The machine whirred loudly, a perfect musical backdrop to the ears
of the factory employees.
Spectators were once quite content with a view
of factory employees going to and from their work, the arrival and departure of railway trains, and similar scenes.
Not exact matches
The goal is to build a network
of more productive, better - run
factories — with happier, healthier
employees and lower rates
of costly absenteeism and turnover.
Privately held and family - owned, Levi's was one
of the first companies to desegregate
factories, to embrace same - sex marriage, and to educate
employees about HIV / AIDS.
Employees say Tesla is grappling with a high amount
of flawed parts and rework at its Fremont
factory where it makes new vehicles.
In 1964, the company relocated to a 100,000 - square - foot
factory in Long Island City, and with 120
employees and state -
of - the - art equipment, it was cranking out six million envelopes a day.
Last September, the company let more than 1,500
factory workers go after a federal investigation found hundreds
of undocumented
employees at its facilities.
Today, the
factory, in its sixth generation
of family ownership and with 80
employees, creates highly specialized glass, including lenses and domes that prevent color refraction, which airports around the world use to guide incoming pilots.
Carefully selected, lavishly groomed (through ongoing training) and constantly reviewed, McKinsey
employees have been compared to products
of a Stepford
factory with the corporate culture programmed into their internal database.
A recent Bloomberg Businessweek story highlighted American
factories where
employees work upwards
of 12 hours a day, six or seven days a week.
At that point, the company had built about 60 prototypes, and some were scattered around the premises;
employees hopped on them to quickly dart from one end
of the
factory to the other.
An
employee works on the production
of insulin pens at the
factory of the US pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly in Fegersheim, France.
The union was seeking assurances about bonuses and severance packages for the
factory employees who will be out
of jobs when the plant closes before the end
of this year.
Nearly a quarter
of the 588 large companies surveyed by Towers Watson this year already have on - site medical clinics for both
factory and office workers, and next year, another 12 %
of those corporations will open new clinics for
employees.
Meanwhile, top executives spend most
of their time in internal meetings poring over numbers rather than listening to
employees in research labs, offices, and
factories.
Starnes, 42, has been held captive in the office
of his
factory by 80
of his 110
employees there since Friday.
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.
Add in all the perks
of producing at home — such as eliminating exchange rate uncertainty, lower chances
of supply chain disruptions, a more plentiful supply
of qualified labour and the synergies that develop when the R&D guys can easily chat with
factory floor
employees — and the overall costs
of building a new
factory in the U.S. or China are roughly equal.
But labor advocates found that Li & Fung did not interview any
of the dismissed workers and conducted all
employee interviews in the
factory, often with managers present.
Whether it's making sure your local grocery store has your favourite yogurt in stock or ensuring that boatload
of steel makes it to the
factory on time, these
employees are responsible for keeping goods flowing.
Employees working on a car assembly line
of France's Renault and China's Dongfeng
factory in Wuhan, Hubei province, China on on February 1, 2016.
In the statement, Tesla revealed that it had investigated
employees» reports
of racism at the Fremont
factory, and had fired three people as a result
of its findings.
-LSB-...] To see examples
of such a temptation, see the 2004 Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein documentary, The Take, about the takeover
of a defunct Argentinian
factory by its former
employees.
But Monday's lawsuit, filed by former Tesla
employee Marcus Vaughn, is the first to bring those claims on behalf
of a large class
of black workers at the automaker's Fremont, California
factory.
And so it is left to Don Walker, the company's chief executive officer and a 24 - year company veteran, as well as other managers, to sustain the unique Magna corporate culture that includes profit sharing and stock ownership for
employees, an
employee charter
of rights and generally small
factories that are individual profit centres and encourage managers to be entrepreneurial.
The conditions at the
factory suggest the lengths the company is going to in order to meet its extremely ambitious production goals, and the tension
employees feel between their pride in being part
of the company and the stress and exhaustion that's company's goals are causing them, according to the report.
The plant, which fits into the government's vision
of a new India, is a flexible
factory where a variety
of products will be built for multiple businesses using shared infrastructure and
employees.
