Sentences with phrase «general workers work»

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Non-permanent workers such as freelancers have grown from 17 to 36 percent of the U.S. work force over the past 25 years and are expected to comprise 43 percent of the work force by 2020, according to Alex Chriss, vice president and general manager of Self - Employed Solutions at Intuit.

Ben Dutton, president and CEO of the Casman Group of companies, said about half of the 200 workers employed by his Fort McMurray - based general construction firm are already back in town and working on restoring heating - ventilation and other systems for commercial and industrial customers.

One such worker is Sonny Nguyen, of San Francisco, who works as the general manager of a car dealership during the weekday, but supplements his income with freelance work from TaskRabbit in the hours before and after his full - time job, and on weekends.

She is one more worker in the great service economy of a post-global America, and — unlike so many others in her general situation — she is making it work for her.

We heard for years that the rubber workers in Akron, Ohio, with their traditional six - hour day, were in the vanguard of a more general movement toward reduced working hours.

The investment decisions of private companies, for example — decisions that affect how and where people work and what and how much they produce — are made in offices far removed from those workers or the general public.

Dennis Smith is a mission worker for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and works as general coordinator of the Latin American Evangelical Center for Pastoral Studies (CELEP).

In a general sense, one can speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestations.

The 13 - year veteran was a general trades worker responsible for carpentry, painting and cement work throughout the district.

She said the 13 - year veteran was a general trades worker responsible for carpentry, painting and cement work throughout the district.

The article takes the focus off the prosperous women whose child - care situations raised anxious questions when they were being considered by President Clinton for appointment as U.S. attorney general and instead examines a group it sees as the largest group of mothers frustrated in seeking good day care: middle - class working mothers in urban areas where nearly all the available caregivers are undocmented foreign workers.

It claims that the proposals, which have yet to be approved by the cabinet, would involve a limited number of unskilled workers being offered the opportunity to work in jobs such as fruit picking, but no general right to a UK work permit.

Amalgamated Transit Union, ATU Local 726, ATU Local 1056, ATU Local 1179 ATU Local 1181 - 1061, American Council of Engineering Companies of New York Asian Americans for Equality, Center for Working Families, Citizens Committee for NYC, Common Cause / NY, Construction Industry Council, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, DC 37, DC 37 Local 375B, DC37 Local 1655, Empire State Transportation Alliance, Environmental Defense Fund, General Contractors Association of New York, League of Women Voters of the City of NY, League of Women Voters of New York State, Long Island Contractors» Association, Inc. (LICA), MTA Coalition of Unions, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, New York Building Congress, NY League of Conservation Voters, NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign, NYS Council of Machinists, NY State Legislative Conference Board, NYS Transportation Equity Alliance, PCAC to MTA, Pratt Center for Community Development, Regional Plan Association, Reinvent Albany, Teamsters Local 808, Transit Riders Action Committee, Transportation Alternatives, TWU Local 100, TWU Local 252, TWU Local2001, TWU Local 2054, Transport Workers International Union of America, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, UPROSE, We Act for Environmental Justice, Women's City Club.

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The Attorney General thanked the New York State Department of Labor and the New York State Workers» Compensation Board for their work on the investigation.

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Steve Turner, assistant general secretary of Unite, said workers had likened the conditions to a «gulag», or «labour camp» and described the conditions as «19th century working practices».

Commenting on a TUC survey of unpaid overtime, marking the ninth annual Work Your Proper Hours Day this Friday, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «It comes as no surprise that teachers work more hours in unpaid overtime than almost any other workWork Your Proper Hours Day this Friday, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «It comes as no surprise that teachers work more hours in unpaid overtime than almost any other workwork more hours in unpaid overtime than almost any other workers.

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Dave Prentis, general secretary of public services union Unison, said: «These spiteful proposals will deny millions of ordinary workers a voice at work.

