Sentences with phrase «work as a union»

He chose not to go to university and instead started work as union organiser representing public sector workers in local authorities and the health service.

On the floor, sources say Alcantara pulled over members of the Nurses Association, where she had once worked as a union organizer, and asked them to take a photo of her with Stewart - Cousins.

Zimmerman, who works as a union negotiator and lives in Sandy Hook, is Latina.

He worked as a union organizer fighting for good jobs and respect for workers and was elected President of the Community School Board for District 6, covering Washington Heights, Inwood and West Harlem.

Ms. Crowley has worked as a union painter and schoolteacher.

There is also good progress being made on cutting «facility time staffing costs» - this is the scandal where staff are paid by the taxpayer by spend their time working as union officials, the «Pilgrims.»

RIP James F. Hanley, who started work as a union electrician and went on to become New York City's chief labor negotiator for nearly 15 years.

Boone worked as a union organizer for Service Employees International, «helping nurses, healthcare professionals, patient care assistants and teachers improve their wages, working conditions, and benefits,» an experience her campaign said was formative.

Shanker is perhaps best known for his work as a union organizer in New York City, where he founded the United Federation of Teachers in 1960 and led the 1968 Ocean Hill - Brownsville strikes.

Not exact matches

Others are subject to contractual impediments such as union work rules — or company policies regarding long - term or even lifelong employment.

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.

«Having physical office space was tremendously legitimizing,» says the 31 - year - old, who spent two months working from the lobby of a defunct credit union as part of the program.

And on Wednesday night Ripple Labs, the parent company of digital payment protocol Ripple, published a tweet revealing that it was working on a pilot with Western Union, best known as a payments wire service.

«I personally have worked very hard, but it is now evident to me — evident to Canada — that the European Union is incapable of reaching an agreement, even with a country with European values such as Canada, even with a country as nice and as patient as Canada,» a statement from Freeland read.

She previously served as director of labor relations and was responsible for working with the unions that represent approximately 5,000 SoCalGas employees.

Perhaps the relatively swift conclusion to the Goodyear standoff will show union leaders once and for all that hostage - taking doesn't work as a negotiating tactic.

2.Right - to - work is generally defined as a state where it is against the law for a union to be a so - called «closed shop,» requiring all employees to join a union and pay dues.The Michigan laws would make membership in a union and payment of dues voluntary and would cover both the private and public sector, except for fire and police unions.

Those skills paid off handsomely for the first - term Republican this week as Governor Rick Snyder signed into law bills co-sponsored by Colbeck that ban mandatory union membership, making Michigan the nation's 24th right - to - work state.

«We remain committed to achieving a win - win solution and urge the two unions to work closely with us and the federal mediators to achieve a positive outcome as soon as possible in the hours leading up to the deadline.»

Larry is a Wall Street veteran, having worked at such banks as First Boston, Bear Stearns and Union Bank.

Richardville, who says he hails from a union family, admitted that he was hesitant about right - to - work and said he made his mind up slowly as he saw the support in his Republican caucus.

The right - to - work drive in Michigan is the latest of a series of setbacks for labor unions in the United States, beginning in 2011, when Wisconsin's Walker pushed through the legislature limits on public sector unions such as teachers.

Beyond that, many of the Union army veterans he'd recruited as sales agents wore their old uniforms as they worked, which reinforced the connection with their audience.

Unions say right - to - work laws infringe on workers» collective bargaining rights, and proponents call for a federal law as opposed to the current patchwork of state statutes.

Larry Doyle is a Wall Street veteran, having worked at such banks as First Boston, Bear Stearns and Union Bank.

Right - to - work laws bar so - called «closed shops,» where workers are required to join a union and pay union dues or pay equivalent fees as a condition of employment.

According to a study of more than 5,000 American freelancers released in August by the Freelancers Union and Elance - oDesk, 34 percent of the U.S. workforce — or 53 million people — is now working as freelancers.

Don't forget that our robots are as productive as theirs are; they too don't join labor unions (yet) and will work around the clock without complaining.

As former Conservative Senator Hugh Segal said when the bill was first debated in the Upper Chamber in 2013, Bill C - 377 is «an expression of statutory contempt for the working men and women in our trade unions and for the trade unions themselves and their right under federal and provincial law to organize.»

