Sentences with phrase «thousands of workers took»

As a result, thousands of workers took part in them.

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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.

«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.»

Today thousands of garment workers took to the streets to protest the industry's poor working conditions in the country where many work 12 - hour shifts for up to 30 days a month.

Funny how #FIFAarrests take over Twitter, whilst human rights abuses & thousands of dead workers in #Qatar just don't seem to matter...

The prime minister may think that needing to find «just a few thousand pounds» for a deposit is achievable but for a cleaner or nursery school worker it could take a lifetime to save that kind of money.

Thousands of public sector workers from across the North East are taking part in a 24 - hour strike today.

Thousands of London bus workers will take strike action next Thursday 5 July followed by action on Tuesday 24 July in a dispute over London bus operators» continued refusal to recognise their workers» extra effort over the Olympics with a # 500 Olympic award.

Utility workers took advantage of milder temperatures and sunshine Tuesday in their scramble to restore electricity to thousands of customers around the Northeast.

Thousands of Protesters on Friday took to the streets of Kaduna in support of Governor Nasir Ahmed El - Rufai's stance to sack workers and teachers who were said to have failed the state government examination.

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.»

For that he needs to take time to persuade the public hes not going to risk public finances or make thousands of public sector workers unemployed from day 1.

The voyage is the end not just for the space shuttles, but for the thousands of NASA shuttle workers who will soon be taking on non-shuttle related jobs within the agency or moving on entirely.

Along with some 2500 Korean students who received advanced degrees last year in science and engineering, she was seeking her first research job just as the country's economy took a nose dive and thousands of workers were being laid off.

Sharing a common love for Alfa Romeo and its unique concept of cars as «mechanical creations» which transcend the realm of necessity to verge on that of the most authentic emotions and not just «useful means of transport», the «Skunks» have one goal: to create the Alfa Romeo of the future respecting the heritage resulting from the work and pride of thousands of people - engineers, factory workers and managers - who have taken turns in the factories, offices and on the race tracks.

Then he takes us full circle back to India, where the first diamonds were excavated centuries ago, into the modern - day stone mills where diamonds are faceted by thousands of workers paid 10 cents per stone.

As with the steel companies, the PBGC took over some of the pensions, the unions made concessions, and thousands of laid - off workers were recalled.

Those workers had no other choice but to euthanize thousands of dogs and cats because in the 1992 - 93 budget year they took in nearly 10,000 animals.

Now under control, the vegetation can no longer take over these truly romantic places built under Jayavarman VII, where every day thousands of priests, workers and apsaras paraded each day in a unique procession.

He also took «official» images, promoting the ghetto's work efficiency, and at the same time he documented the grim daily life in the ghetto: suffering and despair, starvation and diseases, the exploitation of the workers, the deportation of thousands to death camps at Chelmno and Auschwitz.

The United Steel Workers Union (USW), which represents hundreds of thousands of workers, «in the most heavily - impacted industries, among them pulp & paper, steel, and rubber,» has takeWorkers Union (USW), which represents hundreds of thousands of workers, «in the most heavily - impacted industries, among them pulp & paper, steel, and rubber,» has takeworkers, «in the most heavily - impacted industries, among them pulp & paper, steel, and rubber,» has taken note.

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.

It was constructed in the early 1930s and took years, thousands of workers and even the lives of many.

As artificial intelligence and robotics continue to pick up steam, thousands of jobs we could once take for granted are at risk of being automated, threatening to leave a bevy of diligent workers on the dole.

In recent history, the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Disaster, which took place December 26, 2004 and took hundreds of thousands of lives, as well as the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and WS The Pentagon in Washington DC, may have caused PTSD in many survivors and rescue workers.