Sentences with phrase «by plant workers»

The official word on the battery pack overheating issue was that some battery cells were being dropped on the ground during the assembly process by plant workers, and tests on those damaged cells overheated when charged.

Not exact matches

Alcoa had voluntarily shut - off the plant's burner in 2002 after a number of multi-million dollar compensation claims were made against the company by workers relating to adverse health effects.

Toyota successfully rebuffed incursions at its Ontario plants in 2001 (by the CAW) and 2008 (by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers).

Here, in the outskirts of Sacramento, a handful of government workers face a daunting task: By Jan. 1, craft regulations and rules that will govern the state's emerging legal pot market, from where and how plants can be grown to setting guidelines to track the buds from fields to stores.

AMARILLO, Texas, April 20 (Reuters)- In a sprawling plant near Amarillo, Texas, rows of workers perform by hand one of the most dangerous jobs in American industry.

Opened by International Harvester in 1974 to remanufacture diesel engines and engine components for its truck and agricultural and construction equipment dealers, the plant had lost $ 2 million in the most recent fiscal year, and the big question was whether the employees, previously nonunion, would vote to join the Teamsters or the United Auto Workers in an election scheduled for March.

Besides scientists, he encountered looters and nuclear workers who still work at the plants, which are to be completely decommissioned by 2020.

The plant was by all accounts a microcosm of corporate America — a facility that was well equipped but had a toxic atmosphere, the kind of place where managers perpetually told employees what they were doing wrong and union workers retaliated by finding excuses not to work.

As for the workers affected by the closure of the Gunsan plant, they will be sent to other plants.

Jones added that Trump should also help the 350 workers at an Indianapolis plant owned by another company, Rexnord, which is also slated to move to Mexico.

Dr. Elzeyadi said he was intrigued by Amazon's sphere project, but not convinced it would be as effective as letting workers gaze at plants from their desks.

These automatable jobs include positions like supermarket check - out clerks, who can be replaced by self - service checkout cashiers, and assembly line workers in manufacturing plants, who can be replaced by robotic arms.

Under a clause in the union's contract, if Madison's Oscar Mayer plant closes, its employees have the right to take over a job that's held by a worker with the least seniority at the Davenport factory.

Workers leave Oscar Mayer's headquarters and plant last week after hearing that parent company Kraft Heinz will close Madison operations by early 2017.

Workers leave Oscar Mayer's headquarters and plant at the shift change Wednesday after hearing that parent company Kraft Heinz will close Madison operations by early 2017.

Twenty auto plants will operate with three shifts or three crews of workers by the end of this year in North America, said Tracy Handler, an IHS Automotive analyst based in Northville, Michigan.

The company claims this is an attack by the United Auto Workers over UAW's unsuccessful unionization efforts at the plant.

Surrounded by coal industry workers, donned in khaki pants and polo shirts, President Trump signed an executive order in March pulling the plug on his predecessor's plan to close hundreds of coal - fired power plants to reduce carbon emissions.

The National Beef lawsuit is the latest in a string of class action lawsuits brought by Kistler on behalf of workers against meatpacking plants and food processing companies.

Kraft Heinz, which now owns the Oscar Mayer brand, announced Wednesday it will close the plant by early 2017, putting about 1,000 workers out of jobs and ending a nearly 100 - year local corporate presence.

Here is a workable scenario: A corporation owned by both Israeli and Palestinian interests (probably the governments, at least initially) builds one or more very large desalination plants and the necessary pipelines, develops the land to be irrigated, manages the farms on that land, and perhaps develops communities where the farm workers can live.

But in some parts of the country a grass - roots movement of laid - off workers resisting the plant closures is exerting surprising pressure upon its own leadership, as the recent vote by the rank and file membership of United Auto Workers to defy its own leadership and decisively reject a wage agreement with Chrysler Corporation appears to inworkers resisting the plant closures is exerting surprising pressure upon its own leadership, as the recent vote by the rank and file membership of United Auto Workers to defy its own leadership and decisively reject a wage agreement with Chrysler Corporation appears to inWorkers to defy its own leadership and decisively reject a wage agreement with Chrysler Corporation appears to indicate.

Fifteen months ago, the company announced it would lay off 30,000 workers and close at least 14 plants by 2008 as part of a restructuring plan.

