Sentences with phrase «with union workers»

After graduation, he worked in the retail and transportation industries, gaining experience working with union workers.

Today, June 12th 2012, MORE joins with all union workers of the Municipal Labor Committee in demanding a fair contract now.

Building and Construction Trades Council of New York President Gary LaBarbera, center, with union workers and politicians (Photo: Will Bredderman for Observer).

After almost a year of negotiations, Nathan Littauer Hospital & Nursing Home in Gloversville has ratified a new contract with union workers.

Michele Pitman, a Suffolk assistant district attorney, said it wasn't fair to target nonunion workers while it's unclear what will happen with union workers» health care.

According to inside sources, Brian, also an ex-labor leader, was known to speak in a fake Irish brogue to help him fit in with union workers.

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.

Disney is currently in heated talks with union workers as the company's theme - park division thrives

Walt Disney Co. is finding itself in heated talks with union workers over pay and other issues as profits at the company's theme - park division soar.

Not exact matches

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 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.

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.

Maintenance tasks related to worker - management relations primarily entail: working with labor unions; handling grievances related to misconduct, such as theft or sexual harassment; and devising communication systems to foster cooperation and a shared sense of mission among employees.

«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.

In his complaint, McGlaughlin describes a history of «abusive» practices and conflict with supervisors that predated — and he says prompted — his union - organizing efforts, and continued after he began seeking to organize his fellow workers.

Most of us don't think of Air Canada as a singing - and - dancing kind of brand, and the musical workers didn't look like the same angry people whose unions seem endlessly at war with the airline.

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.

(Nevertheless, the company offers other benefits and protections, such as health insurance through a partnership with Freelancer's Union, plans for business insurance, as well as payment guarantees for workers.)

A union fighter pilot famously took to the skies, bombing Stelco with leaflets enticing workers to join the battle.

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.

ICL workers staged a strike, vowing that unions «will fight this with all their power.»

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.

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.

«Andy Puzder is against unions, calls the minimum wage and overtime «restrictions» and employees «extra cost,» and even said he wants to fire workers like us and replace us with machines that can't take vacation or sue their employers when they break the law,» the nonprofit Interfaith Worker Justice quoted Rogelio Hernandez, a Carl's Jr. cook, as saying.

The laws passed by Republicans in Michigan last week would exempt existing contracts between employers and unions until they expire, such as the automakers» contract with the United Auto Workers union, which expires in 2015.

The two unions reached a tentative deal with Canadian National Railway Co. last month for new contracts for about 1,700 CN Teamsters workers and over 700 IBEW members.

And the union that staged the protest is returning with the workers, who will see their pay and seniority respected by the new boss, who is decidedly not the same as the old boss.

To drive down labor costs, a company replaces a regulated, protected class of worker (members of a union) with a non-protected worker (by relocating to non-union states or countries with a lower labor cost).

Wal - Mart's critics — including a group of its workers backed by labor unions - say the retailer pays its hourly workers too little, forcing some to seek government assistance that effectively provides the company with an indirect taxpayer subsidy.

Muller idled the Trollhättan plant in April and fell into arrears with both suppliers and workers, prompting unions to agitate for bankruptcy.

Finally, a growing number of union leaders are abandoning the futile efforts to achieve incremental reforms of the current ossified and defunct labor law and instead are calling for opening up labor law to encourage and protect workers who experiment with these and other more fluid and varied activities free from reprisals.

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.

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.

Unions said in a statement more than 500 Amazon workers at the Piacenza site in northern Italy had agreed to strike following a failure to negotiate bonuses with the company.

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.

Unions advocate card checks because it allows them to sign up workers in secret and then surprise firms with a fait accompli.

The company also has a stock purchase program that comes with no fees, and a federal credit union that helps with savings for workers planning for their retirement.

With contract negotiations ongoing between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Canadians are bracing for a service disruption.

Carrier also cited an agreement it had reached with the United Steelworkers union about compensation for affected workers.

She was as a union organizer as a worker with the UFW in 70s and early 80s.

* 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.

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.

Bob White and the auto workers captured the attention of many Canadians by breaking away from their American parent union in 1985 and then leading an inspired campaign against the Mulroney government's proposed free trade agreement with the United States.

But there is little or no discussion in Unions Matter of current intergenerational tensions in the union movement: the movement toward two - tier workplaces, like Air Canada's Rouge Airlines, which aims to hire new, mostly younger workers at a lower pay scale and with fewer benefits than are enjoyed by older, established workers.

Another way that the current crisis hurts those at the bottom of the economic ladder was revealed in a conversation with Lucy Luna, a United Food and Commercial Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. dollar.

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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.