Sentences with phrase «thousands more workers»

«Raising the city's living wage — and expanding it to include thousands more workers — will spur economic activity and growth while lifting working families out of poverty,» Councilwoman Debi Rose (D - North Shore) said.

Unions warned that thousands more workers depended on the plant.

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Tens of thousands of Royal Mail workers will be able to buy shares in the company and the government plans to retain a stake, opening the possibility it will sell more shares in the future.

The new Sidewalk project would make way for self - driving cars on its streets, more efficient electricity and water delivery systems, and high - tech housing units for tens of thousands of people and workers.

Accommodating Amazon's thousands of workers will require hiring more teachers, widening roads and building more housing.

The Red Cross said it is mobilizing trained Red Cross disaster relief workers to support the response effort and has more than 17 shelters ready to open and support thousands of people if needed.

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.

«Businesses across America have already started to raise wages, and more than 100 companies have already given bonuses and other benefits to hundreds of thousands of workers as a result of these massive tax cuts,» Trump said Monday in Nashville.

The 3 % difference in the tax rates means you would only have three thousand to hire more workers.

Thames Water workers help distribute bottled water, at a bottled water station in Hampstead, north London, for one of the thousands of people in the London area who were left without water for more than 36 hours after extreme weather caused burst pipes.

Ten thousand workers in my electorate have had their penalty rates cut, and the government is more than happy to push ahead with its budget for millionaires and multinationals, including a $ 65 billion tax cut for banks and multinationals.

«The Tier VI pension proposal is an attack on retirement security for tens of thousands of New Yorkers and would steer more workers into private 401 (k) style retirement accounts.

With thousands of construction workers out of work and interest rates at record lows, there is a growing consensus that investing now in improving our infrastructure, particularly housing, would give an immediate boost to the economy, encourage more private sector investment, and give us a long - term return as we strengthen our economy for the future.

Equally or perhaps more dangerously for Corbyn, he'd be on the wrong side of a Unite union which backed him to the hilt and serves as a Praetorian guard but is unlikely to sit back quietly if the jobs — and union subs — of the thousands of well - paid skilled workers it represents went down the Swanee with Trident.

«With thousands more unemployed workers entering jobcentres, single parents are unlikely to get the personalised support they will need if they are to find jobs.

While again hundred thousands of Egyptians show their defiance of the old regime at Cairo's Tahrir Square and worker protests have broken out in several Egyptian cities, Washington and London still follow a pipe dream of a gradual transition from Hosni Mubarak to a more or less democratic, yet by all means secular new government.

ALBANY — The Cuomo administration has now fully implemented a policy of automatically deleting emails of rank - and - file state workers that are more than three months old, resulting in an effective purge of thousands of messages in recent days.

This wrecking - ball approach would disrupt the education of thousands of students and the livelihoods of more than 7,000 educators while dismantling workers» rights.

More than 140 New York City firefighters, police officers and other workers are in Puerto Rico to help, and Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio is preparing for an expected influx of thousands of Puerto Ricans fleeing the storm's damage.

«These community groups, which represent tens of thousands of working families, have been at the forefront of the Fight for $ 15, worker and immigrant rights, affordable housing, criminal justice reform, climate justice and more.

«The reality is that migrants from other EU countries are very beneficial to the UK's economy, notably because they help to address skills shortages and pay more tax and social security contributions per head, and get fewer benefits, than UK workers; that free movement of workers is a key part of the EU's single market; that hundreds of thousands of UK nationals work in other EU countries.»

Despite campaigning in person for Pete Sikora twice, the economist with the Communication Workers of America lost to Jo Anne Simon, a Democratic district leader, by more than a thousand votes.

CITY HALL — Bypassing the City Council, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order on Tuesday expanding the living wage law to cover thousands of more workers and raising the hourly wage from $ 11.90 to $ 13.13 for those without benefits.

A clear alternative, that does not involve throwing tens of thousands of public sector workers onto the dole — a move that would cost more than ten billion in lost tax revenue and increased state benefit payments.

«This year thousands of public sector workers have joined the dole queue, with even more cuts on the cards,» he said.