Temporary hardships caused in certain industries by competition from foreign producers should be alleviated by direct economic assistance and by helping in plant modernization or the retraining and reallocation of displaced workers, and not by the imposition of import duties which prevent able and industrious people from reaping the rewards of their efforts.

During a 2006 tour of the Postville plant, Rabbi Morris Allen of Saint Paul, Minnesota said he was disturbed by worker conditions and that he shared those concerns with the facilities» owners.

When this man handed you a pamphlet you took it no matter what the subject: the dangers of atomic power plants, the role played by the International Jewish Cartel in the overthrow of friendly governments, the CIA - Contra - cocaine connection, the farm workers» unions, the Jehovah's Witnesses (If You Can Answer These Ten Questions «Yes,» You Have Been SAVED!)

Today, 18,000 skilled workers are employed by glass container manufacturing companies across 48 plants in 22 states.

Today, about 18,000 skilled workers are employed by glass container manufacturing companies across 48 plants in 22 states.

Workers must prepare the planting ground for the small seedlings by loosening and grading the soil.

That really hits close to home,» Perry said, adding that 650 workers had been idled by the scare, including 300 at a meat plant in Texas.

But after the «pink slime» reports on ABC News, major grocery stores and fast food outlets ceased purchasing the product and by May 25, 2012, BPI had to close three of its four plants, and lay off at least 650 workers.

What would be really bold is suggesting that the GE factory closing in Hudson Falls be taken over by the displaced, fired workers; and have the plant move into high tech, or renewable energy production.

Up to 1,500 construction workers were expected to be working by this fall to get the multi-million dollar solar panel manufacturing plant up and running by next year.

Homemade bombs are sometimes planted by workers from rival political parties to intimidate voters ahead of polling day.

With just a few hours to go before President - elect Donald Trump take office, New York's Working Families Party is using what it anticipates will be «wholesale attacks on working people» by the incoming administration and its allies to highlight the plight of several hundred striking workers at Momentive Performance Materials, a chemical plant in Waterford.

Hourly workers at the plant, which makes equipment for the scrap recycling industry, approved representation by the Ironworkers Shopmen's union last June and have been bargaining a first contract since then.

The letter hews more or less to the same script as previous missives sent by elected officials — including AG Andrew Cuomo — noting the plant's closure is harming not only the 305 workers involved, but also the economy of the entire region.

Kraft Heinz Foods Co. has notified 380 workers at its cheese plant in Campbell that they will be laid off by the end of July if a buyer for the facility is not found.

Members of Local 81380, which represents lab workers at the plant, voted 61 - 0 for the pact, which was spearheaded by closed - door negotiations between the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and officials of Momentive Performance Materials, which is owned by several hedge funds that include some of the richest men in the U.S.

Either by legislative or executive action (decree) or by de facto plant seizures by workers cooperatives.

But many MEPs are still hostile to Mr Brown's «British jobs for British workers» remark, which was resurrected by protestors outside the Lindsey plant when they went on wildcat strike - an event which saturated media coverage in Italy.

To lessen the economic impact on workers at the plant, Cuomo has floated a potential transition into the renewable energy sector for workers laid off by the plant's closure.

On Monday night, spokesmen for the union representing the majority of workers at the Remington Arms plant in Ilion went to Albany to lobby legislators over the potential impact on jobs before the legislation was passed by the New York state Assembly on Tuesday.

The press conference will focus on the corporate welfare given to GE and its decision to abandon the workers in Fort Edward by moving the plant.

Workers at the site had earlier been told by site owners Ineos that the petrochemical plant will close.

An investigator named by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to look into the cases of fired unionized workers at the Momentive chemical plant was at the Waterford plant recently.

Grandin's battles in the slaughter industry have nearly all been waged with higher management, not with workers or floor managers, simply because they're office bound, their thinking determined more by the paper that surrounds them than by living animals and working plants.

He earned his Ph.D. in plant biology on the same Amherst campus where he now works and where graduate students are already represented by a union affiliated with the United Auto Workers (UAW).

At Kumho Life and Environmental Science Lab in Kwangju, for example, 10 of its 55 workers are paid by the program and work alongside full - time employees to crystallize proteins, breed transgenic plants, and conduct studies on environmental stress signals.

At least six power plants, including Dongfang Electric in the city of Deyang where building collapses killed at least 100 workers and trapped hundreds more, have been damaged by the quake, according to the State Grid Corporation of China.