The work stoppage affected Cargill operations in grains hub Rosario.
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The union announced plans for the work stoppage last week.
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Between 75 and 145 are part of the work stoppage.
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A Verizon work stoppage in 2011 lasted for two weeks.
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Specifically, language reportedly foreshadowing a possible work stoppage in 2021.
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Ray told them he could help organize a work stoppage.
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There has not been a work stoppage at Ford since 1976.
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More than halfway through the work stoppage, Weiss addressed employees again.
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Governor signs pay raise bill The work stoppage comes after Gov.
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GM (GM) isn't the only one affected by the work stoppage.
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Why don't you go lose half a season to a work stoppage?
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Many have had to cut back production due to the work stoppage.
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In response to union plans to stage a work stoppage on Dec.
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I don't know that this work stoppage would have happened without it.
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And Alexander said it could take a work stoppage before owners budge.
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That's because GM stockpiled inventory at dealerships ahead of the work stoppage.
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This week, J20 organizers are asking for a one-day work stoppage.
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More teachers declare a 'work stoppage' About 200 miles south of Seattle, members of the Camas Education Association have announced a work stoppage -- starting with their first day of school next Tuesday, Camas School District Superintendent Jeff Snell said.
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The work stoppage had shuttered schools across the state, as I reported yesterday.
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It would be the entertainment capital's first major work stoppage in a decade.
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It's the first work stoppage in the US auto industry in 12 years.
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UPS said it's trying to avoid disruptions in the event of a work stoppage.
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The Minnesota action will be the first major US work stoppage for the company.
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The result was the longest auto industry work stoppage in more than 20 years.
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But the one-day work stoppage created enough at a stir within the newsroom.
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More than 24,000 workers participated, on average, in each major work stoppage in 2018.
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Moreover, the opportunity cost of a work stoppage is higher when demand is robust.
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Upping the ante, the plan for July 15 is a six-hour work stoppage.
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The work stoppage led Charter to hire contractors to serve customers during the strike.
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A work stoppage to punish a player for expressing his opinion may seem extreme.
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"For us, this work stoppage is not about missing class," the students tell CNN.
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For many of the employees hired since 2007, this is their first work stoppage.
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Prisoners in Alabama claim guards have retaliated for a work stoppage by withholding food.
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UPS said it is trying to avoid disruptions in the event of a work stoppage.
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The work stoppage also slowed the unloading of beans at soyoil and meal manufacturing sites.
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In April, a brief work stoppage by Kuwaiti oil workers sharply cut the country's production.
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The next day, unions announced they would begin a statewide work stoppage on Feb. 22.
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Their success has inspired teachers in Arizona and Colorado to prepare their own work stoppage.
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It hasn't yet decided whether it will extend the work stoppage in China beyond Feb.
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The work stoppage has rippled throughout GM's North American operations, causing thousands of additional layoffs.
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The strike has now gone on longer than a two-week work stoppage in 2011.
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The Illinois High School Association forbids athletes from striking schools to compete during a work stoppage.
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"And so when we think about a work stoppage, think about what that does for them."
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The work stoppage ended when the union agreed to extend the previous contract for 18 months.
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While the legal action prompted a temporary work stoppage, it ultimately fell short of its goal.
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Teachers' strikes One strike ends in one city as a new work stoppage begins in another.
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Teachers in Denver have decided to strike, but it's unclear when a work stoppage would start.
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Nearly 100 workers at the facility, known as JFK193, plan to participate in the work stoppage.
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Nearly 100 workers at the facility, known as JFK8, plan to participate in the work stoppage.
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Now, they've got another work stoppage underway because they're ticked off about a new education bill.
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A work stoppage by the pilots could seriously affect the airline's operations both domestically and internationally.
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Should the work stoppage drag on, GM can easily absorb a few idle weeks of production.
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A California strike would be the second major work stoppage in the grocery industry this year.
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Uber did not register a huge spike of demand during the temporary work stoppage for yellow taxis.
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The work stoppage at Verizon stretched across several U.S. East Coast states, including New York and Massachusetts.
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Boeing and Airbus have declined to comment on the potential for a work stoppage at the factory.
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I want to think about P.K. Subban and Nashville contending until the next work stoppage in 2019.
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Manfred certainly doesn't want a work stoppage resulting from an impasse in his first CBA as commissioner.
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The players' approval heads off any possibility of a potential lockout and work stoppage for next season.
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The two-day work stoppage was estimated to have cost GM more than $300 million per day.
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Officials warned that the work stoppage could even delay flights in and out of Ben Gurion Airport.
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By one estimate, the work stoppage could cost the company as much as $100 million every day.
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It is the UAW's first national strike against GM since a two-day work stoppage in 2007.
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It was the first such work stoppage to hit the Los Angeles Unified School District in three decades.
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The workers, who have been without a contract since August, began the work stoppage at 6:00 a.m.
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The strike is the UAW's longest national work stoppage against GM since a 67-day strike in 1970.
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The work stoppage at Verizon stretched across several U.S. East Coast states, including New York, Massachusetts and Virginia.
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" Mayor Jim Kenney urged "both Septa and the Transport Workers Union to maintain communication despite the work stoppage.
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It is the union's first national strike against the automaker since a two-day work stoppage in 2007.
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Minor League baseball players affected by the cornoavirus pandemic work stoppage are about to get some financial assistance.
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Estimates are that hundreds of thousands of non-GM workers are off the job because of the work stoppage.
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The current deal expires after the season, and baseball has not had a work stoppage in over 20 years.
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On Tuesday, Thrillist employees had returned to work, but kept the possibility of another work stoppage on the table.
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It was a one-day work stoppage that led union members to vote to authorize a strike if needed.
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Baseball's last work stoppage was the strike that canceled the 1994 World Series and bled into the next season.
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There was a work stoppage at an FCA plant in Canada, a coronavirus case at another factory in Indiana.
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In 1990, an 11-day work stoppage over similar issues led to better wages, but the increase was temporary.
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The owners have an incentive to avoid a lockout like the four month off-season work stoppage in 2011.
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The work stoppage has caused a ripple-effect throughout the automaker's North American operations, causing thousands of additional layoffs.
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The work stoppage has caused a ripple effect throughout the automaker's North American operations, causing thousands of additional layoffs.
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Though Trump opposed that government shutdown, he has previously said the United States could use a government work stoppage.
