ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 7, 1997--Robert A. Blakely, president of the Alberta Building Trades Council authorized the company to release the following statement, made in Edmonton Friday: "Since the Labour Relations Board has issued orders certifying some of the affiliates of the Building Trades Council on the Solv-Ex...
MONROVIA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 8, 1999-- Composite Structures LLC announced today that it has ratified a new three-year labor agreement with the Metal Trades Council of Southern California and its affiliated unions: the International Association of Machinists District 725, Teamsters Local 986, and the Painters and Allied Trades District Council...
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Apr 13, 2006 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- The Canadian Labour Congress turns fifty this month. It was on April 23rd, 1956, at a convention in Toronto, that the Canadian Labour Congress was born from the union of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada and...
Move over, John "Two Jags" Prescott. A Labour Council in Wales is resisting calls to sell off a number plate used on the mayor's official Jaguar. Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council says that the plate HB1 has adorned ceremonial cars for 40 years and that they are not getting rid...
John Prescott surprised Labour MPs last night by announcing that he is standing for the Council of Europe after he steps down tomorrow as Deputy Prime Minister. He is hoping to fill a vacancy created by the promotion of Terry Davis, a former Labour MP, who has...
SIMA Sponsored Misinformation on SR 241 is Killing Jobs/Harming Regional Economic Growth, According to LA/OC Construction Trades Council LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council (LA/OC CBCTC) this week sent a letter to the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association SIMA demanding that the organization stop...
There is compelling evidence that the labour movement in this country is on the verge of an ugly split. Within weeks of the Ontario Federation of Labour convention decision to disaffiliate from the Ontario NDP, 13 private sector unions met to consider the establishment of a...
Feb. 12--The Planning Council signed an agreement with the World Bank to support Phase Two of Qatar's Labour Market Strategy national action plan in Doha last week. On behalf of the Labour Market Strategy Oversight Committee, Planning Council Gen Feb. 12--The Planning...
Labour dominate local government in Scotland, or so the conventional wisdom has it. If you're Charlie Gordon, leading Glasgow Council, or Sam Campbell in Midlothian, the number of opposition councillors is trifling. As opponents of reform to the voting system for local authorities, they are determined to keep Labour having...
LABOUR officials yesterday accused the BBC of "buying a package" from the Conservatives for a media relaunch of John Major's premiership and warned of top-level protests if there were "further concessions" to the Government. A senior Labour spokesman complained that Mr Major has been interviewed on Good Morning,...
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, May 29, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- The leaders of Canada's most important unions and of all the provincial and territorial federations of labour, meeting in Ottawa today as the Executive Council of the Canadian Labour Congress, OTTAWA, ONTARIO, May 29, 2007 (CCNMatthews via...
A FORMER Birmingham Labour councillor who lost his seat after failing to turn up to meetings for six months when he eloped overseas, is bidding to become a Euro MP. Mr Khalid Mahmood, aged 37, who pre-empted his removal from his Sparkbrook seat by resigning in 1993, is...
Europe Information 06-19-2006 As expected, the European Commission presented on 15 June a Communication on the strengthening of standards in maritime law, inviting European social partners to negotiate an agreement on the subject. It also presented a proposal for a Decision to the Council of Ministers, authorising member...
By Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 7--Organized labor plans to ask the Department of Energy to stop contract awards and contractor activities on Hanford's Fast Flux Test Facility. A resolution approved Wednesday by...
Against a backdrop of an economic slowdown in the New York City area, intense competition between New York City newspapers, and problems in the newspaper industry in general, negotiators at the New York Post successfully confronted a "settle-or-shutdown" deadline by negotiating collective bargaining agreements that hopefully will breathe new life...
FRANKFURT AFP — A German court rejected Wednesday a request by the Volkswagen workers' council to suspend the registration of sports car maker Porsche under a European statute that would see workers' representation reduced on a new supervisory board, a court spokesman said. The council, backed by the IG...
LABOUR Battleground Defending 2,750 council seats; currently has 29 members of the European Parliament MEPs. Dream scenario Advance of the United Kingdom Independence Party UKIP splits the Conservative vote in the European Parliament elections and puts the spotlight...
What do union activists expect from their new CLC president? BOB AGES attended the CLC Convention in June that elected Bob White and asked many for their views. John Cartwright is with the Carpenters and Allied Workers. He was the business representative for local...
SWING: TORIES TO LABOUR SWING 1-2% Labour majority 172, Castlepoint, Upminster, SWING 0-1% Labour maj 168 Boston and Skegness, Beverley and Holderness, Bedfordshire SW, Basingstoke, STATUS QUO: Labour maj 160 SWING: LABOUR TO TORIES SWING 0-1% Labour maj 146...
He is neither a politician nor a union leader. But the reaction of one veteran carpenter to a City Council proposal last Thursday that would permit nonunion contractors to bid on jobs at the Convention Center cut to the heart of the matter. "What are they trying to do, commit...
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