Sentences with phrase «use union workers»

It's very difficult to build affordable housing and also use union workers,» said Howard Husock, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

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A senior European Union official echoed Bains» words, suggesting the G7 needed to encourage use of artificial intelligence to improve daily lives while affirming the importance of privacy and accountability to maintain trust with workers.

«Postal workers want to work and people need to know that it's safe to use the mail system,» said Mike Palecek, the union's president, in a statement.

«The culture of Southwest is just not the way it used to be,» Greg Puriski, president of Transport Workers Union Local 555, explained to Bloomberg.

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.

Tesla said employees were terminated en masse due to performance issues, though some workers have argued they were cost - cutting layoffs or used to punish union supporters.

Meanwhile using the lack labour laws in this province to let the unionized workers go - and so breaking the union.

Now we have undeniable evidence that employers are using covert information to blacklist workers for legitimate trade union activities.

Six unions have mounted a legal challenge on behalf of millions of public sector workers over what inflation index is used to increase their pensions.

PLAs typically require 85 percent of workers be hired from union halls, which often means open - shop contractors won't bid, since they can't use their own employees.

With over 200 non-union hotels planning to open their doors in our city in the next few years we must use the resources the membership provided in the dues referendum and continue to focus all of our energy on making our union one that represents as many workers in the hotel industry as possible.

Also: CapCon's Casey Seiler reports that picketing Verizon workers is accusing Verizon of using «Wisconsin - style» tactics (shorthand these days in labor - speak for «union - busting») during contract negotiations.

Also Wednesday, the council greenlighted legislation requiring used car dealers to disclose details about a vehicle's recall history, regulating commercial bicyclists, studying the feasibility of allowing pedestrians to cross in any direction while vehicle traffic is stopped, and extending a prior legal limit on the conversion of hotels into non-hotel use — a bill backed by the city's hotel worker labor union.

Then came the morning of Dec. 3, 2014, when Percoco used his swipe card to enter state offices, and received an email from Howe asking about a client's request to waive a requirement to hire union workers for a lucrative job in Syracuse.

Unions want the Welsh government to review the use of so - called zero hours, which give workers no guarantee of how much they will take home at the end of the week.

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-...]

The NALC, which endorsed Clinton last June, compensated those USPS workers using the Letter Carrier Political Fund, the union's PAC.

The Building and Construction Trades Council had been promoting the use of union labor on 421 - a sites, but had expressed that it could be flexible in only requiring this in geographic areas where it seemed economically feasible or having workers accept a lower prevailing wage rate.

This is a clear peace offering to the public employee unions, which have long called for the state to review its outside contractors and reduce its use of them before turning to state worker layoffs to close budget deficits.

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.

The group is proposing a series of amendments which bring together key issues for unions, ranging from the right to expel those with racist views to measures to improve the balloting process and action to prevent agency workers being used to undermine lawful industrial disputes.

Unions were furious, using a pre planned rally to express their anger, saying the new benefit tier will reduce pensions by as much 40 % for future state workers.

Shockingly, the cabinet papers also show that the Tories were willing to go as far as declaring a state of emergency and deploying the Army in order to gain victory over the striking miners and the unions — confirmation that it was a central tenet of government policy to regard tax - paying, law - abiding colliery workers, locked in struggle to defend their jobs and their way of life, as (to use that awful phrase of Margaret Thatcher's) «the enemy within».

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A survey of 500 Poles in Britain for Newsnight suggests that just 64 per cent had signed the workers» register, which the government uses to monitor the number of people coming from the ten new European Union member states to work in Britain.

James had used a wheelchair for two years — since he was shot during a gunpoint robbery in Guyana, where he was on vacation, according to police sources and a Transport Workers Union Local 100 official.

Supporters such as Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, City Councilmember Charles Barron and Roger Toussaint, president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, castigated the Daily News for questioning Liu's official biography and used the allegations to trumpet Liu's background and the American dream.

The mayor has also began using Trump as a foil in his re-election campaign, warning the sanitation workers» union which endorsed him Monday that Washington may turn against labor unions.

DNC spokesman Michael Tyler said the party's national platform «repeatedly and unequivocally states, the Democratic Party is staunchly committed to making it easier for workers, public and private, to exercise their right to organize and join unions, to increasing the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, to protecting collective bargaining, to strengthening workplace protections, and to investing in infrastructure that uses American products and provides good - paying jobs for American workers.»