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Even here at Vox Media, in early June, more than 300 employees participated in a one-day work stoppage.
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The two-day work stoppage was estimated to have cost the Detroit automaker more than $1583 million a day.
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Their 48-hour work stoppage affected hundreds of thousands of passengers, leading to delayed trips and flat-out cancellations.
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The two-day work stoppage was estimated to have cost the Detroit automaker more than $300 million a day.
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But the N.H.L. and N.H.L.P.A. plan to meet again soon with the goal of avoiding a potential work stoppage.
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Earlier in the day, the Chamber of Port and Maritime Activities said the work stoppage had not affected grain exports.
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The company says a seven-week work stoppage (that is, a strike) negatively impacted earnings by seven cents per share.
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The strike is now in its second month, much longer than a two-week Verizon work stoppage lasted in 2011.
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Both sides hope that starting negotiations early may help to avoid a work stoppage after the end of next season.
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This is the largest commitment by the four major American sports leagues to support stadium workers amidst the work stoppage.
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The last work stoppage was the strike that wiped out the 22013 World Series and bled into the next season.
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" Becky Barth, third-grade math teacher "In 1990 (during the last teachers' work stoppage), not all 55 counties were involved.
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If the two sides don't come to an agreement, it could lead to a work stoppage for the 2021 season.
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Though it's tough for you to relax your ambitions, Saturn doesn't ask for a full work stoppage; just a refocus.
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During the last negotiation, in 2011, the owners locked out the players, and the work stoppage lasted about four months.
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The Los Angeles work stoppage differs in that educators face a predominantly Democratic political establishment more sympathetic to their cause.
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The NBA has not had a work stoppage since the 20113-2011 lockout which shortened the regular season to 66 games.
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In response to the ban, the NY Taxi Workers Alliance called for an hour work stoppage at the airport in protest.
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The NBA's last work stoppage lasted just 21985 games, and it looks like next year's new CBA is already almost done.
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The work stoppage comes two days before Uber's long-awaited public debut Friday on the stock market, and that's no coincidence.
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As in West Virginia, Oklahoma teachers technically do not have the right to strike; their walkout will be a work stoppage.
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In 2011, a work stoppage over a contract dispute lasted for two weeks, and ended without a contract being agreed upon.
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They also guarantee that a player gets most of his money even if the season in interrupted by a work stoppage.
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About one-third of the money raised has already been approved and allocated to cover costs associated with the work stoppage.
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On May 1, the guild sent an email to members urging them to help create an afternoon work stoppage at Lyft.
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The workers agreed they would not work overtime hours, which they said could derail the effects of the U.S. work stoppage.
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In their statement, the players seemed to signal that they had no intention of beginning a work stoppage in January, either.
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But the Los Angeles work stoppage differs in that educators face a predominantly Democratic political establishment more sympathetic to their cause.
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GM, meanwhile, reportedly lost over $2000 billion in profits due to the work stoppage, but the losses may be a lot less.
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In Minnesota, workers at an Amazon warehouse are planning a six-hour work stoppage to demand safer conditions and more secure employment.
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Uber's notification regarding surge pricing went out at 7:36 Eastern Time, after the end of the taxi drivers' announced work stoppage.
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Mary Fallin declared it a "historic evening for the state of Oklahoma," and intimated that a work stoppage might have been averted.
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And even MLB, once thought to be the king of the sports work stoppage, hasn't had one for 22 years and counting.
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Mr. Mattiace said he did not think the work stoppage would have much of an effect on the condition of the roads.
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The union will bring to court the issue of how many workers will remain at Escondida during the work stoppage, Tapia added.
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But for many fans, fairly or not, he and the former commissioner Bud Selig were the faces of a devastating work stoppage.
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In 1972, the Red Sox finished a half-game behind the A.L. East champion Detroit Tigers because of a brief work stoppage.
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The eight-day-long work stoppage at Canada's largest railroad sent shocks through the country's economy with grain and propane shipments scuttled.
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A shutdown would come only months after a partial government work stoppage in December and January that lasted a record 35 days.
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The union has not issued a strike deadline but left open the possibility of a work stoppage any time after midnight, Kane said.
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And they're doing more than just typing: The gig-economy workers are staging a three-day work stoppage to drive home their concerns.
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Editors and admins have proposed various protest actions, including a work stoppage, freezing the main site page, and forking all of English Wikipedia.
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There are roughly 3 million Uber drivers across the globe — a workforce too vast and diffuse to organize for an effective work stoppage.
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This strike is the longest auto industry work stoppage in more than 20 years, and the longest nationwide auto strike in 50 years.
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"Due to the current work stoppage in the port, no new trucks will be allowed to queue on port roadways," the alert said.
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He said that in the last four contract cycles, there had been a work stoppage 50 percent of the time, the newspaper reported.
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"It is unlikely the work stoppage will materially impact the fundamental value of the mine," analysts at Canaccord Genuity wrote in a note.
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AT&T spokesperson Marty Richter expressed frustration with the union's action, but insisted that the company is prepared to handle the work stoppage.
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The freight division at UPS is significantly smaller than the company's domestic small parcel delivery operation, limiting the impact of a work stoppage.
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But it will take more than an internal, neighborly effort to realize what the work stoppage is all about: long-term, systematic change.
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Rank-and-file teachers pushed their union to support their demand that the state act before April 2 or face a work stoppage.
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But if the company had left the surge on, the same protesters would have probably accused it of profiteering off the work stoppage.
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Many people in West Virginia said that the high health insurance costs they face are the main sticking point in the work stoppage.
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The national team enters 2017 without a collective bargaining agreement, meaning that either side can declare a work stoppage with 60 days notice.
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Guards at Holman also joined the work stoppage last month after a corrections officer was stabbed during an altercation in the facility's dining hall.
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Drivers in several cities in the UK, including London, Birmingham, Nottingham, and Glasgow, are also participating in the work stoppage, according to The Independent.
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Some of the strikes, such as a six-day work stoppage in Los Angeles last winter, have involved similar demands for more school resources.
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Nick Cousyn, chief operating officer of Ulaanbaatar-based brokerage BDSec, said the clause "could have easily resulted in another work stoppage for underground construction".
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They were among 250 inmates rounded up, along with other work stoppage organizers, during the raids where zip ties were used to control inmates.
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In 2018, 485,000 workers participated in what the Bureau of Labor Statistics classifies as a "major work stoppage," up from just 25,000 in 73.
