68 Sentences With "job action" | Random Sentence Generator

The settlement averts a possible strike or other job action.

The last strike on the rail line was a 30-day job action by conductors in 1983.

The police had approved Wednesday's strike, the first time a job action by government workers had been permitted.

This was not a strike or a job action, and the people calling from the ambulances were not city employees.

Executives at state-controlled oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA acknowledged that the job action had a limited impact at oil refineries.

Ferry boat pilots and engineers, represented by separate unions, were not part of the job action but refused to cross picket lines.

"But rest assured that we're going to be moving produce throughout the region if there were to be a job action," he said.

A strike in Los Angeles would mark the latest job action by teachers nationwide who have called for better pay and working conditions.

The strike — which did not interfere with shows already running — was the first such job action taken by Equity in nearly 50 years.

The largest job action of 2019 involved 92,700 North Carolina public school teachers who walked the picket line on May 2703, International Workers' Day.

In a lawsuit filed in Texas, Southwest asked a federal judge to order a halt to what it called an unlawful job action by the union.

Workers decided not to go back on strike, they said, because many doubted the job action would provoke any change from Wal-Mart, the workers said.

The job action follows a wave of teacher strikes last year across the United States over salaries and school funding, including walkouts in West Virginia, Oklahoma and Arizona.

Mr. Earley acknowledged Monday that "working for an organization in distress, especially the level of distress facing D.P.S., is not easy," but he described the job action as counterproductive.

" In a statement, the ALPA responded to the lawsuit: "The Air Line Pilots Association, Int'l and the Spirit pilot group it represents are not engaged in a job action.

Most Denver schools are staying open during the job action, with striking teachers replaced by substitutes who will be paid $212 a day, double the district's normal rate. Gov.

In non-judicial contexts, such as employment decisions, the government may also owe an employee some procedural protections before taking an adverse job action, but the protections are limited.

While that team filed a wage discrimination complaint against U.S. Soccer with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, it has yet to take a formal job action to press its negotiating position.

The job action comes after a West Virginia strike last month ended with a pay raise and as teachers in other states grow increasingly angry over stagnating wages are consider walk-outs.

But, when the resulting increase in efficiency threatens his colleagues' bonuses—and union officials won't help—he incites a job action; when it succeeds, he leads protests that grow all the more daring.

In a blow to the Conservatives, the union representing Ontario's education workers, including custodians and education assistants, said on Monday members had voted 93% in favor of job action as soon as Sept.

That event, which will be hosted by U.S. Soccer and includes the top teams Germany, England and France, could be imperiled if the players threaten a job action as part of their labor dispute.

A five-week job action by Actors' Equity, which was resolved last week, delayed a planned developmental lab for the show, and the producers decided they needed more time before staging the full show.

In a Friday email to its members, the union rejected the company's assertion that the maintenance issues were a job action and said mechanics should not allow themselves to be pressured to ignore safety or mechanical issues with a plane.

A day before Wednesday's job action, leaders from Northern Ireland's five main parties met with David Sterling, the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, who has been forced to manage daily affairs in the absence of local government ministers.

"No amount of threats or illegal declarations from individuals in government will stop or intimidate teachers from exercising their constitutional and legal right to participate in industrial job action," said a statement by the Zimbabwe Teachers Association Monday, addressed to the Education Ministry.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of teachers and support staff in Canada's most populous province are poised to walk off the job on Wednesday in a one-day strike, part of escalating job action as talks failed to produce a tentative agreement with the government.

The job action — and a planned strike next month by elementary schoolteachers — poses a challenge to the center-left Labour government of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who came to power last October on a campaign platform of fairness and a better deal for ordinary New Zealanders.

TORONTO, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of teachers and support staff in Canada's most populous province are poised to walk off the job on Wednesday in a one-day strike, part of escalating job action as talks failed to produce a tentative agreement with the government.

