Sentences with phrase «which hundreds of workers»

These tours can also continue on to Kawah Ijen, an active volcano in which hundreds of workers mine and haul sulphur in a setting that resembles the bowels of hell.

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The extra hiring is a nice contrast for Macy's which this year has closed some 68 stores and laid off hundreds of workers as it looks to cull weak stores.

Several hundred marched near Disney World in October and in December Orlando workers rejected a company proposal to boost the lowest wage by $ 1 over two years to $ 11 an hour because it would still leave new hires at $ 10, according to Jeremy Haicken, president of Unite Here Local 737, which represents food and housekeeping workers.

Teen apparel retailer American Apparel LLC is laying off hundreds of workers as it overhauls its production process, which could include outsourcing part of its production to another U.S. manufacturer, the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday.

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).

But the hukou system often broke down when confronted with China's mass urbanization in recent decades, which saw hundreds of millions of migrant workers move into metropolises despite poor access to housing and social services.

That «light» was seen in the «resilience of Borough Market» which was now as vibrant and welcoming as before the June attack, it was «in the faces of the hundreds of volunteers» who helped in the aftermath of the Grenfell blaze, and in the heroism of the emergency workers who responded to the events.

Alto - Shaam remains committed to the Wisconsin economy by providing hundreds of jobs — 80 of which have been added in the past two years — and ongoing training to area workers, as well as supporting 1,200 suppliers and vendors in the region.

Kelly told Guardian Australia that SPC Ardmona, which employs more than 1000 workers and buys fruit from hundreds of local growers, «does not have a viable future» without the grant, which, along with money from the Victorian government and the company, would retool the factory to produce products more suited to a modern market.

But the state implemented the policy as part of a move to Microsoft's Office 365 email system, which offers 50 gigabytes of space per email user — enough to store hundreds of thousands or even millions of emails for each state worker.

Investigative Post in recent months has published two stories, found here and here, on the project, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo said would create hundreds of good - paying, high - tech jobs but instead has resulted in a dysfunctional call center employing low - wage workers who say they are poorly trained.

Dutchess County is located at the center of a vibrant business community in the Hudson Valley — which is home to more than 1.2 million highly - skilled workers and hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, with much attributed to our award - winning colleges and universities, such as Vassar College and the Culinary Institute of America.

Employers must ensure the appropriate right to work checking procedures are in place and extend to any sub-contractors or face penalties which, at # 20,000 per illegal worker could mount up to hundreds of thousands of pounds.

The union, which surveyed hundreds of thousands of members, found low morale was a major problem for workers with many fearing cuts were leading to heavy workloads and a decrease in the quality of services.

Among the labor leaders in attendance were leaders or representatives from Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union; the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union; Communications Workers of America District 1; and the United Federation of Teachers, which collectively provide hundreds of thousands of dollars to the community groups.

Hundreds of pages of newly disclosed e-mails show that 32BJ SEIU, which represents building - service workers, pretty much ran the process of coming up with new laws to «protect» non-unionized fast - food workers.

«There is no moral equivalency between the minimum wage, which effects hundreds of thousands of low paid workers in this state, and raising the wages of very affluent people,» Smith said.

Speaking to a rally of several hundred union members in front of the hotel's Lodge Street entrance, Sheehan recalled supporting a city tax break package for the hotel, worth more than $ 1 million a year, and said hotel owners United Capital Corp. had «broken their promises» by failing to reach a contract with the Hotel Trades Council, which represents about 140 workers at the hotel.

Last year, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union successfully defeated the $ 310 million Kingsbridge Armory project in the Bronx, which would have meant hundreds of jobs for construction workers, when the developer failed to agree to certain wage demands for employees who would work at the resulting retail mall.

Only later did we learn that some of those critical investments included things like repairs on tennis courts, a study on the mating decisions of cactus bugs, hundreds of thousands of dollars for a plant database, and a $ 535 million loan to a California solar panel maker which, instead of hiring 1,000 new workers, as planned, just laid off 175 instead.

When the outbreak began, health workers first feared the culprit was Ebola virus, which killed hundreds of people in the same country (then called Zaire) in 1995.

The updated requirements, issued by the Interior Department, come roughly six years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, which killed 11 workers and polluted hundreds of miles of U.S. shoreline.

After a cultural revival in the 60s, in which hundreds of Indian and Pakistani textile workers came to live and work in Leicester, the city has blossomed into a lively, multicultural hub in central England.

Reynolds actually built several hundred houses and sold them to its workers at cost in order to attract employees, which started a period of rapid growth that would last until today.

Why Cashing Out Your 401 (k) Could Be a Costly Mistake — When a job change occurs, many workers cash out their 401 (k), which can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in retirement assets.

Through archival research, this monographic publication focuses on Ukeles's work ballets — a series of seven grand - scale collaborative performances involving workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables and steel — which took place between 1983 and 2012 in Givors, New York, Pittsburgh, Rotterdam and Tokamachi.

The October Revolution of 1917 turns one hundred this year, which means we are in for a slew of exhibitions around the globe commemorating the birth of the world's first workers» state and its far - reaching impact on the arts.

CINS also questions aspects of the contract between China and Serbia, which it says gives courts in China full power of arbitration in the event of any dispute; there are added concerns about the many hundreds of workers from China building the new plant, with few companies from Serbia itself involved in construction at Kostolac.

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.

Apparently O'Brien considers it «pro-business» to eliminate a system which had created loans to help New Hampshire businesses lower energy expenses, and provided energy efficiency job training for hundreds of workers in the state.

The workman tiling your shower may find it simple after having tiled hundreds of showers; the gutter crew can demolish the old gutters and put up a whole new system in a day when it would take you weeks; two skilled workers with the right tools can replace a furnace and air conditioning system in a day; and the rate at which flooring professionals rip out and replace carpet and wood is staggering.

Reynolds actually built several hundred houses and sold them to its workers at cost in order to attract employees, which started a period of rapid growth that would last until today.

Tesla has struggled with its ramp - up of Model 3 production, which makes the firing of hundreds of workers an interesting development.

By cutting out the middle man they have ensured that companies pay less for employers and ensure that their workers are paid more, which in turn has raised wages for hundreds of London's lowest earners.

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.