Sentences with phrase «factory workers in»

«Factory workers in the automotive, naval, and aircraft industry have to move around very large and heavy parts,» he told Digital Trends.

The company pays a decent wage to its factory workers in Pakistan plus it pays a 15 % Fair Trade premium on every garment made, which supports health and welfare projects for workers and their families in Pakistan.

Phyllis Omido during a meeting with community members and former factory workers in Owino Uhuru (Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize)

Phyllis Omido meets with community members and former factory workers in Owino Uhuru.

At its peak, the trade supported thousands of workers, from bark - stripping crews in the rural communities around the forests to the factory workers in towns like Coruche, in southern Portugal.

Hine became well known for his photographs documenting young factory workers in the beginning of the last century.

McArthur Binion, a Chicago artist born in Mississippi, who came of age in Detroit as the eleventh child of a family that went from tenant farmers to factory workers in the automotive plants, is having his first solo museum show at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston (CAMH) opening Jan. 6th (through April 1).

The odds that a child of non-English-speaking immigrants with seventh - grade educations, a child raised by factory workers in a low - income community, a child who was pregnant at 15, would now have a doctorate from Harvard?

BEAST OF BURDEN (Starring Daniel Radcliffe) Working the week of 12/12 (Dates TBD)-- HISPANIC men and women to play Mexican factory workers in a warehouse.

To look for effects of such low - level exposures, scientists from institutions including the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the University of California at Berkeley and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention teamed up to assess 250 shoe factory workers in China, who are routinely exposed to various levels of benzene.

Aisha, Miriam and Akhi are three young factory workers in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a bus conductor, one Chineye Okoro, for allegedly abducting three factory workers in the Sango area of the state...

-LRB-...) factory workers in 10 years, and waitresses etc in 20 as our AI and robotics improve, you'll see my prediction become reality.

The problem is that those former factory workers in Detroit do not move to Iowa and become wheat farmers.

Recognize that men are enslaved on fishing boats to farm shrimp, kids are harvesting chocolate, and that factory workers in China are not being paid for the stuff you're buying on the cheap at your local discount store.

Protesters will stage demonstrations at several Apple stores around the world to show concern about the treatment of the company's suppliers» factory workers in China.

Fisher does not mention the not awe - inspiring 21 cent an hour wages paid to garment factory workers in Bangladesh, 112 of whom just died a fiery death in the Tazreen Fashions factory outside of Dhaka because there were no outside fire escapes.

«We had no indication,» said Doug Leikness, the head of the union representing Oscar Mayer factory workers in Madison.

The Take tells the story of the growing number of factory workers in Argentina who, instead of acquiescing in unemployment when their factories are shut down, take matters into their own hands by occupying the factories and starting them up again, without the oversight, or permission, of their former bosses.

After Ivanka Trump «s fashion brand came under fire for how much it pays its factory workers in China, the Guardian reports that workers at another of the company's manufacturers, this time in Indonesia, face similar conditions.

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.

But, Zakaria asked, what do these trends do for a factory worker in Michigan?

The average income for a factory worker in China is $ 2600 / year.

I didn't know Harry growing up because he's a youngster but his mother was a factory worker in Gloversville and his father was a bartender (he didn't own the bar).

«Made in Dagenham» is similar in quality to «The King's Speech,» featuring a splendid performance by Sally Hawkins as a factory worker in the 1960s who helped bring the issue of «equal pay for equal work» among the sexes to the forefront of labor relations.

The Unwinding journeys through the lives of several Americans, including Dean Price, the son of tobacco farmers, who becomes an evangelist for a new economy in the rural South; Tammy Thomas, a factory worker in the Rust Belt trying to survive the collapse of her city; Jeff Connaughton, a Washington insider oscillating between political idealism and the lure of organized money; and Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire who questions the Internet's significance and arrives at a radical vision of the future.

