Sentences with phrase «workers union for»

Diana Lopez organizes with the Southwest Workers Union for worker rights, environmental justice and community empowerment in San Antonio, Texas.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is facing backlash from the city's transport workers union for skipping out on funeral services for two transit workers killed on the job last month.

Not exact matches

Several dozen union workers from GE factories in Pennsylvania, Canada and elsewhere protested outside a GE facility here, where about 450 shareholders gathered for the meeting.

«We want safety for all the workers,» Geoconda Argüello - Kline, the union's secretary - treasurer, told The Associated Press.

For six days, more than 200 union workers and their families camped out here to protest what they considered an egregious injustice.

«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.

* Most thorny issue is job security for nearly 700 workers - union (Recasts, adds comments from Korean government, GM)

J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents more than 670,000 workers in the executive branch, took a swing at the agency in ink: «We believe that the Central Personnel Data File was the targeted database, and that the hackers are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to one million former federal employees,» he wrote in the letter dated Thursday, which Fortune obtained.

It is the latest successful legislative push targeting union power following a Republican sweep of statehouses in 2010, and if Gov. Mitch Daniels signs the bill as expected it will make Indiana the first Rust Belt state to ban contracts that require workers to pay mandatory union fees for representation.

(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.)

Now, since going private, a new problem has emerged: Cara has reportedly asked the union representing airline catering workers for up to $ 20 million in concessions.

That's one of the key reasons myRA, which President Obama announced during his 2014 State of the Union Address, was launched by the U.S. Treasury in 2015 as an easy way for all workers to begin saving for retirement.

Crafting a common framework for two unions covering disparate industries and more than 300,000 workers will inevitably create tensions.

The Republican nominee, however, presents a conundrum for the unions that represent workers at Boeing, the world's largest aerospace company.

The Canadian Auto Workers union and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers have the blessing of their respective members to merge and transform for a new era of labour relations.

Canadian Auto Workers Union economist Jim Stanford: «There is something to be said for hiring an outsider.

Unions have become quite active trying to organize service workers in campaigns such as Fight for 15.

T.J. Bray, a Carrier worker who serves as a media representative for the manufacturer's United Steelworkers Local 1999 union, told Business Insider that all workers know «is what [Trump] and Carrier put on Twitter.»

SEOUL, March 27 - General Motors said its loss - making South Korean operations would file for bankruptcy if its union did not agree to cut labor costs by April 20, heaping pressure on workers and the South Korean government to swiftly agree a rescue plan.

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.

Around the world, union members have traditionally marched on May 1 for workers» rights.

Despite comments suggesting that the Canadian Auto Workers and other unions are to blame for the loss of jobs at Electro - Motive and elsewhere, in reality their power has greatly declined.

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.

Unions complain that the election format is simply an opportunity for bosses to unleash a host of dirty tricks on workers and organizers.

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.

Businesses say they like right - to - work laws because they make it more difficult for unions to organize workers and raise wage and benefit costs.

Union workers for Costco in California also have a defined benefit pension plan.

Workers at Amazon «s main distribution hub in Italy are planning their first ever strike for Friday, trade unions said, while they are also striking at six warehouses in Germany, threatening to disrupt one of the year's busiest shopping days.

Though the trend is still at an early stage, it is worth paying attention to for two reasons: unions may represent a new source of capital for your company, and unions want to invest in worker - friendly businesses and therefore may one day have the same kind of impact on private - equity deals that socially responsible investors have already had on the stock market.

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.

Back in the machine age, when a great many workers spent their days on assembly lines, unions fought for a 40 - hour week — and researchers backed them up.

Instead, Sari Sairanen, health and safety director for national union Unifor, doesn't think the problem will get better until governments themselves step in to provide better child and elder care so that workers have options outside of just missing work.

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

Canadian unions have begun flexing their muscles in areas previously outside their range — standing up for non-unionized temporary foreign workers at Tim Hortons in B.C. and even, through Unifor, the country's largest union, opening a form of membership to everyone from part - time workers to the unemployed.

The U.S. National Labor Relations Act guarantees workers, whether they are in a union or not, the right to engage in «concerted activities» for their «mutual aid or protection».

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

Wisconsin and Michigan have both seen union membership plummet after the enactment of «right - to - work» laws that made joining a union optional for government workers.

* 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.

Tesla has a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board in November for charges that company supervisors and security guards harassed workers distributing union literature.

And reams of social science research show that strong unions do much more than that: They bolster regional economies, increase democratic participation, and even strengthen the social safety net for non-unionized workers.

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.

At the same time, underlying shifts in the economy have again shifted the interest group politics — these days, manufacturing workers are a small share of overall US union membership, so the original impetus for the Democratic tilt against trade is going away.

Respect the right of workers to form a union for all your workers, including the service workers that make your campus run, and remain neutral in any union organizing drives;

The newly elected Progressive Conservative government in Manitoba has moved quickly to cement its anti-worker bona fides with the radical right - wing by making it more difficult for non-union workers to join a union, and by opening up bidding on large scale public construction projects to non-union companies.

Tesla production workers start at about $ 17 per hour, below the average wage for auto workers around the country, according to the union.

When German institutions — government, businesses and labor unions — negotiated among themselves at the turn of the century a sharp reduction in wage growth for its workers, they were obviously attempting to reduce German's high domestic unemployment by gaining trade competitiveness.

With contract negotiations ongoing between Canada Post and representatives of the crown corporation's workers» union, Canadians are bracing for a service disruption that could start as early as Wednesday.

The Fight for $ 15 began in 2012 when two hundred fast - food workers walked off the job to demand $ 15 / hr and union rights in New York City.

«It's an absolute disaster for Canada,» said Jerry Dias, president of Unifor, a union which represents 24,000 forestry workers at 134 companies.