Sentences with phrase «thousands of workers out»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

The CWA said on Saturday that Verizon has not budged from its original proposal which they have said would increase workers» healthcare costs by thousands of dollars, eliminate job security and remove any restrictions on the company's right to contract out or offshore union jobs.

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.

«It leaves out hundreds of thousands of McDonald's workers at franchises.»

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.

Another string of tweets pointed the finger at Amazon claiming it was the reason thousands of retailers were going out of business, and millions of US workers had been laid off.

There exist contingency plans to move hundreds of thousands of financial sector and other workers out of the UK.

Time is running out and it's now up to Denis Napthine to match our offer and support this company and the thousands of workers and growers.»

The closures mean thousands of Walmart workers will soon be out of a job.

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.

Len McCluskey said: «What is happening with the consultation on the future of the AWB is anti-democratic; hundreds of thousands of rural workers and stakeholder organisations are being locked out of the consultation to the certain detriment of the people most impacted by any abolition.

Hoyt says this will continue until the Governor stops his furlough of 100 thousand state workers — something he makes clear he disagrees with in a press release he just sent out.

And the $ 16.7 million pales next to the $ 495 million from the New York Power Authority — funds literally generated upstate at the Niagara and Fitzpatrick Power projects — that was supposed to go to reduce electricity costs for the few remaining industries upstate, figuratively and literally turning out the lights for thousands of upstate workers and their families.

De Blasio is also is calling for an overhaul of housing programs and tax incentives to spur the construction of tens of thousands of apartments for poor New Yorkers, as well as teachers, firefighters and other workers, who increasingly find themselves priced out of a booming real estate market and rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.

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.

The best and brightest overseas workers are being kept out of the UK by David Cameron's goal of cutting immigration to the «the tens of thousands», an influential group has found.

«Phasing out the unfair tip credit would improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of struggling New Yorkers, many of them women, workers of color and immigrants.

As a result, New York taxpayers won't get maximum value for their construction dollars, and thousands of non-union workers will be unfairly shut out of the competition for government contracts to build, overhaul and expand bridges, highways and other critical infrastructure.

Lifting hundreds of thousands of the lowest - paid workers out of tax altogether.

In a financial filing this week, SolarCity laid out the considerable task it has before it in meeting milestones to avoid tens of millions of dollars in payments if it fails to start production on schedule and employ the thousands of workers to whom it has committed.

As the tension mounts in Albany over the late budget and thousands of state workers forced to cut their hours and pay, the AFL - CIO is targeting individual lawmakers this election year who they say aren't looking out for the interests of working men and women.

The best and brightest overseas workers are being kept out of the UK by David Cameron's goal of cutting immigration to the «the tens of thousands», influential group finds

What Danny Alexander is attempting is to push through further changes that will drive thousands of already hard - pressed public sector workers out of these schemes and, ultimately, undermine the very viability of these schemes.

The union says the government's slash and burn approach to tackling the budget deficit will mean vital public services are axed, hundreds of thousands of public sector workers will be thrown out of work, and those that remain will have their pay and pensions cut.

«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.

«Sal, it's not the 1980s anymore, You can't do what Ed Koch did» de Blasio said, adding that enacting Albanese's proposals to primarily use non-profit developers «would put tens of thousands of construction workers out of a job.»

Finally the introduction of Universal Credit represents an effective pay - cut for thousands of the very lowest paid workers, self - employed people and anyone out of work.

The governors of New York and New Jersey have staked out such starkly different positions on the minimum wage that their discord could result in uneven pay scales for thousands of workers at the airports that serve New York City.

Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers are walking out once again over their public sector pensions, but the government says further resistance is futile.

The mayor laid out plans to spend $ 115 million to boost the minimum wage to $ 15 for tens of thousands of city workers, and $ 5.4 million to expand FDNY ambulance tours in Upper Manhattan, Queens and The Bronx in an effort to boost response times.

As thousands of postal workers mounted picket lines in the first of two 24 hour walk - outs, further industrial action is expected to be announced in an escalation of the bitter Royal Mail dispute.

If Moore's law — that the cost of computation halves every 18 months — holds for another 15 years or so, SETI workers plan to use this antenna array approach to check out not a few thousand but perhaps a few million or even tens of millions of stars for alien signals.

But as Heeks points out, this is a controversial practice, and though it helps thousands of gold farmers earn wages equal to those of factory workers, it goes against the rules of the games.

Picture this: Last Sunday evening, surrounded by thousands of Hong Kong's Filipina domestic workers in a public outdoor square in Hong Kong, I rolled out a lone yoga mat.

This fall, principals and assistant principals fanned out into thousands of Tennessee classrooms in an unprecedented effort to spend at least an hour annually observing and rating every single teacher, guidance counselor, social worker and librarian in the state's public school system.

An enigmatic young man employed as a trash - out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects left behind by the evicted families.

While there's no shortage of noise out there, it can be worth looking at what the «long - term money» is doing: the pension funds, portfolio managers, consultants and others who are collectively responsible for the financial futures of thousands of clients and millions of workers, retirees, individual investors.

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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.

Mark, so contracting out millions - billions so outfits can hire thousands of workers building tanks, carriers, rifles, airplanes, ships, uniforms, boots, etc, etc, etc does nothing for the pure poor little guy?

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.

Thousands of workers have developed industrial diseases such as mesothelioma many years after former employers have gone out of business.

Here, he is being asked to map out a plan of action, he wants to find a new job before thousands of new public sector workers hit the job market.

How can case workers be involved in Open Adoption as well if DHS are already so understaffed and the budgets are maxed out for the thousands of forgotten children lost in the system?