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In 2018, 33,000 workers participated in what the Bureau of Labor Statistics classifies as a "major work stoppage," up from just 25,000 in 2017.
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While we respect our associates' rights to participate in this work stoppage, we also will welcome any associate who chooses to continue to work.
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DHL said operations have resumed at the DHL Americas Hub after its airline partner ended its work stoppage and pilots have returned to work.
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"We're able to take the dues and put them away into an investable war chest for a work stoppage for that reason," explained Winston.
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It's hard to know how widespread the strike will actually be — for many drivers these are crucial hours and a work stoppage isn't feasible.
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The crews of express, suburban, regional and intercity trains are all on strike, and they voted Friday to carry on with the work stoppage.
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Earlier this month, more than 300 employees at Vox Media participated in a one-day work stoppage during the final stages of contract negotiations.
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But baseball has now gone 22 years without a work stoppage, and, after great upheaval and acrimony, it has instituted a stringent drug policy.
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It's kinda hard to tell the difference between an intentional work stoppage and a normal "business day" in a country with a broken economy.
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Although many shopkeepers opened their doors today out of self-preservation, the ones I talked to said they quietly support the national work-stoppage.
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A group of delivery drivers in Ohio have been discussing a potential work stoppage over the risk of coronavirus infection, according to one worker.
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The work stoppage has carried on for eight days because legislators have not yet met teachers' demands for a 5% raise and better benefits.
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DETROIT – The fallout from the United Auto Workers' strike against General Motors continues to grow as the work stoppage carries into its third week.
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If they don't make progress, then they can vote to authorize a strike but must then wait 30 days before beginning the work stoppage.
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Many people in West Virginia tell CNN that the high health insurance costs they face are the main sticking point in the work stoppage.
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Though you won't hear much about it in the various reports and conferences, maybe the future of work is a lot more work stoppage.
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In a gesture of solidarity, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance called for an hour-long work stoppage of cabs headed to the airport.
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Phillips quickly established a willingness to dig in on seemingly every labor issue—and if doing so meant a work stoppage, so be it.
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Protests sprang up all over, and New York City taxi drivers went on a one-hour work stoppage at JFK Airport to protest the ban.
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This will be the fourth such work stoppage in four years, and follows on Instacart's much-derided (and later backtracked) changes to its tipping structure.
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The work stoppage has ground GM's vehicle production to a halt and forced nearly 50,000 hourly workers to live on strike benefits $250 a week.
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"I was disappointed by the CTU's decision to begin a work stoppage and force the cancellation of classes," Lightfoot said at a late afternoon briefing.
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Such a work stoppage could have tremendous implications — some 71% of freight is moved by long-haul trucks, including groceries, manufactured goods, and even money.
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The protests took place as a work-stoppage continued in schools and some hospitals, after unions representing teachers and doctors launched strikes late last week.
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"The work stoppage in the US negatively affected North American business results in the third quarter and expected results for the year," the company said.
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It was the unions that started the long walkout by conducting a vote and calling for the statewide work stoppage, which began on Feb. 22.
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The work stoppage forced officials to cancel classes, but school buildings stayed open for children in need of a place to go during the strike.
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As early as Tuesday, television and movie writers could go on strike, creating the first major work stoppage in the entertainment industry in a decade.
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The eight-day teacher work stoppage has closed every single public school in the state and left more than 277,000 students with unexpected free time.
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Union officials told the website that they are beginning to work on work stoppage plans for use in the event of a strike next month.
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The Alabama prisoners have also been coordinating with inmates in Mississippi and Virginia to call for a nationwide prisoner work stoppage on September 2125, 22014.
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In its earnings release, that prediction rang true, with Verizon reporting that quarterly earnings were negatively impacted by about 7 cents due to the work stoppage.
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Tens of thousands of teachers, educators, and supporters descended on the Capitol building in Oklahoma this morning as part of a long-planned school work stoppage.
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The NHL's CBA can expire as soon as 2020, and we're all used to it being the owners who inevitably push for the next work stoppage.
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Construction in the heap leach valley that is needed for full operations to resume at the mine was not affected by the work stoppage, Barrick said.
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But they're not going to trigger a work stoppage, because the 2020 lockout has been inevitable since the day the new CBA was signed in 2013.
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Vancouver Public Schools said the Vancouver Education Association informed the system that it will conduct a work stoppage on Wednesday, so there will be no classes.
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In North America, FCA has already experienced a work stoppage at its factory in Windsor, Ontario and a positive coronavirus case at a facility in Indiana.
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It was the largest American strike since the last, very brief work stoppage at G.M., in 21773, and the longest industry action in over two decades.
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The work stoppage canceled classes for 361,000 students, but school buildings stayed open for children who need a place to go during the strike, officials said.
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Six years ago, he started beekeeping as a hobby but has found himself trying to sell as much honey as he can during the work stoppage.
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"Due to a work stoppage affecting our airline partners, inbound deliveries to portions of the Americas will be delayed today," the company said in a statement.
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Apart from costing GM more than $1 billion, the work stoppage has forced it to idle operations along with nearly 10,000 workers in Canada and Mexico.
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The work stoppage, which impacts plants in six states, is unaffiliated with the GM or Aramark strikes but is expected to add to the union's costs.
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Nurses are planning a work stoppage this week for the first time in 30 years after rejecting an NZ$520 million offer that included pay increases.
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Under the Railway Labor Act, as well as the terms of the current collective bargaining agreement, this issue would not constitute grounds for a legal work stoppage.
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Triumph spokeswoman Lynne Warne said in response to Reuters questions that the company would continue to operate during any work stoppage and "meet its obligations" to customers.
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Josh Eidelson and Spencer Soper report: Workers at a Shakopee, Minnesota, fulfillment center plan a six-hour work stoppage July 15, the first day of Prime Day.
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With nearly 210,2000 GM employees on strike, this is the largest work stoppage at any US business since the last time autoworkers struck GM (GM) in 2250.
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The work stoppage came at a critical time for the likes of Amazon and Deutsche Post AG unit DHL, in the run up to the U.S. holidays.
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"The state did not want a work stoppage, nor does the state believe the strike is necessary to reach an agreement," Commissioner of Administration Kelly Tshibaka said.
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Commentary The U.S. prison strike that began on August 21 and is scheduled to last until September 9 may be the biggest prison work stoppage in history.
