Not exact matches
In today's tight labor market, replacing
workers with industrial robots or customer service kiosks, for example, is strongly tempting.
According to the SBA, DELTA loans of up to $ 1.25 million must be used to retain jobs of defense
workers, create new jobs in impacted communities, or to make operating changes
with the aim of remaining in the «national technical and
industrial base.»
But
with major companies abandoning Canadian factories in favour of cheaper overseas alternatives, the opportunities are less likely to come from
industrial expansion than from a shortage of technically - qualified
workers to fill positions.
Economic research is making increasingly clear that increased trade
with China over the last 25 years had significant, negative effects on
workers in certain parts of the country, like the
industrial town in Ohio where Vance grew up, though perhaps not as negative as widely believed in those regions.
Other economic policies include reducing the regulatory burden for small businesses and northern development; a new $ 75 million venture capital fund to help businesses commercialize new technology developments; a $ 900 million Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative and a $ 250 million Automotive Innovation Fund to support these
industrial sectors; a $ 1 billion Community Development Trust to support communities and
workers in struggling industries; a commitment to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers by 2010; pursuing new trade agreements
with emerging markets; as well as a reorganization of federal regional development strategies.
(The
Industrial Workers of the World, the «Wobblies» of the turn of the 20th century labor struggles, called Jesus «Jerusalem Slim» - giving Him a «Wobbly name» to signify that, while they had their issues
with organized religion, thay saw Him as a kindred spirit).
The
industrial orthodoxy of productivism — grow more for less... if you can't, you must not be efficient enough (if you can, what are you paying your
workers, how is your soil, are your animals in sheds, and are you one of the majority of Australian farmers
with off - farm income?).
The combined pressures of climate change and epidemics sweeping through intensive animal agriculture such as H5N2 avian flu and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) are growing challenges for
industrial agriculture, and
workers organizing to demand fair pay and conditions combined
with increasing consumer pressure for greater transparency and better treatment of land, animals, and
workers, are having an effect.
American corporations, imbued
with the happy thought that employees who play together stay together, are providing
workers with everything from checker contests to country clubs and are making
industrial recreation a billion - dollar business
On top of that, you're packing off your kid for most of the day for the rest of their childhood because our
industrial economy says that children must be trained to be semi-skilled
workers with marginal lateral - thinking skills and, frankly, they have to go SOMEWHERE while you yourself work away the last best years of your own life.
Generally, schools
with «warming kitchens» employ two to three lunchroom
workers who reheat the meals in
industrial convection ovens, Green said.
The capital faces the possibility of chaos next week, after thousands of Metropolitan Police civilian staff announce a two - day strike to coincide
with industrial action by Tube
workers
43 year - old Feeney is one of the Labor Party's machine men, having started as an
Industrial Officer
with Transport
Workers» Union, and served as Labor State Secretary and Campaign Director in both Victoria and South Australia.
Whether you agree
with this particular action or not, it's important to remember that
workers don't take
industrial action lightly.
At 1 p.m., state Sen. Tony Avella stand
with Willets Point business owners and
workers to declare that «Willets Point is «Open for Business» and showcase the local
industrial businesses that the area has to offer, intersection of Willets Point Boulevard and 127th Street, Queens.
Besides low birth rates, higher life expectancy, longer education time and an increasing share of single - parent households, Germany is also the poster child of labour market dualisation: pampered
workers in the
industrial and unionised core contrast
with part - time and irregular work in the peripheral service industry.
Reports suggest there has been relatively little damage to
industrial infrastructure, but the loss of labour and expertise
with the flight of so many foreign
workers, including Chinese nationals, will slow down the recovery.
Conference commits the National Executive to working
with the TUC to challenge, using all appropriate means, including
industrial action, any attempt by the Government, in response to and as a remedy for economic difficulties or recession, to worsen pension provisions for teachers or other public sector
workers.
Last week ended
with a speech by Jeremy Corbyn in which he lashed out at a Brexit strategy which would take away
workers» rights and
industrial standards and leave us at the mercy of US corporations in a Tory free market paradise.
The group is proposing a series of amendments which bring together key issues for unions, ranging from the right to expel those
with racist views to measures to improve the balloting process and action to prevent agency
workers being used to undermine lawful
industrial disputes.
«Consequently, the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas
Workers (NUPENG), Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) and other related oil and gas unions hereby suspend the
industrial action embarked upon by their members,
with immediate effect.
According to the Chamber, the demonstration, which is in collaboration
with the
Industrial and Commercial
Workers Union (ICU), is to force government to further reduce taxes on petroleum products.
Equally, as concepts such as the fourth
industrial revolution gain increasing traction, Labour must be ready to address how artificial intelligence, mobile and smart technologies, and cyber-physical systems will impact how our economy operates and,
with it, how
workers can be protected.
Health
workers set to strike in October,
with council
workers and civil servants also planning
industrial action in the month
Economic activities in Kogi State have been shutdown following the
industrial action declared by Labour Union in the State which was fully complied
with by state
workers.
