Sentences with phrase «as black workers»

As long as black workers continue to enter the public sector workforce, Laird said, it will continue to offer them type of upward mobility it long has.

Not exact matches

The MIT Technology Review recently reported that Walmart used VR to help workers prepare for Black Friday — simulations simply can't convey what it's like to be in the midst of that shopping crush — as well as teach more mundane lessons in customer service or how to stack produce.

They are not about to champion the Socialist Workers Party, slain Black Panthers and New Left activists — although these are only the most outrageously maligned of the multitude spied upon, which included such sterling citizens as Eleanor Roosevelt and thousands of ordinary, tax - return - filing Americans.

As immigrants disproportionately increased the supply of workers in a particular skill group, the wage of black workers in that group fell, the employment rate declined, and the incarceration rate rose.

I hold a similar regard for statements by white South Africans who seek to convince us that apartheid is in the best interest of colored and black peoples, as well as for statements by American entrepreneurs who argue that they are invested in South Africa for the purpose of enhancing the standard of living for black workers.

Most of these were workers stuck in part time jobs, and women were more likely to be among the working poor, as were blacks and Hispanics (www.bls.gov).

As important as public employment is to the black middle class, the pensions provided by public employment are perhaps even more crucial to the retirement security of black workerAs important as public employment is to the black middle class, the pensions provided by public employment are perhaps even more crucial to the retirement security of black workeras public employment is to the black middle class, the pensions provided by public employment are perhaps even more crucial to the retirement security of black workers.

The result - to the horror of the international community - was a reign of terror, as gangs of «war veterans» attacked and dispossessed white farmers and their black workers.

After adjusting for various factors, including age, demographic factors, health behaviors such as smoking and alcohol consumption, physical activity, medical conditions, and socioeconomic status, the researchers found that black workers in general — and black professionals in particular — were more likely to experience short sleep than whites.

The mishap at the U.S. Energy Department facility exposed 22 workers to low levels of radiation and ranks as one of the few black marks on the safety record at the disposal site since it opened in 1999.

My name is Emmanuel I am 23 years old residing in Akure, am black and will never hide that, I worked as a casual worker..

; MEN AND CHICKEN, Anders Thomas Jensen's dark, twisted and extremely animalistic comedy as black as pitch, but with the sweetest heart, starring Mads Mikkelsen; Fernando León de Aranoa's black comedy A PERFECT DAY, a freewheeling tale centering on two veteran aid workers starring Benico Del Toro and Tim Robbins; the International Premiere of Brendan Cowell's debut RUBEN GUTHRIE about an advertising exec trying to quit the booze, which spikes social observations with dark, wounded humour and the European Premiere of Japanese auteur / icon Takeshi Kitano's latest comedy, RYUZO AND HIS SEVEN HENCHMEN, about a group of elderly, retired Yakuza who reteam to take revenge on a younger rival gang.

It's shot entirely in black - and - white, with a creepy soundtrack composed almost entirely of drones and ambient noises (passing trains or airplanes, workers hammering away): the world as it might sound from inside a coffin.

As Katniss and Peeta journey to the other districts, we get the closest view of District 11, a farming community made up predominately of poor Black workers, that may seem strange, or even have unfortunate historical connotations.

And despite the criticism over being the Ghostbuster who was black and not a scientist — like Ernie Hudson in the original — Jones is the film's biggest breath of fresh air as the street-wise transit worker who joins the team after encountering a nasty ghost in a subway tunnel.

Payne's book is brilliant and should be read by all education policymakers, but today, in honor of Martin Luther King, I want to call attention to the Epilogue (as I have done before), where Payne tells the story of William J. Moore, «grandson of a fugitive slave,» who opened a «first class elementary school» in West Cape May, New Jersey, for the black «yard men, delivery «boys», dockhands, truck drivers, casual laborers, and factory workers» who serviced the white tourists of Cape May.

Today, many believe that the continuing difference between the earnings of black and white workers is due in good part to differences in their educational achievement, as measured by tests of cognitive ability.

Fuller began a career as a social worker and community organizer in Durham, North Carolina, rising up through local and statewide organizations that were focused on improving public services and opportunities for poor black residents.

Many teachers and principals were Jews, and members of that religious group, as schoolteachers, social workers, shopkeepers, and small landlords, were seen by black militants as the exploiters of African Americans.

As the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer approaches, The Hechinger Report will look back at the violence surrounding the 1964 campaign to register blacks to vote in Mississippi and the murders of three civil rights workers.

