Sentences with phrase «off thousands of workers»

Convincing someone to love a company might be difficult when just a few years ago it laid off thousands of workers.

Coal producers say they are scaling back operations and laying off thousands of workers due to fierce competition from natural gas, falling coal prices and tougher power plant regulations.

Along with falling gas prices, they've slashed the profits of fossil fuel companies, which are delaying dozens of billion - dollar projects and laying off thousands of workers.

But instead of moving the project along, bankruptcy only made things messier: Talks among the developer, lender, contractor and the Bahamian government became contentious; Rosewood begged out of its licensing agreement with the development; the U.S. Bankruptcy Court threw out the case in September; Baha Mar laid off thousands of workers in the fall; and Bahamas court officials prepared to start a potential liquidation process in November.

Multi-national companies are laying - off thousands of workers while contractors working for the Federal Government have left their sites.

Publicly traded oil companies have lost billions in market value, and both public and private firms are moving aggressively to cut capital spending budgets for 2015 — laying off thousands of workers and shutting down hundreds of rigs.

It is still working through past missteps, such as its $ 7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's ailing phone business, and continues to lay off thousands of workers.

Not exact matches

The idea of May 1 as a day for workers» rights was born in the US city of Chicago, where on May 1, 1886 hundreds of thousands of people walked off the job to protest long hours and harsh working conditions.

Thousands of workers are walking off of job sites, fed up with going to work hungry, putting their lives at risk at rickety refineries, all for a paycheck that fails to cover even the most basic expenses.

Even as the Great Recession slowly recedes, STEM workers at every stage of the career pipeline, from freshly minted grads to mid - and late - career Ph.D. s, still struggle to find employment as many companies, including Boeing, IBM, and Symantec, continue to lay off thousands of STEM workers.

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.

BEIJING (AP)-- More than 10,000 workers at a state - owned machinery manufacturer in southern China are protesting low wages and company plans to lay off thousands of staff after posting losses for three years, employees said Wednesday.

Another string of tweets pointed the finger at Amazon claiming it was the reason thousands of retailers were going out of business, and millions of US workers had been laid off.

Everyone who thinks objectively realizes that lowering taxes on the rich creates jobs, and gutting the federal government and laying off thousands of government workers creates jobs, and destroying the right to collectively bargain with your employer creates jobs, and destroying a woman's right to choose what to do with her own body and destroying her rights to any sort of privacy in medical treeatments creates jobs.

Thousands of Bronx building workers opted not to walk off the job last night after their union reached a tentative contract with the group...

Thousands of Communications Workers of America walked off the job at 3 p.m. Friday after failing to reach a new contract deal with AT&T.

Labour leadership contender Owen Smith delivers a speech at the Open University in Milton Keynes, where he promised to reverse Conservative cuts set to leave millions of low paid workers thousands of pounds a year worse off

Days after a federal judge blocked his efforts to furlough half the state work force, Gov. David A. Paterson is drafting a plan that would lay off thousands of government workers at the beginning of next year, a move officials say is necessary to help balance the state budget.

Only later did we learn that some of those critical investments included things like repairs on tennis courts, a study on the mating decisions of cactus bugs, hundreds of thousands of dollars for a plant database, and a $ 535 million loan to a California solar panel maker which, instead of hiring 1,000 new workers, as planned, just laid off 175 instead.

Along with some 2500 Korean students who received advanced degrees last year in science and engineering, she was seeking her first research job just as the country's economy took a nose dive and thousands of workers were being laid off.

Dillon justifies this claim by saying (emphasis added) that «many thousands of teachers and other school workers — no one yet knows how many — were laid off in dozens of states because of plummeting state and local revenue.

And it means helping low - income families too, reinstating the state Earned Income Tax Credit for low - wage workers, expanding Medicaid, and reversing the decision to kick thousands of children off the child care subsidy program that allows parents to work or go back to school.

As with the steel companies, the PBGC took over some of the pensions, the unions made concessions, and thousands of laid - off workers were recalled.

And despite even these efforts thousands of agricultural workers have been laid off amidst a 2 billion dollar loss for the state's food industry.

Are you among the thousands of federal workers who last week were deemed «non-essential» and put on a temporary lay off with no assurance of back pay?