Sentences with phrase «manufactured by workers»

New products need to be manufactured by workers and companies.

Not exact matches

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

Unions in the utility industry, health care and manufacturing industries are using knowledge and skills as the key source of worker power by expanding apprenticeship training, creating partnership with community colleges, vocational schools, and employers to fill the «middle skills» gaps that exist today or will grow as skilled baby boomers retire.

«And every piece of this produt — the battery, the battery modules, the power electronics, the inverters — was assembled by Tesla workers right here in the US,» Straubel said, seeming to nod to President Donald Trump, who has made examples of US companies that have sent manufacturing jobs overseas.

The union that represents Ford Motor's Canadian manufacturing workers reached a tentative contract agreement on Tuesday, averting a strike but setting up what may be a difficult campaign to get the deal approved by members.

Trump partly won the White House by arguing deals such as the TPP hurt manufacturing workers in the Rust Belt, and many Democrats have opposed trade agreements on the same grounds.

In terms of the large - scale, mass - produced economy, the utility of low - skill human workers is rapidly diminishing, as many blue - collar jobs (e.g., in manufacturing) and white - collar jobs (e.g., processing insurance paperwork) can be handled much more cheaply by automated systems.

Manufacturing workers will notice the higher wages on offer in the resource sector and react by moving from manufacturing to resources:

These automatable jobs include positions like supermarket check - out clerks, who can be replaced by self - service checkout cashiers, and assembly line workers in manufacturing plants, who can be replaced by robotic arms.

The Department of Commerce is committed to creating the conditions for continued business and job growth by supporting advanced manufacturing, fostering innovation, increasing trade and investment, and equipping our workers with the skills and training needed to succeed in a competitive global economy.»

This style of «nontariff barrier» — a protectionist stratagem the U.S. has long condemned in other countries — is designed to reduce the relative cost of cars manufactured in the U.S., by American workers, the officials said.

Since 2002, almost 250,000 manufacturing workers have lost their jobs because of the high dollar and our huge and growing trade deficit with developing Asian countries. Many are older workers who will typically face a long stretch of unemployment, followed by employment in a new job at much lower wages.

Cheap products made in China flooding the global market are manufactured by foreign joint ventures at the sacrifice of numerous women workers.

In 1979, nearly 20 million workers were employed in manufacturing jobs, but by 2007 fewer than 14 million held jobs in this sector, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

First identical parts were manufactured; then they were assembled in sequence by identical workers who each attached only a single part, and who were otherwise completely isolated from the process.

WASHINGTON, DC - Food, beverage and consumer products companies directly employed more than 1.7 million workers in manufacturing and directly and indirectly contributed more than 6 percent of the U.S. GDP, according to new study commissioned by the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP (PwC).

Few Glendal Foods employees had been members of the National Union of Workers (which covers some food manufacturing) until August, when a complaint was made to the union by Ms Nguyen, who also contacted the federal government's Fair Work Ombudsman, which in turn referred her to WorkSafe.

Today, 18,000 skilled workers are employed by glass container manufacturing companies across 48 plants in 22 states.

Today, about 18,000 skilled workers are employed by glass container manufacturing companies across 48 plants in 22 states.

«I draw your kind attention to another letter date December 29 2010 sent by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to your organisation and others, expressing that «IMS Act clearly prohibits sponsorship of health workers or their association directly or indirectly by the Infant Food manufacturing companies.»

Up to 1,500 construction workers were expected to be working by this fall to get the multi-million dollar solar panel manufacturing plant up and running by next year.

On Wednesday, a Lebanese national of Delta Agro, a plastics manufacturing firm in Tema, was shot dead by robbers and his Ghc200, 000 stolen after he had withdrawn the money from a Zenith Bank branch in the Tema Heavy Industrial area to pay workers.

WHEREAS, Recent studies conducted by the Brookings Institution and later by McKinsey & Company on behalf of the Regional Economic Development Council have shown a serious shortage of skilled workers in Western New York, particularly in construction and advanced manufacturing fields;

The photo has been replaced by a photograph of the interior of a central New York manufacturing company that ESD officials said had expanded and added workers with the help of state economic development programs.