Befitting his daytime job as a labor historian at Cornell University, Salvatore even manages to provide a strong look at how unions such as the United Auto Workers often discriminated, both internally and in municipal politics, against the black workers whose interests they purported to repWorkers often discriminated, both internally and in municipal politics, against the black workers whose interests they purported to repworkers whose interests they purported to represent.

Translation: black teachers are as much community members as they are workers.

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Many black middle class families in this situation have adults who hold positions such as postal workers or sales clerks (Lacy, 2007).

It's 1964, and Sunny feels as though her life has been invaded when civil rights workers come to her town of Greenwood, Mississippi, to register blacks to vote.

In this photo - essay, black - and - white images introduce the lives of children who labor under harsh and dangerous conditions in jobs such as miners, garbage pickers, sex workers, and brick haulers.

She vividly describes the isolation of Eva's rebellious and lonely English mother; the desperation of her Afrikaner father as drought destroys his farm; the conflicts among the black farm - workers as the younger generation questions the loyalty and subservience of their elders; and the dangerous silence of a young girl who witnesses too much.

Any other untaxed income or benefits not reported elsewhere on Worksheets A or B, such as worker's compensation, untaxed portions of railroad retirement benefits, Black Lung Benefits, disability, and so on.

To combat negative stigmas and to draw more positive attention to these animals, shelter workers will do things like accessorize black cats and dogs with bright collars and bandanas, and hold functions, such as «Black is Beautiful» or «Black is Back» to try and raise awareness that these animals are need homes,black cats and dogs with bright collars and bandanas, and hold functions, such as «Black is Beautiful» or «Black is Back» to try and raise awareness that these animals are need homes,Black is Beautiful» or «Black is Back» to try and raise awareness that these animals are need homes,Black is Back» to try and raise awareness that these animals are need homes, too.

«For whatever reason, black animals don't catch people's attention as much,» Humane Society worker Tyler Stover told a CNN affiliate.

The Nordic race, for example, has workers who can swim across rivers, letting them expand early in the game, while the black forces can score as many stars as they want in combat, thus they might favour raw military power.

You'll be playing as Black, though is name is never explicitly stated, a worker who one day decides to escape the oppressive factory in which he and thousands of others labour every day under the watchful eye of brutish supervisors.

Beside from being inside the memories it is possible to leave and wander around Abestergo Entertainment and slowly you are given more access as the story progresses both inside and outside the animus; outside of the animus you can explore the offices and unlock computers to receive more information about what is happening inside of Abstergo, the worker the player is controlling is being warmed up to the idea of being a Templar which is different to Black Flag where that worker is intercepted by the Assassins.

While serving as a dorm parent at the Black Forest Academy, a school in Germany for the children of international Christian workers and international business families who want a North American curriculum that incorporates a Christian worldview, Paterson began to think about prayer and what a prayer might look like if it had a physical shape.

One review, published in the journal of the Art Workers» Union, claimed that the non-objective abstraction of artists such as Vladimir Tatlin, Aleksandr Rodchenko and Lyubov Popova had created a fated art, one that «terminated in an artistic dead - end, Malevich's Black Square».1

As a teenager, Bearden spent considerable time with his grandparents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and at sixteen, he spent a summer working for US Steel, which later inspired him to expose the conditions facing black steel workers in an article for Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life.

Other prints in the show depict factories invading the rural landscape, emitting black clouds of smoke as workers approach, dwarfed by the smokestacks.

Where Fredrickson reveals a collection of polaroid images chronicling his time as a sex worker, Sothern showcases, Lowlife 1985 — 1981, a series of black and white shots of Los Angeles - based sex workers in the 1980s.

If we take Manet's Olympia (1863) as a critical - yet - still - problematic exemplar of the patriarchal tradition, we might imagine that Thomas reclaims the marginalized positions of both the recumbent white sex worker (ridiculed as corpse - like and revolting in contemporaneous criticism) and her black attendant (offensively disparaged by 19th - century critics as a «hideous Negress»).

Other prints show factories invading the rural landscape, emitting black clouds of smoke as workers approach, dwarfed by the smokestacks.

It was published by New York postal worker Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1967, and listed establishments such as hotels, restaurants, beauty salons, nightclubs, bars, gas stations, and more, where black travelers would be welcome.

The meeting is to discuss proposed changes to MSHA rules to lower acceptable levels of respirable dust in mines to reduce the risk of workers contracting potentially fatal Coal Workers» Pneumoconiosis - also known as black lung disease - and other diworkers contracting potentially fatal Coal Workers» Pneumoconiosis - also known as black lung disease - and other diWorkers» Pneumoconiosis - also known as black lung disease - and other diseases.

