His slumping presence suggested not only the end point for generations of rust-belt workers but also the collapse of the Shakespearean protagonist.
After the Plumpy'nut was mixed, it was run through overhead pipes into a contraption that squirted it into foil packets, which were sealed and ejected onto a conveyor belt, where workers packed them for shipping.
At times it appears as the anonymous influence of mammon: corporations, loan agencies, certain 'free trade' treaties, and the imposition of measures of 'austerity' which always tighten the belt of workers and the poor," he said.
AMONG the crowd that gathered outside the NASCAR Hall of Fame on May 5th were anti-abortion activists, libertarians worried about the threats posed by the government to its own citizens, a man in a camouflage cap with a pistol on his belt, office workers on their lunch-breaks and a few folks who just wanted to see what the fuss was about.
In Perdue's highly mechanized plants, when a chicken is placed on a conveyor belt, a worker grabs it and hangs it upside down by the legs -- and it will probably never again be touched by human hands.
Like many companies, it had to cut salaries and bonuses, not only to save costs but to communicate to its banks that it was tightening its executives' and workers' belts.
The company that is putting in the conveyor belt is recruiting workers to start next month on the same kind of job in Miami.
The grapes get flung out onto the moving belt, allowing the workers to nab any stems the machine didn't catch.
BERLIN — As European finance ministers refused Monday to name specific measures to rescue Greece and the Continent's common currency, opposition grew among Germans to bailing out what they call spendthrifts to the south after years of belt-tightening by workers at home.
The highlight here was a group of Spam factory workers belting out ditties like "Spam-a-lot" (to the tune of "Camelot").
