Sentences with phrase «of as the construction workers»

If DNA can be described as the body's genetic blueprint, proteins can be thought of as the construction workers who carry out the plan.

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«Students include humorous / ridiculous Photoshopped pictures of me in their slides (me in wizard robes, me as a construction worker, me as a chicken farmer).»

As they trek towards the Mexico - U.S. border, a group of construction workers are building a wall — ordered by President Trump — to prevent anyone from coming into the country.

The dirtiest, most physically demanding, and most dangerous of these jobs — in fields such as construction, landscaping, and building maintenance, for example — are overwhelmingly filled by immigrants, who now account for more than half of all low - skilled workers in the U.S..

«The labor shortage is getting worse as demand is getting stronger,» said John Courson, chief executive of the Home Builders Institute, a national nonprofit that trains workers in the construction field.

In the early hours of October 26, while Los Angeles slept, a man dressed as a construction worker demolished Donald Trump's star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Adorned with an American flag that flapped in the breeze, the last pieces of a silver spire were hoisted to the top of the World Trade Center on Thursday as construction workers cheered its ascent.

For example, in California, certain types of delivery drivers, salespeople, and construction workers are designated as statutory employees, regardless of their classification as an employee or independent contractor and are therefore eligible for unemployment insurance.

Most of Houston's construction workers come from Mexico, and that has made matters even more difficult, as immigration policies tighten under the Trump administration.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

As for other industries, I've observed before that infrastructure projects on the scale of those being discussed would actually have to be implemented with foreign labor (as many of the largest U.S. construction projects have been in recent years), since heavy construction workers represent a rather small segment of the U.S. labor forcAs for other industries, I've observed before that infrastructure projects on the scale of those being discussed would actually have to be implemented with foreign labor (as many of the largest U.S. construction projects have been in recent years), since heavy construction workers represent a rather small segment of the U.S. labor forcas many of the largest U.S. construction projects have been in recent years), since heavy construction workers represent a rather small segment of the U.S. labor force.

As Navillus makes its way through bankruptcy, the concrete company is going after one of its general contractors for allegedly stiffing its workers on one of the biggest construction projects in Times Square.

I've been in full time ministry, got fired, struggled for decades with my self - identity as a construction worker to raise a family, and ended up joining a Church where I had a snowball's chance in hell of getting ordained but still held out hope, but it has never happened after 14 years now.

Bastian Wielenga of the Centre for Social Analysis says, «In peoples» movements such as the National Fish - workers» Forum (NFF), the Narmada Bachan Andolan, the Socialist Front, Jan Vikas Andolan, Chilika Bachao Andolan and the National Federation of Construction Labour which are cooperating in the NAPM, the victims of the dominant development politics are raising their voice and begin to project alternatives.

(As I write this, for example, I am in Honolulu, and the local newspaper carried a story of some construction workers who walked off the job.

In colonies of social insects, workers perform a variety of tasks such as foraging, brood care and nest construction.

Although the region was visited by traders from China for centuries, the first main Chinese influx came in 1820s, as immigrants worked as construction workers on the building of Singapore, and the second wave of laborers came in the 1840s to work the tin mines.

Just across the street from our place was a massive ongoing construction project, and at 7 am every morning except for Sundays, the sound of drilling would wake us up as the workers started their day.

What I AM saying though, is that Motrin will pay a MUCH bigger price, as opposed to if they'd messed up in front of say, «Construction - Worker - Bloggers.»

With thousands of construction workers out of work and interest rates at record lows, there is a growing consensus that investing now in improving our infrastructure, particularly housing, would give an immediate boost to the economy, encourage more private sector investment, and give us a long - term return as we strengthen our economy for the future.

And while other industries, such as manufacturing, have shed skilled workers, the construction industry maintains a third of all employment in this occupation group.

Not to be outdone, a spokesperson for the mayor shot back, «If 421 - a is simply extended as is, as some are seeking up in Albany, there will be no prevailing wage construction jobs, far fewer building service workers making prevailing wage and no progress on affordable housing for tens of thousands in desperate need.

De Blasio is also is calling for an overhaul of housing programs and tax incentives to spur the construction of tens of thousands of apartments for poor New Yorkers, as well as teachers, firefighters and other workers, who increasingly find themselves priced out of a booming real estate market and rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.

ERIE COUNTY, NY - Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined today by elected officials and members of the business community as he signed his 18th Executive Order, mandating that Erie County construction projects of over $ 250,000 and involving at least three workers shall include requirements to employ local and disadvantaged workers.

As such, I was recently joined by elected officials and members of the business and labor community to sign my eighteenth Executive Order, mandating that Erie County construction projects of over $ 250,000 and involving at least three workers must include requirements to employ local workers.