Residents
of all types — laid - off
factory workers, service - industry
employees trying to switch professions, students looking for their first jobs — gathered to learn about SolarCity's plans.
Caterpillar Inc. (CAT), the world's largest maker
of construction and mining machinery, shut its main excavator
factory in China for much
of July and had
employees on shortened work weeks, Mike DeWalt, director
of investor relations at the Peoria, Illinois, company, said in an Aug. 8 conference presentation, according to a transcript.
That reinvestment may be used to fund acquisitions, build new
factories, increase inventory levels, establish larger cash reserves, reduce long - term debt, hire more
employees, start a new division, research and develop new products, buy common stock in other businesses, purchase equipment to increase productivity, or a host
of other potential uses.
That violated RFRA, wrote Justice Samuel Alito in the majority opinion, because it penalizes the religious beliefs
of the Green family, evangelical Christians who own Hobby Lobby, a craft store chain with 500 stores and more than 13,000
employees, and the Hahn family, Mennonites whose company employs more than 1,000
employees in five
factories across the country.
Nuestro Queso took down an old section
of its
factory and put up a new warehouse, new blending rooms and new
employee areas.
Another challenge we faced was getting our
employees fully engaged on the target
of a 50 percent food waste reduction and how this translated into their day - to - day actions within the
factory.
We have therefore committed to having 100 percent
of our
employees complete our bespoke «Journey
of Food» e-Learning module by the second quarter
of 2018, focused exclusively on food waste from the farm to our
factory, and ultimately to the fork.
[Camera zooms out to show Maxime Collado and another
employee looking at a sample and then images flash through
of Maxime Collado in the
factory]
[Image changes to show Maxime Collado and then the camera pans along the machinery in the
factory and images flash through
of an
employee operating a machine, Maxime Collado, Maxime Collado inspecting the samples
of coffee and then the camera zooms in on the sample]
Over the past six months we've doubled the size
of the
factory, added a second HPP machine and this has resulted in 20 additional
employees and significantly more opportunity for growth in the business over the next four to five years.
With over 400
employees throughout its
factory in Ireland, the ethos
of this brand is both family and togetherness.
Asked by the owner
of the Waldorf Astoria cigarette
factory, located in Stuttgart, Germany, to establish a school for company
employees, Steiner created the first
of his schools, Die Freie Waldorfschule (the Free Waldorf School) after establishing four conditions.
It also owns both retail stores and
factories in Spain but outside the Basque country, many
of whose
employees are not members.
«Meanwhile unions campaigning to get the voices
of Britain's nurses,
factory workers, shop assistants and other
employees heard around Westminster are being targeted.»
Consider a typical
employee of a GM
factory.
ORTT PUSHES FOR BUSINESS - FRIENDLY BILL TO CUT «RED TAPE» Senator Ortt's Red Tape Reduction Act Reduces Amount
of Burdens Placed on Businesses NORTH TONAWANDA — Senator Rob Ortt (R, C, I — North Tonawanda) joined local business advocates and
employees of Audubon Machinery at the North Tonawanda
factory today to push for his proposedRed Tape Reduction Act, which would cut red tape and allow businesses to thrive.
A further 875
employees, including 682 disabled workers, are at risk
of losing their jobs at Remploy
factories, the government announced today.
Factory owners didn't want to inspire creativity among their
employees; they wanted to drill it out
of them.
Partner shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless Dating
Factory, and its directors,
employees or other Partners against any claim, demand, cause
of action, debt or liability, including reasonable legal fees, to the extent that:
In his new life, he becomes mayor
of a small town where he owns a
factory that
employees dozens
of otherwise destitute women.
With the help
of Itzhak Stern (Ben Kinglsey) he uses the
factories to hire Jewish workers, keeping his
employees out
of the death camps.
(Jason Bateman) is great as a
factory owner who has to deal with his loveless marriage and his crazy staff
of employees.
Paul, introduced to weed by two
employees at a
factory (because the two white guys fear that his fast work will make them look bad), eventually becomes homesick for Sudan and feels peaceful only in the presence
of cattle from Jack (Corey Stoll), the guy who raises the animals.