Today, of course, we face more complex challenges than we have ever faced before: a medical system that holds the promise of unlocking new cures and treatments — attached to a health care system that holds the potential for bankruptcy to families and businesses; a system of energy that powers our economy, but simultaneously endangers our planet; threats to our security that seek to exploit the very interconnectedness and openness so essential to our prosperity; and challenges in a global marketplace which links the derivative trader on Wall Street to the homeowner on Main Street, the office worker in America to the factory worker in China — a marketplace in which we all share in opportunity, but also in crisis.

Not exact matches

DHAMRAI, Bangladesh — A few hundred workers, activists and relatives of victims of a 2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1,134 people and left thousands injured held a rally Tuesday as the country marked the fifth anniversary of the disaster.

Several dozen union workers from GE factories in Pennsylvania, Canada and elsewhere protested outside a GE facility here, where about 450 shareholders gathered.

Participating factories had registered positive outcomes for workers, who enjoyed improved quality of life, and their businesses — which tallied declines in absenteeism and increased productivity.

The issues of globalisation and «social dumping» took centre - stage in France's campaign after Le Pen used the relocation of a Whirlpool factory in northern France to Poland to paint Macron as a globalist who did not care about workers.

Initially called the Three Fired Guys Brewing Company, the name changed to Steam Whistle in 1999 after Heaps suggested that they put a steam whistle on the factory to let workers know when it was five o'clock.

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.

Jaime Sergio Ivan Lopez and fellow workers in Apparel International's Torreón factory distress Levi's jeans by manually giving them «whiskers.»

Data on Tuesday showed that U.S. factory activity slowed for a second straight month in April, weighed down by shortages of skilled workers and rising capacity constraints.

Over the years, the Levi Strauss Foundation had funded «worker empowerment» programming in apparel factories.

Several dozen union workers from GE factories in Pennsylvania, Canada and elsewhere protested outside a GE facility here, where about 450 shareholders gathered for the meeting.

With the scope and reach of a political platform, the company publicly declared goals for itself on practically every major social issue it touches, from local sourcing and carbon emissions to ethical recruiting and the treatment of workers in its suppliers» factories.

What's even better is that Everlane has figured out how to craft these tees in ethical American factories that pay their workers fairly.

The proposal comes after negotiations between the South Korean firm, workers and their families as well as outside experts over the company's responsibility for the workers, who have attributed illnesses such as lymphoma and leukemia to prolonged exposure to radiation or dangerous chemicals used in Samsung's factories.

This cycle can only be broken if no young workers are locked into a system where they acquire a skillset that will not be in demand if the factory closes.

Notice all or most of the factory workers were non-white, while the character in the lab coat was a white guy.

Gravity was flooded with stories from ecstatic workers elsewhere who suddenly got raises from converted bosses who tossed them out like Scrooge after his epiphany — even, in one case, at an apparel factory in Vietnam.

In Vandergrift, the collapse of Kensington Windows the previous October had stranded 150 workers until Surace bought the factory and committed to bringing everyone back.

In Dongguan, the city where rioting workers killed a factory manager, the New South China Mall lays claim to being the largest mall in the world, yet is bereft of tenantIn Dongguan, the city where rioting workers killed a factory manager, the New South China Mall lays claim to being the largest mall in the world, yet is bereft of tenantin the world, yet is bereft of tenants.

Guggenheim fellow and Detroit native Clemens was there for much of the year - long decommissioning process, as workers stripped the plant's salvageable parts and carefully disassembled its press lines for shipping to booming factories in Mexico and Brazil.

In the West Midlands, long an important center of commerce and industry for Britain, Sobolewski said workers are in demand in factories of all kinds and recycling plantIn the West Midlands, long an important center of commerce and industry for Britain, Sobolewski said workers are in demand in factories of all kinds and recycling plantin demand in factories of all kinds and recycling plantin factories of all kinds and recycling plants.

We respectfully asked the Cambodian government to continue to improve working conditions for Cambodian factory workers and treat civil society with fairness, in accordance with international standards and norms.»

Relations between worker and employer are governed by a welter of state and federal laws and regulations drafted in the first half of the 20th century to prevent child labor and other abuses in factories and on farms.

Salespeople will be able to hear the factory workers welding, and the workers will pass by the salespeople when they arrive in the morning.