Sentences with phrase «from factory work»

I have struggled with my weight for the past 6 years since going from factory work to a desk job.
Those that make, apply, and consume them — everyone from factory works to farmers to everyday consumers — are vulnerable to the harmful chemicals they contain.

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In other words, if the company notices a shift in local consumer tastes, it can fire off a batch of new garb from a nearby factory and get product on shelves many months faster than the old way — a supply chain triumph given that Levi works two years in advance and uses more than 1,000 different finishes in a season, which lasts six months.
William Ungar, a Holocaust survivor who immigrated to New York from Poland in 1946, got the idea for the business while working on the assembly floor of the F. L. Smithe Machine Co., a large factory that made envelope manufacturing equipment.
They also fall prey to naysayers who don't take them seriously because they don't work from an office building, office park, storefront, or factory.
«We source long, fine cashmere from inner Mongolia and work with a sweater - only factory that has been in the business for over 16 years and offers very high - quality production.»
Fleeing war - torn China for Hong Kong in 1940, Li found factory work while also caring for his ailing father, who soon died from tuberculosis.
Robert Chant — a senior VP at Loblaw, a company that commissioned clothing from one of the companies that worked out of the doomed Bangladesh factory — said that while his company has always been concerned to monitor working conditions, they simply hadn't thought to have their subcontractors» buildings inspected.
Working directly with the people in the factories as well as the sourcing companies has been very interesting, and I use the time difference to my advantage,» says Jamal from Acustom.
We work with entrepreneurs, researchers, elected officials, regulators, the media, and institutions to create a seamless transition away from factory farmed animal products and toward alternatives that are better for our environment, food security, global health, and animals.
I know ministers, priests, rabbis, and nuns who've worked at various things from cleaning houses to acting, to teaching to factory work.
Women workers that work in the factories usually suffer from extremely poor working coditions and their wages very low.
In the first decades of the twentieth century, most Protestant churches worked together to enact legislation that would protect women and children from the factory system, limit the hours worked by all, and improve wages.
Though representatives from many of the brands said they are working to insure overseas conditions are factories are improved, critics say that the changes are happening to slowly.
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.
No factory and no office is so abandoned by creation that a creative glance could not fly up from one working - place to another, from desk to desk, a sober and brotherly glance which guarantees the reality of creation which is happening — quantum satis.
Although I emphasized that I do not advocate deindustrialization in general, nevertheless, we may need some shift back from factory production to the work of artisans.
If someone finds contraceptives offensive, by all means don't use them, don't buy insurance and don't work in a condom factory, but refrain from dictating your beliefs to people of other faiths.
A 2005 study found that 95 percent of women smuggled from Romania to Germany believed that they would be doing legitimate work as maids or factory workers.
Others make use of ideas coming from these «knowledge factories» to do their work.
AutoCoding Systems has recognised that there is a growing requirement to communicate with and collect data from a wide range of devices, as well as interface to various business information systems to enable factories to work smarter.
There will also be a small talk from Luminary founder, Alice Williams, about their work; an auction of the beautiful Luminary X Meringue Girls International Women's Day celebration cake collaboration; flowers by Pom Pom Factory and of course, pudding!
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».
«It's an opportunity away from the rest of the restaurant to have a little bit of fun,» explains Hecho Inc. partner / designer John Kole, whose New York - based team has worked on Baby's All Right, The Knitting Factory, The Box, Stanton Social, and Beauty & Essex.
Male circumcision at birth is a physical parallel of the doctrine of «cross dressing» or «transvestism,» which holds (since WWII factory work freed women from psychiatric attack on their right to wear ANYTHING) that «only males may err in clothing choice.»
At the Jelly Belly Factory, where I toured on my 26th birthday while playing hooky from work, we wore paper hats.
I love this, I am a stay at home mother of 4 ages from 1 to 11 and I have worked in factories pulling my weight plus more 70 + hrs a week and I work harder at home now, I love my children and I love my job as a stay at home mom I love the pay I get from my children and the smiles I see nightly, Sometimes I wish that I could be more appreciated by others.
Roth, who worked in milk and ice cream factories early in his career, borrowed heavily from dairy plant technology when he created a process to reclaim the bits of beef left clinging to the trimmings after a cow carcass is cut up to make steak.
