Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2016. 47-2152 Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Assemble, install, alter, and repair pipelines or pipe systems that carry water, steam, air, or other liquids or gases. May install heating and cooling equipment and mechanical control systems. Includes sprinklerfitters.
A contemporary hunger strike in Poland. A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change. Most hunger strikers will take liquids but not solid food.
Labor organizers say that fast-food workers in 100 cities will walk off their jobs Thursday to seek higher wages. In the last year, fast-food workers have gone on strike in New York City, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Seattle, Kansas City and Flint, Mich., to demand $15-an-hour pay.triking fast-food workers protest minimum wage jobs in nearly 60 cities, seek $15 an hour. Demonstrators in support of fast-food workers protest on July 29 outside a McDonald's in New York City's Union Square.