Sentences with phrase «of workers in industry»

There are a relatively small number of workers in this industry, but the risk of fatality to these workers is about 30 times what it is for those in all other industries.
This response takes a similar form to that of workers in industry — holding down effort to a level which can be maintained by all.
Their principal missions are: to strengthen the viticulture industry, to promote Chilean wine in a national and international environment, to encourage research and development in new technologies, to promote the development of workers in the industry, and to be a meeting point for members.

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Therefore, while the number of American workers in the metals industry could increase by an estimated 33,464 jobs, the decrease in other industries would be more significant: an estimated 179,334 jobs.
As a result, safer work conditions are becoming more of a reality for the nearly five million garment - industry workers in Bangladesh.
After the 2006 theft, some of the federation's directors suggested in a Radio - Canada interview that embittered industry workers may have been behind the crime.
It's useful for workers to see where they fall in their organization and in their industry when it comes to pay, but since the new rule allows several definitions of «median employee», it's difficult to compare the numbers across companies.
On a scale of 1 - 7, we averaged 4.8 — a score he says is typical of employees in the troubled manufacturing industry, but that's rare among knowledge - based workers.
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(i) Assist companies in determining and interpreting their ratio (revenue stream number one); (ii) Sell the data back to companies to compare and explain ratios among their peers on an industry - by - industry basis, because average worker compensation for Bank of America will be different than that of Apple, for example (revenue stream number two); and (iii) Sell the data to labor groups to assist them in collective bargaining (revenue stream number three).
And young workers are particularly likely to favour being able to work from their couches — Canada's Telecommunications Industry: Industrial Outlook Spring 2014 suggests that over 70 % of full - time workers aged 18 — 29 would be more satisfied in their jobs if they could work remotely using cloud software.
In the West Midlands, long an important center of commerce and industry for Britain, Sobolewski said workers are in demand in factories of all kinds and recycling plantIn the West Midlands, long an important center of commerce and industry for Britain, Sobolewski said workers are in demand in factories of all kinds and recycling plantin demand in factories of all kinds and recycling plantin factories of all kinds and recycling plants.
«Finding skilled workers remains a challenge for this industry, and it's likely to remain a challenge in the areas affected by the recent hurricanes,» said Thomas J. Donohue, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber.
«A few cosmetic changes to the form and rollout of the travel order do not change its original intent,» said a statement from Tech Stands Up, a grassroots group of tech industry workers that was formed after President Trump's initial immigration order, which was halted in federal court.
Since having time for life outside the office is an increasingly high priority to workers in every industry, other company founders would be wise to take a page from the vacation non-policy book of Branson and other pioneers of this approach (which according to Businessweek comprise only around 1 percent of all companies).
Cohen is also at the center of a huge debate unfolding right now about raising the minimum wage, and the low pay of service workers in the restaurant industry, where employment has increased 72 percent since 1992, compared to job growth of 22 percent in higher - paying private sector employment over the same time period.
Support for Clinton wasn't strong as residents — many who are blue - collar workers in the petrochemical industry — were concerned whether her environmental and energy proposals would ultimately have a negative impact on their jobs, said Brandon Rottinghaus, a political science professor at the University of Houston.
They often suffer from both mental and physical health problems at a higher rate than workers in other industries as a result of their working conditions, which include operating under hard - nosed management practices and getting yelled at all day by irate customers.
«Canada's media and cultural industries are being severely damaged by the tax loopholes that benefit foreign digital companies and platforms at the expense of Canadian producers and workers and that cost the federal government at least $ 1 billion in revenues,» the union wrote in a statement on its website.
The Guardian spoke with several of the brand's workers at the PT Buma Apparel Industry factory, who told the publication that they are paid one of the lowest minimum wages in Asia — less than $ 6 a day — while at the same time being tasked with high production rates.
Unique trade preferences granted by the U.S. under the HOPE Act has Haitian entrepreneurs dreaming of growing a garment industry with 1 million workers in a country with a population of 10 million.
At present, craft brewers employ an estimated 115,469 full - time and part - time workers — a drop in the bucket of the overall industry.
About 30 % of London's construction workforce was also EEA - born — but a fifth of UK - born construction workers in the capital due to retire in the next five years, and there are currently 60,000 vacancies in the industry in London.
AMARILLO, Texas, April 20 (Reuters)- In a sprawling plant near Amarillo, Texas, rows of workers perform by hand one of the most dangerous jobs in American industrIn a sprawling plant near Amarillo, Texas, rows of workers perform by hand one of the most dangerous jobs in American industrin American industry.
