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CALGARY, Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Canadian Pacific (TSX: CP) (NYSE: CP) and the Canadian Pacific Police Association (CPPA), representing approximately 60 members of the company's police service, today announced they have reached a tentative five-year collective agreement. "I am pleased we were able to reach agreement with our railway police, the third tentative agreement or ratified contract in a matter of weeks," said President and Chief Executive Officer, E. Hunter...
VANCOUVER, Nov. 1, 2012 /CNW/ - The Professional Association of Residents of British Columbia (PAR-BC) is pleased to announce that its membership has ratified a new Collective Agreement with the Health Employers Association of British Columbia (HEABC). The vote was 78% in favor of ratification. This new contract for 2010 - 2014 provides for concise language on Occupational Health and Safety and includes contraceptives (oral, injectable and IUD) in the benefits plan. Residents...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Federation of Government Employees announced early today that it has reached an agreement with the Transportation Security Administration on the first-ever labor contract for the nation's TSA officers. No details of the agreement were immediately released. Talks began in January and concluded in an agreement following a marathon bargaining session that ended at approximately 3:00 a.m. this morning. The agreement will be...
Seven Senators pledge their support for U.S. ratification of the CRPD WASHINGTON, May 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, seven United States Senators issued a statement of bipartisan support for United States ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110601/DC11812LOGO) "The Convention was undertaken with the same goals as America had in enacting the ADA: to empower individuals with disabilities...
Document on display at National Constitution Center DOYLESTOWN, Pa., Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An amazing document that signified the birth of the U.S. Constitution has been discovered by well-known historian Tom Lingenfelter of Doylestown, Pa., and is on exhibit at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center. This extremely rare and important piece of American history is the printed copy of the "Resolve of Congress of September 28, 1787", sending the Constitution to the...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement issued by Catherine Ashton, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs: I congratulate the U.S. Senate on their ratification of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia. In approving the treaty today, the Senate has shown the necessary vision and leadership which will allow the United States and Russia -- which possess 95 percent of global stockpile of nuclear weapons -- to make progress in...
NEW YORK, Dec. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC applauded today's U.S. Senate ratification, by a vote of 71 to 26, of the New START treaty. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "The New START treaty serves America's highest strategic interests," said AJC Executive Director David Harris. The treaty provides for resuming critical nuclear inspection programs that had been in place since the end of the Cold War, but ceased with the December 2009 expiration of the...
Statement by AIA President & CEO Marion C. Blakey joining President Obama in urging immediate action. ARLINGTON, Va., July 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AIA welcomes President Obama's remarks urging ratification of the U.S.-UK Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty in a press conference with the British Prime Minister David Cameron this week. As the president stated, this treaty "will be good for our workers and our troops in both our countries." The U.S.-UK and U.S.-Australia Defense Trade...
White-collar staff at Boeing Co. ratified a four-year contract with the U.S. aircraft maker, putting labor issues mostly to rest for the industry giant. Engineers in the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace voted 79 percent in favor of the contract, while technicians in the union voted 69 percent for ratification, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Tuesday. The contract includes an upgrade in retirement benefits and a pay raise that averages 20 percent over four...
Hollywood's Screen Actors Guild Monday asked the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to resume contract negotiations. Alan Rosenberg, SAG's national president, and Doug Allen, the guild's national executive director and chief negotiator, posted on the organization's Web site a letter to AMPTP President J. Nicholas Counter III; Peter Chernin, president of Fox Group; and Robert Iger, president and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Co. "We believe it is clear that our...