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"Every work stoppage we've had in the past 15 to 20 years has been a lockout," Gabe Feldman, professor of the Tulane University Sports Law program, summarized.
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Discussions between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association regarding issues surrounding the coronavirus-induced work stoppage produced an agreement, ESPN's Jeff Passan reported Thursday night.
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The main separatist movements said that they planned to demonstrate today and called for a work stoppage at noon to protest the detention of the two leaders.
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A strike by the United Auto Workers was one of the dominant stories for GM last year, and the work stoppage partially occurred in the fourth quarter.
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The same day, 25,000 public-school educators with the Chicago Teachers Union began their own large-scale work stoppage, aspiring to repeat their successful strike in 2012.
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Cleveland's Kyrie Irving won rookie of the year in 2011-12 after playing 51 of the Cavaliers' 66 games in another season shortened by a work stoppage.
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Avary King, a sophomore at Fairmont Senior High School, says that some members of her community are upset that the work stoppage could impact school sporting events.
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Earlier on Friday, Mujica had said Cerro Verde workers were evaluating whether to strike after the union said the company had threatened punishment for a previous work stoppage.
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The vote ends a painful work stoppage that has lasted six weeks, costing GM nearly $2 billion in lost production and employees nearly $1 billion in lost wages.
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This is especially good news for fans of late night shows like Saturday Night Live, which would've been the first to have been affected by a work stoppage.
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Meanwhile, the NHL has had three major lockouts that all wiped out huge chunks of the schedule, including the only work stoppage to ever cancel an entire season.
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But their leaders declined to confirm that a nationwide work stoppage was being planned, prompting shouts of "traitors" and "set a date for the strike" from some members.
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Public employees have no collective bargaining rights in West Virginia, a so-called right-to-work state, so teachers have accepted serious risk by launching the work stoppage.
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The United Auto Workers work stoppage took 42,000 auto workers out of the job market and hindered some GM suppliers, according to BLS, temporarily shrinking the labor pool.
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The United Auto Workers work stoppage took 21625,2900 auto workers out of the job market and hindered some GM suppliers, according to BLS, temporarily shrinking the labor pool.
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The agreements reached on Sunday and Monday between Verizon and two major unions will most likely bring to an end the work stoppage, which began on April 13.
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The two-hour work stoppage from 0600 GMT to 0800 GMT was intended to influence ongoing negotiations between trade unions and the airline on pay and working conditions.
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FCA has already dealt with a work stoppage at a factory in Canada and a single coronavirus case at a transmission plant in Indiana that wasn't shut down.
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From suppliers to shippers to restaurants, the impact of the work stoppage is spreading through the web of businesses whose fates are tied to the biggest American automaker.
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It caused hospitals in Britain to turn away patients, a massive work stoppage at a Spanish telecom and the infection of 1,85033 computers at the Russian Interior Ministry.
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General Motors will meet with striking members of the United Automobile Workers as the union's first work stoppage since 85033 nears the three-week mark, according to Reuters.
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In June, graduate students went on strike for three days, carrying picket signs that left little doubt that the work stoppage was occurring on an elite college campus.
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Across the N.H.L., goals have decreased year over year since 2013-14, the first full N.H.L. season since a work stoppage resulted in a shortened 2012-13 campaign.
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Wayfair has more than 12,000 employees, which means a walkout would possibly count as a major work stoppage (more than 1,000 workers), per the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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The current collective bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball and the players' union runs through the 211 season, so Severino is protecting himself against a potential work stoppage.
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BHP will not replace striking workers for at least the first 30 days of the work stoppage to show that it is committed to negotiations, according to the company.
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With the N.H.L. season lost that year to a work stoppage, Slaney anchored a Philadelphia Phantoms team featuring the future N.H.L. stars Patrick Sharp, Jeff Carter and Mike Richards.
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But only about a third of the district's 492,000 affected students turned up on the first day of the work stoppage, many parents choosing to keep their children home.
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For workers frustrated by stagnant pay, a work stoppage may be the only way to determine if an employer is constrained by competitive markets or abusing its market power.
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But unless there's a government shutdown, work stoppage or strike, society doesn't have to face the unpleasant reality that the civil servants who help us sometimes cannot help themselves.
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London's sprawling Heathrow Airport was most affected by the work stoppage as it is the airline's hub and is used for many of the company's long-haul international flights.
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The ATA wrote that reports of a trucker work stoppage would stir up consumer panic, not unlike when hurricanes or other natural disasters lead to folks emptying grocery stores.
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The work stoppage came as a surprise because "there were no major issues that we knew of to precipitate this," according to a Port Authority official who requested anonymity.
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Coal and Minerals Director General Bambang Gatot declined to comment on the work stoppage and planned demonstration, but said the company had not applied for an export permit yet.
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The work stoppage has raised fears that some voters in and around Philadelphia, which is heavily Democratic, might face difficulties getting to the polls for Tuesday's U.S. presidential election.
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Uber's counterpoint: The company denies trying to break the strike and noted to BuzzFeed News that its tweet was sent out after the appointed hour for the work stoppage.
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That led to accusations that it was trying to undercut prices of taxi drivers who had just been involved in a work stoppage to protest the president's travel ban.
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The work stoppage forced officials to cancel classes for more than 300,000 students, but school buildings stayed open for children who need a place to go during the strike.
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Cabdrivers joined in, with their union, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, calling for an hourlong work stoppage for drivers serving the airport during the height of the protest.
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That week marks the time Oklahoma's public school system begins standardized testing, a statewide effort that would be thrown into chaos by a work stoppage at even some schools.
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A strike by about 22018,000 General Motors workers could further dent motor vehicle production, but much would depend on the duration of the work stoppage, which started on Monday.
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Though not among the initial signees, one veteran Google engineer—Liz Fong-Jones—successfully raised $100,000 toward a "strike fund" in the event of another major work-stoppage at Google.
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Why it matters: Negotiations had been ongoing at Ford even during the GM strike, so when that work stoppage ended, the deal at Ford came swiftly without any labor disruption.
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It would be the first work stoppage at a US facility during a peak shopping time, the most ambitious in an escalating series of actions at the Shakopee fulfillment center.
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Uber was also criticised for continuing to operate and disabling surge prices during a taxi work stoppage in New York that was called to protest against Trump's Muslim travel ban.
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Nearly the entire editorial staff at the food and travel website site Thrillist voted to authorize a strike on Monday, the first known work stoppage at a digital media startup.
