Sentences with phrase «work against corporations»

During a major topping and declining mood trend, all kinds of sociological forces work against corporations that are visibly successful.

Not exact matches

The cable series follows a young computer programmer who works for a cybersecurity company but leads a secret life as a hacker who works with an insurrectionist group that launches cyber attacks against large corporations.

As the battle for talent continues to heat up, startups and small businesses are competing for quality employees against big corporations that have serious advantages working in their favor.

While Labour Day evolved into a celebration of work, employers and life, May Day was a protest against the status quo, government, corporations and other institutions that refused to give working people their deserved share of the economic pie.

Let's hope that when the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the case on October 2, the Justices will side with regular working people like Hobson, not with the big bosses and corporations who want to use the fine print to rig the rules against the rest of us.

My point is rather that the justification of bigger and bigger corporations with less and less commitment to any geographical community, even the nation, works against community and true human welfare.

If a corporation / parent company has a substantial egregious record or history of working against our values — organics, sustainability, non-toxic food, social and environmental responsibility, etc., we remove their products from our shelves, or don't stock them in the first place.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

The third description called her a «law professor and progressive,» who would «work to reverse the growing inequality of wealth and political power in New York» and «advocate against the power that big corporations have over our economy and politics and fight to give family businesses and working New Yorkers a fair shot.»

«Our campaign isn't funded by Wall Street Corporations or lobbyists that game the system against working families.

So, while the corporation does not commit acts of aggression, you are essentially forced to work for them against your will, with the ONLY other feasible choice being to not pay your debt and get thrown in jail, or starve to death.

«The courts would be overwhelmed with cases in which people say I have been exposed to a harmful chemical and, therefore, I have cellular changes and I'm entitled to medical monitoring,» said Birnbaum, a New York City attorney often referred to as the «Queen of Torts» for her work in mass - tort litigation involving lawsuits filed against corporations.

The statement read, «The President extols the legal luminary for the patriotism she has demonstrated over the years in speaking against poor governance, and always making herself available in times of need, like working variously as Commissioner in Western Nigeria and Chairperson of the first television network in Africa, Western Nigeria Television Broadcasting Corporation.

Republicans ran Corporation Counsel Gennaro Bizzarro against him in 2014; Lopes, who was also endorsed by the Working Families Party, beat him 2,995 to 2,489.

Because of that choice, he has spent the last decade not only pursuing research in amphibian development but also defending his work and his reputation against attacks orchestrated by a large corporation.

Lanza recalls bumping up against his company's main competitor, Geron Corporation, when it came to researching stem cells in reversing diabetes, a process he said he had been working on with animals for many years.

Well the film was wide release, so it makes sense there wasn't an entirety of focus on the specifics, but I still think it would have worked better if it was more like the trailers professed intentions; doco style, with vignettes of alien / human scenes that emphasized and helped explain, not found footage either, like for example, after talking about Wikus in the past tense, it could focus on him for a bit then move on, but it stuck with him, and the film changed gears, I just thought it would have been better to focus on other things, as opposed to dumbing the plot down to one man and his battle against the evil government / corporation, and still stay in the doco style, it could have worked, no?

Likes when into lone moralists work against evil corporations for the common good?

In developing this work, Cameron - Weir researched materials related to Storm King's founding and the Art Center's history with the surrounding region, including the testimonies given against a proposed Con Edison power plant to be built into nearby Storm King Mountain (a fight that lasted from 1962 until 1980), and employee handbooks from the Star Expansion Industries Corporation, which produced industrial steel fasteners and expansion bolts in nearby Mountainville from the mid-1950s until 1996.

As a participant in the Art and Technology Program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Rosenquist visits American companies and manufacturing plants, including Container Corporation of America, Ampex, and RCA.13 He decides against creating a work of art for the program and instead considers the merits of an «invisible sculpture.»

Calling into question the warfare of corporations against the working class, the starkly contrasting pattern, which initially reads as wallpaper, is in fact powdered tire rubber silk - screened on clayboards.

Considering recent news about the Exxon corporation sending out document retention request letters against those who accuse it of hoodwinking its shareholders about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming, there is perhaps some chance that my work may be used as a guide on «who» needs to preserve «what» in such efforts.

Safina details not only the current status of the environment, but the whys and whos that caused the problems we face, from governments to corporations to religions, and how these institutions can be altered so they are in touch with the natural world and work along side it rather than against it.

In its bid to protect corporate campaign donors, Congress has been working to pass 2 new laws that will provide more protection for corporations against class - action lawsuits.

Stephen Baldwin filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Kevin Costner, not for any work they had done together in the entertainment industry, but for Baldwin's investments in Costner's company, Costner in Nevada Corporation (CNIC).

The firm was also highly commended for International Arbitration Team of the Year for the team's work advising Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) in obtaining a landmark award of over USD1.7 billion against Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) and Egyptian National Gas Holding Company (EGAS), and successfully defending an appeal by EGAS and EGPC against that award.

A great deal of our work involves class actions, in which a large number of clients come together to put in a claim against large corporations or organizations that have caused them harm as a group.

As an attorney who has worked both for, and now against, insurance companies and big corporations, the author poses and answers the questions you should ask before becoming a party to personal injury litigation.

Bretil understands that our clients have suffered severe injuries and works to protect their rights against large insurance companies and corporations.

«With fines of half a million or more we will likely see more challenges to the charges brought against a corporation, but I think that's the good news — the deterrent value of fines will certainly come into play and induce developers before they do work to make sure it will not prejudicially affect commercial, aboriginal, or recreational fishers.»

Author: Anthony Pugh, Student - at - Law, Law Works P.C. Editor: Ben Hanuka In 8518076 Canada Inc. v. Quiznos Canada Restaurant Corporation, a March 6, 2018 decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the motion judge refused to stay or transfer to the Superior Court in Toronto two Small Claims Court Ottawa actions that the franchisee, 851, commenced against Quiznos Canada.

We are far larger than any other firm that does a significant amount of plaintiffs» work, a fact that makes us uniquely suited to go head - to - head against the biggest corporations in the world.

Professional Experience Xap Corporation (Los Angeles, CA) 2008 — 2009 Client Success Leader / Implementation Manager • Managed the client experience in the design, development, implementation, operation, and maintenance of college and career planning portals for state - based education agencies • Generated statements of work and project plans, tracking and reporting progress of portal development against functional design plans and timelines • Developed and implemented standardized implementation reporting features to monitor performance against common benchmarks • Presented project summaries to senior management and key stakeholders, addressing project status, risk analyses and mitigation plans • Conducted post-implementation analysis to streamline future efforts, installing change management processes for future project success