Sentences with phrase «workers toiling»

But it wasn't the factory workers toiling away 12 hours a day, six days a week, who got to take a break.

In the US, there are 20 million shift - workers toiling away in factories, power stations and hospitals while most people sleep.

In June 2014, Singh was appointed to the Mayor's Fund - a non-profit that raises private money for city causes - and the Democratic National CommitteeHe also won another six - figure contract with the state office of emergency management to provide meals for rescue workers toiling in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Perhaps the most respected study to date, conducted by researchers Jason Richwine and Andrew Biggs (in which they account for all variables — including the fact that teachers work on average for 180 days, while private industry workers toil for 240 - 250 days) found that workers «who switch from non-teaching jobs to teaching jobs receive a wage increase of roughly 9 percent, while teachers who change to non-teaching jobs see their wages decrease by approximately 3 percent.»

And teachers work just 178 instructional days (plus a few non-instructional ones), whereas other full - time workers toil for 240 - 250 days a year.

• Agricultural workers toil under some of the most dangerous conditions of employment with 39.5 fatalities for every 100,000 employees in 2008.

Not exact matches

In 1965, 23 - year - old Johnson, a former graduate student in anthropology, became Nike's first employee, while toiling full - time as a social worker for the city of Los Angeles.

On top of shipping care packages to electricity workers who toiled day and night in hurricane - ravaged regions, Hubbell Power Systems shipped 900,000 pounds of its products to utilities affected by Hurricane Harvey and 460,000 pounds of products to utilities impacted by Hurricane Irma.

The average worker has been so far released from wearing toil that the privileges of «aristocrats» and «ordinary people» have been exchanged.

That millions of workers around the world are now toiling long hours without receiving a living wage is a direct consequence of globalization.

Thus the average worker has been so far released from wearing toil that the privileges of «aristocrats» and «ordinary people» have been exchanged.

Show your thanks to the migrant workers who toil in the hot sun at minimum wage so you can have a cheap salad and the truckers who drive 6,000 miles to bring produce from California to your table.

In a vicious circle, people who spend more hours at weekday jobs need the other days for shopping, which prompts businesses to hire more Sunday workers, who join the growing percentage of the workforce who toil long, irregular hours, some trying desperately to make ends meet, others for the sake of more shopping.

For Sachs, Bangladeshi workers are akin to the immigrants who once worked on New York's Lower East Side, «where their migration to toil in garment factories was a step on the path to a future of urban affluence in succeeding generations.»

Jim Mora was specifically talking about Darnold being a great fit in Cleveland, a city that in Mora's mind is apparently populated entirely by dreary factory workers who will only accept a football player willing to toil in anonymity.

On the occasion of the celebration of May Day, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) extends its warmest felicitations to, and solidarity with Ghanaian workers whose sweat and toil continues to keeps the wheels of state running.

The same standards of treatment apply to the workers who toil for the supermarkets, especially in meat and poultry processing, where unions say agency and migrant workers are subject to mistreatment and exploitation.

Rescue and recovery workers who toiled at Ground Zero will be getting their own monument at the September 11th Memorial, Gov. Cuomo and former Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday.

The program now monitors more than 48,000 cops, hardhats, volunteer firefighters, utility workers and others who toiled at Ground Zero.

As CBS2's Marcia Kramer reported, sources say the offer to hike the minimum wage, which could have put money in the pockets of thousands of fast - food workers and others who toil for base pay, was offered as part of a deal to revamp disability pensions for cops and firefighters injured in the line of duty.

Her performance served to break up the monotony of the speeches and highlighted the dedication of cultural workers who toil to change lives first and for paychecks second.

Wells explained the Morlocks» cannibalistic behavior by suggesting that they were once members of a worker class, toiling underground for lazy, upper - class surface - dwellers.

So antiseptic, in fact, that the workers who toil in these «fabs» must wear pristine head - to - toe gear called bunny suits.

A group of workers want to know how their everyday toil is fulfilling, and potential revolutionaries want Mustafa to confirm their belief that the members of the local government are evil.

The player is a tired worker trying to escape years of toil under the regime.

At the same time, he is a beacon of hope to workers who toil in obscurity.

It's here that steel worker Russell Baze (Bale) solemnly toils away at the mill, while having a constant reminder that the place that pays his bills also left his father slowly and painfully dying of cancer.

The two drive his camera van through the French countryside, where they meet the farmers and workers who toil there and turn them into beautiful crazy oversize images of themselves.

Mayra's aunts and uncles toil as housekeepers and construction workers.

The insular community considers the mill's owners - the newly arrived Goldberg brothers - white but not American and expects them to pay Ella May and other workers less because they toil alongside African Americans like Violet, Ella May's best friend.

BUT, BUT, BUT, nobody, so far, not even MacMurtry, has mentioned the fact that Amazon exploits and pays poorly the new «slave - workers» who work / toil for this company, and the fact that Amazon doesn't pay taxes implies the Amazon CEO doesn't care for countries» economies or for the issue of worldwide poverty.

But when he shared the similarities between Van Gogh and Still when it came to portraying the toil of human workers he had moved me from skeptic to believer.

But when combined with an organizational culture of structural secrecy and organizational conformity, it has grave consequences, in spite of all the courage of individual engineers, workers and fire fighters now toiling around the clock in life threatening circumstances at Fukushima Daiichi.

The process of degrading science into a state controlled pseudo-scientific faith has turned whole institutions into bastions of Lysenkoism where workers, researchers, teachers and bureaucrats toil in a climate of cultural terror and oppression, at least, for anyone who can still think outside the orthodox frame.

For most of the history of the world, the vast majority of the population, from peasants and serfs to factory workers on up, toiled countless hours and lived like virtual slaves.

As I've said before: High pay and big name clients might get law schools» best and brightest through a firm's door; but in the emerging age of the dual - centric worker, big money alone likely won't keep many of them toiling there year after year after year.

Considering the (unfortunate) rise of the around - the - clock office worker, what are the newest must - haves for office drones toiling in the city that never sleeps...