The demonstration, organized by the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) in collaboration
with the
Industrial and Commercial
Workers Union (ICU), is to force the government to reduce taxes on petroleum products.
The demonstration, which is being organized by the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) in collaboration
with the
Industrial and Commercial
Workers Union (ICU), is to...
On Wednesday February 7, 2018 the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) embarked on a demonstration together
with the
Industrial and Commercial
Workers Union (ICU) to register their displeasure
with increasing prices on petroleum products.
But the Tube
workers» union, the RMT, has hit back saying any such move would be met
with an all - out campaign of
industrial and political opposition.
Hundreds of commercial drivers and consumers of petroleum products took part in a demonstration organized by the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) in collaboration
with the
Industrial and Commercial
Workers Union (ICU) in Accra.
Some
workers in the employment of Oyo State have said they can no longer guarantee the
industrial peace
with the state Ministry of Local Government and...
A National Cancer Institute long - termstudy, involving25, 619
industrial workers in 10 factories that produced or used formaldehyde, found an increased risk of death due to leukemia, particularly myeloid leukemia, and higher rates of nasal - pharynx cancer.Further examination of the same
workers,
with ten more years of data, continued to show a possible link to leukemia, as well as lymphoma and multiple myeloma, amongthosewiththe highest exposures.
Lab dishes and
industrial vats can break;
workers can go home
with inadvertently contaminated clothes.
What can we do as educational and cultural
workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military
industrial complex
with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?
In the 16th century schools have replaced the fieldwork and factory work;
with the agrarian,
industrial and information age education has been becoming gradually a tool to create better
workers.
It's not entirely sure why they became popular
with the
workers, but when the lace
workers became displaced by the
Industrial Revolution they took their craft and their dogs across the English Channel to France (hence the name.)
One of the most important in the peninsula,
with an area of 6642 hectares, 640
workers and the most powerful
industrial equipment in the region, Temozón is one of the best examples of the prosperity generated by sisal production.
The birthplace of the
Industrial Revolution and home to the
Worker Bee, Manchester is one of the most creative cities in the world
with a rich cultural heritage to rival any major metropolis.
Interpreted literally, it can be considered the antithesis of Pop Art, perhaps more so than any parallel American movements: it was organic,
industrial, bio-chemical, in flux, phenomenological, presentational, non-representational, almost devoid of colour and implicitly anti-consumerist (after all, it coincided
with the end of the miracolo italiano and the rise of
worker / student insurrections).
Loft conversions and artist studios have been making inroads here for 20 years, but the East side of the area retains its
industrial flavor, which is particularly relevant for Murillo's show, «Distribution Center,» mixing video of
workers in a Mexican factory
with his own paintings displayed so as to evoke a production line.
Albers, in her writings and art, as well as in her life story, has helped me think about the labor of domestic and
industrial textile
workers, the politics of romantic involvement
with an established artist, and the complexities of being a Jewish refugee living in mid-century America.
There she founded and managed the arts component in its broader regeneration
with the intention of establishing a new paradigm for
industrial redevelopment that would not displace
workers, artists, local residents or industry but would instead build a sustainable community of working artists in a context that integrated cultural and
industrial production.
Evans» fellowship, and the larger operations of the Artist Placement Group, are highly relevant to Coburn's artistic practice, which considers transformations in
industrial and digital labour — particularly
with the rise of automation — and their effects on the human
worker.
We Shall Be All is a sound installation commissioned for the MCA Collection that «explore [s] the spatial properties of sound, utilizing aspects of Chicago's... complex political history» — particularly the use of slogans and statements associated
with collective groups such as the IWW (
Industrial Workers of the World).
This was an old U.S.
industrial town,
with generations upon generations of factory
workers raising families and doing the kind of work that most folks couldn't do for an hour before calling it quits.
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), a branch of the U.S. Department of Labor, is charged
with the colossal effort of protecting American
industrial workers, including oil refinery and plant laborers, from negligent employers.
In North Carolina, an individual may file a claim
with the
Industrial Commission pursuant to the North Carolina
Workers» Compensation Act
Workers» Compensation if they have an on - the - job injury.
Under sections 40 and 41 of Quebec's Act respecting occupational health and safety combined
with the Act respecting
industrial accidents and occupational diseases and the Regulation respecting the certificate issued for the preventive withdrawal and reassignment of a pregnant or breastfeeding
worker, pregnant employees
with a doctor's certificate can withdraw temporarily from the workforce to avoid unsafe work.
In North Carolina, an individual may file a claim
with the
Industrial Commission pursuant to the North Carolina
Workers» Compensation Act if they have an on - the - job injury.
Workers at
industrial sites engaged in chemical manufacturing, chemical refining and petrochemical industries may have been exposed to dangerous amounts of asbestos (see our list of jobs
with highest risk of asbestos exposure).