The job action, in a sector loosely described as the "gig economy," is the latest in a wave of strikes—the largest the country has seen since 217.22—with unrest across diverse workforces including public school teachers in West Virginia, Marriott hotel workers on the West Coast, and most recently, grocery store clerks in New England.

Raids [of brothels]: A hero or rescuer's job, action taken by police with TV cameras, reporters, where many women are shown sitting on the floor and hiding their faces... or with their eyes inked out like criminals—when the job [is] done, most of us end up in debt and return to work to pay it off after [we] are released.

Following a round of talks in 2005 the workers voted in favour of strike action, eventually settling after 3 weeks of job action.

The BCTF began a strike on October 7, 2005. It maintained that breaking the law for a just cause (having its collective bargaining rights limited and a contract imposed) was acceptable. Critics of the BCTF claimed that the job action set a bad example for the children they teach. The job action was illegal because teaching in British Columbia was considered an essential service and teachers were not allowed to strike.

Krause, p. 355-57. The AA was nearly bankrupted by the job action, and voted to return to work on November 20, 1892.Krause, p. 356-57; Foner, p. 215-17.

The union ceased to exist in 1980, although from the time of the job action onward, comedians in Los Angeles were paid for their shows. This included The Comedy Store and The Improv.

When working as a classroom teacher at Alice Street Elementary School in the Truro Municipal School Board during the 1970-71 school year, Casey served as the school staff's local representative of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union during a work- to-rule job action undertaken by the NSTU.

On November 30, 2011, the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia held a Rally in Ribbons and Robes, a province-wide protest on the steps of regional and provincial courthouses to raise awareness about the state of legal aid in British Columbia. The Association carried out job-action protests from January to April, 2012. The primary component of the job-action impacted the duty counsel services outlined above; these services were withheld for one week in January 2012, two weeks in February, three weeks in March, and throughout all of April. On December 30, 2011, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of British Columbia, the Honourable Shirley Bond, announced an augmentation of LSS funding, by $2.1 million annually.

In 1971, a 53-day strike among Yale employees was the longest in the school's history. Union leaders stated that they considered Yale's social commitment to New Haven to be a key issue in the job action. University workers in New Haven would strike again and again in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.Yale Alumni Magazine, March 2001.

The strike dragged on in isolated areas like Pueblo and Lackawanna, but the job action decimated the AA. AA president Michael F. Tighe demanded that the National Committee disband; his motion failed. Tighe withdrew from the National Committee. Absent the union with primary jurisdiction over the steel industry, the National Committee ceased operating.Brody, 1969, p. 258–62.

"NFLPA Threatens Impending 'Job Action'". The Palm Beach Post. June 24, 1982 Players demanded a 55% share of gross team profits. They felt that they were not getting a fair share of NFL income, based on the facts that NFL salaries were lower than in other sports, while the NFL had the highest TV revenue of all sports.

Rosenblum, Copper Crucible: How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America, 1998. The goal of a whipsaw strike may vary. In some cases, the strike is conducted only against an employer the union believes is considering quitting the employer association. In other cases, the job action is conducted against a strong employer who is committed to staying in the employer group.

The organization believed there was no bargaining agreement in place and that the MOU was terminable at will. Additionally, it also refused to agree that it would not engage in a strike or other job action prior to December 2016. In April 2017, the labor impasse between the Association and U.S Soccer was over. The two sides announced that they have ratified a new collective bargaining agreement that goes through 2021.

2003: May 15, Esquimalt Branch moves into a new building at the back of the Esquimalt Municipal Hall. 2007: October 11, Saanich Centennial Branch opens in the Pearkes Arena Complex, Saanich. 2008: February 17, CUPE 410 library workers are locked out indefinitely by the Greater Victoria Library Board following extended rotating job action and the breakdown of negotiations. In early April library workers return to work after successful negotiations.

"Plans War on Teamsters," Chicago Daily Tribune, June 17, 1904. The EA was heavily funded by the city's banks and by large companies such as Rand McNally. The Teamsters quickly became the target of the EA. The Teamsters were one of the largest unions in Chicago. But since the Teamsters controlled the city's transportation network, the union's support was also critical to the success of any other union's job action.

