Sentences with phrase «where city workers»

The company later faced a $ 10 million criminal fine plus related civil charges for «serious willful» negligence in a 2004 incident that killed five people in Walnut Creek, Calif., where city workers struck a gas pipeline and accidentally caused an explosion.

Not exact matches

Former rustbelts trying to lure in high - tech companies need to focus on creating the kind of cities where knowledge workers actually want to live

In Dongguan, the city where rioting workers killed a factory manager, the New South China Mall lays claim to being the largest mall in the world, yet is bereft of tenants.

The price tag attached to the 1,700 - square - foot lot shows the extent of the housing bubble in San Francisco, where tech workers create demand faster than the city can build new housing.

Interestingly enough, the survey also identified cities where workers are most likely to gain weight.

The first dinner kicks off Monday in New York City, where ROC and PAUWR hope to create a space for guests to discuss the reality immigrant workers face today.

In New York City, where the firefighters are revered as the «bravest» and police officers are dubbed the «finest,» uniformed workers have a reputation for dogged determination and fierce civic pride.

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.

The tourism town, where the majority of Miami - Dade's estimated 11,500 housekeepers and other hotel workers are employed, may soon be the nation's next city to enact laws aimed at protecting hotel workers from assault or improper advances by hotel guests.

This boom includes Richard Florida's people: the young, digitized, multilingual creative class workers who populate the condos sprouting on Lake Ontario's edge, drawn from other parts of the city and the rest of the province and country to where economic and educational opportunity beckons.3

The hukou registration system that ties people to their place of ordinary residence deprives migrant workers of rights to welfare, education or property, and prevents them from launching businesses in the cities, where they are treated as second - class citizens.

These inner - city workers understand the «victim mentality» and «entitlement mind - set» they encounter in the devastated communities where they live, but they do not let such attitudes go unchallenged, and they expect great things from their neighbors despite those neighbors» disadvantaged circumstances.

The Open Door in Atlanta is billed as a sort of «Protestant Catholic Worker» house, where members staff a soup kitchen for the homeless and agitate for justice in the city.

They also often reject any role for governments in addressing social - economic problems, such as unemployment or the low wages earned by workers who are trapped in unskilled occupations or isolated in central cities, where financial and physical infrastructures are inadequate and social networks are weak.

Tales abound as to where the tender tofu got its name, the most popular being that a «Ma Po» — or old woman with a pockmarked face — served the unique recipe to poorer workers on the outskirts of a highly trafficked merchant city.

But more than that, it's both the common dining table and grocer to the kind of eclectic city where fictional boxer Rocky Balboa is deemed as worthy of a statue as Founding Father Ben Franklin, an oversized small town where South Philly blue - collar workers and Northern Liberties hipsters alike pride themselves on being plainspoken connoisseurs of worthy eats, and will endlessly debate whether DiNic's roast pork with provolone and broccoli rabe has supplanted the cheesesteak as Philly's favorite sandwich.

House Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi introduced Cuomo at a rally of union workers at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City, where he made his remarks.

New York City adopted a paid sick leave law several years ago and now proponents are trying to marshal support for a similar measure in Albany County — which would extend a privilege enjoyed by state workers and lawmakers to the private sector, where part - time and service - industry workers are especially unlikely to have the same perk.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo took the first flight allowed to land after Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico last week, and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito joined city workers this weekend to aid relief on the island where her own mother liCity Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito joined city workers this weekend to aid relief on the island where her own mother licity workers this weekend to aid relief on the island where her own mother lives.

But the administration has worked since the audit to reduce the SURA payroll by transferring workers to the city departments where they do their work.

Already, the NPP is cleverly holding outdoor clinics in cities, towns and villages, where people are treated freely by party supporters who are health workers.

During that period, our rulers created cities whose essential workers can not afford to live in them, cities full of ugly buildings and drably uniform centres and angry frightened neighbourhoods where people do not know their neighbours.

BY NATHAN RILEY Advocates are demanding that Mayor Bill de Blasio release a city health department feasibility study on safer consumption spaces where users take their drugs in the presence of an overdose prevention worker.

PLATTSBURGH The city's promotions and events coordinator has resigned, citing a work environment «where collaboration and compassion are absent» and an administration that «has consistently misrepresented facts» to its workers and the public.

The bill, which Bloomberg vetoed last month, would boost wages for building service workers, including custodians and security guards, in 41 large buildings where the city leases the majority of space.

