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Garbage, Recycle, and Yard Waste Drivers Honor Extended Picket Lines in Seattle, Lynnwood and Kent; Widespread Service Disruptions Expected TUKWILA, Wash., April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Garbage, recycle, and yard waste drivers, employed by Allied Waste/Republic Services, honored picket lines early this morning that were established by striking Local 377 Teamsters from Youngstown, Ohio. Picket lines were set up at the company's facilities in Seattle, Lynnwood, and...
TORONTO, April 16, 2013 /CNW/ - The Toronto Port Authority and Porter Airlines have failed in their bid to stifle freedom of expression in the airline fuel handlers' strike. The Port Authority and the airline sought a wide-ranging order from Superior Court, including severe restrictions on the ability to conduct demonstrations at Little Norway Park at the corner of Bathurst Street and Queen's Quay West. However, the result of the order from Justice David Aston is that...
Sanitation Landfill Workers On Unfair Labor Practice Strike Extend Picket Line; Teamsters In Anaheim Refuse To Cross ANAHEIM, Calif., April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sanitation workers employed at Republic Services/Allied Waste's [NYSE: RSG] Carbon Limestone landfill in Youngstown, Ohio raised a picket line extension at Republic's Anaheim, Calif. facilities early this morning. The more than 400 workers at Republic's transfer station, commercial and residential truck yard,...
Ohio Sanitation Landfill Workers On Unfair Labor Practice Strike Extend Picket Line To California On Anniversary of MLK Assassination FREMONT, Calif., April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Workers on strike at Republic Services/Allied Waste extended picket lines to five Northern California locations today, on the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., who was killed in Memphis supporting striking waste workers. (Logo -...
Sanitation Workers Fed Up With Delays In Contract Negotiations ATLANTA, Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On February 23, members of Local 728 in Atlanta employed as drivers and mechanics at Republic Services in McDonough voted unanimously to authorize a strike if the company continues to delay negotiations for the workers' first contract. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100127/IBTLOGO) The company has been dragging its feet setting dates to negotiate. The last...
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The union representing workers at the Philadelphia Theatre Company (PTC) today announced that they have reached an agreement to settle a two week old strike and have ratified a first contract with the theater company. Michael Barnes, the President of IATSE Stagehands Local 8, praised the union members who were on strike as well as other Labor allies and community supporters. "This was not an easy battle. It took the support of our...
Republic Services and Dekalb County Workers Joined at March by Workers From 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike ATLANTA, Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At the annual Martin Luther King Day march yesterday, more than 400 sanitation workers and Teamster allies joined workers from the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike to demand that Republic Services/Allied Waste [NYSE: RSG] treat its workers equally and with respect. They were joined by sanitation workers in Dekalb County who are...
TORONTO, Jan. 7, 2013 /CNW/ - The employees who fuel Porter aircraft at the Toronto Island airport may be on strike as early as next week. The 22 employees who work for Porter Fixed Based Operations (Porter FBO) have been unionized since August 2012 and have tried for nearly five months to negotiate a contract. They will be in a legal strike position at 12.01 a.m. on January 10. Though Porter FBO employees earn considerably less than the industry average, the employer has...
JOHANNESBURG, October 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Gold Fields Limited (Gold Fields) (JSE, NYSE, NASDAQ Dubai: GFI) regret to advise that approximately 11,000 of the 14,300 employees at KDC West (formerly Driefontein Gold Mine) on strike since 9 September; the full employee body of approximately 2,800 employees at the number 4 Shaft of the Beatrix Gold Mine (formerly Oryx Gold Mine) on strike since 21 September; and approximately 8,500 of 12,400 employees at KDC East (formerly...
JOLIET, Ill., Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a show of solidarity within the labor movement, Illinois' largest union donated financial support to striking Caterpillar workers in Joliet Wednesday, vowing to stand with them in their struggle for economic justice. Leaders of SEIU Health Care Illinois and Indiana (SEIU HCII), which represents more than 91,000 health care and child care providers, appeared at the Joliet picket line to present a $25,000 contribution to the...