He has promoted the TTC Ridership Growth Strategy, a plan which aims to increase ridership and reduce overcrowding.Kevin McGran, "Getting back to a better way", Toronto Star, June 4, 2005, E04. Miller strongly criticized a one-day wildcat strike by TTC workers in late May 2006, describing the job action as "illegal, unlawful and absolutely unacceptable".James Cowan, "TTC strike strands thousands", National Post, May 30, 2006, A1.

The Homestead strike was organized and purposeful, a harbinger of the type of strike which marked the modern age of labor relations in the United States.Technically, the Homestead job action began as a lockout, not a strike. Foner, p. 208. The AA strike at the Homestead steel mill in 1892 was different from previous large-scale strikes in American history such as the Great railroad strike of 1877 or the Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886.

The strike had collapsed so much that the state militia pulled out on October 13, ending the 95-day occupation. The AA was nearly bankrupted by the job action. Weekly union relief for a member averaged $6.25 but totaled a staggering $10,000 per week when including 1,600 strikers. With only 192 out of more than 3,800 strikers in attendance, the Homestead chapter of the AA voted, 101 to 91, to return to work on November 20, 1892.

The strike occurred when the two unions, ATU Local 113 and Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 2, voted 65% to reject the offer made on April 20, 2008. The result of the ratification vote was completed just after 10:00 p.m. on April 25 and Torontonians and TTC employees were given approximately 90 minutes' notice before the job action began. The rejected offer had offered TTC operators a 3% wage increase each year for three years.

After winning, the BC Liberals made good on an election promise to make public education an essential service, limiting the level of job action that the BCTF could take during a collective bargaining dispute, which would also limit the labour rights of the BCTF. Without a contract at the beginning of the new school year, negotiations soured and an agreement was unlikely. To pressure the BCPSEA and the government to capitulate on wage and classroom size demands, on September 27, over 88% of 31,740 teachers voted to begin job action by withdrawing supervisory and administrative duties. Without successful contract negotiation, more severe action would begin on October 11.BCTF vote results, September 2005 With negotiations derailed and a strike imminent, the government introduced legislation on October 5 to extend the previous contract through the end of the school year—June 2006—at which time the across-the- board wage freeze would be revisited. After a filibuster by the official opposition BC NDP, Bill 12Government of BC - Bill12 passed on October 7.

They eventually picketed in front of the club when their demands were not met. Jay Leno and David Letterman were among those on the picket line while Garry Shandling and Yakov Smirnoff crossed the line. The job action was not legally a strike as the comedians were classified as "independent contractors" and were not under contract with the club. Mitzi Shore argued that the club was and had always been a showcase and training ground for young comedians and was not about profits.

For a 37-hour work week, a bench man was paid $144 and an oven man $6 more, with opportunities to more than double that in overtime when demand required. Local 338 went out on strike in February 1962, leading to an estimated 85% drop in the bagel supply. Ten bakeries, half in New Jersey, had signed contracts with the union, while 29 other bakeries were shut down in the job action, leaving New York City and adjoining Nassau County hardest hit by the closures.

The 1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike was a sympathy strike and lockout by the United Brotherhood of Teamsters in the summer of 1905 in the city of Chicago, Illinois. The strike was initiated by a small clothing workers' union. But it soon spread as nearly every union in the city, including the Teamsters, supported the job action with sympathy strikes. Initially, the strike was aimed at the Montgomery Ward department store, but it affected almost every employer in the metropolitan region after the Teamsters walked out.

During prosperous times, the spring labor offensives are highly ritualized affairs, with banners, sloganeering, and dances aimed more at being a show of force than a crippling job action. Meanwhile, serious discussions take place between the union officers and corporate managers to determine pay and benefit adjustments. During downturns, or when management tries to reduce the number of permanent employees, strikes often occur. The number of working days lost to labor disputes peaked in the economic turmoil of 1974 and 1975 at around 9 million workdays in the two-year period.

