Sentences with phrase «factory workers on»

Train the factory workers on operating the extruder and performing the routine maintenance functions

For most of the history of the world, the vast majority of the population, from peasants and serfs to factory workers on up, toiled countless hours and lived like virtual slaves.

Based in Troy, Michigan, Plex was founded by factory workers on a shop floor to help improve manufacturing in 1995, according to its website.

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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.

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.

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.

Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday it will create a 100 billion won ($ 85.8 million) fund to compensate cancer - stricken workers and their families, and for efforts to prevention such diseases at its chip and display factories.

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.

Musk now has 1,000 workers constructing the factory on two shifts, seven days a week.

The closing of the factory will leave 635 hourly workers and 72 salaried people without jobs in Madison, but that's just one of seven plants that Kraft Heinz announced it would shutter on Nov. 4 in a plan to cut 14 % of Kraft Heinz's North American factory workforce.

With the glasses, workers can read a bar code to fill orders in a warehouse, bring up a three - dimensional visual showing them how to repair a machine on a factory floor, or communicate by video link with other employees wherever they are — all with hands free.

It's become a dictum that every year at least 50 hourly workers get plucked from the factory floor to go along with Foster on visits to customers, so they can see the results of their labors.

Nearly a quarter of the 588 large companies surveyed by Towers Watson this year already have on - site medical clinics for both factory and office workers, and next year, another 12 % of those corporations will open new clinics for employees.

The Rana Plaza building collapse follows a November fire at the Tazreen Fashion factory on the outskirts of Dhaka that killed 112 people, and it has compounded concerns about worker safety and low wages in Bangladesh.

Li & Fung and other sourcing companies track harvesting schedules because many factories rely on migrant workers.

Li & Fung's ability to exert pressure on factories can have unfortunate consequences, said Guadalupe Palma, director of Warehouse Workers United, a labor advocacy group.

If anything similar is the case at the Samsung factories, this implies that stricter limits on overtime would indeed be a bad thing, at least from the workers» point of view.

Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) president Mohammad Atiqul Islam said there were 3,122 workers in the factories on Wednesday.

Workers take a break during an unexpected delay on the Ford Flex assembly line at the Ford Motor Oakville factory in Ontario, Canada on June 3, 2008.

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.

The workers interviewed include trained engineers working on vehicle design and production, a supervisor and factory employees.

But Monday's lawsuit, filed by former Tesla employee Marcus Vaughn, is the first to bring those claims on behalf of a large class of black workers at the automaker's Fremont, California factory.

Workers at Tesla's California car factory have been working so hard they are passing out on the production line, say employees.

«Just because the factories look modern on the inside does not mean the workers inside are being treated fairly — being paid a living wage, or are provided with health care or an education,» Palacios said.

SEOUL (Reuters)- Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday it will create a 100 billion won ($ 85.8 million) fund to compensate cancer - stricken workers and their families, and for efforts to prevention such diseases at its chip and display factories.

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.

Workers at Tesla's California car factory have been working so hard they are passing out on the production line and requiring rides in ambulances, the Guardian reported Thursday.

They will do little to help former factory workers who have had to take lower - paying jobs — which is one reason that calling for new investments doesn't bring nearly the cheers on the campaign trail that denouncing Nafta does.

The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday ordered Tesla to respond to worker complaints about a restrictive confidentiality policy, driving a deeper wedge between the company and employees trying to unionize the electric vehicle maker's Fremont factory.

I travel to China pretty regularly — about 3 months of the year, and based on discussions with a few locals, a lot of new developments are unaffordable, even for highly skilled workers like factory managers or engineers.

But the country's most popular vehicle over the past four decades would surely be in demand with more workers out on the roads, factories and quarries.

On August 30, Georgetown University and Nike announced they had signed a new licensing agreement that will give the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) access to conduct inspections of working conditions in Nike supplier factories producing university - licensed products.

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.

Three hundred workers, mostly young women, couldn't get out of the factory, because the management put steel bars on windows and kept the doors locked in order to prevent them from stealing or leaving the work site early.

At the International Tribunal on Workers» Human Rights, held at the Peoples Summit on APEC in Vancouver in November 1997, a young researcher from Hong Kong testified about the Zhili toy factory fire which killed 87 workers and injured 47 iWorkers» Human Rights, held at the Peoples Summit on APEC in Vancouver in November 1997, a young researcher from Hong Kong testified about the Zhili toy factory fire which killed 87 workers and injured 47 iworkers and injured 47 in 1993.

Drawing together Ukrainians of all ages and backgrounds — old women on puny state pensions and tech - savvy teenagers still in high school, university intellectuals and street-wise factory workers, Ukrainian - speakers and Russian - speakers — the Maidan soon became a self - organizing civil society.

Any person on this earth who commits a crime needs to be held accountable, it does not matter if your a police officer, fireman, news broadcaster, famous celebrity, priest, monk, factory worker, or cashier, you are a citizen of a country, each country has rules, each person is answerable to these rules.

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.

For Sachs, Bangladeshi workers are akin to the immigrants who once worked on New York's Lower East Side, «where their migration to toil in garment factories was a step on the path to a future of urban affluence in succeeding generations.»

Economists can argue that the workers in the new factories were no worse off than they had been as peasants on English farms.

When they resumed duty on the next day, the management and the police physically prevented them from entering the factory A recently published People's Union reports that the police then resorted to a lathi charge on 150 workers which was totally unprovoked as the workers were completely peaceful.

Food in the sparsely stocked dining cars was often worse than at a factory workers» canteen, served on soiled tablecloths by surly waiters.

To answer that question, one needn't look any further than the dozens of damning undercover investigations into agribusiness operations released over the last several years: chickens crammed so tightly into tiny cages that they can't even spread their wings, living in the same space with the rotting corpses of their cage - mates; mother pigs unable to even turn around for months on end inside their gestation crates; factory farm workers sadistically abusing animals; and more.

The worker in the Fonterra accident put her arm in a machine at the Eltham cheese factory to clear wrapping from clamps when they closed on her middle finger and amputated the tip, the Labour Department said today.

(Talk to some factory workers lately about OSHA legislation long on the books?)

Example # 1: I heard two students talking about factory farm video footage and how disturbed they felt after seeing a worker stomp on a calf's head (see here).

That's why he should be asking what exactly is going on with Solar City Riverbend and how it is possible that — with no public announcement — SUNY Research Foundation approved Solar City's request to cut the number of factory workers to only 500 from the original 1,460.

On Reddit there's currently a news article titled Chinese factory replaces 90 % of human workers with robots.

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.

From factory workers, to cleaners, to restaurant staff, there are disputes going on which never hit the headlines.