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The work stoppage forced officials to cancel classes for more than 300,000 students, but school buildings stayed open for children in need of a place to go during the strike.
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It is the union's first national strike against the automaker since a two-day work stoppage in 2007 and the longest national strike since the 1970s, now at 11 days.
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Charleston, West Virginia (CNN)Schools in West Virginia are closed for a fourth day Tuesday as nearly 20,000 teachers and about 13,000 school service personnel participate in a work stoppage.
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But if workers walk out because they believe their employer (like, say, Amazon) isn't doing enough to make the company sustainable, then that would likely be a protected work stoppage.
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New York (CNN Business)The United Auto Workers union went out on strike against General Motors Sunday night, the first work stoppage in the US auto industry in 12 years.
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West Virginia Superintendent of Schools Dr. Steven Paine said local superintendents met on Sunday to discuss the work stoppage and the possibility of legal action, which could involve an injunction.
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In the final countdown to Christmas, the work stoppage was jeopardizing traditional family gatherings and meals of roasted capon for travelers in the Gare de Lyon and elsewhere across France.
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Customers became angered after the ride-hailing service did not shutdown service at New York's Kennedy International on Saturday, in solidarity with a work-stoppage called by a cab-driver group.
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The Chicago Teachers Union called the work stoppage after contract negotiations failed to produce a deal on pay, overcrowding and a lack of support staff such as nurses and social workers.
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He then made 17 All-Star appearances in a row after the 1999 game was indeed canceled by a work stoppage that shortened the 83-99 season to just 50 games.
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It was agreed to after a 2015 strike affecting 7,000 workers at 12 refineries and three chemical plants that lasted nearly six weeks, the industry's largest work stoppage in 35 years.
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"We have a proud history at Ford with the UAW of working things out in a way we don't have to have a work stoppage," he told media after the event.
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" As mentioned, the letter arrives on the heels of a work stoppage at a fulfillment center outside Minneapolis, which the lawmakers describe as a protest of "their employer's unfair, unsafe practices.
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Brazil's largest oil workers federation said in an emailed statement that Friday's work stoppage would continue for an indefinite period, and that all 10 refineries where it represents workers were affected.
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Per Fernández Campbell: The planned strike is a bold move for US warehouse workers, who — unlike their colleagues in Europe — have never organized a work stoppage during a major shopping event.
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Some New Jerseyans were pleased that gas prices remained low over the Fourth of July weekend, but they could soon learn that their communities will be affected by the work stoppage.
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Union members have arguably been feeling the pain in their pockets more than the company, which is estimated to have lost about $2 billion as a result of the work stoppage.
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But the league and the union were pre-emptive in hashing out revised terms on issues like roster size and player salaries, averting the threat of another work stoppage next season.
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Jim Justice (R) announced late Tuesday a proposed 5 percent raise for all of the state's educators as part of a deal to end a four-day work stoppage among teachers.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) said on Monday that its members voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, setting the stage for a potential work stoppage as soon as mid-October.
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Multiple trade unions and around 350 small businesses have called for a work stoppage Wednesday to protest the law, though most on the streets appeared to be high school or university age.
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In an untitled painting from 1940, a group of men with shovels and pickaxes have paused their work and assembled themselves in a circle as if in discussion of a work stoppage.
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As of Monday morning, 36 people were confirmed dead, with about a quarter of the building yet to be searched as unstable conditions prompted a work stoppage late Sunday, USA Today reported.
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The Corps also filed court documents Monday arguing that a work stoppage isn't warranted, saying the tribes will have plenty of time to make their case before oil flows through the pipeline.
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To better understand how right-to-work laws can harm public employees, take a look at West Virginia, where teachers and public workers are on day three of an illegal work stoppage.
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If the deal is ratified, it will remove the threat of a work stoppage as the company prepares for its first season with the conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin as its music director.
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That movement kicked into full gear after the West Virginia teacher strike in late February and early March, when tens of thousands of teachers in Oklahoma began planning for a work stoppage.
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The strike came 28 years to the day after the first national work stoppage by Swiss women allowed them to vent their anger at the slow pace of change in the country.
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Workers who package and ship items for Amazon in Shakopee, Minnesota, are planning a six-hour work stoppage during two shifts on July 15, the first day of Prime Day, Bloomberg reports.
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Although the work stoppage begins at midnight, some UAW members are already on strike: Aramark janitorial workers, who are represented by UAW, are already striking at GM facilities in Michigan and Ohio.
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"Because we do not have a guarantee against a work stoppage, we cannot afford to put our customers' volume at risk of being stranded in our system," UPS said in a statement.
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Before the strike last week, the state legislature tried to avert the work stoppage by passing a $2000 million tax increase that effectively gives teachers an average annual pay bump of $22,2000.
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In Oklahoma, some rank-and-file educators expressed displeasure on social media that the union was calling off the walkout, and were discussing whether teachers could continue the work stoppage on their own.
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The union, which represents nearly 27,000 teachers and educational support workers, said its House of Delegates voted in favor of the work stoppage, which would be the city's third teachers' strike since 2012.
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But what makes the Thrillist vote remarkable is that it represents the first work stoppage in a relatively new industry, with a large millennial workforce and no history of unionizing to draw from.
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But here's the thing: A big part of the reason why hockey is the only sport that suffers through an extended work stoppage every single time is that its fans aren't outraged enough.
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According to a report from the Milken Institute, the 22 work stoppage cost California 37,700 jobs and $2.1 billion in lost output from the fourth quarter of 2007 through the end of 2008.
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The NY Taxi Workers Alliance called for an hour-long work stoppage to protest the ban and during this time, Uber sent out a tweet stating that the company would pause surge pricing.
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BRUSSELS, May 31 (Reuters) - Belgian public sector workers halted public transport in a work stoppage over budget cuts on Tuesday, increasing pressure on a government already battling with prison guard and rail strikes.
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"All school personnel, even those not in a union, had to vote to approve the work stoppage," said Audra Slocum, an education professor at West Virginia University who's been involved with the protests.
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Other protests have been planned across Europe and the United States, including at an Amazon warehouse in Shakopee in Minneapolis, where workers have scheduled a work stoppage and are demanding improved work conditions.
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The eight-day-long work stoppage, which saw about 3,200 conductors and yard workers demanding improved working conditions and rest breaks, ended on Tuesday as the company reached a tentative agreement with workers.
