Sentences with phrase «workers during the strike»

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Uber came under renewed pressure over the weekend for a Tweet promoting surge - free pricing during a taxi worker strike in support of immigrants impacted by Trump's Executive Order, which has been widely interpreted as a Muslim ban.

The #DeleteUber hashtag initially trended after Uber lifted surge pricing around JFK Airport during a strike by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance in December.

Canadian Union of Postal Workers protest outside the main postal station of Halifax during a 2011 strike.

As you might already know, thousands of Verizon workers were on strike during the month of May and consequently were counted as unemployed.

Kuwait plans to boost oil production to more than 3 million barrels a day within months, doubling output from where it stood during last week's oil - worker strike.

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During the height of the organizing drive — which continues — prominent Americans, including the late Robert F. Kennedy and Walter Reuther, came to march with strike leader César Chavez and his workers in Delano, California.

Commenting, Unite London regional secretary, Peter Kavanagh, said:» Support for today's strike action is solid and shows that bus workers are willing to stand shoulder to shoulder to get the recognition they deserve in keeping London moving during the Olympics.

However, during the winter of 1978 — 79 there were widespread strikes among lorry drivers, railway workers, car workers and local government and hospital workers in favour of higher pay - rises that caused significant disruption to everyday life.

We support the Momentive workers in their current fight to get the last worker fired during the strike back to work.

Cuomo was criticized during an all - night session in mid-March for issuing special messages of necessity to allow the Senate and Assembly to pass bills as soon as deals were struck on topics like a new pension tier for public workers, and redistricting lines.

The company has trained non-union employees to fill in during the strike, but union workers say that replacements do not have the same expertise.

Also, speaking of the Dr. Pepper - owned Motts, I'm reminded of the time Cuomo sent Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy to meet with striking workers in Rochester during the campaign.

It was only as the calls from the striking workers rose to a crescendo during Cuomo's speech that the governor made a single glancing reference to the labor battle.

The United Auto Workers union will pay half their missed wages during the strike.

«If workers strike or are locked out of their jobs during a labor dispute, a utility might operate just fine, or there could be a major problem,» said Scott, an attorney who spent 10 years practicing energy and regulatory law before joining the OSU faculty.

«In Dubious Battle» is the story of the working class during the Depression, striking against an increasingly cruel establishment in ways that would lead to the formation of workers» rights, including a minimum wage.

Published during a moment of political upheaval and dissent against resurgent fascism in the United States, Bordowitz's book inserts Untitled (I Am a Man) into a history that includes the African - American sanitation workers» strike in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968, Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech «Ain't I A Woman?»

In 2006, during a prolonged strike at the Palace Casino in Edmonton, the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 401 («Union») videotaped the picket line, as did the employer.

The visa application was subject to multiple delays during processing due to public sector workers» strikes and public holidays.

And it has «anti-scab» legislation, which prohibits employers from hiring new workers during lengthy strikes or lockouts.

The city went through some rough times that led to civil unrests during the Bayonne refinery strikes of 1915 and 1916, where Polish - American workers staged labor actions against Standard Oil of New Jersey and Tidewater Petroleum.