Sentences with phrase «on city workers»

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On Sunday, 80 employees arrived from Austin, Texas capital far from the danger zone, to stock stores in Corpus Christi, a coastal city hit by the storm and by Tuesday more workers from San Antonio were moving to Victoria, another affected city.

SEATTLE — Amazon has halted construction planning on a new high - rise building near its headquarters while it awaits the outcome of a Seattle city proposal to tax worker hours.

Former rustbelts trying to lure in high - tech companies need to focus on creating the kind of cities where knowledge workers actually want to live

These government workers are focused on how to make cities, towns and economic regions prosper.

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry ordered a mandatory evacuation for some parts of the city on Friday, but an evacuation order does not necessarily protect absent workers from being fired.

Construction workers found the bomb in King George V Dock, which is a stone's throw away from the end of the London City Airport runway, on the River Thames.

On Tuesday, a handful of service companies in Handan, a city in China's Hebei province, encouraged workers to wear masks to work so that they could relax their faces instead of smiling all day.

A worker drives a Cemex SAB truck in the San Antonio neighborhood in Mexico City, Mexico, on Friday, July 22, 2016.

A worker demonstrates Apple Pay inside a mobile kiosk sponsored by Visa and Wells Fargo to demonstrate the new Apple Pay mobile payment system on October 20, 2014 in San Francisco City.

Immigrants who avoid ICE face the possibility of exploitation by employers: A 2008 survey from the National Employment Law Project found that 51 % of all undocumented workers in New York City were underpaid by more than $ 1 per hour, and 47 % said they were required to work after sustaining an injury on the job.

Workers from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department kill mosquitoes outside a construction site in Hong Kong on Aug. 26, 2016, after the first case of Zika was confirmed in the city.

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.

Speaking at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York City on Thursday, the entrepreneur revealed the kind of attitude Under Armour won't tolerate from workers.

Workers in major cities like New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and Atlanta walked out on their jobs that day, arguing for a $ 15.00 minimum wage.

Zillow cautions that its estimates are rough, based on a simple model that looks at how rents in each city have responded to past influxes of workers.

What cities on Amazon shortlist have in common: a lifestyle appealing to tech workers Changing Skyline

The Windy City's first - time buyers can also expect to spend a mere 16.2 % of monthly income on mortgage bills, while young workers» median household incomes have risen a solid 14.3 % over the past five years.

This boom includes Richard Florida's people: the young, digitized, multilingual creative class workers who populate the condos sprouting on Lake Ontario's edge, drawn from other parts of the city and the rest of the province and country to where economic and educational opportunity beckons.3

Result: Vancouver city council has asked vendors to submit expressions of interest in building such worker - affordable housing on city - owned land.

In his ruling, Rhodes said that settlement, which was key in winning the support for the plan from Detroit's two retirement systems and scores of city workers and retirees, «borders on miraculous.»

With Aetna Inc. looking to move its headquarters from Hartford, on the heels of General Electric Co.'s shift to Boston, Connecticut's economic development strategy may now turn inward, boosting its cities to attract high - tech workers and fixing state government's crisis - prone budgeting.

Fitzgerald also pointed a finger at Soglin for the Kraft Heinz announcement that it will shutter the Madison Oscar Mayer plant, which employs 1,000 workers and is a century - old fixture on the city's East Side.

The number of workers in University City will grow regardless of Amazon's decision, and based on current trends, SEPTA anticipates that many of those workers will be transit users.

No matter which city is chosen, the influx of 50,000 high - paid Amazon workers and 66,250 supplementary workers over a ten - year period will put pressure on local housing markets, driving up rent and home prices.

The proposed $ 100.8 million budget will spend millions on police and fire pensions as well as a 3 percent pay raise for city workers.

The company collects and remits taxes on rentals in the city, but hotel workers and housing advocates say the rules do not go far enough.

An influx of 50,000 Amazon workers could force more lower - wage and middle - income workers from the city and put more pressure on housing prices and congested roadways.

The camp trailers on family property of Santa Rosa contractor Michael Wolff, which serve as temporary homes for workers clearing fire debris, won't result in fines this week against Wolff, a city official said Wednesday.