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SANTIAGO, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Striking workers at Yamana Gold Inc's El Peñón mine in Chile have reached a wage agreement with the Canadian miner, a union leader said on Tuesday, ending the work stoppage.
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Just a couple hours after the NY Taxi Workers Alliance called for a one-hour work stoppage at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Uber shut down surge pricing but continued to service the airport.
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First some of them deleted their accounts when the ride-hailing company did not honor a one-hour work stoppage called by New York cabbies at John F. Kennedy International Airport to protest Pres.
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He was one of the first inmates to report to outside organizers that a work stoppage had begun on September 9, said Azzurra Crispino, spokeswoman for Incarcerated Workers' Organizing Committee, a prisoner rights group.
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The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) called the work stoppage after contract negotiations failed to produce a deal on pay, overcrowding in schools and a lack of support staff such as nurses and social workers.
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The teachers union called the work stoppage last week after contract negotiations failed to produce a deal on pay, overcrowding in schools and a lack of support staff such as nurses and social workers.
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"Because we do not have a guarantee against a work stoppage, we cannot afford to put our customers' volume at risk of being stranded in our system," UPS said in a statement on Thursday.
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They met in public spaces and communicated diligently with their neighbors, and on Wednesday night, the teachers of all 55 counties made the decision, collectively, to extend the work stoppage on their own terms.
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The walkout in Chicago followed a wave of teacher strikes across the country over wages and education funding during the past two years, including a week-long work stoppage in Los Angeles in January.
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Industry analysts expect the increased financial burden on the striking workers, some of whom have been saving months in anticipation for a potential work stoppage, could be a "double-edged sword" for the negotiations.
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As protesters at Kennedy International Airport in New York multiplied on Saturday night, cabdrivers — largely immigrants — began a one-hour work stoppage at the airport as a form of protest against the executive order.
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The 340-day work stoppage came to an end on Saturday with a "tentative" agreement between the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and 11 video game companies.
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Employees and investors were shaken early this year when a grass-roots campaign to delete the app sprung up, following concerns that Uber was trying to capitalize on a New York taxi work stoppage.
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The Chicago Board of Education approved a contingency plan earlier on Wednesday that would spend up to $15 million to provide non-educational services to students in the event of a work stoppage by teachers.
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A jaunt through the US Bureau of Labor Statistics' work stoppage archive tells us this strike is the largest in the United States since 45,000 workers (also Verizon employees) walked off the job in 2011.
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In response to union plans to stage a work stoppage, AGL earlier on Thursday countered with plans lock out all 578 employees at both sites in Victoria to protect the safety of employees and equipment.
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Wall Street analysts estimated the national work stoppage — the longest against GM since 163 — cost the automaker more than $2 billion in lost production with the higher end of estimates at $100 million per day.
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The UAW said a work stoppage at the Ford supplier could, within a day, have stopped production at the Ford plant in nearby Avon Lake, Ohio that makes F-650 and F-750 pickup trucks.
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Late Monday, the main separatist movements said that they planned protests on Tuesday in Barcelona and other Catalan cities and called for a work stoppage at noon to protest the detention of the two leaders.
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JOHANNESBURG, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Heineken South Africa said on Tuesday workers contracted to a company that provides it with logistics services were on strike at its Sedibeng Brewery but the work stoppage had caused minimal disruptions.
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Still, if writing carefully composed college admissions letters is part of the job, not doing so is an undeclared work stoppage that penalizes students, who are not to blame for the failures of the school board.
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"I want to thank the leadership of the (Teamsters), IBEW, and Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service for their hard work, collaboration and openness to getting this situation resolved without a work stoppage," said CEO Keith Creel.
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Please be sure to remember, when it's 2020 and Gary Bettman is solemnly announcing another work stoppage while explaining that the current CBA just doesn't work anymore, that the league tried to extend it this season.
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Now, ILWU members are continuing to put pressure on their employer to ensure the health of dock workers across the coast, going so far as threatening a work stoppage if cleanliness and sanitation standards aren't met.
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Some interpreted the alert, which was issued over the company's Twitter account, as an attempt to attract business after the New York Taxi Workers Alliance announced a one-hour work stoppage to protest Mr. Trump's order.
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Uber found itself at the center of a storm created by the travel ban imposed by President Donald Trump's executive order, as angry customers accused the company of attempting to profit from a taxi driver work stoppage.
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Some of the union's 2850,215 members with GM are expected to return to work as early as Saturday, showing the automaker is wasting no time in recouping lost production from the work stoppage, which started Sept. 16.
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Kinross revised its capital expenditure forecast down to a range of $650 million to $675 million from $755 million mainly due to lower-than-expected spending on Tasiast's expansion due to delays caused by the work stoppage.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Coal mine workers from seven Glencore collieries in Australia returned to work on Thursday after a four-day work stoppage, with many voting to keep up pressure on the company over wages and job security.
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Conversely, how many of your rookie scale players want to drag out a work stoppage in which every missed game check represents a significant chunk of all the money they'll ever be able to earn playing football?
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Boeing executives believe the most likely possibility is that the government effectively mandates a work stoppage, either by shutting down all nonessential businesses or instituting strict travel restrictions, such as border closures or shelter-in-place orders.
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CN's Ruest said it had not lost business permanently because of the work stoppage, the biggest Canadian rail strike in a decade, but some business had to find its way to customers through other modes of transport.
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The first companies in G.M.'s supply chain to feel the effects of the work stoppage will probably be "just in time" suppliers making components like seats and overhead systems that are shipped directly to the plants.
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Air traffic controllers at Brussels' two public international airports — in Zaventem and Charleroi — began the work stoppage on Tuesday night, leading to the cancellation of more than 400 flights and a virtual shutdown of the country's airspace.
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Labour relations in the NHL have been acrimonious in recent decades: the league cancelled its entire 2004-05 season because of a lockout by the owners, and lost 42% of its 2012-13 campaign to another work stoppage.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's main public sector union has backed down from plans for a national strike, citing the volatile situation after security forces cracked down on protesters this month, but teachers will go ahead with a work stoppage.
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The National Labor Relations Board has urged a federal appeals court to uphold the agency's decision that said Wal-Mart Stores Inc unlawfully threatened and disciplined workers who participated in a brief work stoppage at a California store.
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With no collective bargaining rights, no contract, and no legal right to strike, the teachers had managed to mount a statewide work stoppage anyway, and make their demands heard, marshal public support, and stick together until they won.