In promising to veto the measure last week — as well as following through a veto of the related prevailing wage bill, which that would apply to certain building workers in properties where the city leases a large percentage of space — the mayor argued that the legislation would kill jobs and undermine progress the city had made recovering from the recession.

In Sveikauskas» analysis of where Kingston residents commuted to work, he found that there was nearly a 50 percent increase of workers who commuted outside of Ulster County and a 50 percent increase of Kingston residents who worked within the five boroughs of New York City.

Karen Scharff, with the progressive group Citizen Action, said the new law is a victory for workers in New York City, but falls short for upstate where she said the lowest paid workers will be «condemned to poverty.»

It also demands the passage of laws guaranteeing renters an attorney in housing court, a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, more construction projects employing union workers and local residents, more supportive housing for people with HIV, and an end to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's «cluster - site» housing — where the city paid landlords $ 3,000 a month to put up homeless families, often in deplorable conditions.

He drew much of his support — just under $ 1,500 — from workers at Manhattan employment company America Works of New York, where he once worked to address unemployment throughout the city, according to the Campaign Finance Board.

An entire subculture of scavenger workers emerged to scrape, collect, and carry London's human waste to the edge of the city, where it could be used as fertilizer for nearby farms.

Rahul Goswami, who works with India's National Agriculture Innovation Programme, said the spread of cheap mobile service has facilitated the creation of a cheap alert system for «tens of thousands of informal workers in towns and cities» that points those seeking work to spots where the next 50 or 100 rupees can be earned.

At least six power plants, including Dongfang Electric in the city of Deyang where building collapses killed at least 100 workers and trapped hundreds more, have been damaged by the quake, according to the State Grid Corporation of China.

From DC I moved to Mexico City, where I conducted research on the labor recruitment process of foreign temporary workers on a Fulbright public policy research grant — I first learned about the grant opportunity from members of my PPIA cohort.

Any good style sites or easy style upgrades from warm to Chic Snow Lodge Lady (but in a city worker sort of way) or even chic winter office attire (but for really cold weather where you are outdoors / walking a lot in your commute)?

We go to Granite City, Ill., where 500 workers who have been laid off for more than two years are going back to work.

It's set in a Lego city where construction worker Emmet (voiced by Pratt) follows instructions to the letter.

MAY 25 CHERNOBYL DIARIES Starring: Jesse McCarthy and Olivia Dudley Directed by: Bradley Parker On an «extreme tour» of the abandoned city of Pripyat, where the former workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor lived, six tourists discover they are not alone.

Francisco is a first - grade student in the Bronx whose mother (a social worker with a graduate degree) is desperate to get him out of the New York City public schools and into a charter school; she applies to Harlem Success Academy where he is one of 792 applicants for forty places.

The JAZZ BRT system serves a 6.75 - mile route between Sand City Station and the aquarium and travels through Seaside, where many transit - dependent hospitality workers reside.

In fact, with a few changes here and there the story could have been located in almost any city that attracts migrant workers and where people have become somewhat blasé to violence and death (and, sadly, there are quite a few such places these days).

Or, think of New York City and Washington, DC where workers sometimes commute from Pennsylvania.

And in a city where the average rent reaches $ 2,500, mobile homes have become the only alternative for roughly 35,000 San Jose residents, including senior citizens and lower - wage workers.

Our experts looked at the median household income for each city as well as the percentage of residents who hold a bachelor's degree to find those spots where workers can expect the highest pay.

Once the coconut walk or cocal was established workers were still required to keep them underbushed, to pick, peel and deliver the nuts to the storage sheds on the waterfront from where they were shipped to Belize City.

With exosuits powered up we finally get into the action phase proper, where it's time to begin dispatching workers to the capital city or to your own colony if you've got some buildings already constructed.

Like all large cities, problems will arise where firemen, police and other city paid workers will be needed.

Romare Bearden (1911 — 1988) was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and moved to New York City in the 1930s where he was a social worker and activist in addition to making art.

The Jerome Avenue Workers Project documents and celebrates the workers and trades people of Jerome Avenue, one of New York City's few remaining working class neighborhoods where many still Workers Project documents and celebrates the workers and trades people of Jerome Avenue, one of New York City's few remaining working class neighborhoods where many still workers and trades people of Jerome Avenue, one of New York City's few remaining working class neighborhoods where many still make...

There was a fairly long period in our political history where big - city liberals opposed all such scientifically - backed issues simply because they looked at the world narrowly — we must increase wages for workers and we must maximize the number of workers.