«I want to pay more because I want us to have
skilled labor on that job and build it right the first time so it can last.»
Not exact matches
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses
on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect
on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions
on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact
on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from
labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact
on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns
on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes
on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco
on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted
on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence
on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly -
skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments
on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest
on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
«This quarter's findings reveal strong optimism about future prospects for the industry,» said Jennifer Scanlon, president and chief executive officer of USG Corporation, «and also highlight a real need to address ongoing concerns about
skilled labor shortages and the impact it has
on building in the U.S..»
The scarcity of
labor also dominates industries that rely
on less -
skilled workers.
Thus, insisting
on strong English
skills as a condition of coming to America is likely to increase
labor market competition and suppress wages.
Finalist cities are refining their pitches based
on many of the factors that usually motivate corporations in site selection — economic development opportunities, transportation access and infrastructure,
skilled labor force and quality - of - life measurements, like education and real estate costs.
In the 16 months that Donald Trump has been president, the U.S.'s previously flawed immigration system has gone from bad to worse — particularly for small companies that rely
on skilled immigrant
labor.
Trump has focused
on an «America first» agenda when it comes to
skilled labor and has proposed «extreme vetting» of immigrants from countries that the president says are known for terrorism.
Those with
skills to offer, whether they be teaching, manual
labor or anything else are now able to find buyers for those
skills on work - for - hire platforms.
While contractors with specialized
skills may be able to negotiate with a company individually in order to obtain good pay and benefits, lower -
skilled contractors have little power to negotiate
on their own and are not covered under the federal
labor laws that allow employees to come together in unions.
In a tight
labor market, it is imperative to be open to candidates from nontraditional backgrounds who may, for example, be new to the workforce, changing careers or taking
on new roles, in order to determine whether they have transferable
skills and desirable attributes.
Make sure that construction contractors enter into project
labor agreements that will help ensure workers have protections
on the job and can guarantee that construction will be completed
on time using
skilled hands;
«We are in a
labor market where more and more emphasis is placed
on cognitive
skills and education - based
skills, the changing economy,» explains Harry Holzer, a
labor economist who is a professor of public policy at Georgetown University.
New Evidence
on How
Skills Influence Human Capital Acquisition and Early Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United S
Skills Influence Human Capital Acquisition and Early
Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United St
Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive
skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United S
skills in educational attainment and early
labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United St
labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United States.
Meanwhile,
on the
labor market front, greater utilization of technology in business has placed a premium
on high -
skilled workers who can navigate and innovate alongside that technology.
A politics of using immigration to increase the ranks of the low -
skilled, and then reducing the programs they will depend
on when they are old and unable to do physical
labor, might seem like good business to the affluent.
It could mean focusing
on how reductions to future low -
skill immigration also benefits our current population of foreign - born workers by restraining
labor market competition in a sector of the economy where unemployment is high and wages have been stagnant.
This 12 - hour hands -
on workshop is designed to prepare birth doulas with the tools and
skills to provide extended
labor support services to home birthing families and the strategies to work cooperatively with the home birth midwifery team.
Whether you are having a medicated or unmediated birth, you will learn practical hands
on skills, breathing techniques and excellent positions that helps to relieve pain, manage fear and help to connect with each other during the
labor, birth and postpartum periods.
He spent more money
on his meals than the school district could spend, and brought in more (and better
skilled)
labor than the school district could afford — in fact, he basically opened a branch of one of his restaurants in a high school — which is in no way working «within the constraints.»
A good class will equip you with invaluable knowledge
on the processes of pregnancy and birth, as well as teach you and your partner some
skills and tricks for comfort during
labor, and caring for your baby.
She tells them about the latest research
on birthing positions and
labor durations, but she also covers something a little more basic: interpersonal
skills.
The program focuses
on relational support, professionalism, communication
skills,
labor comfort, and much more.
In addition, his research has involved the remarkable effects of continuous emotional and social support for the mother by a
skilled labor support woman (the doula)
on decreasing the complications of
labor, changing the psychology of the mother and improving her behaviour with her infant.
As we've talked about before
on TLT, preparing school food from scratch demands more and sometimes better
skilled labor, and this is especially true when we're talking about the handling of potentially dangerous raw proteins like chicken.
working with a client during
labor (including positioning, hands -
on skills, complementary therapies)
Some use these
skills for early - active
labor then move
on to other tools as
labor progresses.
@lowtech I'm not suggesting anything other than low -
skilled workers tend to do better in economies that depend
on low -
skilled labor.