«In this industry, a large majority of workers are not paid when they are absent from work,» Wiatrowski said.
Job security is an element of particular concern to Michigan workers, particularly those in the ailing automotive industry.
But as the economy has recovered, and in particular as the technology sector has roared ahead of other industries, its need for hiring specialty workers has brought the problem into starker definition.
The tea farm only employs women, pays them 36 percent above the industry standard and, to give you a sense of how dire worker conditions in the tea industry are, they can go home at night.
But unlike the terrible conditions of workers in the tea industry, Ahmed sought to do things differently.
And, whether workers succeed in getting a pay raise or not, the strike and the surrounding scrutiny of the fast - food industry is going to affect everyone in the business.
The two unions represent over 300,000 workers in industries that run the gamut of Canada's economy, from carmaking to fisheries, phones, TV stations, casinos, retailers, life insurance, even freelance writers.
Kenney announced the moratorium on the food service industry Thursday night, after the controversial program made headlines yet again over allegations of misuse of the temporary workers at three McDonald's franchises in Victoria and a pizza restaurant in Weyburn, Sask.
Unions in the utility industry, health care and manufacturing industries are using knowledge and skills as the key source of worker power by expanding apprenticeship training, creating partnership with community colleges, vocational schools, and employers to fill the «middle skills» gaps that exist today or will grow as skilled baby boomers retire.
The New Democratic Party has proposed reinstating the minimum wage for workers in federally regulated industries and increasing it to $ 15 by «the end of our first term in office» (presumably 2019).
The distinction between worker classifications, once the province of labor and employment attorneys, has become a lightning rod in the booming technology industry.
A number of Liberal party supporters and candidates on Twitter cited a government study on federally regulated industries showing that only 416 of those workers made minimum wage in 2008.
To prepare for this shift in 3D printing, one that will see more companies using additive manufacturing, especially with metals, to manufacture end - use parts, companies are staffing up, training new workers, and buying more 3D printing machines, SDM's report shows that 73 % of the 700 respondents to SDM's survey said their companies plan to increase their in - house production of additively manufactured parts, a trend more pronounced in the aerospace and medical industries.
Luxe Valet originally had its workers as W - 2 employees, but switched early on to independent contractors or «1099s» as they are referred to in the industry because of the flexibility it offered the workers.
But Joyce Reynolds, executive vice-president of government affairs for the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association, says just 26,000 (or 2.4 %) of her industry's 1.1 million workers nationwide are temporary foreign workers — most of them found in small communities in Western Canada.
Nearly 19 percent of McAllen's workers are in the health - care industry.
«We know we have these huge investments and opportunities, particularly in a huge swath of northern Canada, through the massive multibillion - dollar investments in the extractive industries that will require tens if not hundreds of thousands of skilled workers who are not currently available,» Kenney said.
Many workers exited the industry after the downturn, looking to find immediate employment in the wake of a housing crash.
One in three tech employees feel that their bosses have a negative impact on company culture, according to a survey of 20,000 workers in the tech industry.
«We recognize that Canada is in a dispute with our most important trading partner, but we hope that our leaders will consider the best interest of all Canadians and not punish Canadian companies and workers by putting one industry ahead of another,» the letter says.
Airline workers also work much harder than they did in the past; the industry had the second highest multifactor productivity growth from 1997 through 2014, according to an analysis by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In 2015, meat, poultry and fish cutters, repeating similar motions more than 15,000 times a day, experienced carpal tunnel syndrome at nearly 20 times the rate of workers in other industrieIn 2015, meat, poultry and fish cutters, repeating similar motions more than 15,000 times a day, experienced carpal tunnel syndrome at nearly 20 times the rate of workers in other industriein other industries.
The median manufacturing worker without a bachelor's degree earned $ 15 an hour in 2015, a dollar more than similarly educated workers in other industries.1 But those averages obscure a great deal of variation beneath the surface.
Although some fields have more irritating workers than others (professionals in the healthcare and insurance industries report having the highest number of annoying coworkers), some 36 % of people have left a job that they liked because they didn't get along with their coworkers.
But in an industry where cheap labor is an essential component in providing inexpensive food, a shortage of workers is changing the equation upon which fast - food places have long relied.
A survey by industry group Restaurants Canada found that 96 percent of its members were «very likely» to raise prices, 84 percent would cut hours and 57 percent would fire workers, in response to Ontario's policy, according to results gathered June 22 to July 5.
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