Ship strikes are the top human-related cause of death for these mammals. But new technology could soon help safeguard the whales by using sound, not sight, to track the creatures' movements.
Members of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses have voted 77 per cent in favour of strike action.
Corvus is probably the most striking star pattern in spring's southern sky.
Workers at a nursing home in the west Bronx have been on strike since Feb. 20 after their employer stopped paying their health insurance premiums.
... concerns, changing relationships and roles, and uncertainty about outcomes that occur during a strike," she said.
However, the study also found that strikers who were more involved with the Union by ...
(AP) -- Union contracts covering about 65,000 workers at Verizon Communications Inc. expire Saturday night, but the threat of a strike appears small.
A confrontation between the Newfoundland and Labrador government and more than 5,000 nurses heated up Friday, with a call for a strike vote.
... that some patterns are interesting because they occur in quick succession. Other patterns are striking because, for example, they occur weekly. According to De Graaf, this time aspect merits further ...
... is stored by deforming the jaws, which are held pressed against one another until the strike is triggered. This strategy of storing up energy from the muscles to produce fast movements is employed by ...
A provincewide nurses strike over Christmas is being ruled out as talks between the provincial government and New Brunswick Nurses Union are scheduled to resume this week.
The New Brunswick government and the province's 5,500 nurses have reached a tentative deal, avoiding a possible provincewide strike.
Bird strikes could threat NASA space shuttles during launch and landing.
The Newfoundland and Labrador Nurses' Union is delaying a strike vote, although its president insisted Friday that nurses are as resolved as ever to fight for greater wages and benefits.
... in the engines of the US Airways plane that recently landed on the Hudson River after apparently striking large birds and losing both of its engines. The Indiana State University graduate now works as ...
Newfoundland and Labrador nurses started a strike vote Monday after union officials said they received a note from the provincial government saying its position hadn't changed over the issue of ...
