Sentences with phrase «factory worker made»

While in the past, manufacturing workers earned a wage significantly higher than the U.S. average, by 2013 the average factory worker made 7.7 percent below the median wage for all occupations.

So the factory worker makes an error, we assume they did something wrong and they're in trouble and we force them to come over and tell them not to make mistake again.

A swarm of Chicago stock traders face off against Vietnamese factory workers making cheap straw chairs for Ikea.

Not exact matches

So, when deciding whether or not to feel guilty about an iPad or iPhone because it was made in tough conditions, it's also important to consider the alternative — that if factory workers in China didn't have their hard jobs, the facts suggest they'd be starving and dying.

Ohio is second only to Michigan when it comes to auto - linked workers, so Trump's promises to make Ford move factories back to the United States helps his cause.

Wilson is by no means a small business, but they utilize many factory workers to make the 36 balls needed for every single game.

Wages in Gildan's factories are still higher than those paid in Chinese factories: the average wage of a garment worker in Honduras is about $ 100 a week — four times what a Chinese worker makes.

The 60 - second ad, which was developed in partnership with the brand's AOR, Anomaly, chronicles a surprise visit from Budweiser brewery workers to Soucy Baron, a Quebec factory in St. Jérôme that makes the pucks for the NHL.

Several workers also told the Guardian that they were fired from the factory just before Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that began at the end of May, and rehired a month later in what they believe was an effort to make them ineligible for a religious holiday bonus that is required by Indonesian law.

Right after World War II, Rosenberg took $ 1,500 in profits he'd made from buying war bonds, borrowed an additional $ 3,500 from his family, and launched a company that delivered food to workers at construction sites and factories around Boston.

In June 2011, for example, more than 280 workers vomited and fainted in a three - day period at the King Fashion Garment Company factory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which made dresses and knitted tops for brands including H&M, a former Li & Fung client.

Of course, wanting more overtime doesn't prove that things are great at the factories; it just proves that workers want more money than they make during a regular workday.

«There's not enough factories, workers or equipment, so it won't work unless someone is willing to make a massive investment... and I don't know who is going to step up.»

Workers assemble Boeing 787 Dreamliners, the wide - body twin - engine jets made by Boeing Commercial Airplanes at the Boeing Everett Factory in Everett, Washington.

We want the factory to work the way the workers say it will: managed through democratic decision - making, equal pay for all, etc..

The monthlong reprieve prolongs the state of uncertainty hanging over the global economy, making it difficult for businesses to plan and discouraging them from investing in new factories or hiring more workers.

Companies typically decide to make long - term investments in things like new workers and factories based on whether they will make the company more profitable — not merely because the companies are sitting on a pile of money that they otherwise would have paid in taxes.

The experiment was initially set up to see which factory conditions make workers most productive.

The company, which said it started making its new solar roofing tiles in Buffalo at the end of last year, is holding five information sessions over the next month to seek out potential workers for its portion of the South Park Avenue factory.

It's a computing version of what Veruca Salt made her dad and his poor factory workers do in Willy Wonka.

The video, which involves some sort of dance uprising at a steam factory where workers» primary job is to pull heavy chains while wearing overalls, has nothing to do with the song lyrics which make it all the more gloriously weird.

Speaking to The New York Times about conditions in Bangladesh factories, the executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium said, «There have been substantial safety renovations in factories that have unquestionably made those factories substantially safer.

This will make China less competitive in the global market, but Chinese workers will be able to buy more of the products of Chinese factories.

The Catholic Church is launching a campaign to have a biscuit factory worker from Edinburgh made a s...

Blue - collar America worked in unionized factories run by a few giant companies that made an implicit commitment of lifetime employment to their white - collar workers.

Huge cargo aircraft can now fly virtually an entire factory halfway across the globe, while decisions as to how fast that new factory assembly line must operate, what its workers should be paid and what profit is to be made are based on data from the corporation's global computers back in Connecticut or New York.

Walmart may have started off with a Christian orientation, but now they prefer to stock their stores with goods made in factories located in communist countries manned by communist workers who lack basic freedoms we take for granted here.

Australian Manufacturing Workers» Union alleges their members are being denied annual leave requests made as early as three to eight months in advance, under staffing and a dearth of shifts for the factory's 100 plus casual workforce.

and articles are pumped out by the grumpy factory workers that were once fans of teams that no longer exist, managed carefully by Jim Coughenour to make sure the content is sufficiently grim to meet with Mr. King Dave's unscrupulous standards.

