Sentences with phrase «of factory jobs»

And it must also hire the more than 1,440 contractors from the original agreement on top of that, said SUNY Poly spokesman Jerry Gretzinger, who added that the reduction of factory jobs would allow for more management and research - and - development jobs to be created.

While the deal allowed US manufacturers to lower costs and compete with Asian factories, it also led companies to move thousands of factory jobs to Mexico, where labor is cheaper.

Although the Canadian dollar's march to parity may have killed hundreds of thousands of factory jobs, a move towards 70 cents will bring other jobs back.

The decline of factory jobs, through both automation and globalization, has given manufacturers the upper hand in negotiations with workers and governments.

They failed to forecast the predictable backlash by those unwilling to accept low wages and the loss of factory jobs as a fair price to pay for the benefits of free trade.

The United States has lost millions of factory jobs, but in the last few years some have come back.

Not exact matches

His father Fred never graduated from high school and held a series of blue - collar jobs including truck driver, factory worker and cab driver.

IRWINDALE, Calif. — A judge has ordered a plant that produces the popular Sriracha chili sauce to stop emitting annoying odours in a ruling that left some nearby residents worried about a possible loss of jobs at the factory.

A dense body of academic work demonstrates that one factory job correlates with multiple service jobs.

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.

The facts: Standing beside Trump in the Oval Office on Feb. 8, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced a $ 7 billion investment to complete the company's new Arizona factory, which will «employ approximately 3,000 direct high - paying, high - wage, high - tech jobs at its peak, and over 10,000 people in the Arizona area in support of the factory.»

There were 2.1 million factory jobs at the start of 2007 compared with about 1.7 million now.

Handmaker decided the best route was to hire a vice president of manufacturing whose job it would be to bolster efficiency at the factory.

«Many of the losses in factory jobs have been countered by an increase in the service industries or in office jobs.

Like Lululemon, Kit and Ace focuses on design and retail; the job of actually manufacturing the clothes is contracted out to woollen mills and factories in Asia and Italy.

SunPower on Thursday said it was putting a $ 20 million U.S. factory expansion and hundreds of new jobs on hold until and unless its solar panels receive an exclusion from federal tariffs the Trump administration imposed this week.

The administration argues that unfair competition with China and other trade partners has wiped out millions of U.S. factory jobs.

In doing so, Maple Leaf will cut a net 1,550 jobs, or roughly 12 % of its meat - division workforce, as the company closes several factories from B.C. to New Brunswick and consolidate operations into a new $ 395 - million flagship facility in Hamilton, set to start churning out sliced meats and wieners by 2014.

«The media has done a great job of scaring people, hackers have done a good job at hacking and there has been a good amount of activism to help people understand the risks,» says Jean Yang, co-founder of Cybersecurity Factory, an incubator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Already in March most indicators have disappointed: the U.S. economy added a dismal 88,000 jobs last month, less than half as many as analysts expected; retail sales dropped 0.4 %, the largest decline since June of 2012; and this week durable goods orders, out last Wednesday, plunged 5.7 %, nearly twice the tumble expected and likely a sign that U.S. factories have entered a slump.

So did the National Association of Manufacturers, whose CEO, Jay Timmons, wrote a scathing op - ed in the Wall Street Journal following Garrett's nomination, counting Garrett among those «responsible for moving our jobs, our wealth and our factories to other countries.»

The CSeries poses no threat to the U.S. aerospace industry because building it at the Airbus factory in Alabama would create U.S. jobs and generate billions of dollars in business for U.S. aerospace companies, Bombardier said.

In looking for «nonnormal job» endeavors, Tetrick got talking to his childhood friend Josh Balk, who worked on reducing dependence on factory - farmed chicken eggs for the Humane Society of the United States.

«The upside,» says Bruce Berger, Director of Community planning and economic development for the city of Davenport, «is that you're retaining that many jobs with the hope that the factory can do well.

Since then, factories have only regained 526,000 jobs, a sad sign of Jobs» visionary nature.

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.

The closing of the factory will leave 635 hourly workers and 72 salaried people without jobs in Madison, but that's just one of seven plants that Kraft Heinz announced it would shutter on Nov. 4 in a plan to cut 14 % of Kraft Heinz's North American factory workforce.

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.

«The automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes, with only the most caring, creative or supervisory roles remaining,» he wrote in The Guardian.

On the other hand, as defenders of the company point out, the factory is giving jobs to a few hundred Palestinians, and giving someone a job is hardly an act of aggression.

Workers inside the factory say they are owed two months of back pay and were afraid of losing their jobs, according to news reports.

In January, it purchased the manufacturing assets of a bankrupt Pennsylvania factory and then rehired many of the 150 workers who lost their jobs.

After all, labor in the region is becoming less cheap these days, and manufacturers are increasingly turning to robots — just last week, the South China Morning Post reported that electronics manufacturer Foxconn managed to do away with 60,000 jobs in just one factory, through the introduction of robotic systems.

Ted Toth, vice-president of a factory in Pennsauken, New Jersey, that makes parts for satellite, radar and GPS systems, says he has four available jobs that pay from $ 20 to $ 32 an hour.

But he added that these factories may rely heavily on automation and will only create a limited number of jobs.

And where better to look than a place where workers are casting off their chains, running their factories by direct democracy and (according to the workers) doing a better job of it than their former bosses?

Tesla fills some of its factory positions with temp workers who later may be offered permanent jobs.

From Bush 1 to present, our Country has lost more than 55,000 factories, 6,000,000 manufacturing jobs and accumulated Trade Deficits of more than 12 Trillion Dollars.

Trump's criticism of Ford Motor Co (F.N) on Twitter turned to praise after the carmaker scrapped a planned Mexican car factory and added 700 jobs in Michigan earlier this month.

Last month's labour data showed that the services sector gained 35,900 jobs while the number of factory positions fell by 13,700.

Starting a trade war might be cathartic for workers who have lost jobs, but it is unlikely to create a lot of factory work.

They say it is even less likely to create large numbers of new factory jobs.

Calling the latest jobs report decent, Gross says Trumps cajoling companies on factories reminded him of Mussolini exerting government control of corporate interests.

But many executives found ways to heap praise on Trump and let him take credit for retaining factories or creating new jobs, even though some of those plans were already in the works before his election.

For example, Boeing has selected a supplier in Texas to build wings and other structural pieces at its factory outside of Dallas, which would support almost 1,000 jobs.

There's no way to track how many workers lost their jobs as a result, but in recent years, factories in Europe and Mexico laid off thousands of steelworkers.

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.

The number of high - income and low - income jobs has expanded in Wisconsin, Ward said, but middle - income jobs — which typically include factory work — have been shrinking.

Peter Rossman, a spokesman for the IUF, an international association of unions in the food industry, says Heinz workers are nervous, though its factory jobs have so far gone untouched.

On a frigid evening, days before Christmas, nearly 100 people braved icy roads to attend a SolarCity job fair at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, on the slight chance they might qualify for one of the few hundred positions available at the company's solar factory.