Both full - time mothers and the considerable number of working mothers - employed as domestics, factory workers, seamstresses, teachers, secretaries, clerks, or telephone operators - no doubt embraced and benefited from already - prepared solid infant food.
His grandfather moved from India with «# 3 in his back pocket» before working on factory floors in Bradford.
Lewis» own father came to the UK from Grenada in the 1960s and worked in a factory.
Simone Weil observed how factory work involves this combination of oppression and frustration of capabilities: «since orders are now the sole factor making for variety, to eliminate them in thought is to condemn oneself to imagining an unbroken succession of ever - identical movements, to visualising monotonous desert regions of experience that thought has no way of exploring» (from the essay Factory Work; see the Simone Weil Rfactory work involves this combination of oppression and frustration of capabilities: «since orders are now the sole factor making for variety, to eliminate them in thought is to condemn oneself to imagining an unbroken succession of ever - identical movements, to visualising monotonous desert regions of experience that thought has no way of exploring» (from the essay Factory Work; see the Simone Weil Readwork involves this combination of oppression and frustration of capabilities: «since orders are now the sole factor making for variety, to eliminate them in thought is to condemn oneself to imagining an unbroken succession of ever - identical movements, to visualising monotonous desert regions of experience that thought has no way of exploring» (from the essay Factory Work; see the Simone Weil RFactory Work; see the Simone Weil ReadWork; see the Simone Weil Reader).
CHA did some site design work for a solar panel factory that SUNY Poly is building in South Buffalo, and also has more than $ 30 million in various state contracts for everything from dam inspection to crafting a high speed rail plan.
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.
It traces the rise of the industry from the days of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller through Gov. Andrew Cuomo, detailing the rise and fall of former SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros and the $ 15 billion investment by GlobalFoundries in Saratoga County for its Fab 8 computer chip factory, where 3,500 people work.
Disabled workers from factories around the UK will lobby MPs at the rally at the House of Commons on Tuesday 27th November, urging MPs to press ministers to deliver on the new direction agreed at Labour Party Conference based on choice for disabled workers and public procurement to ensure a flow of work to keep the Remploy factories open.
The French Huguenots who built the London silk market from scratch in the eighteenth century, the likes of Mary Seacole who nursed our troops in the Crimean War, the Afro - Caribbeans who came in the First World War to work in the munitions factories of the North West, or as part of the Windrush Generation to fill gaps in the post-war Labour market, the Poles or the Indians who fought with us in the forties, the Italians who came to work in our mines in the nineteenth century, the Indians who work today in our burgeoning IT and gaming industries, the eastern Europeans who have picked our crops or kept our hotels running, have all played a part in building modern Britain.
It was to find work in the shoe factories that my grandparents moved from South Wales to Kettering.
Aside from constructing the SolarCity factory, LPCiminelli has worked on a long list of public projects, including a 10 - year, $ 1.3 billion construction program to renovate 48 Buffalo Public Schools buildings.
For examples of the later, see the direct seizure of productive property by workers councils in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (this later develops from sit - in strikes, or work ins or general strikes with factory occupations).
On this date in 1836, Massachusetts became the first state to prohibit children under 15 from working in factories.
Kick your factory speakers to the curb — these speakers from the Punch series can work with a factory radio or aftermarket stereo, no other replacement pieces required!
This option from the Infinity Reference Series can work with a factory radio or aftermarket stereo with or without an external amplifier.
They do their dirty work by infiltrating bacteria, including disease - causing germs, and destroying them from within: After latching onto bacteria, the phages bore inside and hijack the bacteria's genetic machinery, turning them into phage factories that eventually make so many copies that the cells burst, killing off the host.
Spectators were once quite content with a view of factory employees going to and from their work, the arrival and departure of railway trains, and similar scenes.
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.
But to make our millions of little energy factories work properly, we also need a bunch of nutrient cofactors that we can only get from our diets.
The 5» 7» 135 - pound skater and star of MTV's hit reality show Fantasy Factory works out of a converted warehouse that he has basically transformed into his own personal playhouse and from which he runs his entrepreneurial ventures.
Maybe that's why there's such higher diabetes risk, since more than 90 % of the persistent organic pollutants comes from animal foods — unless you work in a chemical factory, or stumble across some toxic waste.
Even now, it is distributed among the workers working in polluted environments like furnaces, painting shops, heat treatments, cement factories, mines, and other dangerous work environments to protect them from scurvy.
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