Hector Figueroa, the president of SEIU 32BJ, a union of building services workers, said, «We... applaud Speaker Quinn for negotiating a bill that will give more than a million workers paid sick days and provide hundreds of thousands more with an assurance that they won't have to choose between taking their child to a doctor and losing their job.»

If all healthcare workers were trained to give brief advice to their patients on stopping smoking, as part of their everyday work, lasting no more than a few minutes, it could save thousands of lives at very little cost.

Whether that be the 11 workers killed in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, the more than 70 cleaners sickened by the aftermath, or the thousands of Nigerians killed directly or indirectly by our unquenchable thirst for petroleum.

The Pheidole ant genus includes more than a thousand species, all of which contain worker ants with oversized heads and jaws that allow them to break up food.

Every year thousands of farm workers die of pesticide poisoning and millions more suffer severe effects, mainly in developing countries.

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.

Tens of thousands of casino workers in Las Vegas whose contracts expire next week were preparing to vote on whether to authorize a strike, a move that could leave more than 30 properties without unionized housekeepers, bartenders, servers and other key employees.

I owe more on my student loan than I do on my house... after six years of graduate school and all that money I don't even make fifty thousand a year... my saving grace last year was the income based payment program... I hope I get it this year too... especially since I just filed bankruptcy... was all this debt work worth it??? I don't know... I wish there was more support for social workers... thanks

Now lets get cheap and free spay and neuter and start making sure all shelter workers really care about the pets, or they get replaced with NO kill Advocates, let rescues help more, promote fostering and stop murderng so many tens of thousands?

Tens of thousands of cleanup workers, Coast Guard members, fishers and coastal residents were within range of the airborne chemicals, and many of them were sprayed directly with Corexit, which when mixed with crude, is 52 times more toxic than crude alone.

«Our success here is a testament to the hard work of hundreds of local workers who helped build this historic project, and to the Block Islanders and the thousands more around the U.S. who've supported us every step of the way of this amazing journey,» said Deepwater Wind CEO Jeffrey Grybowski.

Conventional farmers might balk at the idea, but Cline has a gentler solution: He uses thousands of sheep and goats to wander the property and graze, ridding the rows of pesky weeds, and doing so much more quickly than field workers can by hand.

Rail at Center of Stimulus Package China's high speed rail build - out is at the front and center of its stimulus spending, in large part out of fear: little is more intimidating to Beijing's leaders than the sight of thousands of unemployed workers.

In the course of just a few short weeks, the law by its terms would require: that more than 100,000 South Carolina voters be informed of and educated about the law's new requirements; that several thousand poll workers and poll managers be educated and trained about the intricacies and nuances of the law... and that county election boards become knowledgable of the law....»

She has been an attorney for more than twenty - five years and has successfully handled thousands of workers» compensation, personal injury and subrogation cases.

The documents, obtained by the Alberta Federation of Labour through federal access to information requests, show thousands of Alberta - based businesses have been disproportionately relying on Temporary Foreign Workers — many with workforces that are more than 50 per cent TFWs.

For 62 years, our lawyers have successfully assisted thousands of clients throughout the country who were injured by prescription drugs, medical devices, consumer fraud, auto accidents, medical malpractice and workers compensation, winning more than $ 4 billion in jury verdicts and settlements.

«Implementing these policies and using this equipment will save millions of dollars and more thousands of lost work days for workers injured from unsafe patient handling practices,» Picknick said.

More recent cases include the firm's representation of thousands of clean - up workers and Gulf Coast residents who were physically or financially harmed by BP Oil Company's wrongdoing, which resulted in the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

If a major corporation cheats a thousand of its workers out of a thousand dollars each, very few of them will decide it is worth the hassle and expense of a major lawsuit, and virtually no lawyer will be willing to take such a low dollar case on a contingency fee basis — meaning that the plaintiffs will have to pay more for legal counsel than they are likely to win in the end.

They contract with more than a thousand mental health care providers that include social workers, therapists, psychiatrists, community advocates, psychologists, and agencies.

There are hundreds of thousands of construction workers who've never been more eager to get back on the job.

As Facebook hires more employees, purchases more land and expands its college - inspired campus, the social network has floated the idea of creating thousands of new housing units for its workers and the public, city documents show.