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...Industry executives have been hoping that fatigue would set in among the RMT membership in the long-running dispute, leading to pressure on the union leadership to reach a deal with employers....
...“There has been a sense of making up for lost time with the union movement,” said Innes Willox, head of employers’ association Australian Industry Group, referring to the preceding nine-year period of Conservative...
...Senator Dan Sullivan, an Alaska Republican who takes a keen interest in the Pacific, said it was “important” to have funded Cofa....
...I have had absolutely nothing to do with either the issuing of a letter from Network Rail, the employer, to the RMT — or any request to withdraw it.”...
...On Monday, the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents shippers and terminals, accused the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which represents dock workers, of having staged “disruptive...
...In an effort to offset the disruption, the Football Association has arranged 120 coaches, 60 for supporters of each club, to transport fans from Manchester to London on Saturday....
...Tensions escalated between the government and the British Medical Association as the union announced that doctors below consultant grade would strike for an unprecedented five days from 7am on July 13....
...Another rail union, the smaller Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association announced its own 24-hour strike from midday on September 26 earlier this week....
...Rahm EmanuelYou know, I think there’s a couple of things that I would say, which is two of the largest employers here, foreign company employers here, one is Micron and one is IBM....
...But Richard Ballantyne, chief executive of the British Ports Association, questioned how workable the plan to use ports to monitor compliance would be....
...“We’ve got to get a deal with some really hostile employers backed up by a really aggressive government. This is an aggressive dispute by them upon us....
...A study tracking ship movements finds that lockdowns last year caused maritime trade in manufacturing to slide more than 10 per cent....
...And another 2021 study from the UK Bar Standards Association shows the combined total of ethnic minority pupils at the bar is 3 per cent....
...For Jens Zimmer Christensen, president of the European restaurant, café and bar association, Hotrec, and owner of the 64-room Hotel Maritime in the Danish capital Copenhagen, the equation is a brutally simple...
...In the US, Texas began easing its 14-day quarantine rules for out-of-state visitors as early as April but similar restrictions were still in place last week in states such as Alaska....
...The average southern California longshore worker earned $131,000 in 2017, according to the Pacific Maritime Association, the terminals’ bargaining group....
...The location of the spill also added to its emotional impact: the pictures of the oil fouling the pristine waters of Alaska shocked the world....
...When going for a job, a potential employer told her, “very nicely, that he would hire me but his wife would divorce him”....
...If conductors are no longer critical to train operations, the union will lose much of its bargaining power with employers....
...An abrupt halt to Freeport’s operations would result in massive lay-offs in restive Papua, where the mine is the single largest private employer....
...“We are very weak in our external capabilities to protect our maritime resources....
...GMB and Unite had previously delayed a decision to trigger a formal ballot mandating strike action while they held talks with employers....
...The Pacific Maritime Association says work slowdowns by members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union since late October have created many of the problems, which have disrupted US retailers’...
...Employers would also be allowed to hire agency staff to fill gaps left by workers who have gone on strike....
...Neither the ILWU nor the Pacific Maritime Association, representing employers, gave details of the tentative agreement that had been struck....
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