Sentences with phrase «workers at the factory»

Joney Lewis, a line worker at a factory in Danville, Ind., that makes power steering parts, said she quit her job because her employer, Dana Corp.'s Long Manufacturing Division, wouldn't give her a 20 - minute break to pump milk for her 5 - month - old son, Timothy.

Meanwhile, Valjean seizes an opportunity for compassion regarding Fantine (a clammy Uma Thurman), a worker at his factory who is dismissed upon the discovery that she has a child out of wedlock.

Workers at the factory were generally inexperienced; many never had jobs before joining DMC.

Workers at the factory, formerly managed by Bertone, agreed to longer shifts and shorter breaks in exchange for the...

That is the very purpose of the measures dubbed as ag - gag bills — bills that criminalize taking pictures of animals on farms or the hiring of an animal advocate as a worker at a factory farm.

The report (well - illustrated in an accompanying video) points to suicides at Apple supply chain factories, and to the company's lack of response to the poisoning of 49 workers at a factory owned by a subsidiary of Wintek, a Taiwan - based company that produces touchscreen modules for Apple.

Last year the group published a report which showed that workers at some factories were being paid as little as 5p an hour to make Asda clothing, and worked up to 80 hours a week.

Not exact matches

The investigation comes just days after the Center for Investigative Reporting's Reveal published a lengthy report about worker safety at Tesla's Fremont factory, where the Model S sedan, Model X SUV, and new mass - market Model 3 is produced.

Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday it will create a 100 billion won ($ 85.8 million) fund to compensate cancer - stricken workers and their families, and for efforts to prevention such diseases at its chip and display factories.

Gravity was flooded with stories from ecstatic workers elsewhere who suddenly got raises from converted bosses who tossed them out like Scrooge after his epiphany — even, in one case, at an apparel factory in Vietnam.

A white knight as well as a green one, Surace bought Republic's crippled assets out of bankruptcy and pledged to restore the factory and eventually rehire all the workers at their old pay levels.

Last September, the company let more than 1,500 factory workers go after a federal investigation found hundreds of undocumented employees at its facilities.

Workers at a Moroccan textile factory producing clothes for Zara parent company Inditex.

Related: A Female Employee Reportedly Called Tesla's Factory a «Predator Zone» at a Meeting Where Some Workers Described Sexual Harassment

Foreign automakers have been attracted to southern states in part because the United Auto Workers union is particularly weak in the region, having failed to organize Tennessee autoworkers at factories in Smyrna and Chattanooga.

After Ivanka Trump «s fashion brand came under fire for how much it pays its factory workers in China, the Guardian reports that workers at another of the company's manufacturers, this time in Indonesia, face similar conditions.

Mexico and Canada began negotiating with the U.S. in August at the initiative of Trump, who's repeatedly said the NAFTA accord led U.S. companies to fire workers and move factories to Mexico.

The Guardian spoke with several of the brand's workers at the PT Buma Apparel Industry factory, who told the publication that they are paid one of the lowest minimum wages in Asia — less than $ 6 a day — while at the same time being tasked with high production rates.

In one recent case, NGOs worked with the company to reintegrate workers in Honduras into a new Gildan operation after they were laid off at another factory.

This week it spent a day at the plant, factory workers said, while the businessman held a closed - door meeting with managers.

Several workers also told the Guardian that they were fired from the factory just before Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that began at the end of May, and rehired a month later in what they believe was an effort to make them ineligible for a religious holiday bonus that is required by Indonesian law.

Right after World War II, Rosenberg took $ 1,500 in profits he'd made from buying war bonds, borrowed an additional $ 3,500 from his family, and launched a company that delivered food to workers at construction sites and factories around Boston.

Those factories currently have only three robots per thousand workers, says Katie Koch, global head of client portfolio management and business strategy for fundamental equity at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

It's become a dictum that every year at least 50 hourly workers get plucked from the factory floor to go along with Foster on visits to customers, so they can see the results of their labors.

