Sentences with phrase «thousands of foreign workers»

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At the same time, Chinese contractors that operate on an entirely new model — exporting thousands of their own low - cost workers to foreign job sites, for example — are starting to compete in the markets where Bechtel is strongest.

What's going on is that thousands of oil workers are fleeing the state - run oil firm under the watch of its new military commander, who has quickly alienated the firm's embattled upper echelon and its rank - and - file, according to union leaders, a half - dozen current PDVSA workers, a dozen former PDVSA workers and a half - dozen executives at foreign companies operating in Venezuela.

For years Labour presided over a labour market where the number of foreign people in jobs rocketed to record levels — while thousands of British workers were left on the sidelines, facing the prospect of long - term unemployment.

Otto is one of the tens of thousands of foreign scientific and technical workers in the United States on H - 1B visas, which admit nonimmigrant skilled workers for a limited number of years.

For years, U.S. high - tech companies have complained that technically trained workers are in such short supply that they need to import tens of thousands of foreign scientists and engineers to keep labs running and production lines humming.

Thousands of companies misusing the Temporary Foreign Worker program, uncovered by the Alberta Federation of Labour, prove that the program should remain a federal responsibility.

On the eve of the federal government's April 1 deadline for Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs), Canadians should feel sympathy for the thousands of people facing the prospect of being sent home... and they should feel anger and disgust towards the federal government for the ham - handed way they've handled this file.

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.

And yet, migrant workers who come to Canada under Canada's temporary foreign worker program, especially low - skilled streams, will tell you again and again that they are paying fees, thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars, for the promise of a low - paid, precarious job in Canada.