There was also a guarantee to use union construction workers and to spend several million dollars more on community benefits — concessions won by Rose.

... an immigration policy that stops the exploitative use of migrant labour; and active trade unions to protect the pay and conditions of workers.

The coalition, which includes advocates for the poor, public worker and teacher unions, and those who help the elderly, use words like «horrendous» and «devastating» to describe the effects of Cuomo's proposed cuts.

Horner and others noted that teachers unions and health care workers have used similar strategies for years.

Cuomo noted the effort to create an objective evaluation system that could be used to improve faculty and schools statewide as well as for layoffs is being watched closely by unions representing other types of workers.

For months, Suffolk lawmakers had debated a straight ban on plastic bags and had settled on the fee on «single use» paper and plastic bags as a compromise with grocery store owners and labor unions that represent workers.

Unions have also blocked efforts to fire abusive workers, and nonprofit groups caring for disabled people were using Medicaid to finance seven - figure compensation packages for executives.

«What the union is insisting on is a package of wages of benefits that exceed that of the private sector,» Mr. Linn said, adding that the carpenters are using a «technicality» to try and get more money than workers in the private sector.

There is an absolute concern that if de Blasio can establish a precedent, it will take root and be used across the state,» said John Samuelsen, president of Transport Workers Union International and Transport Workers Union Local 100.

One was a CEO of a major pharmaceutical company and the other was an activist for worker's rights in a union in Philadelphia, who started using food as medicine to heal his brother's colitis in the 1940s.

At present, to become a fee - payer a worker must resign from the union and object to the use of any fees collected for nonchargeable activities.

According to the piece, public employee union leaders and community organizations gathered in Washington, D.C. in 2014 and came up with a 3 - point plan: use the bargaining process as a way to challenge the relationships between government and the private - sector; work with community allies to create new, shared goals that help advance both worker and citizen power; and recognize militancy and collective action will likely be necessary if workers and citizens are to reduce inequality and strengthen democracy.

Several of the conservative justices hinted during opening arguments that they might use the case to overturn a four - decades - old precedent that requires workers to pay dues if they benefit from a union's collective bargaining work, even if they don't officially join the union.

I used to live in San Francisco and they forced all credit unions and banks within the boundaries of the city and county of San Francisco to open their doors to every resident, worker, or worshiper.

WWF may refer to: World Wide Fund for Nature, a nature conservation organization previously named World Wildlife Fund (and still using the former name in some markets) World Wrestling Federation, the name used from 1979 to 2002 by the professional wrestling company now known as WWE Welded wire fabric, a reinforcing material typically used in poured concrete slabs Working Women's Forum, an organisation in India World Water Forum, an international forum for water issues Windows Workflow Foundation, Microsoft's workflow management framework Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway, a former 2 foot gauge railroad in Maine, United States WWF (file format), a campaign to produce PDF electronic documents that forbid printing Words with Friends, a game for Apple and Android platforms Waterside Workers» Federation, a former Australian trade union, now the Maritime Union of Austunion, now the Maritime Union of AustUnion of Australia

In connection to the Communal Knowledge project Using our hands to Organise New Zealand based artist Fiona Jack has invited Ed Hall the UK's foremost trade union and campaign banner artist to meet with Justice 4 Domestic Workers, to begin discussions towards a new banner for their ongoing campaign calling on the UK Government to protect the rights of Migrant Domestic Workers.

The International Brotherhood of Electrical workers used Aurora solar design software to design a commercial solar array for their union hall, streamlining project development significantly.

The head of the local union, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW Local 97) Ted Skerpon blasted Entergy, saying they were «using the FitzPatrick plant as a chip» to pressure Gov. Cuomo to stop trying to shut down Indian Point, a more profitable nuclear plant near to Manhattan.

The EU democratic legislature could shape the way conflicts between workers and unions with employers using economic freedoms play out.

The union movement in B.C. has scored a victory with the decision by a mining company to halt plans to create an open - pit coal mine using temporary foreign workers.

In Canada Post Corporation v. Canadian Union of Postal Workers, 2013 BCCA 108, the applicant employer had been accused of using regional forums where management would address employees in order to undermine the respondent uUnion of Postal Workers, 2013 BCCA 108, the applicant employer had been accused of using regional forums where management would address employees in order to undermine the respondent unionunion.