Sentences with phrase «when campaign workers»

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Disney responded to a nationally directed labor campaign in 2014 when it agreed to a $ 10 - an - hour minimum wage for workers.

Saunders, the president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, says that Canadian workers and their pensions are more exposed to risk during market trouble because of the successful campaign over the past decades to move from defined benefit pensions, which guarantee a certain monthly amount when you retire, to defined contribution plans, promoted by market enthusiasts.

CBTU is campaigning to have the federal government introduce a Construction Mobility Tax Credit — a personal tax exemption on expenses construction workers typically incur when they temporarily relocate for work.

When Nestlé runs mass media advertising campaigns, targets parents with baby clubs or throws a promotional event for health workers at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London to encourage them to promote SMA — who pays for it?

Jeremy Corbyn's latest move — to give reassurance that Labour will campaign to remain in Europe and then, if elected in 2020, reverse from the inside any diminution of workers» rights which Cameron may have secured — is a smart move when it is linked with pushing through the # 50bn financial transactions tax on almost -LSB-...]

When a poll worker couldn't find Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner's signature alongside his name in the book of eligible voters, they tried to give him an affidavit ballot, his campaign said.

In a symbolic move, Nixon traveled by subway to her inaugural campaign stop — but was delayed by an hour when a subway worker was killed in an accident at 125th Street earlier Tuesday.

«When we are done with this campaign, all workers in the state of New York will have dignity and respect.»

«From running digital campaigns in support of striking McDonalds workers to making viral videos highlighting Tory cuts to public services with the CWU and the TSSA - we believe Labour is strongest when trade unions and member organisations work together closely.

He held a number of senior jobs and championed causes ranging from the rights of workers in Hong Kong - where he had done national service in the RAF - to the anti-apartheid campaign, when he helped to harness the power of sport to the cause.

Kennedy has continued to be a human rights champion and also has kept a finger in NY politics, campaigning for farm workers rights — an effort that allied her with former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. at a time when her ex was investigating and prosecuting him.

«It shows that this campaign is far more about the union worker than it is about the working poor or the people who are struggling in this state, and secondly, the fact that this issue two weeks from its deadline is paralyzed shows that it doesn't take money when you have real - life, emotional stories from the people who are actually impacted,» Durant said.

But a spokesman for Mr McCluskey's leadership campaign said: «Unite members will be baffled by this nonsense when they see daily that Len McCluskey's priority is to fight for their jobs, pay and pensions, as he is doing today for the tens of thousands of UK workers who depend on the auto industry for their livelihoods.»

The harsh fact is that Cameron is a good campaigner — twinkling warmly when a Polish worker asks about immigration — but this has not been a good campaign.

«When I campaigned in White Plains earlier this month, the county employees I met were still angry about Astorino laying off county workers at the same time he was hiring high - priced political cronies,» said Hawkins.

Danny Alexander caused controversy in the Election campaign when he said a senior Tory Minister had said to him: «You look after the workers and we'll look after the bosses.»

He attempts to strike up a connection with local presidential campaign worker, Betsy (Cybill Shepherd) but when that falls flat, he takes it upon himself to change things and fails again in an assassination attempt on the Senator himself (Leonard Harris).

The film chronicles the tragedy when Ted Kennedy drove his car off a bridge, ending the life of campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne and his chance at the White House.

I refer not to the abject cowardice of Edward «Teddy» Kennedy in the summer of 1969, when the Senator from Massachusetts drunkenly drove a car off a bridge into a lake, leaving a campaign worker, Mary Jo Kopechne, trapped inside.

However we came one step closer to making this a reality on 10 October, when the local administration and community members from the Rift Valley area in Kenya were led by Green Belt Movement workers in the planting thousands of seedlings to mark the 10:10:10 Billion Tree campaign.

Murray made news in 2012 when he forced workers at one of his mines in Ohio to attend a Mitt Romney campaign event, closing the mine for the day and docking the miners» wages.

When the NDP campaigns for the green vote, workers will vote for their jobs.

North Korea might have been the first country in the world to actually land a man on the Sun (don't worry, they went at night time when it's dark), and now they're expert hackers who have been working on a spearphishing campaign that targets cryptocurrency industry workers.