Coal worker's pneumoconiosis — known as black lung disease or simply black lung — results from long - term exposure to coal dust.

Child labor has been abolished, safe and healthy work environments are guaranteed with federal laws such as Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), Black Lung Benefits Act (BLBA), Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and many others, and the minimum wage compensation of workers has increased tremendously.

In Derivative Discrimination Claim Still Not There on the 7th Circuit, Mike Fox writes about a (white) union steward, Dennis Walker, who complained to a warehouse manager at Mueller Industries Inc. about the company's treatment of its black workers, which included «co-workers singing racially derogatory songs,» references to African Americans as «monkeys,» and graffiti including «N - I - G - A» written throughout the warehouse.

Thus, to paraphrase my torts professor, no matter how easy it would be for a 200 - pound, 8th - degree black belt in karate to rescue a child being beaten up by a 7 - year - old girl, the black belt can walk on by under the common law (with certain exceptions, such as when the would - be rescuer is an emergency worker or the victim is your own child).

Workplace harassment has been defined as «engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct against a worker in a workplace that is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome».22 «Vexatious» is defined by Black's Law Dictionary23 as «without reasonable or probable cause or excuse».

For purposes of this paragraph, workers» compensation benefits include benefits under programs such as the Black Lung Benefits Act, the federal Employees» Compensation Act, the Longshore and Harbor Workers» Compensation Act, and the Energy Employees» Occupational Illness Compensation Progrworkers» compensation benefits include benefits under programs such as the Black Lung Benefits Act, the federal Employees» Compensation Act, the Longshore and Harbor Workers» Compensation Act, and the Energy Employees» Occupational Illness Compensation ProgrWorkers» Compensation Act, and the Energy Employees» Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act.

Located at the forks of the Black River, Elyria faces serious water - related damage risk, and your business can face just as much damage from legal claims and worker injury.

