These workers control, operate or maintain machinery to generate electric power keeping your home or business juiced.
One of the more entertaining posts we wrote up at last year's CES was for the Golden-i, a head-mounted computer that lets field workers control their machines using voice commands and by moving their heads.
Many state-owned enterprises are now attempting to implement different forms of workers' control, with mixed results.
Yet studies have shown that all workers value control over personal and work time.
When there was a manufacturing based economy, this gave the workers some control over the means of production and therefore, a strong negotiating position.
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The DOT issued a proposed compliance order directing Exxon to conduct training for supervisors and pipeline control room workers, including on the proper operation of remote control valves.
It often gets involved in business planning and works with management to control workers' pay.
Pushing back the date of retirement is certainly something over which older workers have some control.
Workers who have control over where, when and how they work are often perceived as less productive.
Workers trying to control the situation at the plant certainly are in danger.
It appears workers appreciate having control over their environment, too.
According to workers, there was a fight between workers and quality control inspectors in area K that led to the damage in inspection room CA, the injury of some people, and the hospitalization of others.
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He emphasized the personal ownership and control workers would enjoy through the accounts, the better returns on investment and consequently higher benefits, the accumulated family funds that could be left as an inheritance to children or other heirs, and the full solvency for Social Security that would be achieved without raising taxes or cutting benefits.
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More than half the country has been declared unsafe for aid workers, and insurgents control areas as close as an hour's drive from the capital.
Again, the high-status participants were perceived as much more empathic and attentive toward the laid off workers than were the control group and the high-power managers.
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And through the 1980s and the 1990s, I rooted for the company as it battled the United Auto Workers and the unions for control, and Komatsu of Japan for global leadership.
Through its regulation of the private investment firms among which personal account investors can choose, the government can limit and control the risks workers can take on with their personal accounts, preventing moral hazard from the guarantee.
Tens of thousands of residents were evacuated from an exclusion zone around the plant as workers battled to bring reactors under control.
The building had tested negative three times previously for anthrax, but workers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used a special vacuum with a filter developed to detect even the most minute amounts of the deadly bacteria.
William Hite, general president of the United Association of Plumbers and Pipe Fitters, says that while his union is "certainly concerned" about the potential for job losses, the mercury rule could also create thousands of jobs for workers who build and install pollution control equipment.
Some of the workers set backfires in an effort to control the blaze, but their attempts failed.
The majority of workers who participated in this strike were workers from the OQC (onsite quality control) line.
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Nearly three-quarters of young workers are concerned about their ability to control their spending, according to a new study conducted by Fidelity Investments.
But 60 percent support the idea of allowing workers to put some of their payroll taxes into private investments such as the stock market, and 80 percent say that if such investments were allowed, individual workers, not the government, should control those investments.
In the plant's control room, Penrice's workers watch crystals form on the outside of a vacuum-drum filter.
Cleanliness and infection control, the support given to workers and communication between staff and patients were also praised.
In the past 12 months, more than 3, 000 postal workers were attacked by out-of-control dogs, with 70% of these incidents happening on private property.
Some cases have even held that players have had enough indicia of employees in terms of university control to be considered employees for workers compensation purposes.
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These companies, and some unions that see the rules as a potential economic catalyst, say that the industry has had years to prepare for tougher regulation and that the rules will generate jobs for workers who make, install or operate pollution control equipment.
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