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Justice Baah therefore charged the Electoral Commission to work on a statutory definition of over-voting ahead of the 2020 general elections, to assist the Court in expeditious handling of such cases, and also urged it to train its workers well in election conduct and management.

«I welcome the Comptroller's determination to ensure that all workers, regardless of their migratory status — particularly those of Mexican origin — are compensated for their hard work,» said Ambassador Sandra Fuentes - Berain, Consul General of Mexico in New York.

«On Friday we'll be hearing from Len McCluskey, the newly elected general secretary of Unite - a union like ours that represents workers in both the public and private sectors, a union that knows the importance of campaigning hard, and a union with which we will be signing a joint agreement to embed our new working relationship at every level.

General secretary Dave Prentis said: «Freezing the pay of hard working nurses, care workers, paramedics cooks and cleaners is hitting the wrong target.

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Nana Akuffo Addo has a very strong history of violence against his working colleagues, his workers and it is believed that he attempted to slapped his own campaign manager after he lost the General elections in 2008.

For examples of the later, see the direct seizure of productive property by workers councils in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (this later develops from sit - in strikes, or work ins or general strikes with factory occupations).

After leaving her union post in 1908 Bondfield worked as organising secretary for the WLL and later as women's officer for the National Union of General and Municipal Workers (NUGMW).

«The real issue here is trying to put enough fear into candidates,» said Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime political consultant who has worked for the Building Trades Employers» Association (the construction workers union), and for Eliot Spitzer in his successful 1998 bid for attorney general.

Dave Prentis, unison general secretary, went on Channel Four to explain the decision, saying, «Jeremy Corbyn's message has resonated with public sector workers who have suffered years of pay freezes and redundancies with too many having to work for less.»

About 320,000 workers are exposed in general industry operations such as brick, concrete, and pottery manufacturing, as well as operations using sand products, such as foundry work.

That prepping has taken her all over the world: working as a research assistant for an author in Venice, Italy; getting a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Cambridge in England; helping on an archeological dig of Ancient Tiberias in Israel, where she unearthed a stack of ninth - century vases; working in Iraq as a public diplomacy officer and conducting research for generals; raising money for schools in Afghanistan for Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (R - OH); traveling to China to learn about how children of migrant workers access education; learning Arabic.

The Association of General Contractors estimates that as many as 70,000 construction workers are unable to work because of Congress» inaction.

-- if you complete the analogy by pretending that the only people allowed into the auto workers» union were the people working for General Motors (at least until very, very recently) and the plant owners told the union rep, «look, it doesn't matter that we pay you pittance, if a plant goes down because of those dealers, we're all out of work.

Billy appeared to be built entirely out of slabs of thickly bunched muscle, and he looked more like a roughneck steel worker than what he was, the general superintendent of the «Old Reliable» Indian Works in Millwood.

For example, we worked on the Boeing Centennial book, which was created primarily for Boeing workers and Boeing friends and families, but also for a general audience.

Where the shelter workers have general knowledge, the rescue group has specific knowledge of the breed and is able to work with that breed, with expertise in breed health issues and breed specific temperament to place the animal in a forever home.

She first started out as a kennel worker in a fast - paced general practice hospital and worked her way to the title of Co-Office Manager & Veterinary Technician within a short 2 years.

I've worked in a traditional studio setting in Los Angeles with assistants, I've worked with the general public, and most recently with a collective of Zulu bead workers that I founded in South Africa.

From a number of acute cases in 2017 (wildfires in Canada, Portugal, and Chile) he showed exactly how the system works in real situations, which ultimately provides invaluable information which can be used by media, aid workers and the general public as a whole, in near real time.

On the other hand, Remain campaigners such as Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC), warned repeatedly that «working people have a huge stake in the referendum because workers» rights are on the line» and the link between the UK's membership of the EU and better protection of workers» rights featured heavily in campaign material opposing Brexit.

Typically New Mexico work - related injuries can only be pursued under New Mexico workers compensation laws, rather than general civil liability.