By this rationale, a well - educated, professional woman is not to be as sympathetic a figure as a waitress or factory worker who presumably works to make ends meet.

Joney Lewis, a line worker at a factory in Danville, Ind., that makes power steering parts, said she quit her job because her employer, Dana Corp.'s Long Manufacturing Division, wouldn't give her a 20 - minute break to pump milk for her 5 - month - old son, Timothy.

Starting in Scotland she had an entirely natural cup of tea with factory workers before she visited a nursery school in Heddon - on - the - Wall where she got a funny look from one of the parents but managed to avoid any of the children making her look ridiculous.

a light on the poor conditions endured by workers in the Chinese factories which make Apple products.

Soil and slag with low levels of radioactive material — a remnant of the steel - making process that once took place at RiverBend in South Buffalo — would be buried underneath a foot of clean soil at two locations on the property where workers are finishing the SolarCity solar panel factory.

CELEBRATING THE AMERICAN WORKFORCE ON LABOR DAY Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R,C - Canandaigua) The American worker, in farms, factories and small businesses, makes our country the great place that it is.

VR system from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could make it easier for factory workers to telecommute.

In the new study, which appears in the journal Fertility and Sterility, Dr. Li and his colleagues collected urine and semen samples from 218 factory workers, some of whom worked in facilities that make BPA or epoxy resin and were therefore regularly exposed to very high levels of the chemical.

When you're tempted to eat foods that hurt your stomach, think about that factory inside your body, all of those cells and organs like a little factory of workers working so hard every day to make you healthy and energized - overload them with too much work too often and they get exhausted, they can't keep up, and you feel the effects.

It's silly to blame them for pesticides existing in veggies, except for that small minotiry (probably more like 1 % than 5 %) who might insist «no I insist my veggies be grown iwth the most pesticides» Similarly you can grow veg food in other ways that are bad — that's not veganism's fault any more than «it's your fault they pay low wages to the workers in the factory that makes veg food!»

This complex was home to factory workers working in extremely dangerous and unsafe conditions for less than a living wage making the clothes so many of us wear.

LulaRoe does the best they can to make sure that the factories operate in such a way that they are providing jobs and opportunity where it's needed most and that workers are able to provide for their families in a dignified way.

It is a simple question that makes us think about the farmers, factory workers and artisans that are involved in making our clothes but more importantly to ask this question to brands, demanding more transparency and accountability.

That there are systemic problems with current manufacturing practices is undeniable; but, as addressed in one of the comments, what happens to garment factory workers if those factories close down because US consumers start buying only «made in USA»?

The trainers are made in Brazil in factories where workers are paid well above the legal minimum wage and where workers rights are well respected.

Schindler: Three hundred and fifty workers on the factory floor with one purpose... to make money - for me!

Anne Hathaway fares better as Fantine, the factory worker who is fired by the lecherous foreman she won't give a tumble to and then, ironically, winds up selling her body to make ends meet.

The impassioned lament of Fantine, a fired factory worker forced into prostitution to support her illegitimate daughter, «I Dreamed a Dream» is already emotional pornography of the first order, made more so by Hathaway's borderline hysterical interpretation, all bulging eyes and hyperventilation, as if Hooper were shouting «More!

Along with a request that women walking the red carpet at the Golden Globes speak out and raise awareness by wearing black, the initiative includes a legal defense fund, backed by $ 13 million in donations, to help less privileged women — like janitors, nurses, farm and factory workers, waitresses, hotel housekeepers — protect themselves from sexual misconduct and the fallout from reporting it; legislation to penalize companies that tolerate persistent harassment, and to discourage the use of nondisclosure agreements to silence victims; and a drive to at long last reach gender parity at studios and talent agencies that reportedly has already begun making headway.

That film, which looks at the plight of factory workers, is directed by François Ruffin who sported an I Heart Vincent Bolloré t - shirt at the ceremony — Bolloré is the chief of Vivendi which owns Canal Plus, the network airing the Césars — although Ruffin made no direct comments regarding those companies.

From a grizzled factory worker trying to make ends meet and keep his brother on the straight and narrow in «Out Of The Furnace» to a paunchy con man in «American Hustle,» Christian Bale has once again shown his chameleon - like approach in two movies released within weeks of each other.