Sentences with phrase «massive job losses»

While there haven't yet been massive job losses in Canada's mining and exploration industries, juniors have stopped hiring almost completely after four years of manic activity, Stafford says.

The Central Queensland mining industry would face massive job losses if a Labor government came into power and signed the Kyoto Greenhouse Agreement, a Queensland Mining Council representative has warned.16

¶ «Trump Tariff War Roils Markets, May Cause Massive Job Losses.

One potential idea for counteracting a future that involves massive job losses is universal basic income, a government - provided monthly or yearly stipend given to each citizen.

The problem: Cutting off benefits to people who live in communities already suffering from massive job loss and poverty is kind of a dispiriting business.

The current economic crunch has snowballed into massive job loss, particularly in the banking sector.

soon yield massive job losses statewide among arts, music and physical education teachers, as well as teacher assistants.

China's slowing economy has exacerbated the gloomy sentiment about the world's most populated market and sparked worries about massive job losses amid potential company collapses and loan defaults.

The result has been massive job losses in the United States and the shutting down of tens of thousands of factories,» a statement on Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders» Senate webpage said.

«This is a further assault on hardworking and committed workers who are already facing massive job losses, pay freezes and worsening working conditions.

The Prime Minister, various ministers and the fossil fuel lobby have for years claimed that cutting emissions would be economically ruinous, cause massive job losses and destroy our international competitiveness.

Kenny argued that fears of «massive job loss, or even an eventual AI «overlord»» are overblown.

And although Canada's mining and exploration sectors have so far avoided the massive job losses other sectors have seen, the effects of the downturn are going to make themselves very apparent by the spring, when new exploration programs don't go ahead, warns the chair of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) financial and taxation committee.

Nationals MP Michelle Landry, who represents the north Queensland seat of Capricornia where the biggest agricultural export is sugar, said such a tax would lead to «massive job losses in her electorate».

The Australian Council of Trade Unions argued the government's industry policy was «achieving nothing other than massive job losses and the decimation of the local manufacturing industry».

They say moving the 160 year old company from its original location will result in potentially «massive job losses».

«Five years ago, New York faced daunting challenges — a lagging economy, massive job losses, yawning budget deficits and a state government mired in gridlock,» Cuomo began, in what was widely seen as implicit criticism of his two Democratic predecessors, Govs. David Paterson and Eliot Spitzer.

Dispelling fears that the plans to phase out Danfo buses would lead to massive job losses, Ambode stressed that it would instead create more jobs in the transportation sector.

They say moving the 160 - year - old company from its original location will result in potentially «massive job losses.»

On May 6, 2003, for example, the Governor issued a press release with the following lead paragraph: «Governor George E. Pataki today announced that the fiscally irresponsible budget passed by the State Legislature will harm New Yorkers by imposing the largest tax increase in the history of the State — a tax increase that will lead to massive job losses and a projected $ 13 billion budget shortfall in the upcoming two years.»

«The balance we have sought to strike is that it must not be too low, so that it doesn't affect the lowest paid workers, but not too high that it leads to massive job losses,» Ramaphosa told a news conference.

Over the past few years, the declining economy and massive job loss have led to many otherwise good people to fall behind on their loan payments.

Massive job losses, resulting in an unemployment rate of 9.6 %, translate into nearly 15 million workers who are searching for employment.7 These aren't the only workers economically burdened by the recession.

«Every time that an environmental regulation has been put forward, polluters say: «massive job losses, lights going off, electricity system crashing, bills going through the roof,»» Podesta said.

The factual results of the GEA are of economic chaos, massive job losses, environmental degradation of the highest order, a decay of our treasured environmental protections in law, and yet uncounted human health and productivity costs.

But whereas other industries such as manufacturing and retail went through plant closings and massive job losses in the 1990s and 2000s, the legal industry remained largely insulated.