Sentences with phrase «of plant closures»

A recent incomplete data sample from a compilation of plant closures in California showed that the numbers of minority people laid off exceeded whites laid off — a figure far out of proportion to racial percentages in the general population.

A mediator will be appointed to work out the contentious details of plant closures with power companies, who were not represented at the announcement.

This deep - level understanding of the market system and identification of plant closure with retraining as the solution for a basic problem was spelled out by Pius XI in one of the classic documents of the social magisterium half a century ago.

Not exact matches

Windsor endured years of layoffs and plant closures by GM, Ford and Chrysler.

GM is trying to consolidate production capacity to focus on key product lines and a closure off a South Korean plant was a first step, says Scott Upham of Valient Market Research.

The report, conducted by DOE staff, said that continued closure of baseload plants puts areas of the country at greater risk of power outages.

Together with VW's home state of Lower Saxony, labour representatives hold more than half of the 20 seats on the group's supervisory board that ratifies key decisions on investment, plant closures and executive appointments.

In 2009, General Motors killed its Pontiac line of vehicles, which was named for the city, and then announced the closure of two local plants, putting more than 2,000 people out of work and costing the city a huge chunk of tax revenue.

On Feb. 1, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed a controversial right - to - work law prohibiting workers in union shops from being forced to pay union dues — less than 48 hours before Electro - Motive announced the closure of the London plant, its jobs expected to move to the Hoosier state.

As for the workers affected by the closure of the Gunsan plant, they will be sent to other plants.

Company officials have long insisted that the product is safe and healthy, and blamed the closure of three plants and roughly 700 layoffs on what they viewed as a smear campaign.

The closure of Hydro - Quebec's Gentilly - 2 nuclear power plant temporarily lowers Quebec's fiscal capacity, as measured under the Equalization program, which in turn lowers Ontario's Equalization entitlement over a three - year period.

Europe saw a record 10 gigawatts of coal plant closures in 2016, and countries including Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, and Portugal are working toward aggressive coal retirement schedules or, in the case of the UK, complete phase - out plans.

One of Canada's leading scholars on deindustrialization and the author of Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969 — 1985, Concordia historian Steven High, assumes that deindustrialization did occur to some extent, but that nationalist worker activism forced politicians to legislate advance warnings of shutdowns, better packages and, in some cases, even slowed plant closures.

The manufacturer was losing veteran workers due to retirements and plant closures, resulting in years of accumulated knowledge lost.

New York put together a $ 20 million incentive package to retain 1,000 jobs at three Kraft Heinz plants that were at risk of closure.

Nowhere was this more evident than in the closure of the aforementioned Electro - Motive Diesel plant in London.

State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald has asked Madison and Dane County leaders for records of their communications with Kraft Heinz officials — the latest round in a blame game between elected officials for the planned closure of Madison's Oscar Mayer plant.

While Madison joined other cities in marking the closure of Kraft Heinz factories Wednesday, three plants in New York are expected to stay open for at least five years.

Closures of a significant number of coal - fired power plants (for which compliance is too costly) will undermine reliability of the electrical grid and increase the risk of brownouts and blackouts.

The closures include: for copper, the Port Kembla (NSW) refinery; for zinc, the Lennard Shelf (WA) mine and Cockle Creek (NSW) smelter; for iron and steel, the suspension of the Boodarie Iron (WA) plant; and for tin, the Renison Bell (Tas) mine.

First is the uranium spot market has been rather tight in terms of overall percentage of production, and there have been some nuclear plant closures in addition to shutdowns in Japan after Fukushima.

FCA announced the closure of the plant in December 07 because of its high manufacturing costs.

The last couple of months have brought a string of closure announcements, including that of the Redcar plant in Teeside, a symbol of previous against - the - odds survival.

Brady said the hope now is that the closure of the plant, which had been not been used to capacity as sales fell, «may bring the opportunity to more fully use the capacity of the plant and bring more jobs.»

Eken Park neighborhood resident Mark Cotter, 62, contemplates the impact the impending closure of the nearby Oscar Mayer plant will have on his street.