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Imagine a weeklong work stoppage of the eight million or so undocumented workers in America: The country would grind to a halt without migrants to pick the fruit, make the beds, mow the lawns and shower the elderly.
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Owners were found guilty of collusion three times in the 1980s, a strategy that effectively robbed players of nearly $300 million and helped create a labor environment so poisonous that a work stoppage canceled the 1994 World Series.
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"I understand when somebody says, 'I don't think this represents me, I'm not doing a work stoppage, I'm not being disrespectful, I'm kneeling...my back is not to the flag, I'm kneeling, begging to be recognized,'" she said.
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Why it matters: With 56.3% of Ford's hourly workers voting in favor of the deal, Ford will avoid a strike like the six-week work stoppage that cost General Motors nearly $3 billion earlier this fall, per Reuters.
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SYDNEY, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Coal mine workers from seven Glencore collieries in Australia returned to work on Thursday after a four-day work stoppage, with many voting to keep up pressure on the company over wages and job security.
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New York (CNN Business)On Day 18 of the United Auto Workers union strike at General Motors, signs are emerging that the two sides are making progress on a deal to end the industry's longest work stoppage in decades.
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The statement by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers came after the country's government-owned mail carrier said on Sunday it has abandoned its plan for a "lockout," a temporary work stoppage initiated by the employer instead of workers.
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DETROIT — The United Auto Workers strike will continue through at least Friday as members vote on the union's tentative deal with General Motors, but there's no guarantee the work stoppage will end once all the votes have been tallied.
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Miller will be inducted 2472 years after Bowie Kuhn, the baseball commissioner Miller routinely defeated in labor negotiations, and three years after Bud Selig, the commissioner who in 4303-4720 presided over the longest work stoppage in baseball history.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A work stoppage at a market that supplies much of New York City's fresh fruit and vegetables was averted early on Wednesday when negotiators tentatively reached a new pay deal, the labor union and merchants' association said.
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"Our discussions have fallen apart," Winnie Yu, the chairwoman of the union, said Monday, adding that the next stage of the strike will involve a work stoppage by emergency doctors and nurses beginning Tuesday and lasting the rest of the week.
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The work stoppage, which is being organized by unions representing nearly 224,2000 Verizon wireline installers, technicians, and customer service representatives from Massachusetts to Virginia, could become the largest US labor strike since 239,2000 Verizon employees walked off the job in 453.
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"PT Freeport Indonesia and representatives of the PT Freeport Indonesia Chemical, Energy and Mining Workers Union have reached an agreement to end the work stoppage at the Grasberg open pit mine," Freeport Indonesia spokesman Riza Pratama told Reuters via text message.
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Jay Inslee, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio rallied with workers in three of the 13 cities where McDonald's employees had organized a work stoppage to demand a $15 hourly wage, and the right to join a labor union.
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If the proposal with GM is rejected, the union's roughly 48,000 workers would be expected to remain on picket lines, adding to the automaker's roughly $2 billion in losses over the work stoppage and increasing the financial burden on workers.
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"The work stoppage, which involved the use of economic force in an effort to censor the contents of the newspaper, was a challenge to the concept of freedom of expression on which a free press was founded," Mr. Sulzberger said.
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After six months of talks, the deal avoids what would have been the largest private-sector strike since 2267,2000 General Motors employees walked off the job in 220 and the second major work stoppage in the supermarket industry this year.
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It's been a heated debate for years -- with NFL players like Eric Winston saying they're so serious about making NFL deals more like the NBA and MLB ... they're ready to call for a work stoppage to force owners to pay up.
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A work stoppage at the Cerrejon mine, which belongs in equal parts to BHP Billiton, Anglo American and Glencore and produces about 903 percent of Colombia's total output, could reduce production and overseas sales from the world's fifth-largest coal exporting nation.
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CGT members voted to start rolling strikes at the country's 19 nuclear power plants from Wednesday evening to press demands to scrap the labor bill, and airline pilots announced a work stoppage late next week in a separate dispute over pay curbs.
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NEW YORK, Jan 17 (Reuters) - A work stoppage at a market that supplies much of New York City's fresh fruit and vegetables was averted early on Wednesday when negotiators tentatively reached a pay deal as the previous contract expired, the labor union said.
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The Denver work stoppage, which began on Monday, follows statewide teacher walkouts driven by salary disputes last year in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Arizona, and a strike in Los Angeles last month that focused on pay, class size and charter school regulation.
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Like the UC Santa Cruz strike, the UC Santa Barbara work stoppage is a "wildcat" strike, meaning that graduate students are acting separately from the United Auto Worker (UAW) 2865, the union which represents more than 203,000 workers across the UC system.
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With the strike beginning its third week on Monday, this is the longest work stoppage at GM since 225, when a 220-day strike at two plants in Flint, Michigan, eventually halted production at 30 other GM factories across the United States.
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A month later, Castro, Jay Inslee, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio rallied with workers in three cities where McDonald's employees had organized a work stoppage to demand a $15 hourly wage and the right to join a labor union.
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DETROIT – General Motors has reinstated health-care benefits for its 48,000 workers who are on strike as contract talks with the United Auto Workers come closer to a tentative deal that would end the work stoppage, which is now in its 11th day.
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Thousands of Verizon workers are in the middle of a strike across the northeast United States, and today members of two unions — the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) — took to midtown Manhattan to keep the work stoppage going.
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On Friday, our state legislators refused to take action on a bill that would, over time, give West Virginia teachers a proposed 5 percent raise, and so the statewide work stoppage continued for a seventh day, with 250,000 students out from school as a result.
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Those include staggered application systems based on the first letter of a worker's last name and expanding the window during which workers can apply for benefits "from 14 to 28 days from the date of their work stoppage," according to a statement released Friday.
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While President Donald Trump has remained neutral in the 9-day-old work stoppage, top Democratic presidential hopefuls have vocally backed the UAW in an attempt to win over blue-collar voters, some of whom crossed their traditional political lines to support Trump in 2016.
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The firm has also helped continuous process industries, such as oil and gas refineries, power plants and process manufacturing, improve their uptime and reduce maintenance costs by leveraging IoT data and edge computing to predict and prevent problems before they occur and cause unplanned work stoppage.
