"Here is a common trick: The factory signs contracts with 1,000 workers but actually they've hired 2,000.
According to accounts of the trial published in The Glendale News-Press, the Cheesecake Factory signed a letter of intent in 2003 to open a restaurant at the Americana, but it did not sign a lease until this year.
He said Congress should change the labor laws so that if a majority of workers at a factory signed up for a union, they would have one, without having to go through an election period.
Most Chinese factories sign long-term contracts in dollars; and if the dollar slides, factories here lose.
Then the pair of factories sign a short contract defining the price, quantity and delivery date of the order.
But even from the air, I could see burgeoning suburbs and smoke from factories — signs that change had come to Isfahan.
This summer's energy troubles will produce (as tax issues never do) memorable visuals for television: angry consumers, shut-down factories, signs at gas stations showing record prices, elderly citizens without air-conditioning.
Sergei B. Ivanov, a Russian first deputy prime minister, called the planned factory a sign of the country's appeal to investors.
