Sentences with phrase «thousands of workers in»

This Coalition was formed to launch a public campaign for fundamental changes to modernize the BC Employment Standards Act in the interests of workers, and to give voice to the thousands of workers in the province who are being abused and exploited under the current flawed system.

Whitfield, Bryson & Mason LLP has extensive experience representing thousands of workers in wage and hour lawsuits.

But instead of moving the project along, bankruptcy only made things messier: Talks among the developer, lender, contractor and the Bahamian government became contentious; Rosewood begged out of its licensing agreement with the development; the U.S. Bankruptcy Court threw out the case in September; Baha Mar laid off thousands of workers in the fall; and Bahamas court officials prepared to start a potential liquidation process in November.

An authoritarian figure, Soper hired thousands of workers in a military - style campaign to fumigate buildings and treat breeding sites with a poison called Paris green.

The team also developed a genetic risk score for type 2 diabetes, examining genetic data for tens of thousands of workers in the database.

Mr Coyne hopes to sweep to victory on the support of thousands of workers in the defence industry outraged by peacenik Mr Corbyn's anti-Trident stance.

By stiffening the penalties, protecting workers who come forward, and ensuring that unpaid wages are collected, the new law provides the tools we need to ensure justice for the hundreds of thousands of workers in New York who are impacted each year.»

«However in recent years, the WFP has strayed from that vision and now routinely opposes issues important to the tens of thousands of workers in the construction industry and other industries.»

However, thousands of workers in the Region defied the heavy rain and went on a procession through the streets of Cape Coast.

For about nine months, thousands of workers in about 104 industrial units of the Chattisgarh region had been engaged in a heroic struggle under the leadership of Mukti Morcha.

Vox's Fernández Campbell reported last month that PREPA has lost thousands of workers in recent years, including 600 — fully a tenth of its workforce — this past April alone.

They include Apple (which relies on China for a quarter of its iPhone sales but also indirectly employs hundreds of thousands of workers in China through its contract manufacturer, Foxxcon).

And, he says, Hunter and his army of retail investors did nothing that hasn't been repeatedly done by investment bankers, bondholders and hedge funds during other CCAAs, such as the restructuring of Hamilton steelmaker Stelco, where self - serving parties threatened the future of thousands of workers in order to turn a profit after buying voting power from scared creditors.

Not exact matches

«Experts are clearly favoring Atlanta,» noted Bert Sperling, the firm's founder and CEO, in a recent statement, nodding to the city's comparatively low cost of living, international air hub and potential ability to absorb tens of thousands of new workers.

There is a shortgae of houses in Australia and the four hundred thousand or so workers needed to fill skills places to stay.

DHAMRAI, Bangladesh — A few hundred workers, activists and relatives of victims of a 2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1,134 people and left thousands injured held a rally Tuesday as the country marked the fifth anniversary of the disaster.

As 1 World Trade Center starts to claim a place on the Lower Manhattan skyline, the area's retail scene is beginning to revive, with landlords raising rents in anticipation of thousands of new office workers, tourists and residents, commercial real estate experts said.

If they wish to ship this offshore and make thousands of Aussies out of work, then support the workers in Australia, do not purchase these brands, they are destroying Australian jobs and life.

Because Slack hasn't yet reached the point where it has tens of thousands of workers on its books, «[i] t is relatively easy for us to move the lever a small bit right now to make a significant change in our trajectory,» CEO Stewart Butterfield and HR chief Anne Toth write in a blog post disclosing the numbers.

Verizon brought in thousands of temporary workers.

Last year, the retail giant said it would spend about $ 2.7 billion on higher wages for hundreds of thousands of workers at its U.S. stores in 2015 and 2016.

Websites that specialize in contract workers, such as odesk.com and elance.com, have thousands of listings for virtual assistants.

Thousands of low - paid workers striking in hundreds of cities across the country, demanding a minimum wage of up to $ 15 per hour to replace the current $ 7.25 minimum wage, showing that an increasing amount of those even in jobs are unhappy with their lot.