«The continued commitment by the Government to manufacture the next generation of submarines in the UK is a welcome vote of confidence in the skills and expertise of the UK's defence workers.»

Employment levels for manufacturing dropped by a third to about 11.5 million workers from some 17 million workers, a level that had held fairly steady for about a quarter of a century.

The brand is also confident that its produce is manufactured in worker - friendly factories in accordance with the labour standards set by the European Union.

The wages of private - sector workers in China (where many brands manufacture) increased by 14 percent in 2012, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics.

On Schindler's factory floor, the recruited Jewish workers, including the teacher, are given instruction by a technician on how to use the heavy machinery to manufacture a soup bowl, and dip the cooking utensils into vats of enamel.

The Rutherford County School system, which has the undesirable distinction of being the county's largest employer after manufacturing plants have steadily pink - slipped thousands of workers, was sued in January 2009 by its local public charter school, the Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy.

«This important opportunity represents a win - win scenario for both workers and the traveling public by helping to create manufacturing jobs and support passenger rail.»

Gain insight into La Aurora's complex planting, cultivation, manufacture and export processes, and watch as the skilled workers follow traditional methods to roll the cigars by hand.

Factory - manufactured or shop - bought materials: Carl Andre frequently used bricks or tiles as the medium for his sculpture; Dan Flavin created his works from fluorescent bulbs purchased from a hardware store; Judd's sculptures are built by skilled workers following the artist's instructions

The series focuses on specific products manufactured by striking workers.

However, the matches could not be manufactured using typical, mechanized factory processes and instead required workers to produce them largely by hand, simultaneously commenting on and resisting the drastic changes to manufacturing and labor in Romania that have resulted from the shift to a capitalist economy.

Inexpensive apartments, workers» cottages, and unpretentious manufacturing buildings are being replaced by the glittering citadels of the technological elite.

Incorrectly manufactured saw, designed by Wind Cheng, factory worker at Thriven Zinghua Factory, Suzhou, China, 2011

It seems to me that green manufacturing workforce development programs are just one piece of what is needed; the green economy will not be driven by manufacturing workers alone.

Now, the new tariffs enacted by the Trump Administration will reshuffle that artificially high amount, reducing the number of workers in solar installation (for example) while boosting the number of workers in solar manufacturing.

This measure will Paid for by Obama for America strengthen the U.S. manufacturing sector and help ensure that American workers will build the high - demand cars of the future.

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.

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.

Not only have almost every major solar manufacturing company in Germany gone bankrupt, leaving economic blight in its wake, now traditional power giants, which hire tens of thousands of skilled workers, are threatened by bankruptcy.

Real wages for auto parts workers, who now account for three of every four autoworker jobs, fell by nearly 14 percent from 2003 to 2013 — three times faster than for manufacturing as a whole, and nine times faster than the decline for all occupations.

While in the past, manufacturing workers earned a wage significantly higher than the U.S. average, by 2013 the average factory worker made 7.7 percent below the median wage for all occupations.

Since 1988, Responsible Care companies have reduced hazardous releases to the air, land and water by 77 percent, improved energy efficiency overall, and have a worker safety record that is three times better than the overall chemical manufacturing sector and six times safer than the manufacturing industry as a whole.

A social enterprise behind a new «ethical» smartphone, the Fairphone, aims to change that by using conflict - free raw materials for the devices, paying the workers who manufacture them a fair wage, and working to set up e-waste recycling programs for taking care of other electronics at the end of their useful life.

The GyapaTM stove is produced and sold by local entrepreneurs in Ghana, with a value chain comprising eight certified ceramists, who employ more than 50 workers; 130 metal artisans who manufacture the stoves, and 600 retail agents who sell Gyapa ™ across Ghana.

Silicosis — Workers affected by this condition are likely to have worked in glass manufacture, mining and quarrying and construction.

The Healthy Indiana Plan was created by the governor of the state to provide health insurance for the many workers who had been laid off from their manufacturing and industrial jobs and lost their health insurance.