Sentences with phrase «than a factory worker»

Is a farmer more virtuous than a factory worker?

We are gardeners and farmers more than factory workers or brick producers for Pharaoh perhaps, cultivating and sowing seeds that will bear a mighty harvest, long after we are gone even.

«8 He even echoed the argument that some of the Southern apologists used for very different purposes; namely that the slave is in some degree better off than the factory worker since he never faces the uncertainties of unemployment or the pangs of actual physical want that afflict the latter.

Not exact matches

Last September, the company let more than 1,500 factory workers go after a federal investigation found hundreds of undocumented employees at its facilities.

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.

Wages in Gildan's factories are still higher than those paid in Chinese factories: the average wage of a garment worker in Honduras is about $ 100 a week — four times what a Chinese worker makes.

Then there's the fact that the State of Iowa and city of Davenport are planning to incentivize Kraft Heinz to the tune of approximately $ 32,000 per worker over the next 15 years to locate the new factory there — despite the fact that there is a net job LOSS, not gain, of more than 800 workers.

The Take is about a group of workers at an Argentinian auto - parts factory who, rather than accept unemployment when the factory's owner shuts it down, instead decide to occupy the factory, re-start the machines, and run it themselves.

In June 2011, for example, more than 280 workers vomited and fainted in a three - day period at the King Fashion Garment Company factory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which made dresses and knitted tops for brands including H&M, a former Li & Fung client.

Of course, wanting more overtime doesn't prove that things are great at the factories; it just proves that workers want more money than they make during a regular workday.

But with major companies abandoning Canadian factories in favour of cheaper overseas alternatives, the opportunities are less likely to come from industrial expansion than from a shortage of technically - qualified workers to fill positions.

Tesla, worth about $ 50 billion, employs more than 10,000 workers at its Fremont factory.

There are certainly no obvious hazards of the kind that are commonplace on construction sites or in factories, and many office workers enjoy the benefits of rigid working days, rather than having their body clocks thrown by changing shift patterns.

Behind their barbed - wire fences, Jamaican law did not apply, workers could not organize or strike, there were no benefits, wages were minimal and factories exported cheap goods without any benefit to the Jamaican economy other than subsistence wages.

And where better to look than a place where workers are casting off their chains, running their factories by direct democracy and (according to the workers) doing a better job of it than their former bosses?

So rather than a foreign investor saying he was going to open a factory and employ 15 people directly, a foreign investor could say he was investing in a construction project that would create jobs in a restaurant down the street that might serve construction workers.

That the race is more to the bottom than the top was perhaps illustrated a few weeks ago when a garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed, killing dozens of workers.

Economists can argue that the workers in the new factories were no worse off than they had been as peasants on English farms.

Food in the sparsely stocked dining cars was often worse than at a factory workers» canteen, served on soiled tablecloths by surly waiters.

To answer that question, one needn't look any further than the dozens of damning undercover investigations into agribusiness operations released over the last several years: chickens crammed so tightly into tiny cages that they can't even spread their wings, living in the same space with the rotting corpses of their cage - mates; mother pigs unable to even turn around for months on end inside their gestation crates; factory farm workers sadistically abusing animals; and more.

Kelly told Guardian Australia that SPC Ardmona, which employs more than 1000 workers and buys fruit from hundreds of local growers, «does not have a viable future» without the grant, which, along with money from the Victorian government and the company, would retool the factory to produce products more suited to a modern market.

Last week, I was devastated to hear that more than 300 workers were killed when a factory collapsed in Bangladesh, just as I was devastated when more than 100 workers were killed in a factory fire last year.

This is just another way for a formula company to convince ignorant Americans that scientists in a lab a workers in a factory SOMEHOW know better than mother nature.

With production scheduled to start at the sprawling Tesla Inc. solar panel factory in less than two months, Tesla's partner, Panasonic, is ramping up its search for workers for its portion of the South Park Avenue facility.

Mayor de Blasio's great - aunt pled guilty to «having an inadequate fire alarm apparatus,» four years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146 garment workers less than a mile («just a short walk») south of the «Misses Briganti» home / «factory at 205 East Seventeenth Street.Factory fire killed 146 garment workers less than a mile («just a short walk») south of the «Misses Briganti» home / «factory at 205 East Seventeenth Street.factory at 205 East Seventeenth Street.»