On Tuesday, after hearing of complaints from citizens and city workers about religious diversity and inclusiveness, organizers of the German - inspired merchant fair decided to take down the word Christmas on the large signs outside City Hall — only to have the mayor reverse that decision yesterdaOn Tuesday, after hearing of complaints from citizens and city workers about religious diversity and inclusiveness, organizers of the German - inspired merchant fair decided to take down the word Christmas on the large signs outside City Hall — only to have the mayor reverse that decision yestercity workers about religious diversity and inclusiveness, organizers of the German - inspired merchant fair decided to take down the word Christmas on the large signs outside City Hall — only to have the mayor reverse that decision yesterdaon the large signs outside City Hall — only to have the mayor reverse that decision yesterCity Hall — only to have the mayor reverse that decision yesterday.

So with minimal equipment and unskilled workers he has set out to build «Arcosanti,» a small example of a radically new type of city, on a mesa 60 miles north of Phoenix, Arizona.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

These victories have had an important impact on low - wage workers in dozens of cities around the country.

Group chairman the Reverend Ian Rutherford, City Centre Minister at Methodist Central Hall, Manchester, said: «As the winter transfer window closes many workers at Old Trafford will be choosing between putting the heating on or a hot meal.

Workers set up a giant photo of John Paul II at Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City on Wednesday, April 27.

The day we spent together included a trip just outside of the city, out to the apple fields to check in on some of the migrant workers who were busy harvesting the yearly apple crop.

Tales abound as to where the tender tofu got its name, the most popular being that a «Ma Po» — or old woman with a pockmarked face — served the unique recipe to poorer workers on the outskirts of a highly trafficked merchant city.

But more than that, it's both the common dining table and grocer to the kind of eclectic city where fictional boxer Rocky Balboa is deemed as worthy of a statue as Founding Father Ben Franklin, an oversized small town where South Philly blue - collar workers and Northern Liberties hipsters alike pride themselves on being plainspoken connoisseurs of worthy eats, and will endlessly debate whether DiNic's roast pork with provolone and broccoli rabe has supplanted the cheesesteak as Philly's favorite sandwich.

The city of Philadelphia has decided to start collecting a 4.3 % city wage tax on visiting workers, including professional athletes, for money earned there.

On Monday, authorities in the northern city of Tianjin said they had punished 13 medical workers for taking bribes from Dumex to recommend its infant formula.

In 1989, to make some cash on the side, Kekelik, a Calumet City Park District maintenance worker, bought a skate sharpening machine.

Most of his precinct workers had park district jobs, and they knew that keeping those jobs depended on the quantity of votes they produced on election days — not the quality of their work in city parks.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today said he will not rely on making city workers take unpaid days off to solve a $ 30 million budget gap Mayor Richard Daley left him with for the second half of the year.

The city had just built the Thorp Public School on the south side of Grace, making Schorsch's homes seem a good place to raise kids, and the price nicely accorded with a blue - collar worker's pay stub.

«This most recent incident — on top of ongoing allegations of discriminatory employment practices against women and a long, shameful record of aggressive hostility to worker's rights and basic decency — only strengthens the case against Wal - Mart's attempts to open locations in New York City.»

That's why he should be asking what exactly is going on with Solar City Riverbend and how it is possible that — with no public announcement — SUNY Research Foundation approved Solar City's request to cut the number of factory workers to only 500 from the original 1,460.

This plan is based not on economics but on politics, and is focussed on making hard working public sector workers pay for the irresponsibility of city bankers.

The city comptroller campaign of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer released a Spanish - language TV ad today that focuses his heavily on low - income workers and his cursade against Wall Street corruption.

A coalition of diverse organizations in New York City has banded together to escalate the conversation regarding paid sick days for workers, with an emphasis on getting the NY City Council to pass legislation mandating paid sick days.

Four NYC workers punished for ethics violations include a vehicle - fleet manager who admitted using an agency car to drive his mom to a Pier 1 Imports store in Freeport on Black Friday to shop for a chair, according to the city's Conflicts of Interest Board.

That is already in motion, which means 300,000 fast food workers are on a schedule to make $ 15 by 2018 in New York City, by 2021 everywhere else in New York State.