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EARLE3407 Old Dobbin Road, Montgomery, Alabama 36116 - 1903Home Phone: [phone] Cell Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] E-mail: [email protected] position managing legal discovery and document review with opportunity to assist attorneys with civil litigationBAR ADMISSIONAlabama State Bar, 1999LAW - RELATED EXPERIENCELaw Firm, AlabamaResearch Attorney for Special Projects, Mass Torts Department, November 2001 — February 2008 • Managed Multi-District Litigation (MDL) Document Depository (September 2002 to February 2008) o Reviewed more than 1 million pages of evidentiary documents for litigation purposes and for inclusion in electronic databaseso Coordinated document review assignments with attorneys at local depository and at other sites across the USo Retrieved, reviewed and coded documents in Concordance and Summation legal databaseso Prepared memoranda and spreadsheets providing detailed analysis of discovery materials • Aided attorneys and support staff with processing and preparation of personal injury claims and litigationo Conducted legal research and drafted pleadingso Conducted supplementary online research for additional documents and information pertinent to litigationo Assisted with preparation of correspondence to clients and referring attorneyso Contacted clients for additional information needed in case preparation, litigation, and potential settlementso Prepared and input case intakes and referrals into databaseLaw School, AlabamaStudent Intern, Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP), August 1996 — June 1997 • Participated in law school clinical program under third - year law student practice rule (as authorized by Alabama Supreme Court) o Assisted attorneys and advocates in cases involving mentally ill patients confined to state mental health facilitieso Interviewed clients in person (at state facilities) and over the phoneo Worked with clients, attorneys, and social workers to investigate and resolve issues concerning involuntary confinement and treatmento Aided in legal research on an appellate brief submitted to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (ruling granted in favor of our client) Faculty Research Assistant for Library Services, Bounds Law Library, March 1996 — June 1997 • Prepared research and teaching materials for law school faculty; worked 20 hours per week while matriculating 10 - 15 hours per semester) o Investigated copyright issues related to procuring and reproducing texts for academic useo Conducted legal research using WESTLAW, LEXIS and the InternetADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCEManufacturing Company (MC), Montgomery, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant and Cost Analyst, Materials Purchasing Department, April 1999 — September 2001 • Assisted materials buyers in negotiating and preparing commodities contracts between raw materials suppliers and MC for manufacturing plants in the US and Mexicoo Assisted Legal Department at MC's corporate headquarters with coordination and preparation of documents for litigationo Notified and educated suppliers about MC's freight - on - board policy and its corresponding Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) provisions; result was the reduction of freight claims for both the company and its supplierso Prepared contracts and purchase orders for raw materials and capital projects involving plant maintenanceo Solicited price quotations from current vendors and established Excel spreadsheet format which simplified quote submission process and allowed MC to track and compare usage volumes and costs over timeo Prepared and analyzed cost reports used by materials buyers and production planners in purchasing decisions, including cost reductions, materials consolidation, and selection of vendorso Acted as liaison between vendors and the Purchasing, Transportation and Accounting Departments on issues concerning inbound freight, commercial carriers, and payment terms for commodities, resulting in reductions in freight costs and greater payment discounts for raw materialso Established online databases and printed directories for the Purchasing Department, allowing buyers to have easier and faster access to current vendor informationo Completed Year 2000 (Y2K) compliance project, which involved data collection and communication with MC's past, present, and potential materials suppliers and service providersNot - For - Profit Organization, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant, Combined Federal Campaign, September 1998 — January 1999 • Aided Campaign Director with 1998 Federal Campaigns (CFCs) in City 1 and City 2, which together generated nearly $ 700,000 for more than 1,000 local, national and international charitieso Prepared weekly reports on donations using WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Excel and dBase IVo Wrote script for Talent Showcase at City 1's 1998 CFC Kickoffo Assisted Director with merger of the City 1 and City 2 CFCs in 1999Regional Bank, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant, Year 2000 (Y2K) Department, March — June 1998 • Worked with Vice President of Corporate Projects on short - term project for the bank's Y2K Departmento Analyzed and processed data on Y2K readiness for all branches of Bank throughout the southeastern USo Organized meetings for personnel of Banko Communicated with vendors of computer hardware, software, and office equipment to request information on Y2K complianceo Prepared compliance files for Federal Reserve auditso Prepared in - house memoranda and reports using Microsoft Word and ExcelRecord / Music Promotion Company, AlabamaRecord Pool Co-Founder; Office Manager, September 1990 — December 1991 • Co-founded record pool to enhance promotion of music in Alabama and the southeastern USo Procured and distributed records from major and independent labels for club, radio and mobile disc jockeyso Coordinated jointly sponsored promotional events with record companies, radio stations and clubso Designed, wrote, and published bi-weekly reports and brochures to inform the music industry of the progress and popularity of music and performers in the region, with specific focus on the Alabama music sceneMajor University, AlabamaGraduate Research Assistant, AUM Department of Marketing, June 1989 — August 1990 • Worked 13 - 20 hours per week as a research assistant to Marketing faculty while carrying a full course load in the MBA programo Analyzed consumer surveys used in academic researcho Assisted Conference Chairperson with coordination for Atlantic Marketing Association (AMA) annual meeting (October 1989) o Co-authored five - year index and classification of AMA Proceedings (published Fall 1991) EDUCATIONLaw School, AlabamaJuris Doctor (JD), 1997 • Scholarshipso Seybourn H. Lynne Scholarship, 1996 - 97o Dexter C. Hobbs Memorial Scholarship, 1995 - 96o E. W. Godbey Memorial Scholarship, 1994 - 95 • Honorso Who's Who Among American Law School Students, 1996 - 94o Arthur Davis Shores Award, 1997 • Activitieso Frederick Douglass Moot Court Team Manager, 1996 - 97 Southern Regional Competition, Second Place National Competition, Eighth Placeo John A. Campbell Moot Court Competition, Spring 1996o Black Law Students Association Delegate, BLSA National Convention, 1997 Co-Chairperson, Public Relations Committee, 1996 - 97 Chairperson, Public Relations Committee, 1995 - 96 BLSA President's Award, 1996 and 1997o American Bar Association, 1996 - 97 Entertainment and Sports Industries Forum Intellectual Property Section Law Student Divisiono LAWS Student Group Leader, 1995 - 96Major University, AlabamaMaster of Business Administration (MBA), 1990Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (B.S.B.A.), 1988 (Major: Marketing — Advertising and Promotion Track) • Honorso Dean's List • Activitieso National Student Advertising Competition Team, 1988 - 90 Seventh District Competition: Third Place, 1990o Marketing Club, 1987 - 90 Vice President — Career Development, 1988 - 89o Public Relations / Advertising (PR / AD) Club, 1988 - 90 Charter Member, 1988 Active in fund - raising and membership driveso Theater Guild, 1988 - 90 Screening Committee, 1989REFERENCESAvailable upon request