Sentences with phrase «for thousands of workers»

The legislation seeks to improve the safety conditions for the thousands of workers working on the roadsides to repair and maintain our crucial roads.

The governors of New York and New Jersey have staked out such starkly different positions on the minimum wage that their discord could result in uneven pay scales for thousands of workers at the airports that serve New York City.

But for the thousands of workers on low pay and zero - hour contracts, there couldn't be a worse time for the government to deny them a voice in the workplace.

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FedEx beefs up for the holidays: FedEx is preparing for the busiest Cyber Monday ever, by hiring «tens of thousands of seasonal workers» to ship your online orders.

PHILIPPINES: A few thousand left - wing activists and laborers marched and held noisy rallies to press for higher wages and an end to temporary contractual jobs that deprive workers of many benefits.

Because Slack hasn't yet reached the point where it has tens of thousands of workers on its books, «[i] t is relatively easy for us to move the lever a small bit right now to make a significant change in our trajectory,» CEO Stewart Butterfield and HR chief Anne Toth write in a blog post disclosing the numbers.

Last year, the retail giant said it would spend about $ 2.7 billion on higher wages for hundreds of thousands of workers at its U.S. stores in 2015 and 2016.

Websites that specialize in contract workers, such as odesk.com and elance.com, have thousands of listings for virtual assistants.

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.

«Andy Puzder has firsthand experience saving and creating thousands of jobs, and he has an extensive record of fighting for workers,» a spokesperson for Puzder told Business Insider.

Publicly traded oil companies have lost billions in market value, and both public and private firms are moving aggressively to cut capital spending budgets for 2015 — laying off thousands of workers and shutting down hundreds of rigs.

As retailers gear up to hire hundreds of thousands of workers for the holidays, they're increasingly using technology to identify good candidates.

TIME spoke to aid workers familiar with Aleppo to discover what daily life is like for thousands in the war - torn, eastern part of the city:

The idea of May 1 as a day for workers» rights was born in the US city of Chicago, where on May 1, 1886 hundreds of thousands of people walked off the job to protest long hours and harsh working conditions.

The new Sidewalk project would make way for self - driving cars on its streets, more efficient electricity and water delivery systems, and high - tech housing units for tens of thousands of people and workers.

They include Apple (which relies on China for a quarter of its iPhone sales but also indirectly employs hundreds of thousands of workers in China through its contract manufacturer, Foxxcon).

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 theiWorkers says he will try to thwart billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian's bid for Chrysler, fearing Kerkorian will cost thousands of workers theiworkers their jobs.

Thousands of workers are walking off of job sites, fed up with going to work hungry, putting their lives at risk at rickety refineries, all for a paycheck that fails to cover even the most basic expenses.

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.

Thousands of international students have been rejected for permanent residency because the program favours prospective skilled workers from abroad.

«JGC and Fluor will be responsible for directly hiring the majority of the thousands of skilled workers required during the five - year construction period,» Pierce said.

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.

BEIJING (AP)-- More than 10,000 workers at a state - owned machinery manufacturer in southern China are protesting low wages and company plans to lay off thousands of staff after posting losses for three years, employees said Wednesday.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

In an age of increasing social responsibility, firing five thousand domestic workers is not exactly great for a brand's image.

Today thousands of garment workers took to the streets to protest the industry's poor working conditions in the country where many work 12 - hour shifts for up to 30 days a month.

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.

Fifth, the implications of the principle of capital mobility for U. S. industry led to hundreds of factory closings with the consequent dislocation of hundreds of thousands of workers.

The arrangements that went into the 1986 District of Columbia crusade were typical of the big rallies of the later years: 500,000 personal invitations issued, 400,000 packets of material mailed to area homes, thousands of prayer groups meeting regularly for months ahead, 4,000 workers trained to counsel with «inquirers,» another thousand prepared for follow - up work.

Thames Water workers help distribute bottled water, at a bottled water station in Hampstead, north London, for one of the thousands of people in the London area who were left without water for more than 36 hours after extreme weather caused burst pipes.

For about nine months, thousands of workers in about 104 industrial units of the Chattisgarh region had been engaged in a heroic struggle under the leadership of Mukti Morcha.

For a start within 12 months the mothballed abattoirs in Katherine and Innisfail could be refurbished and reopened, the mooted abattoir in Darwin could be well on its way to completion, and thousands of unemployed and underemployed workers could be trained.

The School Nutrition Association, representing thousands of school food service workers across the country, has embraced a «study» promoting chocolate and other sugar - enhanced milk that was paid for by the dairy industry, conducted by a firm that specializes in devising corporate marketing schemes, and which the dairy group refuses to release for close inspection.

«The Tier VI pension proposal is an attack on retirement security for tens of thousands of New Yorkers and would steer more workers into private 401 (k) style retirement accounts.

With thousands of construction workers out of work and interest rates at record lows, there is a growing consensus that investing now in improving our infrastructure, particularly housing, would give an immediate boost to the economy, encourage more private sector investment, and give us a long - term return as we strengthen our economy for the future.

Equally or perhaps more dangerously for Corbyn, he'd be on the wrong side of a Unite union which backed him to the hilt and serves as a Praetorian guard but is unlikely to sit back quietly if the jobs — and union subs — of the thousands of well - paid skilled workers it represents went down the Swanee with Trident.

Chris Keates: «In an otherwise bleak Autumn Statement a tiny glimmer of light emerged for the thousands of agency workers, including supply teachers, who are an important and essential resource for schools».

The prime minister may think that needing to find «just a few thousand pounds» for a deposit is achievable but for a cleaner or nursery school worker it could take a lifetime to save that kind of money.

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.

Not to be outdone, a spokesperson for the mayor shot back, «If 421 - a is simply extended as is, as some are seeking up in Albany, there will be no prevailing wage construction jobs, far fewer building service workers making prevailing wage and no progress on affordable housing for tens of thousands in desperate need.

De Blasio is also is calling for an overhaul of housing programs and tax incentives to spur the construction of tens of thousands of apartments for poor New Yorkers, as well as teachers, firefighters and other workers, who increasingly find themselves priced out of a booming real estate market and rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.

«With thousands of jobs and millions of taxpayer dollars at stake, a potential bailout holds profound ramifications for its workers, the racing industry and the City and State.»

But the state implemented the policy as part of a move to Microsoft's Office 365 email system, which offers 50 gigabytes of space per email user — enough to store hundreds of thousands or even millions of emails for each state worker.

The decision has implications for tens of thousands of home - based child - care workers who were initially roped into public - sector unions under executive orders issued by New Jersey's then - Gov.

At 11:30 a.m., car wash employees deliver thousands of postcards to Cuomo's office, signed by customers in support of ending the tip credit for car wash workers, Cuomo's office, state Capitol, Albany.

As a result, New York taxpayers won't get maximum value for their construction dollars, and thousands of non-union workers will be unfairly shut out of the competition for government contracts to build, overhaul and expand bridges, highways and other critical infrastructure.

Following these attacks, thousands of first responders, construction workers and volunteers who live in our cities and towns selflessly acted to comb through dust, debris and rubble to look for survivors and eventually restore normalcy.

«Mayor de Blasio expanded Pre-K for every 4 - year - old and raised wages for tens of thousands of workers.

ohnson received thousands of dollars from the United Federation of Teachers, SEIU 32BJ and the Soft Drink Brewery Workers PAC, for a total of $ 13,200 from unions.

If 421a is simply extended as - is, as some are seeking up in Albany, there will be no prevailing wage construction jobs, far fewer building service workers making prevailing wage and no progress on affordable housing for tens of thousands in desperate need.