Sentences with phrase «thousands of workers went»

The socialist states at that time were producing gargantuan amounts of CO2 and other gases implicated in global warming from unfiltered coal - fired power plants and factories; when those unprofitable industries withered, countless thousands of workers went on the dole — but the air got cleaner.

Where must those thousands of workers go now to earn a living?

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When he assumed the position last June, he promised to slash costs while raising service levels, and he's moved quickly on both fronts: fewer train crews go to work each day, thousands of workers have already been turfed, and CP's remaining fleet is pulling heavier loads.

Thousands of workers from chain restaurants including McDonald's, Burger King and Pizza Hut plan to go on strike this Thursday, reports Bloomberg.

Thousands of workers are walking off of job sites, fed up with going to work hungry, putting their lives at risk at rickety refineries, all for a paycheck that fails to cover even the most basic expenses.

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.

Earlier this year, thousands of AT&T workers, members of the Communications Workers of America union, went on strike over issues like job security and outsoworkers, members of the Communications Workers of America union, went on strike over issues like job security and outsoWorkers of America union, went on strike over issues like job security and outsourcing.

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.

The arrangements that went into the 1986 District of Columbia crusade were typical of the big rallies of the later years: 500,000 personal invitations issued, 400,000 packets of material mailed to area homes, thousands of prayer groups meeting regularly for months ahead, 4,000 workers trained to counsel with «inquirers,» another thousand prepared for follow - up work.

Workers at the Passport Office may go on strike over the growing backlog, as warnings emerge that hundreds of thousands of Brits could miss their summer holidays due to delays

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

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.

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.

According to the plan, nearly two - thousand permanent jobs will be created: Golby was told there may be a project labor agreement - that the average worker at the facility can expect a salary of $ 43,000 dollars a year - there will be part time jobs as well - with job training targeting locals and minorities - and those jobs will go to city residents.

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.

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.

Emergency workers are justifiably terrified it could blow, and this is just one of a thousand reasons why the people evacuated from Fort McMurray won't be going home any time soon.

An entire generation of young workers trying to enter the workforce are being handicapped by tens of thousands of dollars of debt — and there aren't even the entry level type jobs to go into as there was with previous generations.

And it means helping low - income families too, reinstating the state Earned Income Tax Credit for low - wage workers, expanding Medicaid, and reversing the decision to kick thousands of children off the child care subsidy program that allows parents to work or go back to school.

The mirror effects of the black and white series Flowers in the mirror and the Moon in the water, the installation 1000 Chinese strangers — which consists of nearly one thousand photo booth portraits of Chinese workers at the time of Mao (1949 - 70)-- and the series of old image montages Where have all the flowers gone testify to the artist's reflections on history and tradition.

I'm stressed, overworked, underinsured, have a two - worker family, and you're telling me I'm going to face thousands of dollars in extra costs, but don't worry, Uncle Sam will write me a check?

Not only have almost every major solar manufacturing company in Germany gone bankrupt, leaving economic blight in its wake, now traditional power giants, which hire tens of thousands of skilled workers, are threatened by bankruptcy.

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

As part of this cost - cutting campaign, my clients had to let go thousands of workers and major projects that did not meet profitability criteria were either cancelled or deferred.

From employing thousands of workers, to contributing millions of dollars to charities, to its main mission of rebuilding communities, the people who insure your cars, houses and businesses are quietly going about the business of keeping Colorado in business.