Later in the year, Miller became involved in a labour dispute between the Police Services Board and the Toronto Police Association. The board, led by councillor Pam McConnell, wanted to save revenue by clawing back existing rates of retention pay and eliminating lunch-hour pay for officers on inactive duty during compressed shifts.Melissa Leong, "Police to begin job action", National Post, October 12, 2005, A9/front. The police association argued that the proposals would cause an exodus of officers and result in lower pay for officers working compressed schedules.

The RISD Board of Trustees appointed her the college's 17th president on February 18, 2015. After being appointed president of the university in February 2015, Somerson appointed Pradeep Sharma to be Provost. Somerson's first speaking engagements as president came in the spring at the National Art Education Association Annual Convention and at South By Southwest EDU in 2015, where she discussed the impact of critical making. In April, 44 technicians at the college went on strike, but the three-day job action concluded with the ratification of their contract.

In 1954 CLAC applied for certifications in British Columbia (BC) and Ontario. The BC Labour Relations Board granted certification to a CLAC local, but the Ontario Labour Relations Board denied certification because of a technicality. However, the Board expressed its concern with the fact that CLAC was based on Christian principles and believed that it would discriminate against non-Christian workers. After CLAC was granted certification in BC, the AFL–CIO, a labour federation based in the US, threatened CLAC publicly and took job action against CLAC members.

In 2006, a similar case, in that it involved an assistant district attorney in a large city challenging a nationally known superior over a job action, came before the Court. In Garcetti v. Ceballos, a Los Angeles County prosecutor claimed the office of Gil Garcetti had retaliated against him with a series of adverse personnel moves after he questioned the veracity of a search warrant affidavit following a conversation with a defense attorney, to the point of testifying to them in a hearing. It was initially argued with O'Connor's seat vacant following her retirement, and the justices deadlocked.

Troops broke up mass meetings, clubbing workers with the butts of their rifles. The violence led switchmen on the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (known by the pronunciation of its acronym as the 'Nickel Plate') and the New York Central Railroad to strike in sympathy. The leaders of the switchmen's union called on other railroad unions to engage in a general strike in support of their job action. The president of the Switchmen's Mutual Association called the heads of the Order of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen to Buffalo for a meeting.

He informed them that many of the most critical issues had yet to be resolved through joint negotiations with management. Although Kinnear's comments never implied any form of job action, it was suggested that many members of the union took his messages as such. The wildcat strike which took place on the May 29, 2006, was not initiated by joint action of all the unionized workers in the TTC. Picket lines were assembled by a relatively small number of mechanical and janitorial workers (approximately 800) across many of the TTC's yards and garages; locations that housed buses, streetcars, and subway trains.

If an employer takes an adverse employment action against an employee for a discriminatory reason and later discovers a legitimate reason that it can prove would have led it to take the same action, the employer is still liable for the discrimination, but the relief that the employee can recover may be limited. McKennon v. Nashville Banner Publishing Co., 513 U.S. 352 (1995). In general, the employee is not entitled to reinstatement or front pay, and the back pay liability period is limited to the time between the occurrence of the discriminatory act and the date the misconduct justifying the job action is discovered.

Rieve declared the strike to be "illegal" and actively supported employer and government efforts to end the job action. When the new union contract was signed in mid-July, Rieve and the AFHW had successfully resisted employer demands to cut wages but were forced to agree to a contract clause barring strikes and lockouts for the term of the three-year agreement."Union Board Bars Hosiery Wage Cut," New York Times, January 10, 1938; "Hosiery Mills Idle in 'Illegal Strike'," New York Times, March 1, 1938; "Sign Hosiery Pact Outlawing Strikes," New York Times, July 16, 1938. Rieve rose to national prominence through his astute leadership of the AFHW.