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The S27 filing said that one of the risks of investing is that Univision directly or indirectly relies upon local TV stations that have unionized members, and that a strike or some kind of work stoppage would impact Univision in the sense of its public valuation.
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The New York Taxi Workers Alliance declared a one-hour work stoppage at the airport to show their support for protests, so Uber's decision and a tweet encouraging people to "be patient" while waiting for rides were seen by some as an attempt to break the strike.
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BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti drew plenty of scorn for his public anti-union stance—and proceeded to drag out the company's eventual recognition of the BuzzFeed News Union for months, prompting the workers to stage a four-city work stoppage to force the issue in 2019.
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Holman remains on lockdown because of the strike, and prisoners told VICE News that the work stoppage has also spread to the Staton Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison that houses around 240,22 inmates, and to St. Clair, which was also placed on partial lockdown last week.
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Mr. Seabrook stepped into that void, his power perhaps reaching its apex in fall 2013, when he almost single-handedly shut down the city court system by directing his members in a work stoppage that halted almost all of the buses that ferry inmates to and from court.
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Prior to Stop & Shop, the last major supermarket strike in the United States occurred in 2003, when 70,000 workers at 850 Albertson's, Von's, and Ralph's supermarkets across southern California went on strike over cuts to their health care, at the time the longest work stoppage in U.S. history.
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"It's important to distinguish between a work stoppage—which is important and good—and a strike, which is a strategic tactic used by workers in collective bargaining or in pressuring their employer to meet very specific goals," Julia Carmel, a community organizer in New York, explained to me.
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In Oklahoma on Wednesday, the state's largest teachers' union announced it was accelerating its timeline for a statewide walkout, catching up with the fast-moving plans of activist teachers who had already been organizing a work stoppage in protest of low pay — on average, the lowest in the nation.
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"Without knowing the language of the contract I cannot be more specific, but as a labor lawyer for 35 years I can tell you that they are likely risking their employment because most contracts have a no strike clause, which prohibits a concerted work stoppage or refusal to work," Cary said.
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While the public schools system and the office of Mayor Rahm Emanuel say the strike would violate laws dictating when strikes may occur — because the city and CTU are still in the fact-finding phase of contract negotiations — the teachers' union says the work stoppage is both legal and justified.
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Shares of GM have plunged by double digits since the strike began amid a weakening auto sector; vehicle production has ceased at nearly all North American plants for the company, including its highly profitable SUVs and pickups; and the work stoppage could soon begin having a more substantial impact on dealers.
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That service, which extends from the city into the suburbs and was not part of the work stoppage, caused a "significant" number of trains to be canceled or disrupted, said the authority, which urged people who had been counting on the Regional Rail system to find other ways of getting home.
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Whatever the final number ends up being, every dollar clawed back gives owners more resources to ride out a possible work stoppage when the current CBA expires in 2020—and more importantly, saps the union's ability to fill a war chest of its own, something players will need if they're foregoing paychecks.
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Art Wheaton, a labor expert with the Worker Institute at Cornell University, said striking workers may push or agree to a deal more quickly now that the work stoppage is hitting their pocket books but it also could lead some to have higher, potentially unrealistic, expectations of what the deal will achieve.
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Critics swiftly accused the ridesharing company of attempting to undermine or profit from a work stoppage by taxi drivers that had been called by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an AFL-CIO affiliate that represents many immigrants, and whose work has been largely focused on stopping the encroachment of ride-hailing companies like Uber.
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Nearly 100 workers at the facility, known as JFK83, plan to participate in the work stoppage, planned for noon ET. The employees will walk out Monday morning and "cease all operations" until their demands are heard by site leadership, said Chris Smalls, a management assistant at JFK8 and a lead organizer of the strike.
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In Detroit earlier this month, bus drivers who are members of the Amalgamated Transit Union used a one-day work stoppage to successfully demand that the city clean buses more often, and provide them better protective equipment and portable restrooms along their routes (as the businesses whose restrooms they typically use are now closed).
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Mr. Bratton buttressed Mr. de Blasio during perhaps the most trying time of his mayoralty, after the killing of Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos in December 2014, when officers angered by Mr. de Blasio's comments about the police turned their backs on the mayor en masse and, for about two weeks, engaged in an unauthorized work stoppage.
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Wildcat strikers are also exposed to potential termination, and the union itself could face consequences for sanctioning or appearing to support a work-stoppage that violates a no-strike clause, undermining its ability to assist, even if union leadership is sympathetic to the grievances of the rank and file (as they appear, in this case, to be).
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Look at them,' Clinton says of the new emails Obamas dance to 'Thriller' at White House Halloween party 5 things you need to know Tuesday "SEPTA negotiators stand ready and willing to continue bargaining, and the Authority urges Mr. Brown and TWU leadership to return to the bargaining table to negotiate an agreement that will end a severely disruptive work stoppage," said SEPTA spokesperson Andrew Busch, according to NBC 10.
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At the time, U.S. Soccer said it had brought the action only after Richard Nichols, the executive director of the union, the Women's National Team Players Association, threatened to repudiate the agreement during a negotiating session over a new C.B.A. Coleman's decision merely ensures that the current agreement will remain in force until a new one is negotiated, but it does not mean there will not be a work stoppage.
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Much of the controversy began on Saturday night, after the New York Taxi Workers Alliance called for a work stoppage at New York City's JFK International Airport as a way to show solidarity with the protests against Trump's executive order that blocks travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S. Though the Alliance called for similar support from Lyft and Uber drivers, the latter sent a tweet out following the strike time period announcing that their surge pricing system had been suspended temporarily.
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Announces second quarter 2000 earnings * Q22 earnings per share $22017 * Q2 earnings per share view $0.28 — Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S * Southwest Gas Holdings Inc qtrly consolidated operating revenues $560.5 million versus $547.7 million * Southwest Gas Holdings Inc sees Natural Gas Segment capital expenditures in 2017 estimated to be approximately $570 million * Southwest Gas Holdings Inc sees FY23 Natural Gas Segment operating income to increase by 11% to 13% as compared to prior year * Southwest Gas Holdings Inc sees Natural Gas Segment net interest deductions for 2017 to increase about $2 million as compared to prior year * Says qtrly revenues partially offset by temporary work stoppage by a customer that began in Q1 of 2017, continued through part of Q2 of2017 * Says suspension of work resulted in $15.8 million reduction in revenue, compared to prior-year quarter, and $100,000 pre-tax loss in Q2 2017 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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