union airline until its pilots voted to unionize in 2014.

Your local Tim Hortons will unionize, flying in Canada will get cheaper and Harper will resign.

Fudge's letter was made public by the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), which represents many of the unionized grocery workers in the United States.

Delta Air Lines» flight attendants are not unionized, a rarity in the industry.

Smaller cars made in Mexico were not a threat to the future of the unionized U.S. autoworkers; a high - priced SUV may be seen as such.

Since 2013, New York City housekeepers in all unionized hotels — hundreds of properties across the city — have been equipped with panic buttons that summon help.

And management's responsibility is likely to be an issue in collective bargaining next year, when contracts covering roughly half the unionized hotel workers across the country are up for re-negotiation.

The ruling could also force corporate franchisors, like McDonald's, to the negotiating table if workers choose to unionize.

Sissy Spacek plays Norma Rae, a single mother, who fights to unionize the textile mill where she works.

Complaints were filed by three employees and the United Auto Workers union, which has encouraged Tesla employees to unionize.

The company has multiple products and tens of thousands of employees, some of whom have been pushing to unionize.

Although 64 % of Bombardier Aerospace's employees are unionized, López claims that international companies have a «gentleman's agreement» to compete on perks such as food and transportation rather than wages.

Prized by the business lobby, loathed by unionized labour, the temporary foreign worker program is either a solution to or an exacerbation of a problem that may or may not exist.

Michigan's state legislature is expected to give final approval as early as Tuesday to new laws making it a «right - to - work» state despite protests from thousands of unionized workers.

The reaction: Union supporters were dismayed to learn the products on offer are not, as a rule, made by unionized labour.

The Canadian Media Guild (which also represents unionized workers at The Canadian Press) worries the new money from the federal government wasn't a reinvestment in the CBC so much as spending on companies producing CBC programming.

In 2011, three months after Chit Chats Express opened its first warehouse in Markham, Ontario, disputes between Canada Post and its unionized workers culminated in a strike.

New Jersey has a long tradition as a heavily unionized state, and Christie — perhaps bowing to political realities — has been courting many private sector unions in his re-election campaign.

Employees, many of whom are unionized, all wear uniforms.

The education measures have been promised by the Liberals as part of the benefits of restraints on wage and benefits for 9,600 unionized teachers.

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.

A heavy union presence tends to work against states in our Workforce category, and Census figures show New Jersey remains among the most unionized states in the nation.

«In the developed U.S. economy, unionized firms are able to use productivity enhancements to offset any higher costs associated with collective bargaining.»

Two years ago, the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to give taxi and ride - sharing drivers classified as independent contractors the ability to unionize.

Since you always have a choice of where you spend your money, even though some of us conveniently forget uncomfortable truths, Girlfriend Collective's factory uses no forced or child labor, mandates fair working hours and safe conditions, pays living wages, and allows workers to unionize.

Unionized workers trashed the office of the division's CEO earlier this month, in protest at withheld bonuses.

In 1995, more than 200 workers walked out of the plant and, after striking for four days, voted to unionize.