As a result, New York taxpayers won't get maximum value for their construction dollars, and thousands of non-union workers will be unfairly shut out of the competition for government contracts to build, overhaul and expand bridges, highways and other critical infrastructure.

As Political Director of the New York City Central Labor Council, Carrión has forged deep partnerships among 300 local unions from every trade, occupation, and public and private sector of the New York economy, representing a wide spectrum of workers, including teachers, truck drivers, operating engineers, nurses, construction workers, electricians, firefighters, retail workers, janitors, train operators, bakers, and many more who are the face of today's workforce.

If 421a is simply extended as - is, as some are seeking up in Albany, there will be no prevailing wage construction jobs, far fewer building service workers making prevailing wage and no progress on affordable housing for tens of thousands in desperate need.

As I stood near the group, a line of curious construction workers navigated the crowded sidewalk.

Some of the workers who were laid off on Friday at the state's SolarCity construction project in South Buffalo were back on the job early today, but many others remained sidelined as state officials worked to free up the money to start paying $ 82.5 million in past - due bills.

As NYC's building boom has taken off, the number of available site - safety inspectors has dropped while the number of workers dying at construction sites has spiked, a Daily News investigation has found.

Flanked by Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority tenants in front of the Marine Drive complex where he lives Wednesday afternoon, the retired construction company owner and worker says he is not going to quit as a BMHA tenant commissioner and won't abandon the Council campaign.

The Riverbend project offered an opportunity to work for much of the winter — unusual in Buffalo — as well as what one construction worker called «unbelievable overtime» in order to stick to the tight schedule.

Contractors with the county must have NYS Certified Worker Training Programs that actually graduate workers as apprentices, thereby providing local workers with the education and skills training they need to succeed in construction trades now and in the future, while at the same time lessening the need for out - of - area workers on these jobs as local workers gain new skills.

After years of delays and stagnation, construction is now moving forward at a dizzying pace, as 3,500 workers each day build two skyscrapers, a train station, a memorial and a museum.

«As we create these hundreds of thousands of affordable housing units, we also make sure they are done by qualified, professional programs and builders and workers,» she said, insisting that union construction is safer and of superior quality.

«So Mr. Vice President, today I announce that I will propose to the New York state legislature not just $ 15 for fast - food workers, because a fast - food worker deserves $ 15 an hour, construction workers deserve $ 15 an hour, and home healthcare aides deserve $ 15 an hour, and taxi - cab drivers deserve $ 15 an hour, and every working man and woman in the State of New York deserves $ 15 an hour as a minimum wage - and we are not going to stop until we get it done!»

«Contractors with the county must have NYS Certified Worker Training Programs that actually graduate workers as apprentices, thereby providing local workers with the education and skills training they need to succeed in construction trades now and in the future, while at the same time lessening the need for out - of - area workers on these jobs as local workers gain new skills,» Poloncarz said in a statement.

Hawkins was joined by former residents at the site of the former 400 - unit Kennedy Square low - income public housing on S. Crouse Ave.. The site is now a staging area for parking, equipment, and materials for construction workers who were busy as Hawkins spoke building upscale apartments across E. Fayette St. for the Syracuse University community with rents ranging from $ 1,400 to $ 2,500 a month.

He said MPs, trade unionists and journalists had all fallen foul of blacklists over two decades, as well as thousands of construction workers.

Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared Saturday with Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, to announce a memorandum of understanding between the city and the union to begin training as many as 3,000 workers to perform retrofits on city buildings.

The earlier film starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as Douglas Quaid, an unsatisfied, late 21st - century construction worker in search of adventure.

A 40 - year - old construction worker had given me a history that sounded as if he had reviewed the signs of acute appendicitis just before walking into the clinic.

However, the pattern of geographic inequality extended to other occupations as well: The study finds that immigrants from Asia seeking jobs in the U.S. as cooks and construction workers are, respectively, 42 percent and 81 percent more likely to have their applications approved than immigrants from Latin America seeking jobs in those areas.

Although we'll never know for sure how they got there, one theory is that they traveled as invisible cargo in migrant construction workers hired to lay railway track from Mozambique to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).

Jordan is on the verge of opening the Synchrotron - light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East as workers enter homestretch of synchrotron's construction.

The towers sway from side to side and a group of helmeted Japanese construction workers roar with laughter as you cling to the steel railings.

Her dissertation, «Nothing but Nets: The History of Insecticide - Treated Nets in Africa, 1980s - Present,» examines how and why insecticide - treated bed nets became a cornerstone of malaria control in the 21st century, as well as the role of African scientists, health workers, health officials, and populations played in the construction of this biomedical, global health technology.

But the need for protein was / as much as anything / based off of how much construction workers in Europe needed....

In Brazil this kind of boot, often rugged and of low - quality, are associated with the countryside population and construction workers, being cheap to acquire, popularly known as «Botinhas Catitó» after one of its brands.