Sentences with phrase «more than the factory»

Many of those white - collar service jobs pay more than factory work, as they are occupied by people with higher educations, according to the Conference Board.

We are gardeners and farmers more than factory workers or brick producers for Pharaoh perhaps, cultivating and sowing seeds that will bear a mighty harvest, long after we are gone even.

Each one cost # 27,995, # 8500 more than a factory - built 160, but all of the Sprints have now sold out.

The 1.5 - liter turbocharged Civic Si could make more than the factory 205 horsepower, but it probably couldn't do it for hundreds of tho...

The new springs are also larger in diameter than OE, and the rears are rated at 210 pounds — 50 pounds more than factory to better handle aftermarket bumpers and accessories.

It flows a minimum of 30 percent more than the factory system and provides a noticeable seat - of - the pants improvement in acceleration and ability to maintain speed on grades.

As Seth Godin famously likes to talk about, in this second, industrial phase, schools became little more than factories, churning out young people educated enough to work in bigger factories one day.

Bloomberg reported last year that soaring electricity prices in the country caused by tariffs are leaving many households paying more than factories for energy.

Not exact matches

They focused on new workforce improvements, and interviewed more than a dozen local NGOs to help with in - factory training sessions.

Tesla's factory in Fremont, Calif., can churn out more than 500,000 vehicles annually.

In other words, if the company notices a shift in local consumer tastes, it can fire off a batch of new garb from a nearby factory and get product on shelves many months faster than the old way — a supply chain triumph given that Levi works two years in advance and uses more than 1,000 different finishes in a season, which lasts six months.

Though Del Vecchio started Luxottica as a tiny one - room enterprise in Milan, it now operates 10 factories worldwide, employs 35,000 people, and produces more than 65,000 pairs of glasses per day, holding a veritable monopoly on the eyewear industry.

The electric carmaker expects the factory, which will have more than 10 million square feet of operational space, to be the biggest building in the world once it's complete.

I saw the owner of the factory doing many different things — there was more to it than just printing T - shirts.»

That was more than five times expectations and included 12,600 new jobs on factory floors.

Exports to the U.S. and the rest of the world plunged, and more than 100,000 factories shut their doors, throwing millions of Chinese labourers out of work.

Last September, the company let more than 1,500 factory workers go after a federal investigation found hundreds of undocumented employees at its facilities.

The CFPB has sued a Georgia - based firm it accuses of operating a «factory» that churned out more than 350,000 debt collection lawsuits.

With more than 200 staff in factories and offices in Quebec, New York, London and Asia, the firm creates custom - made products for its customers, primarily banks looking to recognize important financial transactions and employee contributions.

A survey Thursday showed that factories increased production and received a surge of new orders in July, propelling the fastest expansion in more than two years.

Tod Wilson is the owner of Mr. Tod's Pie Factory, a wholesale and retail bakery with locations in Somerset and Englewood, N.J.. He's also the first person ever to win «Shark Tank,» and his life and business have both changed considerably in the more than four years since.

In large part because of NAFTA, Mexican and Canadian factories are more partial to U.S. suppliers than any others in the world: Of Mexico's exports to the United States, 40 % of the value is made in America; for Canada, it is 25 %.

Dozens of retailers signed on in May, meaning more than 1,000 Bangladeshi factories could soon fall under its auspices.

In the past decade, nearly 54,000 factories have been shuttered or moved offshore, including 40 percent of facilities with payrolls of more than 1,000, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Li Ka - shing, a wartime refugee who used to sweep factory floors in Hong Kong for a living, retired after a career spanning more than half a century amassing one of Asia's biggest fortunes from building skyscrapers to selling soap bars.

In a press release announcing the factory opening, the company cited research from Canalys that forecasts global revenue for 3D printing totaling more than $ 20 billion within five years.

Two Goodyear managers who had been held hostage for more than a day inside a company factory in France regained their freedom Tuesday afternoon after police intervened.

Then there's the fact that the State of Iowa and city of Davenport are planning to incentivize Kraft Heinz to the tune of approximately $ 32,000 per worker over the next 15 years to locate the new factory there — despite the fact that there is a net job LOSS, not gain, of more than 800 workers.

In fact, just - in - time «manufacturing» might be even more critical in a kitchen than in a factory because every ingredient needs to arrive at the right stage at the right time in order for a dish to come together perfectly.

Earlier in the session, a report showed U.S. factory activity increased more than expected in December, in a further sign of strong economic momentum at the end of 2017.

«We will always be more of a boutique rather than a factory, but we would like to be a slightly bigger boutique,» she says.

After all, what could be more normal and peaceful than opening up a factory and offering people employment?

But the fact remains: the more our economy depends on intellectual rather than physical capital — that is, the more it depends on information and new products and specialized services rather than on warehouses and big factories and centralized paper processing — the stronger will be the centrifugal forces impelling people toward small companies.

This means that the Tesla story must be more all - encompassing than the operations of a carmaker with one factory, selling three cars, would imply.

Pashak of Detroit Bikes, for one, is looking to raise $ 1 million from investors to accelerate the factory's current output more than tenfold and become a true mass - producer of bicycles.

A report by the New York - based NGO China Labor Watch says the factories making devices and components for Samsung are guilty of a range of abuses: employees working more than 100 hours of overtime in a month; children under 16 working in factories; failure to provide safety clothing where appropriate.

The collapse, the third catastrophic incident at Bangladeshi factories in five months that have killed more than 200 people, could taint Bangladesh's reputation as a source of low - cost products and services and call attention to Western retailers and other companies that obtain products from the country.

In June 2011, for example, more than 280 workers vomited and fainted in a three - day period at the King Fashion Garment Company factory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which made dresses and knitted tops for brands including H&M, a former Li & Fung client.

Cheesecake Factory's stock jumped more than 8 percent after a positive earnings report.

The result was that Japanese factories were more efficient and Japanese products were more reliable than American ones.

Tesla will likely have to expand production at both its Fremont, Calif. factory more quickly than expected, and it will soon have to start producing a greater number of batteries at its massive battery factory still under construction outside of Reno, Nevada.

Of course, wanting more overtime doesn't prove that things are great at the factories; it just proves that workers want more money than they make during a regular workday.

It's a nice piece of PR, especially following April's horrific factory collapse in Dhaka that killed more than 1,100 people and soured many on the Bangladeshi garment trade.

The main changes are due to Canadian Toyota and Honda factories, which are predicted to ship nearly 100,000 fewer cars to the US under shallow integration, while they increase their sales to the southern neighbour by more than 80,000 if the «γ friction» also falls.

But those who paid close attention knew that nothing could be farther from the truth: CEO Lino Saputo Jr. had been quietly making inroads with Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Co. for more than a decade.

It's one of countless tweaks underway by the Anglo - Dutch company in its more than 300 factories across the world, which churn out more than 400 brands for 2.5 billion or so customers — an astonishing one in every three people on the planet.

For all the talk of flat hierarchies, the truth is that innovative modern workplaces are more than stimulus - response task factories.

Our company has more than 33,000 employees, with over 10,000 in the Fremont factory alone, so it is not humanly possible to stop all bad conduct, but we will do our best to make it is as close to zero as possible.»

Tesla, worth about $ 50 billion, employs more than 10,000 workers at its Fremont factory.

A federally backed national rural innovation fund would send a strong message that there is more to rural America than just shuttered factories and abandoned coal mines.