Sentences with phrase «construction workers on»

At Your Service will present Noon (2008/9), a new series of photographs exploring construction workers on their breaks.

Contractors and construction workers on Long Island looking for a new heavy duty truck know to check out the great lease deals available here on Ram 1500, Ram 2500 and Ram 3500 models.

The district is required by law to try and find ways to put more women and minority construction workers on the project.

When walking back to the car I passed a bunch of loud construction workers on break and I got a bunch of shouts from them too but I don't know, it bothered me somehow.

The others are a financing deal for a new $ 500 million Milwaukee Bucks stadium and how dramatically to change a prevailing wage law setting minimum salaries for construction workers on certain public projects.

Republicans are also discussing what changes to make to Wisconsin's prevailing wage law, which sets a minimum salary for construction workers on some public jobs.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, announced a six - month window for developers and labor leaders to come to an agreement on so - called prevailing - wage jobs for construction workers on 421 - a projects.

But Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that any future deal leading to a permanent renewal of the abatement must include some form of prevailing wage requirement for construction workers on projects benefitting from 421a — namely buildings with more than 15 units.

The accord is a far cry from the initial demands of union groups, who sought prevailing wage requirements for construction workers on most projects that qualified for the tax break.

«It's time to define public work to make sure construction workers on projects financed by or subsidized by state resources receive fair wages and benefits.»

The complaint alleges that in 2014 COR Development went through an Albany - based lobbyist to help them avoid a state - mandated labor agreement that would have them pay more to construction workers on a state - funded project in Syracuse.

The key changes to the abatement — from the version that expired in 2016 — include wage requirements for construction workers on certain projects and a 35 - year break from property taxes (up from 25) on large projects that pay these wages.

Although the region was visited by traders from China for centuries, the first main Chinese influx came in 1820s, as immigrants worked as construction workers on the building of Singapore, and the second wave of laborers came in the 1840s to work the tin mines.

A construction worker on a backhoe cut into a natural gas line in our next door neighbor's yard.

State lawmakers have approved new criminal penalties for motorists whose careless driving causes injury or death of a construction worker on a road or highway project.

Lawmakers in the New York state Senate have approved new criminal penalties for motorists whose careless driving causes the injury or death of a construction worker on a road or highway project.

After a brief stint as a construction worker on the Major Deegan Expressway, he enrolled in the Art Students League, which he later described as having «the worst collection of instructors one could ever get.»

The Louvre building has been the focus of criticism for poor labour conditions over the years (with the death of a construction worker on site two years ago).

Is he a construction worker on the day because he performed more than 50 % of his days work in a prescribed construction task and therefore all exemptions for construction apply on that day?

Not exact matches

The owners of a rigging and construction business have been fined a total of $ 32,500 for failing to provide workers with a fall injury prevention system on a construction site.

SEATTLE — Amazon has halted construction planning on a new high - rise building near its headquarters while it awaits the outcome of a Seattle city proposal to tax worker hours.

AR can help professionals work on car (or jet) engines, tell construction workers what's concealed within walls, and give people in warehouses a better view of their inventory, among many other uses.

Whether it's the barista frothing my cappuccino as I impatiently embark on my next transcontinental flight or the construction workers blocking the street while cars pile up and they, doughnuts in hand, mosey along attempting to clear the blockage du jour, people seem to be flat - out taking their blasted time.

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.

Construction workers found the bomb in King George V Dock, which is a stone's throw away from the end of the London City Airport runway, on the River Thames.

The company made its pique apparent: On July 23 it shut down the grading work outside Reno, abruptly sending 240 construction workers home.

«In the short - term, fewer firms will be able to bid on construction projects if they are concerned they will not have enough workers to meet demand,» he said in a statement.

Workers from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department kill mosquitoes outside a construction site in Hong Kong on Aug. 26, 2016, after the first case of Zika was confirmed in the city.

The number of workers on big projects in Western Australia is likely to stabilise at just one quarter of the peak level recorded during the mining construction boom, and that's only if planned projects get approved, a new study has found.

In the early hours of October 26, while Los Angeles slept, a man dressed as a construction worker demolished Donald Trump's star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Adorned with an American flag that flapped in the breeze, the last pieces of a silver spire were hoisted to the top of the World Trade Center on Thursday as construction workers cheered its ascent.

Back in March, 1,000 construction workers employed on contract to work on the $ 3.2 billion Sunrise oil sands project were laid off.

There are certainly no obvious hazards of the kind that are commonplace on construction sites or in factories, and many office workers enjoy the benefits of rigid working days, rather than having their body clocks thrown by changing shift patterns.

End Illegal Immigration Act Fully - funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2 - year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5 - year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.

Additionally the construction jobs themselves will put overall pressure on wages, and workers in otherwise stranded industries, like coal, may find new work in new fields.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

Make sure that construction contractors enter into project labor agreements that will help ensure workers have protections on the job and can guarantee that construction will be completed on time using skilled hands;

«While Gold Mantis was not subject to the F.B.I. raid,» she said in an email, «the Department of Justice action shows that the pressure on the construction site, across multiple contractors, was to cut labor costs by seeking out migrant workers least able to complain and then pressuring them to work in substandard conditions.»

As for other industries, I've observed before that infrastructure projects on the scale of those being discussed would actually have to be implemented with foreign labor (as many of the largest U.S. construction projects have been in recent years), since heavy construction workers represent a rather small segment of the U.S. labor force.

The newly elected Progressive Conservative government in Manitoba has moved quickly to cement its anti-worker bona fides with the radical right - wing by making it more difficult for non-union workers to join a union, and by opening up bidding on large scale public construction projects to non-union companies.

«Employers in the construction sector are especially concerned as they rely heavily on EU workers to meet the growing demand for housing and to support the government's infrastructure plans.»

«Since the province doesn't monitor the use of foreign workers, we only have anecdotal evidence to go on, but we need to know if there is still widespread use of the program in the construction industry,» said Horgan.

While there are a large and ever - growing number of studies about the financial impacts of the housing bust on everyone from home owners to bankers to construction workers until recently there hasn't been a lot of serious research -LSB-...]

CBTU is campaigning to have the federal government introduce a Construction Mobility Tax Credit — a personal tax exemption on expenses construction workers typically incur when they temporarily relocaConstruction Mobility Tax Credit — a personal tax exemption on expenses construction workers typically incur when they temporarily relocaconstruction workers typically incur when they temporarily relocate for work.

As Navillus makes its way through bankruptcy, the concrete company is going after one of its general contractors for allegedly stiffing its workers on one of the biggest construction projects in Times Square.

Link building illicits the following image in my head: A construction worker laboring a brick of metal, wavering, up a set of stairs, slabbing some cement on the corners, nailing things, sweating profusely, eating from a lunch bin, hating his job, repeating, repeating, repeating.

Now, in an unexpected twist, the LA Times reports that a folding knife was found by a construction worker at Simpson's mansion and was handed over to an off - duty cop from the traffic division who was working security on a nearby movie shoot.

When the author recalls the long gallery of persons whom, in the course of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and white, men and women, young and old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.

He composed it after a construction workers» strike led to a brief uprising against the Communist government on June 17, 1953.

The business world is not short on stories about manufacturers that got started in their founder's home garage, a construction worker starting with one hammer and a few nails that grew into a multimillion - dollar operation, and restaurants with concepts that were developed in their creators» kitchens.