Sentences with phrase «many industry workers»

As a result, safer work conditions are becoming more of a reality for the nearly five million garment - industry workers in Bangladesh.

After the 2006 theft, some of the federation's directors suggested in a Radio - Canada interview that embittered industry workers may have been behind the crime.

But many of these industry workers are on the ground and have first - hand knowledge of what's going on.

He claims voters there, from truck drivers to lumber industry workers, tend to grasp that trade is essential to their livelihoods.

«A few cosmetic changes to the form and rollout of the travel order do not change its original intent,» said a statement from Tech Stands Up, a grassroots group of tech industry workers that was formed after President Trump's initial immigration order, which was halted in federal court.

At the protest, solar panel owners, solar industry workers and others took turns telling the crowd their stories.

Typically, they're not funeral industry workers from Central Pennsylvania who spend three weeks learning to game referral competitions.

And while many early Slack devotees were comprised of tech industry workers, that makeup has now changed significantly.

Figure 14 shows the employment cost index measure of wages and salaries for private industry workers, excluding incentive - paid occupations.

On Monday evening, trade groups representing a host of industry workers (architects, real estate agents, community bankers, air conditioner repairmen, beer wholesalers, door inspectors) released a statement expressing grave concerns with Senate Republicans» tax bill.

The Oil & Petrochemical Industries Workers Confederation agreed to end the walkout after the government refused to negotiate while labor was off the job.

Wages & salaries of private industry workers were also up 0.7 % (2.7 % y / y) last quarter after their 0.5 % Q4 rise.

Kuwaiti oil sector employees sit in a shaded area on the first day of an official strike called by the Oil and Petrochemical Industries Workers Union over public sector pay Continue Reading

There are 3.5 million truck drivers and 7.3 million industry workers in the U.S., which brings $ 726.4 billion in revenue to the country, said Kevin Burch, TMAF co-chairman and Jet Express Inc. president.

Surrounded by coal industry workers, donned in khaki pants and polo shirts, President Trump signed an executive order in March pulling the plug on his predecessor's plan to close hundreds of coal - fired power plants to reduce carbon emissions.

Can't we now all agree that private industry workers are overpaid to pad the bottom line and do something about it?

According to John Dunham & Associates, the beverage industry directly employs nearly 253,000 people and has a direct economic impact of $ 182.6 billion, with direct compensation to beverage industry workers at nearly $ 20 billion.

Neither, for that matter, could the city's restaurant industry workers, many of whom work until late.

Since restaurant industry workers are known to like a shift meal and a drink, some restaurants like Tosca Café in San Francisco gear their's toward comfort food with a «pasta and a beer» deal and special cocktails that tend to involve coffee and hard alcohol.

slashing the military budget is going to mean a whole lot of unemployed soldiers and defense industry workers.

Nixon's platform for governor is a show stopper to some furious film and TV industry workers who used to share a set with her.

Johnson stripped jurisdiction of taxis and car services from the Transportation Committee, which since 2014 has been chaired by Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez (D - Manhattan), another pol with many industry workers in his district.

Ninety - six per cent of creative industry workers voted against Brexit.

New York City adopted a paid sick leave law several years ago and now proponents are trying to marshal support for a similar measure in Albany County — which would extend a privilege enjoyed by state workers and lawmakers to the private sector, where part - time and service - industry workers are especially unlikely to have the same perk.

SEIU 32BJ, which represents 145,000 service industry workers, launched a separate digital attack ad campaign against DeFrancisco on March 3.

This helped spark an out - migration of mostly white, affluent and Republican - leaning residents, including many former defense - industry workers.

BFAWU to work with Unite the Resistance and John McDonnell MP to support fast - food industry workers.

The lineup of groups opposing a constitutional convention includes: environmental groups, gay rights organizations, New York City cops, Western New York auto industry workers, the state chapter of the National Rifle Association, every imaginable public and private - sector union, political leaders on the left and right and even a group called «Humanists of Long Island.»

Democratic state Senate candidate Marisol Alcantara is being endorsed by a labor group that represents cafeteria and other service industry workers in her bid for the seat being vacated by Adriano Espaillat.

An advocacy group pushing for a higher minimum wage for restaurant and service industry workers has teamed up with actress Michelle Williams that compares states that pay workers a unified minimum wage and those that don't.

The bill also calls for establishing of a city - run training program for displaced drivers and other industry workers.

A new statewide association of salon and spa professionals is backing a legislative proposal in New York that would require industry workers be educated to recognized signs of abuse.

Filings with the city Campaign Finance Board show that the public advocate has been the leading recipient of union contributions, with tens of thousands of dollars in donations, alone, from local chapters nationwide of UNITE, which represents needle trades and textile industry workers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo today applauded his wage board's ruling that fast food industry workers should receive $ 15 an hour for their labor — and shrugged off claims from business groups that the new pay floor will result in layoffs.

The lineup of opposition groups includes: environmental groups, gay rights organizations, New York City cops, Western New York auto industry workers, the state chapter of the National Rifle Association, every imaginable public and private - sector union, political leaders on the left and right and even a group called «Humanists of Long Island.»

New York's emerging plan to regulate natural gas drilling in the gas - rich Marcellus Shale needs to go further to safeguard drinking water, environmentally sensitive areas and gas industry workers, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has informed state officials.

Several large cohort studies of medical x-ray technicians and nuclear industry workers suggest a slight increase in cancer risk at exposures below 100 mSv, Shore says.

The casinos employed huge numbers of service industry workers.

In late 1998 and early 1999, hundreds of pig industry workers in Malaysia and 11 employees of a Singaporean slaughterhouse came down with a severe form of encephalitis that killed about 40 % of its victims.

Food producers and the unions representing food industry workers clearly have a vested interest in the campaign.

Delivery truck drivers, those who unload merchandise on loading docks, and railroad industry workers can be at risk for COPD.

Although the National Toxicology Program said formaldehyde is «known to be a human carcinogen» in 2011, after studies linked it to cancers of the nose and myeloid leukemia, that research looked at manufacturing and funeral industry workers, who are exposed to higher levels of the substance than the general population, explains Laura Beane Freeman, PhD, an epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute.

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Easy to clean and in a lightweight cotton, the shirts became the first choice clothing of many industry workers and also by mothers for their sons.

No - one does «having awkward conversations with social outsiders» better than Louis Theroux, and this series from the late»90s follows him as he meets born - again Christians, porn industry workers, swingers, body - builders and people who actually believe in UFOs.

She's also a frequent radio and television guest commenting on topics ranging from intellectual property in fashion and garment industry workers» rights to the deplorable shortage of decent female superhero films.

Perhaps the most respected study to date, conducted by researchers Jason Richwine and Andrew Biggs (in which they account for all variables — including the fact that teachers work on average for 180 days, while private industry workers toil for 240 - 250 days) found that workers «who switch from non-teaching jobs to teaching jobs receive a wage increase of roughly 9 percent, while teachers who change to non-teaching jobs see their wages decrease by approximately 3 percent.»

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In 2012, 30 percent of private industry workers with access to a defined contribution plan (such as a 401 (k) plan) did not participate.

Because in many industries a worker also would receive a subsidy by going to the exchange, there can be cases where the net cost to the worker plus the employer penalty is still lower than the cost of employer - provided benefits, which apart from these rules could give the employer an incentive to «push» employees who are already being offered «affordable» coverage through their employer to the exchanges.