Sentences with phrase «class workers in»

The CoStar database constitutes one of few attempts to quantify what housing leaders view as a critical supply of housing for middle - class workers in a wide range of professions that enable local economies to function.

Prior to the March across the Brooklyn Bridge, a Press Conference will be held to discuss the issues important to middle class workers in New York City and State.

Being a low - class worker in antiquity probably wasn't much fun either.

When your friendly CC scientist informs you that your are scheduled to freeze to death in your home for the crime of the greed perpetrated by your ancestors, take solace in the likelihood that the moderately paid overworked burgeoning middle class worker in the developing economies couldn't care a rat's because he's too busy raising a family and renovating his 2nd investment residence from wood heating into coal stove retro.

Not exact matches

In recent days, Sanders has stumped with striking Verizon workers, railing about large corporations destroying the middle class through cost - cutting and low wages that create economic stagnation and widen the gulf between the 1 percenters and everyone else.

The Silicon Valley worker benefits and perks — the free, fresh produce and transcendental meditation pods — have become symbols of the riches created in the tech sector and how good it has been to workers, but the hype belies the truth that many of the employees operating within big tech companies are working on second - class contract terms.

Obviously this isn't the majority - the median wealth of people in the 55 - 64 cohort is something like $ 200,000 - but a non-trivial percentage of middle class workers ultimately reach this milestone.

(Class actions in Massachusetts and California challenging contract worker status at some of the on - demand companies may also alter the landscape.)

Many valedictorians themselves believe that they weren't the smartest student in their class but rather simply the hardest worker.

In fact, so many people have taken to driving, hosting and delivering goods that new companies are launching to help this class of worker maximize earnings, handle administrative functions and finish jobs efficiently.

Attorneys for McDonald's workers have filed class action suits in three states claiming that the company was responsible for illegally withholding wages in a number of ways, including calling people in but not paying them for all the time they were required to be in stores as well as charging for the costs of uniforms.

Uber uses technology to drive down the cost of labor by replacing a regulated, protected class of worker (in this case, taxi drivers) with a non-protected worker (in this case, anyone with a driver's license and decent car).

Class action lawsuits filed by current and former Chipotle workers in Colorado and Minnesota accuse the burrito chain of making employees work extra hours without pay, reports CNN.

While Starbucks coffee can be an everyday indulgence for urbanites in the West, with a price tag of 30 yuan (US$ 4.43) for a medium latte in Shanghai, it is still a brand with plenty of snob appeal — a status symbol for the emerging Chinese middle class and a «liquid luxury» for an average worker.

In addition to the usual benefits (health care, dental, etc.), workers at the beloved ice cream maker's South Burlington, Vt., headquarters have access to sponsored gym memberships, on - site yoga and Pilates classes, a shared community garden, and quiet rooms where they can go to sneak a few ZZZs during the day.

The Turk is a convenient metaphor for the worker in today's disrupted economy: Finding himself in the most opulent of settings, a person is confined to a tiny box, performing menial tasks for the benefit of the ruling class.

This spring, health workers from the surrounding area took a class in the building, taught from a trauma center in Boston.

Now PagerDuty wants to deliver the same always - on - call approach to other classes of workers, including marketers, IT administrators and those in the executive suite.

One of those workers filed a class action lawsuit against the company in the bankruptcy court for violating the federal WARN Act, which requires larger companies to give 60 days advance notice of layoffs.

It is about whether we create enough security for middle - class consumers and workers to participate in the economy.

He's calling for something similar to another «New Deal» and he's talking about how the US will no longer sacrifice its middle class and its workers in order to «build a middle class in Asia».

The Labor Department's new proposal to update the overtime - pay rules would give millions of American workers a toehold in the middle class.

In June, he wrote a Washington Post op - ed calling for a new third class of worker — somewhere in between contractor and employee — to fit the needs of on - demand and marketplace companieIn June, he wrote a Washington Post op - ed calling for a new third class of worker — somewhere in between contractor and employee — to fit the needs of on - demand and marketplace companiein between contractor and employee — to fit the needs of on - demand and marketplace companies.

But it allowed workers to enroll in any accredited college or university based on what made the most sense for them, including in - person classes that experts say are especially critical for low - income workers to succeed in their education.