The Elon Musk - led company went a step further as well, stating that the piece was an «ideologically motivated attack by an extremist organization working directly with union supporters to create a calculated disinformation campaign against Tesla.»

The PSOE's party elders did not choose him for this role, but if Pedro Sánchez takes the lead, in Europe as much as in Spain, and reopens the debate about the euro, acknowledging that the current structure does not work and defining with the help of hindsight what vulnerabilities must be addressed in a reformed European Union, the party's new leader can halt the decline of the PSOE at home and reverse the ugly nationalism spreading through Europe.

As he sought to repair the rift on Monday, Mr. Obama emphasized his working - class message after the speech with a stop at Union Oyster House, where he ordered clam chowder to go.

Our models include the Bank of North Dakota and public banks in other countries, which have put public money, such as property, income, sales and business taxes, fees and fines, to work for the public good, in cooperation with community banks and credit unions.

Having worked in a union environment for 15 years it is my firm belief that unions are as diabolical and untrustworthy as the big corporations they feed off.

We are also directly or indirectly dependent upon companies with unionized work forces, such as parts suppliers and trucking and freight companies, and work stoppages or strikes organized by such unions could have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition or operating results.

Krogman, 48, has worked for Oscar Mayer in Madison since April 1990, first on the sanitation crew and now as union secretary / treasurer and chief steward.

When parent company Kraft Heinz announced in November 2015 it would close Oscar Mayer operations in Madison as part of a restructuring that will shutter seven plants in the U.S. and Canada, about 1,000 people worked in the local factory and offices, including 650 union members at the plant.

You can't qualify by living, working or worshipping in a certain geographic area, as you can with some other credit unions.

According to an opinion by columnist Ronald Littlepage in the Florida Times - Union, «A representative of the Northeast Florida Builders Association, Neil Aikenhead, went so far in another e-mail as to make the ridiculous accusation that the higher standard «would be a crime against the environment» and that «this crime would be perpetrated by the St. Johns Riverkeeper, who while claiming to be working for the river, is in fact knowingly doing the precise opposite.»

Ms. McLean announced that the government is working with credit unions to offer short - term loans as an alternative to predatory loans.

UK - based binary options traders are free to work with UK - regulated brokers as well as the brokers that are regulated by any other regulatory body in the European Union.

Apart from not liking the video's message and concept, which, given his credentials as head of an anti-union «right to work» lobby group, doesn't come as a surprise, Oakey is particularly bothered by the fact that the PSAC — a union — produced the video.

Unions, working with employers, have come along way to making these workplaces safer over the past 30 years, but there's much more work to be done - particularly as we discover the toll these types of jobs take on workers mental health and as the Conservative government moves closer and closer to total industry self - regulation (something that puts all Canadians at risk).

We saw those issues could be worked through, provided there was an unconditional and convincing political will to stay together as a union.

As for Jesus, he mentions this passage once and I see his affirmation of 3 things (also found in rabbinic works): 2 becomes 1 in these ways --(a) sexual union (closest we can get to the original creation); (b) children (2 seperate dna's in one person); (c) Companionship — to combat our lonliness.

Hence, White insists upon the doctrine of the «hypostatic union» as guarantor of the Tradition's confession of Christ's uniqueness — as well as upon the legitimacy, indeed the necessity, of reason's probing of the essential traits of human nature, notwithstanding the deformation wrought by the Fall.

We applaud your work to uphold marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife and to rebuild the marriage - based family as the fundamental unit of society and the original and best department of health, education, and welfare.

Meanwhile, bribe - seeking police officers have vanished from roadblocks in Harare and trade unions have urged people to go to work as usual.

Re «In the sacraments matter and spirit are linked in an effective instrumental union — «outward signs of inward grace» but are never identified with each other.In the sacraments, as in the Incarnation, the natures remain distinct and unconfused yet are truly joined in the person and work of God the Son.»

Just as we can say of our bodily organs that they are naturally completed only because they are united for the sake of sustaining our biological life, so also we can say of two individuals that their union is comprehensive only if and when their bodies coordinate so as to work toward a common biological end — which is sexual reproduction.