Sentences with phrase «companies waging a campaign»

However, with the price of food rising much faster than the global mean temperature, I suppose it is really not terribly surprising that financial analysts would seize on the potential catastrophe that is most immediate (especially if there are no major energy companies waging a campaign to confuse the issue).

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Now union activists across the country are pressing companies for more in a campaign known as the «Fight for $ 15,» which has successfully spurred cities and private companies to establish higher wage floors.

That's helped Marc Cohodes, an American short - seller, to wage campaigns against Canadian companies Concordia International and Home Capital.

While there are loud critics who wage public campaigns against companies they short, many other short - sellers had long kept positions secret for fear of losing access to corporate management or retribution from rival Wall Street investors through a so - called short squeeze.

Fluor had apprehensions about working with the Philadelphia Building Trades, largely due to the propaganda campaign waged by nonunion contractors... (Fluor says in the letter) the company is ecstatic over our performance (after) more than five million man - hours.

Google's chief lawyer, David Drummond, last week lashed out against Apple and others, accusing them of «a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents.»

Britain's Channel 4 used an undercover investigation to record Nix saying that the company could use unorthodox methods to wage successful political campaigns for clients.

Eldon Roth, BPI's founder, took out a full - page ad in The Wall Street Journal to decry the «campaign of lies and deceit» waged against his company.

The company has been waging a regulatory battle in New York at the both the state and city level over the last several years, which has spilled over into political campaigns as well and put the firms at odds with hotel chains and the influential labor group Hotel Trades Council.

The New York Times» piece on Herbalife yesterday, which details how billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman is waging a PR campaign to destroy the supplement company for his own profit, buries the role of three of the city's most prominent Latino politicians in a massive campaign to cast Herbalife as a pyramid scheme targeting minorities.

Activist Mark Dunlea works with the Campaign For A Real Minimum Wage Increase: «We do agree his [Cuomo's] idea of trying to do it just for fast - food workers but particularly only for fast - food workers for certain large companies, 30 franchises, does raise some legal questions about his strategy.»

Armed with $ 1.5 billion in venture capital, Uber is waging a stealth campaign to undermine Lyft and other transportation networking companies, reports Casey Newton for the Verge.

And then there is the much bigger rump that could not get access to good schools (down under Labour), good apprenticeships / sponsoring companies, also down under Labour and lastly betrayed by a Labour Govt that seems to think spending vast amounts of money on snooping campaigns to catch benefit cheats is a better investment than educating and reskilling the un-employed, who on going out to do the jobs that must be done find themselves up against foreign labour sometimes willing to work the most brutal conditions (and maybe less than min wage because it is still better than home).

Most MCCEJ activity occurred in the early months of 2016 when Cuomo and company traveled the state on the $ 15 minimum wage campaign.

But this one continues to grow because of the indolence of governments, the prevarication of shipping companies and the inattention of environmental groups who, had they waged a serious campaign, would surely have prevailed by now.

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In the UK, anti-Amazon campaign group Amazon Anonymous has been campaigning for the company to pay UK warehouse workers the Living Wage.

Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts is the new expansion pack from THQ which expands on the original game by letting players take over the British 2nd Army or the German Panzer Elite and wage war in two new campaigns.

At the company's Web site, planktos.com, a simple notice blamed the shutdown on a «highly effective disinformation campaign waged by anti-offset crusaders.»

Freeman charges that the reason we aren't already using more renewable energy is that oil companies and electrical utilities have waged a slick campaign to deceive Americans:

But there is also well a financed corporate campaign to discredit climatology similar to the disinformation campaign waged by the tobacco companies.

This fall, several news outlets (working independently) broke the news that oil giant ExxonMobil (a Private Enterprise Council Member of ALEC) had known as early as the 1970s that carbon dioxide emissions were fueling the greenhouse effect — and yet the company continued to wage a political and media campaign to cloud the public's understanding of climate science.

The fossil fuel industry has responded to these suits by fiercely waging a campaign that claims that any legal action against the fossil fuel companies for funding organizations engaged in climate change denial activities is tantamount to a legally inappropriate suppression of free speech (See: Climate change vs. free speech: Punishing fossil fuel companies for expressing doubt).

Community Rights Counsel Press Release — For more than a decade, Exxon Corporation (now ExxonMobil) has waged a comprehensive campaign against punitive damages awards, triggered by the decision of a jury in Alaska to impose a $ 5 billion penalty on the company for the misdeeds that led to the Valdez oil spill, the worst in the nation's history.

Britain's Channel 4 used an undercover investigation to record Cambridge Analytica's chief executive, Alexander Nix, saying that the company could use unorthodox methods to wage successful political campaigns for clients.

Directed communication efforts for the [company name] campaign, a coalition - based effort to raise the minimum wage to $ 10 by 2015.