Sentences with phrase «cost thousands of workers»

The head of the Canadian Auto Workers says he will try to thwart billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian's bid for Chrysler, fearing Kerkorian will cost thousands of workers their jobs.

Not exact matches

«Experts are clearly favoring Atlanta,» noted Bert Sperling, the firm's founder and CEO, in a recent statement, nodding to the city's comparatively low cost of living, international air hub and potential ability to absorb tens of thousands of new workers.

The CWA said on Saturday that Verizon has not budged from its original proposal which they have said would increase workers» healthcare costs by thousands of dollars, eliminate job security and remove any restrictions on the company's right to contract out or offshore union jobs.

When he assumed the position last June, he promised to slash costs while raising service levels, and he's moved quickly on both fronts: fewer train crews go to work each day, thousands of workers have already been turfed, and CP's remaining fleet is pulling heavier loads.

At the same time, Chinese contractors that operate on an entirely new model — exporting thousands of their own low - cost workers to foreign job sites, for example — are starting to compete in the markets where Bechtel is strongest.

As thousands of suddenly unemployed energy workers seek new jobs, they will be able to do so without worrying about a spike in the cost of their mortgages.

Understanding Changes in Ontario's Electricity Markets and Their Effects finds that poor energy policy choices — including Ontario's Green Energy Act — has increased electricity prices for residents, cost tens of thousands of manufacturing workers their jobs and produced only minimal health and environmental benefits.

In Detroit Niebuhr discovered the real cost of industrialization: dehumanization of the worker, nervous tensions, unemployment without compensation, broken bodies, appalling working conditions in the factories, and naive gentlemen with a genius for mechanics deciding the lives and fortunes of hundreds of thousands.

The Fair Work Commission has axed Domino's Pizza's long expired agreements that paid thousands of workers significantly below minimum rates, leaving the franchise facing tens of million of dollars in higher labour costs.

According to the California Department of Labor Statistics and Research, workers in food - processing plants have a higher likelihood of being hurt on the job than workers in many other industries.1 One injury while using a meat slicer could end up costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars, especially when you think about the damage that a meat slicer could do to the human body.

And the $ 16.7 million pales next to the $ 495 million from the New York Power Authority — funds literally generated upstate at the Niagara and Fitzpatrick Power projects — that was supposed to go to reduce electricity costs for the few remaining industries upstate, figuratively and literally turning out the lights for thousands of upstate workers and their families.

«Our economy has rebounded tremendously from the Great Recession, but thousands of workers across the state are still dealing with stagnant wages that do not reflect the cost of living in New York,» said Engel.

«While the Home Office may waive the initial fee for the first few airside workers forced to register, its own figures show this blatant piece of ministerial face - saving is to cost the taxpayer thousands per card.

A clear alternative, that does not involve throwing tens of thousands of public sector workers onto the dole — a move that would cost more than ten billion in lost tax revenue and increased state benefit payments.

But since students used the space until the second - to - last day of the school year, the DOE was left with less than 36 hours to clear the area — costing the department tens of thousands of dollars in overtime from contracted workers scrambling to meet the onerous deadline.

If all healthcare workers were trained to give brief advice to their patients on stopping smoking, as part of their everyday work, lasting no more than a few minutes, it could save thousands of lives at very little cost.

If Moore's law — that the cost of computation halves every 18 months — holds for another 15 years or so, SETI workers plan to use this antenna array approach to check out not a few thousand but perhaps a few million or even tens of millions of stars for alien signals.

Why Cashing Out Your 401 (k) Could Be a Costly Mistake — When a job change occurs, many workers cash out their 401 (k), which can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in retirement assets.

I'm stressed, overworked, underinsured, have a two - worker family, and you're telling me I'm going to face thousands of dollars in extra costs, but don't worry, Uncle Sam will write me a check?

Because legal department staff members are highly paid, even minor process inefficiencies can cost a company thousands of dollars per worker each year.

Unfortunately for one insurance brokerage, this is exactly what happened in the recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision of Sam's Auto Wrecking Co Ltd (Wentworth Metal) v Lombard General Insurance Company of Canada.1 The unforeseen gap between workers» compensation coverage and general liability insurance coverage ended up costing Dalton Timmis Insurance Group («Dalton Timmis») hundreds of thousands of dollars.

As part of this cost - cutting campaign, my clients had to let go thousands of workers and major projects that did not meet profitability criteria were either cancelled or deferred.

It also said in January it would partner with JPMorgan and Berkshire to tackle rising healthcare costs by forming a company to provide healthcare for their thousands of U.S. workers.