Sentences with phrase «many thousands of workers»

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.

Additionally, when it comes to large companies such as Caterpillar and Boeing, the bank isn't just supporting one company with its many thousands of workers, but — as in Boeing's case — the 6,600 small businesses that also supply the company with component parts, products, and services.

Since the days when the Brooklyn Navy Yard was buzzing with tens of thousands of workers, manufacturing has followed inexpensive labor to countries like China, Bangladesh and India.

When he assumed the position last June, he promised to slash costs while raising service levels, and he's moved quickly on both fronts: fewer train crews go to work each day, thousands of workers have already been turfed, and CP's remaining fleet is pulling heavier loads.

It is still working through past missteps, such as its $ 7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's ailing phone business, and continues to lay off thousands of workers.

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.

Amazon announced plans today to hire thousands of workers across the U.S. to run its fulfillment and customer service networks as the company seeks to get goods to customers faster.

Thousands of workers from chain restaurants including McDonald's, Burger King and Pizza Hut plan to go on strike this Thursday, reports Bloomberg.

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

And, he says, Hunter and his army of retail investors did nothing that hasn't been repeatedly done by investment bankers, bondholders and hedge funds during other CCAAs, such as the restructuring of Hamilton steelmaker Stelco, where self - serving parties threatened the future of thousands of workers in order to turn a profit after buying voting power from scared creditors.

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 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.

Accommodating Amazon's thousands of workers will require hiring more teachers, widening roads and building more housing.

And around Fort McMurray, Alta., thousands of workers continue to use mining trucks and steam - assisted gravity draining (SAGD) to extract nearly three million barrels of oil daily, confident that folks somewhere will demand the stuff, no matter how it gets to refineries and customers.

Official workforce statistics have become a closely guarded secret, but a dozen sources told Reuters that many thousands of workers had quit so far this year - an acceleration of an already troubling outflow last year.

So do companies and individuals posting assignments on crowdsourcing sites like Amazon Mechanical Turk, where hundreds of thousands of workers earn piece - rate wages by completing discrete tasks.

The case, which centers on a small aircraft that Bombardier plans to sell to American customers, could affect the livelihood of thousands of workers whose jobs traverse the sprawling supply chains of both aircraft manufacturers.

Thousands of workers came to build the first boom.

Vox's Fernández Campbell reported last month that PREPA has lost thousands of workers in recent years, including 600 — fully a tenth of its workforce — this past April alone.

It came as unions issued a warning over the merger saying that thousands of workers could be affected and that # 500 million of potential savings could mean job losses or cuts to pay.

And so most tarsands extractors (except those who own refineries) are now bleeding cash; many banks have developed nervous twitches; and thousands of workers have found themselves unemployed.

«Businesses across America have already started to raise wages, and more than 100 companies have already given bonuses and other benefits to hundreds of thousands of workers as a result of these massive tax cuts,» Trump said Monday in Nashville.

Retirement savers achieved record balances in their 401 (k) balances in 2014 — thanks in part to the stock market's gains — but the biggest winners were the thousands of workers who became newly minted millionaires.

In the past decade, PREPA has lost thousands of workers.

With the layoff of tens of thousands of workers, the quality and accessibility of public services are compromised.

Thousands of worker - bees who thought they were millionaires 6 months ago have lost everything.

During the «Day without Latinxs & Immigrants,» thousands of workers struck and thousands of students were absent from school Over 100 businesses closed during the march (partial list here) Photos here Video here Over ten thousand people marched in Waukesha today as part of a Day Without Latinxs & Immigrants statewide general strike.

Thousands of workers and activists have marched to the Philippines» presidential palace to demand the government address labor issues, as workers around the world stage May Day rallies.

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.

Automation was already making vast strides in industry with a consequent displacement of thousands of workers.

As a result, thousands of workers took part in them.

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.

Time is running out and it's now up to Denis Napthine to match our offer and support this company and the thousands of workers and growers.»

The Fair Work Commission has axed Domino's Pizza's long expired agreements that paid thousands of workers significantly below minimum rates, leaving the franchise facing tens of million of dollars in higher labour costs.

However, thousands of workers in the Region defied the heavy rain and went on a procession through the streets of Cape Coast.

However, the truth is that thousands of workers, many of them teachers, continue to be injured and made seriously ill as a result of their work each year.

The ruling could affect thousands of their workers potentially bankrupting the industry.

Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and thousands of workers across different fields rallied in Lower Manhattan's Foley Square ahead of a Supreme Court vote that could affect labor union funding.

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

In a financial filing this week, SolarCity laid out the considerable task it has before it in meeting milestones to avoid tens of millions of dollars in payments if it fails to start production on schedule and employ the thousands of workers to whom it has committed.

«Our economy has rebounded tremendously from the Great Recession, but thousands of workers across the state are still dealing with stagnant wages that do not reflect the cost of living in New York,» said Engel.

Multi-national companies are laying - off thousands of workers while contractors working for the Federal Government have left their sites.

For the past decade, trade unions representing thousands of workers, student unions, faith groups and local councils have mobilised to end UK complicity with Israel's repeated violations of international law in its policies against Palestinians.

Hundreds of thousands of workers led by the National President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, have converged at the road leading to Sir...

JERSEY CITY — Tens of thousands of workers at the New York region's three major airports are poised to receive phased - in raises to $ 19 per hour in coming years, the highest minimum wage in the nation and the culmination of years of protests by employees who said they had to scrap every day just to get by.

Tens of thousands of workers have been hired to work on newly drilled gas wells in Pennsylvania adjacent to the Southern Tier area of New York, which has been plagued by unemployment and poverty brought about by a declining agriculture base, high taxes, and a loss of local population.

«However in recent years, the WFP has strayed from that vision and now routinely opposes issues important to the tens of thousands of workers in the construction industry and other industries.»

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