Sentence examples for coast workers from inspiring English sources

In Huludao, a navy installation on China's northeast coast, workers are said to have built a rough clone of the Crimea test center, complete with a ski ramp for ascending jets.

On the West Coast workers can get up to six weeks of paid leave at about 55% of what they regularly earn a week.

With prices so high, said Watkins, director of the economic forecast project at UC Santa Barbara, "everybody who has a home has a financial incentive to oppose growth here". Meanwhile, 30% of south coast workers -- many shut out of the local housing market -- buy homes elsewhere and commute long distances.

Last month, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which represents West Coast dock workers, quit the A.F.L.-C.I.O., complaining that the federation was not paying enough attention to it and had not stopped another union from raiding it.

In Pinellas County today on Florida's west coast, election workers conducted a second recount today after the first recount produced an increase of more than 400 votes to Mr. Gore.

The logistics of the new offshore fields, located so far into the Atlantic that Petrobras needs entire platforms midway to the coast where workers can sojourn between land and sea, are not the only challenges.

As winter storm Jonas bears down on the east coast, many workers find themselves hunkering down--and considering their career choices in more temperate climates.

The last strike by west coast Longshore workers was in 1971.

He organized West Coast agricultural workers starting in the 1930s, and rose to national prominence in 1965, when he, Philip Vera Cruz, Benjamin Gines and Pete Velasco, walked off the farms of area table-grape growers, demanding wages equal to the federal minimum wage, that became known as the Delano grape strike.

If that rig is on land or fixed in water just off the coast, that worker's family can potentially collect damages related to emotional loss.

Nonunion ports have developed, particularly along the South Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, and workers there get wages substantially below the standard union scale of $17 an hour.