In addition, the crowded setup of a construction work site can compound more general errors with poor road design, confusing signage, or unsafe behavior by construction workers or drivers adding into the mix.

Under the provisions above New Mexico's work comp law, the general requirement for an injured worker to recover money for his or her injury is to simply show that he or she was injured while working.

General and Sub-Contractors: Under OSHA, both general contractors and sub-contractors have the duty to provide workers with a reasonably safe construction site, warn of any hazards at the site or inherent in the job itself, and ensure the work is being performed according to safety regulGeneral and Sub-Contractors: Under OSHA, both general contractors and sub-contractors have the duty to provide workers with a reasonably safe construction site, warn of any hazards at the site or inherent in the job itself, and ensure the work is being performed according to safety regulgeneral contractors and sub-contractors have the duty to provide workers with a reasonably safe construction site, warn of any hazards at the site or inherent in the job itself, and ensure the work is being performed according to safety regulations.

When workers are deemed to be able to earn a wage, they are considered employable and often return to work by seeking re-employment in the general labour market.

This law requires all property owners and general contractors to provide construction workers with proper safety equipment — including scaffolding — when work is being done to a building.

Injured Workers and Poverty Survey 2010 Many Losses, Much Hardship The Impact of Work Injury FAST FACTS • Before injury, 89 % were employed full time; after injury 9 % • Nearly one in five lost their homes after injury • Nearly one quarter had moved in with family or friends at some point after their injuries • One in five injured workers could no longer afford a car • Food bank use rose from 5 to 77 people after work injury • 20 % reported an overnight hospital stay the last 12 months (most because of the work injury) compared with 7 % for the general population of Canadians • Over half had not been able to afford medications in the past 12 months • 57 % of injured workers in the study were unemployed For more information: wwwinjuredworkersonlWorkers and Poverty Survey 2010 Many Losses, Much Hardship The Impact of Work Injury FAST FACTS • Before injury, 89 % were employed full time; after injury 9 % • Nearly one in five lost their homes after injury • Nearly one quarter had moved in with family or friends at some point after their injuries • One in five injured workers could no longer afford a car • Food bank use rose from 5 to 77 people after work injury • 20 % reported an overnight hospital stay the last 12 months (most because of the work injury) compared with 7 % for the general population of Canadians • Over half had not been able to afford medications in the past 12 months • 57 % of injured workers in the study were unemployed For more information: wwwinjuredworkersonlineWork Injury FAST FACTS • Before injury, 89 % were employed full time; after injury 9 % • Nearly one in five lost their homes after injury • Nearly one quarter had moved in with family or friends at some point after their injuries • One in five injured workers could no longer afford a car • Food bank use rose from 5 to 77 people after work injury • 20 % reported an overnight hospital stay the last 12 months (most because of the work injury) compared with 7 % for the general population of Canadians • Over half had not been able to afford medications in the past 12 months • 57 % of injured workers in the study were unemployed For more information: wwwinjuredworkersonlworkers could no longer afford a car • Food bank use rose from 5 to 77 people after work injury • 20 % reported an overnight hospital stay the last 12 months (most because of the work injury) compared with 7 % for the general population of Canadians • Over half had not been able to afford medications in the past 12 months • 57 % of injured workers in the study were unemployed For more information: wwwinjuredworkersonlinework injury • 20 % reported an overnight hospital stay the last 12 months (most because of the work injury) compared with 7 % for the general population of Canadians • Over half had not been able to afford medications in the past 12 months • 57 % of injured workers in the study were unemployed For more information: wwwinjuredworkersonlinework injury) compared with 7 % for the general population of Canadians • Over half had not been able to afford medications in the past 12 months • 57 % of injured workers in the study were unemployed For more information: wwwinjuredworkersonlworkers in the study were unemployed For more information: wwwinjuredworkersonline.org

Niagara Injured Worker Centre invite you to their 2nd Annual General Meeting — Dr. Peri Ballantyne talks about the impact a work injury has on family and the community... see flyer for details.