Sentences with phrase «owned by the workers»

Anarcho - syndicalism is perhaps the most far left, approaching the utopia where nobody holds power over everybody else, by putting the means of production in hands of democratic councils, e.g. factories are owned by the workers etc..

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China's huge state - owned infrastructure companies, hampered by their own country's gradual slowdown, need projects that will keep their foundries blazing and their workers paid while the nation makes the transition to a less industrial, more consumer - driven economy.

The icing on the cake is that G. Neil employs no minimum - wage workers of its own, so its payroll is unaffected by the law.

Over the past decade, employment of skilled technology workers in BC has grown 27 %, driven partly by U.S. companies frustrated with their own government's limit on visas for skilled workers.

Being your own boss can deliver benefits well - known by many self - employed workers: Flexibility, freedom and no fear of your lunch getting stolen from a shared work fridge.

Using the «claim now, claim more later» strategy, retirees can claim some benefits now, and higher benefits later, by applying for spousal benefits instead of their own retired - worker benefits when they reach full retirement age.

And when the younger spouse turns 70, he or she can convert the spousal benefit to his or her own retired - worker benefit, which also has been growing by 8 percent a year.

The sorts of jobs that Cha's father had before starting his own business — dishwashing and building maintenance — are now filled almost entirely by foreign - born workers.

Like competitors Postmates and UberEats, among others, it provides a sleek mobile app and website for customers to browse and order, and handles the delivery by employing its own drivers — as contract workers, of course.

The Take tells the story of the growing number of factory workers in Argentina who, instead of acquiescing in unemployment when their factories are shut down, take matters into their own hands by occupying the factories and starting them up again, without the oversight, or permission, of their former bosses.

I believe the psychological factor alone would increase the self - esteem a worker will have just by working for his or her «employee owned» company.

Jones added that Trump should also help the 350 workers at an Indianapolis plant owned by another company, Rexnord, which is also slated to move to Mexico.

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a large share of the tax is paid by workers in the form of lower wages.

W. L. Gore, the maker of Gore - Tex, and Publix Super Markets, which operates in the Southeast, are owned by employee stock ownership plans, wherein a workers» trust typically borrows money to buy shares that are paid out of company revenues.

While government workers have gold - plated pensions often starting at age 55 and many employed Canadians have employer - matched RRSPs, the small business owner is counting on the value of the business — including any investments owned by the corporation — for his or her retirement.

Second, the biggest form of financial risk faced by most workers is job loss, which is lower for employees of worker - owned firms than most other firms.

Within self - employment the probability of being an employer is increased by 0.11 percentage - points as a result of a 1 cm increase in height whereas this increase is 0.05 percentage - points for an own - account worker.

Blockchain technologies are capable of reducing the amount of human workers needed, reducing salary costs, eliminating the need for a business to own / rent and operate infrastructure, and making the record of data kept by the business less susceptible to fraud & and manipulation.

But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»

Concerns over negative economic impacts, such as a widening trade deficit with China, increased control of certain sectors by Chinese state - owned enterprises (SOEs), and intensified competition in the labour market for mid-skilled and less educated Canadian workers in particular; [1]

After a reasonable interval to seek work in their own occupation, workers are currently expected to take a job «at a rate of earnings not lower and on conditions not less favourable than those observed by agreement between employers and employees or, in the absence of any such agreement, than those recognized by good employers.»

Pacific NorthWest LNG, majority - owned by Petronas, told the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office that it would recruit 40 per cent of the workers required to build its terminal, and a staggering 70 per cent of the workers used during the last three years of building, from overseas.

Kraft Heinz, which now owns the Oscar Mayer brand, announced Wednesday it will close the plant by early 2017, putting about 1,000 workers out of jobs and ending a nearly 100 - year local corporate presence.

Here is a workable scenario: A corporation owned by both Israeli and Palestinian interests (probably the governments, at least initially) builds one or more very large desalination plants and the necessary pipelines, develops the land to be irrigated, manages the farms on that land, and perhaps develops communities where the farm workers can live.

Keen labels such «dis - eased» persons Homo Faber (man the fabricator, or worker)- man bent on creating his own meaning by eliminating all elements of mystery.

In this regard there is some envy by social workers and counselors who are genuinely concerned for people, but whose own structured roles do not include the opportunity to drop in on a family in a congregation to say, «I thought I would come by; you seem troubled.»

The peacemaker «is God's fellow - worker,» but we make peace not by conciliatory words and humane projects but through making peace «wherever we are destined and summoned to do so: in the active life of our own community and in that aspect of it which can actively help determine its relationship to another community.»