Just for reference, a typical large factory boss in USSR (even after Stalin), or in China, has infinitely more power over random worker than any CEO of a western company.

In last week's most delicious near tragedy, a worker in [a] Kenosha, Wisconsin chocolate factory was stuck in a 110 degree vat of a dark chocolate so viscous that only mixing it with cocoa butter allowed the worker to finally be pulled free after more than two hours.

More than 23,000 comments poured in from veterans, cancer survivors, factory workers, lawyers and teachers.

A 2011 study in male Japanese factory workers found those who slept less than six hours a night had a five-fold increased heart attack risk over a 14 - year span compared with those who logged between 7 and 8 hours a night.

It's silly to blame them for pesticides existing in veggies, except for that small minotiry (probably more like 1 % than 5 %) who might insist «no I insist my veggies be grown iwth the most pesticides» Similarly you can grow veg food in other ways that are bad — that's not veganism's fault any more than «it's your fault they pay low wages to the workers in the factory that makes veg food!»

This complex was home to factory workers working in extremely dangerous and unsafe conditions for less than a living wage making the clothes so many of us wear.

The real Schindler saved more than a thousand Jewish workers by sheltering them in his factory, and even accomplished the unimaginable feat of rescuing some of them from Auschwitz.

Oskar Schindler was an enterprising, womanizing Nazi Sudeten - German industrialist / opportunist and war profiteer, who first exploited the cheap labor of Jewish / Polish workers in a successful enamelware factory (Deutsche Emailwaren Fabrik or D.E.F.), and eventually rescued more than one thousand of them from certain extinction in labor / death camps.

In fact, Spielberg's depiction of the wartime life of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a German entrepreneur who opened factories to help the Nazi war effort in Poland, only to staff them with Jewish workers, remains Spielberg's most personal film, but for different reasons than ancestry.

I would ideally like to get rid of the traditional «step and lane» pay structure for most teachers that is more in line with a factory worker than a professional but I recognize that this will require leadership from teachers to change.

Clearly, there is more to favoring American - made products than shunning inhumane conditions for factory workers — economic and product safety issues are two that immediately come to mind — but it is a big component.

Today, of course, we face more complex challenges than we have ever faced before: a medical system that holds the promise of unlocking new cures and treatments — attached to a health care system that holds the potential for bankruptcy to families and businesses; a system of energy that powers our economy, but simultaneously endangers our planet; threats to our security that seek to exploit the very interconnectedness and openness so essential to our prosperity; and challenges in a global marketplace which links the derivative trader on Wall Street to the homeowner on Main Street, the office worker in America to the factory worker in China — a marketplace in which we all share in opportunity, but also in crisis.

For Klein, who is more likely to be self consciously left on suburban bourgeois coffee tables than picked up and studied by factory workers (Urgh — factories!

While in the past, manufacturing workers earned a wage significantly higher than the U.S. average, by 2013 the average factory worker made 7.7 percent below the median wage for all occupations.

I might suggest that while I am, at my core, conservative, my sense is that as we've seen in the U.S. and international banking industry, expanded corporatization has its problems — and one might, fairly, question whether issues of legal ethics will also diminish as lawyers increasingly see themselves as little more than «commodity brokers» as opposed to what has been, at least in theory, a profession which sees itself as more than simply factory workers doing a job... and in fact which many of us still feel is both a great honor and a great social responsibility.

Due to the large amount of factory and farm workers in Indiana, the population here is exposed to higher than average workplace accident rates.

Certain field and types of work are more dangerous than others and those who are employed in construction, healthcare settings, the airline industry, and factory workers are some who face harm on a regular basis.

Certain types of employees are more likely than others to be hurt while working, including construction workers, factory employees, line workers, nurses and nurses» aides, teachers and classroom assistants, and airline employees.

The study showed that GEICO regularly charged a factory worker with a high school degree more than a plant supervisor with a college degree.

And a factory worker could see different quotes than an office worker.

The well - choreographed customs routine is part of a hidden bounty of perks, tax breaks and subsidies in China that supports the world's biggest iPhone factory, according to confidential government records reviewed by The New York Times, as well as more than 100 interviews with factory workers, logistics handlers, truck drivers, tax specialists and current and former Apple executives.

Their work environment is more like that of a factory worker than an office worker.