Sentences with phrase «factory workers said»

This week it spent a day at the plant, factory workers said, while the businessman held a closed - door meeting with managers.

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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.

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 plants.

Mexico and Canada began negotiating with the U.S. in August at the initiative of Trump, who's repeatedly said the NAFTA accord led U.S. companies to fire workers and move factories to Mexico.

Those factories currently have only three robots per thousand workers, says Katie Koch, global head of client portfolio management and business strategy for fundamental equity at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

Workers inside the factory say they are owed two months of back pay and were afraid of losing their jobs, according to news reports.

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.

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

«In Shengzhou, we were fighting with the surrounding factories for every single worker,» says Moshe Tropper, the company's vice president of manufacturing in China and son of co-CEO Solomon Tropper.

Right now, the human worker who does, say, $ 50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, social security tax, all those things.

He worked at Tesla for nearly four years, and said he heard about 60 other workers in his section of the factory were dismissed.

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

The days were long, the workers were, well, let's just say they weren't «elite,» and there was only one temperature in the factory: hot.

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.

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.

Peter Rossman, a spokesman for the IUF, an international association of unions in the food industry, says Heinz workers are nervous, though its factory jobs have so far gone untouched.

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

So rather than a foreign investor saying he was going to open a factory and employ 15 people directly, a foreign investor could say he was investing in a construction project that would create jobs in a restaurant down the street that might serve construction workers.

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.

The cooperative has carefully hired a team of factory workers who share this philosophy, Geselius says.

Electrical Trades Union state secretary Troy Gray said demand for a Senate inquiry was coming from ordinary workers in factories, shops, offices and service providers, where «powerless and voiceless Australians spend their working lives, our of sight from the political and corporate elite».

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.

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.

Rep. Brian Higgins says says workers at Hooker Chemical and other local factories were exposed to radiation without adequate monitoring or protection.

Let's say in a factory a worker has to press a button at a certain time and this causes 1 unit of a good to pop out.

The governor further said that the garment factory, with 1,000 workers, would be increased to 3,000 in 2018 as part of his administration» sdrive to engage the unemployed in the state.

He said: «The bill tries to drive a false wedge between government, industry, employees and the public by restricting rights — and at worst criminalising — ordinary working people, from midwives to factory workers to challenge low - pay or health and safety concerns.

The Building Trades Council came under fire after Investigative Post reported last fall that the diversity goal for the workers building the SolarCity factory at Riverbend had been lowered from the 25 percent originally proposed by the city to 15 percent, after union leaders and developer LPCiminelli said the higher number was unachievable.

Cuomo, asked about the fate of the Remington factory workers, says it's unfortunate.

He said the biggest change is that much more factory work has been automated, and overseen by fewer, but more highly skilled workers.

Governor Cuomo, asked about the fate of the Remington factory workers, says it's unfortunate.

Said Distel: «I have seen the days when the factories in Ellenville employed over 1,700 workers and our area hotels were filled to capacity.

«We have hit not just factory workers we have hit a lot of other people too,» Bonvillian said, noting the network of jobs that encompass manufacturing.

McAvoy's character is also said to be a family man and factory worker who realizes he is the first robot to feel emotions, which then leads to him helping start a revolution.

His quest to find them leads him to cross paths with magician policewoman Tina Goldstein (Inherent Vice's Katherine Waterston), her mind - reading sister Queenie (Alison Sudol) and a muggle (or as the Americans say «no - maj») factory worker, Jacob (a great Dan Fogler).

His grandmother, he said, was a worker at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

There are lots of reasons for this — there weren't that many factory jobs to go around, those pensions required long vesting periods of 10 or 20 years, and lower - income workers have higher turnover rates — but suffice it to say that the NPPC's history is overly rosy on this front.

They're the models Ford said will be built in the US, retaining US factory worker jobs as Ford moves Focus and C - Max production to Mexico.

Houghton said that factory workers of the industrial age - those who worked all day on noisy assembly lines and around loud machinery - used to aspire to own a luxury car that offered all the quiet comfort of a standard living room.

The CEO then showed pictures of a new air conditioner being airlifted to the factory and said it would be retrofitted to incorporate better worker conditions.

And only their factory workers, because of course it's not like anyone else is involved along the product chain (editors and artists don't exist, of course, and thus don't need to be paid...) It's not the distributor's job to tell one of their clients how much said client should be paying their own clients!

«It's a reflection of real society,» Cao said, of the cosplayers and factory workers» fantasy selves.

Colombina, the food company that operates the factory, is the largest employer in La Paila, where Murillo lived until he was 10 and moved with his family to the U.K. Several of the workers in the show, titled «A Mercantile Novel,» are Murillo's childhood friends, the London - based artist said.

During several interviews outside the factory gates, he states that workers would often laugh at the stories reported here in America saying «it's not really that bad.»

By the end of 2014, the thin - film solar factory will have an annual manufacturing capacity of 1,000 megawatts and employ up to 1,000 workers, said Michael Bartholomeusz, chief executive of the company, a Sunnyvale, Calif., start - up.

Forest City executives said for the first time that they had trouble working out all the kinks at the factory in the nearby Navy Yard, where 145 workers transform tubular steel chassis into fully equipped apartments.

Before the labor movement, factory owners would say «it was an accident» when American workers were injured in unsafe conditions.

Manufacturing still requires workers to come together in a centralized factory, but the same can't be said of knowledge industries like law.