But they will mainly use a combination of action strategies to stop plant closures and / or to propose community - worker plant buyouts, to push legislation protecting the worker, to propose alternative economic development plans and to hold conferences and publish educational materials.

But in some parts of the country a grass - roots movement of laid - off workers resisting the plant closures is exerting surprising pressure upon its own leadership, as the recent vote by the rank and file membership of United Auto Workers to defy its own leadership and decisively reject a wage agreement with Chrysler Corporation appears to indicate.

These new developments compel the attention of the American religious community, for they are now affecting millions of workers, their families and their communities in the form of massive plant closures, huge movements of industrial capital overseas and a downshifting of the work force into lower - paying and more menial jobs — when such jobs can be found.

Following the closure of cold pressed juice company Juice Served Here, co-founder and former CEO Alex Matthews now tasked with the job of evolving the visual identity for Forager Project as the plant - based food and beverage brand's new chief marketing officer.

In the year to June 30, 2017, Murray Goulburn reported a loss of $ 370 million loss after a series of writedowns and processing plant closures.

In order to prevent the closures, an agreement was reached under which Kraft - Heinz continued operating the Avon, Walton and Lowville plants while investing tens of millions of dollars into modernising operations.

Coca - Cola European Partners plans UK plant closures, 167 job cuts Coca - Cola European Partners (CCEP) has announced a proposal to close two facilities in the UK market, resulting in a net loss of 167... read more

Farmers are still continuing to seek a resolution to the proposed closure of the Tullos milk processing plant, in Aberdeen, by Muller UK & Ireland.

In April 2011, Arla Foods announced the closure of the Falkenberg plant to improve competitiveness in global markets for yellow cheese.

Coca - Cola European Partners plans UK plant closures, 167 job cuts Coca - Cola European Partners (CCEP) has announced a proposal to close two facilities in the UK market, resulting in a net loss of 167

The Champaign, IL manufacturing facility of Silgan Closures has been awarded the prestigious 2017 Illinois Governor's Sustainability Award recognizing the plant's efforts designed to improve safety, minimize waste, cut energy consumption and lower emissions.

Due to a shift in production focusing on glass containers for food and spirits, however, Ardagh (ardaghgroup.com) announced the March 2018 closure of its Milford, Mass., beer bottle plant.

Alongside the Cororooke plant closure, the firm is beginning a three - year program of investment and upgrades at its remaining manufacturing sites in the region.

Investors had originally hoped that an additional $ 120 million of cost savings in 2018 and 2019 from the sale and closure of bottling plants and head office restructuring would start flowing through to the bottom line in 2018.

«We hope the company will detail these conversations and inform the community as to what efforts were made to prevent the closure of the plant.

The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is three years away, but already the local school district is preparing for the possibility of teacher layoffs, higher taxes and even shutting down a school.

The news of Indian Point's potential closure comes weeks after the state Court of Appeals dealt Entergy a setback in its bid for a new license, interpreting state coastal water rules in a way that gave Cuomo's administration more authority over whether the plant could operate in the Hudson River.

The Democratic chairman of the Westchester County Board of Legislators said Thursday legislation to support Republican County Executive Rob Astorino's planned lawsuit to stop or delay the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is dead on arrival.

A Hudson Valley - based environmental group will hold a panel discussion Wednesday in Manhattan about the impending closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

A report commissioned by two environmental groups shows that low - carbon options will be ready to replace the more than 2,000 megawatts of power lost by the closure of New York's Indian Point nuclear power plant in four years.

Astorino, speaking with reporters on Monday after addressing the Conservative Party's annual confab in Albany, pointed to a federal law that gives the Department of Energy authority over the closure of nuclear power plants.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino plans to speak with Energy Sectetary - designate Rick Perry about the planned closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan.

County Executive Rob Astorino kicked off his Town Hall series in the northern Westchester town of Cortlandt last night, where the planned closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant will have an impact.

Such extended seasonal closures would certainly cut into the plant's profits — according to Entergy, the plant's operator, they would cost billions of dollars annually — and if they were put in place over the long term, could mean the end of Indian Point as a going concern.