«Prevailing wage laws ensure that contractors compete based
on skill, productivity and experience, removing the incentive to exploit workers in order to minimize costs,» said state
Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon.
Also at 11 a.m., the Assembly Committee
on Labor and Commission
on Skills Development and Career Education hold a joint public meeting
on pre-apprenticeship and work preparation programs in New York state, Hamilton Hearing Room B, Legislative Office Building, 2nd Floor, Albany.
The Erie County Commission
on the Status of Women in partnership with the U.S. Department of
Labor's Women's Bureau will be hosting a webinar series
on middle
skills and women in the trades workforce development starting
on December 14.
The U.S. Department of
Labor, Women's Bureau and the Erie County Commission
on the Status of Women invite you to attend a webinar to explore the benefits of apprenticeship training opportunities for women as it creates a means to move into middle
skills jobs and increasing economic security for women and their families.
The nub of both issues is that the university faculty members running independent labs and competing for grants to support their research depend
on graduate students and postdocs as highly
skilled but low - paid
labor to carry out the work.
In order to gain a clearer picture of the
labor market for cybersecurity professionals, Libicki and coauthors David Senty and Julia Pollak reviewed previous studies
on the topic, examined the economics of particular kinds of
skilled labor shortages, conducted interviews with managers and educators of cybersecurity professionals, and examined the kinds of
skill sets required for these jobs.
If you answered any of these questions affirmatively, then you and your adviser worked as a team
on this project; the adviser provided resources and ideas, and you provided
skilled labor and ideas.
By the 1970s, however, increasing numbers of labs had come to count
on postdocs as inexpensive
skilled labor.
The district's diploma guarantee will be based
on job
skills identified by the U.S. Labor Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, or SCANs, which last summer released a set of job competencies that it urged school districts to
skills identified by the U.S.
Labor Secretary's Commission
on Achieving Necessary
Skills, or SCANs, which last summer released a set of job competencies that it urged school districts to
Skills, or SCANs, which last summer released a set of job competencies that it urged school districts to adopt.
As our
labor market becomes more and more dependent
on the
skills of each and every member of society, we can no longer rely
on the «talented tenth,» or even the «talented half» to continue our progress.
This threatens the state's ability to sustain the current economic boom and traps the workers themselves in jobs with little opportunity to advance, according to New
Skills for a New Economy, a new study based
on over two years of research conducted at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's National Center for Adult Literacy and Learning (NCSALL) and Northeastern University's Center for
Labor Market Studies.
«
Labor is hosting this national schools» forum to identify and discuss the changes needed to ensure excellence, tackle educational disadvantage and make certain all Australian children leave school with the
skills they need to participate in their community and in our changing economy,» she said
on Wednesday.
«It's expensive to educate people in a way that relies
on more interaction,» says economist and Associate Professor David Deming, who recently published a paper, «The Growing Importance of Social
Skills in the
Labor Market.»
As observation, intuition, empirical research, and a quick examination of the Department of
Labor's occupational employment statistics [vi] will demonstrate, success in life depends
on hard
skills: the individual's capabilities in subject matter and tasks that are valued in society and are passed
on through formal and informal instruction, e.g., being able to write computer code, or service heating and air conditioning equipment, or cook gourmet meals, or understand market derivatives.
Rather than providing students
skills that have real currency in today's
labor market and preparing them for gainful employment, accountability provisions in the federal No Child Left Behind Act and Race to the Top funding program have focused
on increasing short - term gains that measure success or failure of schools.
Assuming that, as research seems to indicate, being redshirted has no net long - term impacts
on skill level, we can estimate the cost of losing that year in the
labor force for a college - educated male who retires at age 67.
In turn, the economy's long - term health is dependent
on having a
skilled labor force.
Schools don't yet have reliable measures for how to develop and assess so - called «noncognitive»
skills like these, although a number of researchers and educators are working
on approaches, reflecting a growing recognition of their importance not just
on labor market outcomes but
on educational attainment.
It includes not only a historical look at the origins of the network and how it expanded over time, but also a look at the movement it helped spark that is helping young people obtain important
skills early
on, as well as transition from school to the
labor market fully prepared to be successful.
The
skills generated by vocational education appear to facilitate the transition into the
labor market but later
on become obsolete at a faster rate.
As early as 1990, The U.S. Department of
Labor Secretary's Commission
on Achieving Necessary
Skills published a report (PDF download) about the changing skills young people need to succeed in the work
Skills published a report (PDF download) about the changing
skills young people need to succeed in the work
skills young people need to succeed in the workplace.
«We're
on a collision course as the
labor market shrinks and the need for more and better
skills increases,» he warned.