Sentence examples for improving factories from inspiring English sources

Current and former Apple executives, moreover, say the company has made significant strides in improving factories in recent years.

Our members have made more than $100 million in low-cost capital available to fund remediation, and the hard work of improving factories is now underway.

For that system to genuinely change, Foxconn, its competitors and their clients — which include Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and the world's other large electronics firms — must convince consumers in America and elsewhere that improving factories to benefit workers is worth the higher prices of goods.

Monitoring, Mr. Brown said, is the best alternative for improving factory conditions.

She knew that the protests would only escalate and that improving factory conditions would take time.

But mostly, he figured out how to make money -- not by cutting costs or the payroll, but by improving factory productivity and making worker safety his top goal.

— Damon Darlin Apple and Foxconn Share Costs Reuters.com |  The chief executive of Foxconn says Apple and his company will share the costs of improving factory conditions.

The combination of improving factory activity and stability in retail spending should bode well for coming employment data points, and indeed, president Barack Obama noted this morning that job losses appear to be "bottoming out".

The incident raises further questions about factory safety in Bangladesh less than six months after the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory, where more than 1,100 workers died and which led to the formation of two international deals to pump money into improving factory standards.

Officials from two nongovernment organizations who attended a meeting in Germany on Monday aimed at improving factory safety in Bangladesh said Thursday that they were confident that several major retailers would soon join a broad plan to ensure fire and building safety in Bangladesh factories.

"Right from the outset, there has been concern," said Philip J. Jennings, general secretary of UNI Global Union, a grouping of 900 labor unions that recently quit the board of Social Accountability International to protest what he said was the certification system's overall ineffectiveness in improving factory conditions and workers' lives.