The Take is about a group of workers at an Argentinian auto - parts factory who, rather than accept unemployment when the factory's owner shuts it down, instead decide to occupy the factory, re-start the machines, and run it themselves.

The Rana Plaza building collapse follows a November fire at the Tazreen Fashion factory on the outskirts of Dhaka that killed 112 people, and it has compounded concerns about worker safety and low wages in Bangladesh.

And last year, Li & Fung was responsible for some garments produced at the Tazreen Fashions factory, when 112 workers died in November in a fire after many of them were ordered to continue working even though alarms had sounded.

If anything similar is the case at the Samsung factories, this implies that stricter limits on overtime would indeed be a bad thing, at least from the workers» point of view.

But at the Foxconn factories supplying Apple, at least, the biggest complaint of workers was that they wanted more overtime.

In June 2011, for example, more than 280 workers vomited and fainted in a three - day period at the King Fashion Garment Company factory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which made dresses and knitted tops for brands including H&M, a former Li & Fung client.

Of course, wanting more overtime doesn't prove that things are great at the factories; it just proves that workers want more money than they make during a regular workday.

Augmented reality, which overlays information onto the real world (think of that yellow line shown during televised football games to indicate the location of the first down marker) will now help truck drivers, warehouse workers, and management keep track of products from the second they leave the factory until the moment they arrive at your door.

Workers take a break during an unexpected delay on the Ford Flex assembly line at the Ford Motor Oakville factory in Ontario, Canada on June 3, 2008.

Workers assemble Boeing 787 Dreamliners, the wide - body twin - engine jets made by Boeing Commercial Airplanes at the Boeing Everett Factory in Everett, Washington.

Tesla, worth about $ 50 billion, employs more than 10,000 workers at its Fremont factory.

Wage and benefit increases of 15 to 20 percent per year at the average Chinese factory will slash China's labor - cost advantage over low - cost states in the U.S., from 55 percent today to 39 percent in 2015, when adjusted for the higher productivity of U.S. workers.

He worked at Tesla for nearly four years, and said he heard about 60 other workers in his section of the factory were dismissed.

Lear workers in Ajax, Ontario, widely rejected a tentative labour deal, prolonging a strike at a factory that supplies seats to a nearby Fiat Chrysler plant.Wednesday, May 2, 6:38 am ET

But Monday's lawsuit, filed by former Tesla employee Marcus Vaughn, is the first to bring those claims on behalf of a large class of black workers at the automaker's Fremont, California factory.

Workers at Tesla's California car factory have been working so hard they are passing out on the production line, say employees.

SEOUL (Reuters)- Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday it will create a 100 billion won ($ 85.8 million) fund to compensate cancer - stricken workers and their families, and for efforts to prevention such diseases at its chip and display factories.

Workers at Tesla's California car factory have been working so hard they are passing out on the production line and requiring rides in ambulances, the Guardian reported Thursday.

The company, which said it started making its new solar roofing tiles in Buffalo at the end of last year, is holding five information sessions over the next month to seek out potential workers for its portion of the South Park Avenue factory.

Under a clause in the union's contract, if Madison's Oscar Mayer plant closes, its employees have the right to take over a job that's held by a worker with the least seniority at the Davenport factory.

It's no longer just factory workers and long - haul truck drivers at risk of being replaced by robots.

Assembly - line workers at a solar - panel factory in China.

In 2015, a 33 - year - old maintenance worker was engulfed in flames at Nakanishi Manufacturing Corp.'s bearing plant in Winterville, Ga. — after four previous fires in the factory's dust - collection system.

Protesters will stage demonstrations at several Apple stores around the world to show concern about the treatment of the company's suppliers» factory workers in China.

The video, which involves some sort of dance uprising at a steam factory where workers» primary job is to pull heavy chains while wearing overalls, has nothing to do with the song lyrics which make it all the more gloriously weird.

At some factories, workers stand in the heat for hours without access to water.