On April 25, 2016, three divisions of the OSSTF remained without local contracts, these three are those of the Rainy River District School Board, Trillium Lakelands District School Board and Toronto District School Board. In the Trillium Lakelands District School Board and Toronto District School Board, members are involved in job action such as refusing to do some administrative work and refusing to write report card comments. On April 29, 2016, the OSSTF division of the Rainy River District School Board announced that they would begin rotating weekly one-day strikes. The first of the one-day rotating strikes occurred on May 3, 2016.

The job action was resolved four months later, after negotiations with provincial labour minister Charles Daley."Sure union to approve new contract", Toronto Star, 20 December 1958, 2; Murray Goldblatt, "`Squeezed all we can' out of INCO", Toronto Star, 22 December 1958, 1. For more coverage, see "Shutdown Looming as Inco Workers Authorize Strike", Toronto Star, 18 August 1958, A1; "Inco workers 5 to 1 Back Strike Action", Toronto Star, 13 September 1958, 3; Harold Hilliard, "Use Six Helicopters As Shuttle Service For 2,500 at INCO", Toronto Star, 25 September 1958, 2. Solski was defeated in his 1959 bid for re-election by Donald Gillis, amidst a local backlash against Local 598's left-leaning leadership.

When the teachers, who had been working for over a year without a contract, did provide strike notice in September 2005, the provincial government immediately extended, by legislation, the last contract to June 2006 and made a potential strike illegal. Regardless, Sims led the teachers in job action, culminating in a two-week strike. The Labour Relations Board determined the strike illegal and the BC Supreme Court found the BCTF in civil contempt of court, fined the BCTF $500,000 and ordered the BCTF not pay the teachers a strike pay. The strike ended when the membership voted to accept a $150-million mediated settlement which both the government and the BCTF executive had endorsed.

British Columbia Ferry Services Inc., operating as BC Ferries (BCF), is a former provincial Crown corporation, now operating as an independently managed, publicly owned Canadian company. BC Ferries provides all major passenger and vehicle ferry services for coastal and island communities in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Set up in 1960 to provide a similar service to that provided by the Black Ball Line and the Canadian Pacific Railway, which were affected by job action at the time, BC Ferries has become the largest passenger ferry line in North America and the second largest in the world, operating a fleet of 36 vessels with a total passenger and crew capacity of over 27,000, serving 47 locations on the B.C. coast.

News reports stated that the club had incurred a debt of over €18 million in payments due to its players. The team plummeted down the standings, and it was confirmed that the club would be playing in the second division in 2008–09, with several matches to go. The players protested at their lack of payments at one point, refusing to move for several seconds after the opening whistle against Deportivo and later announcing that they would issue a job action during the season-ending game at Real Madrid. The action was resolved when league officials announced that a benefit game would be played between Levante team members, and a team made up of players from the first division, with all benefits going to pay the wages due to the players.

Industrial action (Commonwealth English) or job action (North American English) is a temporary show of dissatisfaction by employees—especially a strike or slowdown or working to rule—to protest against bad working conditions or low pay and to increase bargaining power with the employer and intended to force the employer to improve them by reducing productivity in a workplace. Industrial action is usually organized by trade unions or other organised labour, most commonly when employees are forced out of work due to contract termination and without reaching an agreement with the employer. Quite often it is used and interpreted as a euphemism for strike or mass strike, but the scope is much wider. Industrial action may take place in the context of a labour dispute or may be meant to effect political or social change.

The Education Improvement Act was passed following months of contract negotiations between the government and the BC Teachers Federation and subsequent escalating job action by teacher which culminated in a 3-day strike in March. The legislation ordered the members back to work, enabled the government to appoint a mediator, and created a $165 million Learning Improvement Fund for school districts to hire additional special education assistants, increase teaching time, and fund professional development for teachers. The Auditor General for Local Government Act created a new auditor general office that would focus on municipalities and regional districts. The Offence Amendment Act, 2011 amended the Offence Act to provide the courts with numerous conditions (like not possessing weapons or intoxicating substances) for probation sentences and to allow police officers to arrest, without warrant, those found violating the terms of their probation. In May, 29 more bills were adopted.