The longer Europe refuses to debate honestly about debt and the euro, and the the longer it suffers from stagnation and unemployment, the more credible the Front National becomes in denouncing centrist parties for sacrificing workers and the middle class to protect the interest of bankers.

The case was eventually granted class - action status in July 2012, allowing Liss - Riordan to represent all of the aggrieved workers.

The report delivered to Flaherty showed the income of Canadian middle - class families did not grow as fast as other income groups over the last 35 years, with male workers in middle - class families having seen «little wage increases» since the mid-1990s.

The hukou registration system that ties people to their place of ordinary residence deprives migrant workers of rights to welfare, education or property, and prevents them from launching businesses in the cities, where they are treated as second - class citizens.

But the truth is that the nation has long abandoned Marx's views of class struggle and the inevitability of the workers» revolution, after it began carrying out a series of market - oriented reforms in the late 1970s that led it to become the world's second - largest economy.

Today it has workers in more than 40 buildings and occupies one - fifth of Seattle's first - class office space, totaling more than 10 million square feet.

«This harmonization should facilitate the development by manufacturers in both countries of world - class front - line workers with the skills needed able to meet the dual challenges of global economic competitiveness and accelerating technological change.»

We believe the Bush administration will be under increasing pressure in 2007 to argue for a guest worker amnesty as the U.S. middle class begins to experience increasing home foreclosures in a market where employment in the lower - skilled job categories are increasingly difficult to find.

Mining companies including Anglo - American Plc agreed to settle a class - action lawsuit from workers who said they contracted deadly lung diseases in South African gold mines.

If you want to franchise a cool burger concept, work at McDonald's to learn how to hire workers, manage inventory and serve customers from that burger chain's best - in - class procedures.

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.

It is considered a bit of a faux pas to point this out, but what we are talking about in part is a Democratic president, a largely Democratic professional administrative class in Washington, and an IRS whose workers belong to a union whose political action committee gave roughly 95 % of its political contributions last year to Democrats.

It may be liberation of Blacks from oppression by racist society in the United States or liberation of Latin American peasants and workers from the bondage of economic colonialism and class oppression.

Over 90 percent, for instance, of those who work for the recently privatized British corporation British Telecom now hold stock in the firm — thus bridging the destructive and needless chasm that separates owners and workers and that promotes class warfare.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

The revolution would usher in a new age where the workers would be the only class and would own everything through the state, because they were the state.

In short, the global system — which is committed to the free flow of labor, goods, and capital — works well for the leadership class in Europe and North America, as it does for striving workers in China, India, and elsewherIn short, the global system — which is committed to the free flow of labor, goods, and capital — works well for the leadership class in Europe and North America, as it does for striving workers in China, India, and elsewherin Europe and North America, as it does for striving workers in China, India, and elsewherin China, India, and elsewhere.

In countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etcIn countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etcin the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etcin using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etc..

It includes the growth of professionalism and what has been called a «new class» of knowledge workers and information specialists — growth that has, to say the least, occurred at the expense of the privileged position that clergy in past centuries occupied within the professions.5

The power relationship between students and teachers was not as stark as that between workers and management, and so some students did raise their hands in class to argue that no one should cross the picket line.

In most cases the life of a slave was not much different from the life of any lower - class worker.

Unforgivably in the eyes of these latter, he was an unapologetic defender of the lower - middle - class moral traditions from which many knowledge workers of his generation had emerged and escaped.

In particular, the determining factor in the evolution of society is the class struggle — the inevitable conflict between the exploiters and the exploited, the capitalists who own the tools of production and the workers who use theIn particular, the determining factor in the evolution of society is the class struggle — the inevitable conflict between the exploiters and the exploited, the capitalists who own the tools of production and the workers who use thein the evolution of society is the class struggle — the inevitable conflict between the exploiters and the exploited, the capitalists who own the tools of production and the workers who use them.

Not totally ensconced in any single class, the intellectual artisan - worker is in a better position to choose where her or his loyalties will be invested.

«Under the education umbrella, we've partnered up with a few organizations that are in the communities in which we operate that give our migrant workers access to free English classes before or after work,» Delaney says.

«We are located in a world class ski town that attracts enthusiastic workers who fit with our laid back culture.