Sentences with phrase «including tech workers»

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These include the H - 1B, common in the tech industry, which can be extended up to six years; the H - 2A, for agricultural workers; and the H - 2B, often used for hospitality and tourism workers.

The Fortune 500 is chock full of enviable workplaces, including tech behemoths Microsoft (msft), Apple (aapl), and Google parent Alphabet (good) whose innovative cultures and high - profile projects are much sought - after by workers worldwide.

San Francisco Supervisor Scott Weiner, whose district includes parts of the Mission — an increasingly trendy area of San Francisco, where some of the bus protests have taken place — warned that lashing out against tech workers was not the right approach to address the issue of gentrification.

«For anyone driven crazy by the faux warm and fuzzy PR of the so - called sharing economy Steven Hill's Raw Deal: How the «Uber Economy» and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers should be required reading... Hill is an extremely well - informed skeptic who presents a satisfyingly blistering critique of high tech's disingenuous equating of sharing with profiteering... Hill includes two chapters listing potential solutions for the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.Workers should be required reading... Hill is an extremely well - informed skeptic who presents a satisfyingly blistering critique of high tech's disingenuous equating of sharing with profiteering... Hill includes two chapters listing potential solutions for the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.»

Championed by Handy and Tech NYC, a newly formed statewide tech - industry trade association that includes Uber, the legislation would lay the foundation for the first - ever «portable» benefits plan for gig economy workTech NYC, a newly formed statewide tech - industry trade association that includes Uber, the legislation would lay the foundation for the first - ever «portable» benefits plan for gig economy worktech - industry trade association that includes Uber, the legislation would lay the foundation for the first - ever «portable» benefits plan for gig economy workers.

Participants will include: All in the Red, Art Production Coop, Arts & Labor, The Base, Beyond Childcare Coop, Books Thru Bars NYC, Claiborne McDonald, Center for Urban Pedagogy, Deep Dish TV, Democracy Now, Fair Pay Music, Fixers Collective NYC, Flatbush Mutual Aid, Flux Factory, Fractured Atlas, Free Cooper Union, freeDimensional, Hibridos Collective, The Illuminator, Intern Labor Rights, I Ran into Iran, Lanchonete, Making Worlds, Mayfirst / PeopleLink, MetaLocal, Mexicali Rose, Mutual Aid NYC, Neter, NYC Anti-Eviction Network, Nsumi Collective, OurGoods, OWS Screen Printers Guild, Paper Tiger Television, The Pedagogy Group, The Public School, Radix Media, REV -, Tech - Ops, TimeBanksNYC, Times Up, Trade School, Trust Art, US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, W.A.G.E., and more.

APEN has been a trailblazer in bringing the voices of APA communities to the forefront of environmental health and social justice fights in the Bay Area, winning real policy solutions for the community across a gamut of issues including occupational safety of high - tech workers, affordable housing, transportation and land - use, and challenging multinational corporations to mitigate pollution that is devastating the health and well - being of countless low - income communities of color.

Economic growth was driven by the arrival and expansion of high - tech firms, like Sony and Hewlett - Packard, and federal programs that retrained former loggers and mill workers for diverse new employment opportunities, including in the high - tech manufacturing sector.

This hasn't been a great month for Apple: bad publicity for waging war on the little guy and the art of self - repair with the Pentalobe screw, the unfortunate news that Steve Jobs» health has taken a bad turn, and now a report coming out of China that puts the company last in a list of 29 tech giants ranked for their responses on pollution and workers» rights, including occupational health hazards, at their suppliers» factories.The report, written by the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs with a coalition of other Chinese NGOs, says that behind the company's stylish image, «Apple products have a side that many do not know about — pollution and poison.

Jay has successfully represented several individual & corporate clients from diverse industries including Hi - Tech / Information Technology, Peripatetic Workers, Pharmacy, Accounting, Placement Firms, Consulting Companies, Turnkey Projects, Healthcare Professionals, Education Institutions, Chartered Schools, Correctional Facilities, Fashion, Design, Restaurant, Finance, etc..

The e-commerce heavyweight has a network of more than 125 fulfillment centers and over 20 sortation centers, where workers and hi - tech robotics to speed up deliveries, and also include smaller sorting plants, which arrange packages by ZIP code for faster delivery.

In addition, «Truth About Tech» will include direct outreach to the tech community, including educating tech workers on how to better design products for humanTech» will include direct outreach to the tech community, including educating tech workers on how to better design products for humantech community, including educating tech workers on how to better design products for humantech workers on how to better design products for humanity.

Tech workers should be sure to include a Skills section on their resume.

Further, since the study found that job ads are asking for 4.25 x more hard skills than soft skills for tech - centric workers, it not surprising that those jobseekers often overlook the important of including soft skills on their resumes.

Lower wage workers, including those needed to support Amazon, would be especially impacted by these rent increases, as new housing built for Amazon and other tech workers would skew towards the luxury end of the market.