In short, it seems that most of the real gains from nationalization can be achieved by government regulations that safeguard the safety and health of workers, insure that they are taken care of when they are unemployed and when they retire, and allow them to organize to promote their own interests.

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

Where there are public retirement systems, workers are asked to replace them by a pension fund mechanism that subjects their own employers to the sole imperatives of immediate profitability, extends the sphere of influence of finance, and persuades citizens of the obsolescence of institutions of solidarity between nations, peoples, and generations.

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 inworkers 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 inWorkers to defy its own leadership and decisively reject a wage agreement with Chrysler Corporation appears to indicate.

I believe that people, poor as they were by our standards, had more control over their own lives in those days than is possible today for most workers, especially in the developing countries.

I shall be reflecting largely from my own experience, as process thought enables and indeed requires us to do; but the nature of that experience is essentially that shared by all who nurture — whether, for example, single social workers, middle - aged adoptive parents, teachers who care about their students or, I suspect, those artists and poets who cherish and give birth to the world.

In the same way that the energy industry today is mistakenly identified with «Big Oil» (Exxon, Chevron, et al.), when it is in fact conducted predominantly by smaller independent companies most readers will have never heard of, modern capitalism is not largely the purview of Apple and Walmart, but rather of small, privately owned businesses with less than one hundred employees providing services or products the public wants or needs in order to support the families of the owners and provide jobs for their workers.

Ministers, physicians, psychotherapists, social workers, and others whose work includes helping people in trouble have the problem thrust at them many times in the course of their professional activity As I think back over my own professional experience, I am impressed by the variety of such encounters.

But to see it with my own eyes, I was really really impressed and taken back by the beauty of the land where it was grown, aged, and bottled, as well as by the people who work there from the head people in charge down to the forklift workers, some of whose families have worked there for generations.

Our bakery's mission is to give superior service in providing the finest quality baked - goods to our valued customers nationwide by utilizing a worker - owned and managed cooperative business structure and to strive to use whole grain and organic ingredients whenever possible, to support sustainable agriculture practices and healthy living.

The video, shot in April 2012, was taken at Wyoming Premium Farms, a pig factory farm in Wheatland, Wyo., owned by Itoham America, Inc., and shows workers kicking living piglets like soccer balls, swinging sick piglets in circles by their hind legs, striking mother pigs with their fists and repeatedly and forcefully kicking them as they resisted leaving their young.

Back during Adoption School, when being a mom was just a theoretical concept (by the way, our agency was nothing like what's been described in this thread — it told us the benefits of open adoption to the child and said we would eventually form our own relationships with first parents, which it then left us to do), I did not embrace OA because the highly - paid social workers said it was proving to be better for the child than shame and secrecy.

Examples of other policies to be considered include Workers» Compensation if required by state law; Property insurance to cover buildings and contents against loss due to fire, wind, theft, vandalism, etc.; Equipment insurance to cover equipment that may move from location to location; and Auto insurance if vehicles are owned.

Nestlé, Danone and Hipp are trying to bypass these restrictions by organising their own study days at nearby venues and sponsoring and exhibiting at health worker events.

At 17 I believed the social worker, as I was never told by anyone that I had the right to keep my own baby.

By hiring non-owner employees whenever an opportunity for growth presents itself a two - tier system is produced — owners and non-owners — and this has been widely seen as leading to the degeneration of the worker - owned company, marking its gradual descent into capitalist ownership.

Around 11,000 businesses are now owned in whole or part by their employees, involving 10 million workers — three million more than are members of private sector unions.

Also, foreign companies owned by Nigerians, Indians and Lebanese treat Nigerian workers like slaves and they are making huge profits.

The Business Council and wall street tycoons who paid almost $ 10 million of own money in the anti-state worker campaign last year certainly have their own interests in mind by bankrolling Cuomo and his ideas.

DNAinfo also uncovered several unusual donations made to the Campaign for One New York from workers at Primary One LLC, a Queens beauty supply company owned by Sm - Ali Amanollahi.

In response, Labour came up with a letter of its own, signed by what it described as «a true cross-section of British society» - actors, business leaders, writers, nurses and low - paid workers, including those who work on zero - hours contracts.

Frustrated by the lack of data, Rose Alliance, the sex worker organisation in Sweden, conducted their own research which was brought to the UK Parliament by Pye Jakobsson.

In response to a question by one of the workers, Dr Fayemi said the ministry would adopt its own whistle blowing arrangement in order to encourage more information on illegal mining activities in the sector.