With hundreds of thousands of government workers furloughed — excluding those considered essential employees — paperwork backups are likely to occur in the mortgage - approval process.

Additionally, when it comes to large companies such as Caterpillar and Boeing, the bank isn't just supporting one company with its many thousands of workers, but — as in Boeing's case — the 6,600 small businesses that also supply the company with component parts, products, and services.

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 union, which represents thousands of rural workers not represented by the CPAA, said in a statement that it was «disappointed» by the CPAA arbitration outcome.

Construction permits in San Jose are hard to get, and the area already has the lowest vacancy rate of all the metro areas surveyed, so there is little wiggle room to accommodate tens of thousands of new workers in an affordable way.

Publicly traded oil companies have lost billions in market value, and both public and private firms are moving aggressively to cut capital spending budgets for 2015 — laying off thousands of workers and shutting down hundreds of rigs.

While there's a 60 - person team based in Edmonton, and all product development is out of Canada, priMED operates factories in China that employ nearly a thousand workers.

TIME spoke to aid workers familiar with Aleppo to discover what daily life is like for thousands in the war - torn, eastern part of the city:

The idea of May 1 as a day for workers» rights was born in the US city of Chicago, where on May 1, 1886 hundreds of thousands of people walked off the job to protest long hours and harsh working conditions.

«We know we have these huge investments and opportunities, particularly in a huge swath of northern Canada, through the massive multibillion - dollar investments in the extractive industries that will require tens if not hundreds of thousands of skilled workers who are not currently available,» Kenney said.

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.

As thousands of suddenly unemployed energy workers seek new jobs, they will be able to do so without worrying about a spike in the cost of their mortgages.

Along with virtually every major retail and restaurant chain, Starbucks relies on software that choreographs workers in precise, intricate ballets, using sales patterns and other data to determine which of its 130,000 baristas are needed in its thousands of locations and exactly when.

Congress considered bills this year to amend provisions in the H - 1B visa laws that tech workers say have led to thousands of layoffs, but no action was taken.

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.

«Their idea was that if you fire thousands of teachers, teachers» aides, school support workers, nurses, nurses» aides and people that work in the hospitals that somehow the price of oil would go back up,» she told a Unifor convention in Ottawa this week.

The New York Times has famously called Amazon the worst place to work, a Death Star of e-tailing leaving in its wake thousands of unhappy workers, hollowed - out shopping malls and dying brick - and - mortar retailers which used to be the bedrock of their communities.

There's no way to track how many workers lost their jobs as a result, but in recent years, factories in Europe and Mexico laid off thousands of steelworkers.

Understanding Changes in Ontario's Electricity Markets and Their Effects finds that poor energy policy choices — including Ontario's Green Energy Act — has increased electricity prices for residents, cost tens of thousands of manufacturing workers their jobs and produced only minimal health and environmental benefits.

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.

In the aftermath of the worst ice - storm Toronto has ever had (but let's not forget hard - hit smaller municipalities in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick), a virtual army of heroes has emerged — hydro workers, on 12 - hour shifts around the clock over the Christmas period, steadily restoring power to hundreds of thousands of «customers.&raquIn the aftermath of the worst ice - storm Toronto has ever had (but let's not forget hard - hit smaller municipalities in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick), a virtual army of heroes has emerged — hydro workers, on 12 - hour shifts around the clock over the Christmas period, steadily restoring power to hundreds of thousands of «customers.&raquin Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick), a virtual army of heroes has emerged — hydro workers, on 12 - hour shifts around the clock over the Christmas period, steadily restoring power to hundreds of thousands of «customers.»

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

«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.

Retirement savers achieved record balances in their 401 (k) balances in 2014 — thanks in part to the stock market's gains — but the biggest winners were the thousands of workers who became newly minted millionaires.

I appreciate too the exemplary efforts of emergency workers, government officials, clean - up crews and the thousands of volunteers in dozens of communities who have done...

In the past decade, PREPA has lost thousands of workers.

In an age of increasing social responsibility, firing five thousand domestic workers is not exactly great for a brand's image.