Sentence examples for pledged to workers from inspiring English sources
Both companies are making concerted efforts to reduce the size of their legacy costs (benefits pledged to workers) to stave off bankruptcy.
She tells of corporate executives ending retiree health insurance and freezing pensions but deceptively calling the changes improvements, so that CEOs could pump up company profits with money that had been pledged to workers.
From Bill Clinton to Barack Obama, Republican and Democratic presidents have pledged to workers that some new free-trade scheme or another would protect Americans from unfair and immoral foreign competition.
Apple and Foxconn subsequently pledged to improve workers' conditions there.
May has pledged to give workers a place on company boards and for the annual shareholder vote on executive pay to become binding, not advisory.
Last month two Indonesian plantation companies — PT Smart, a major palm oil producer, and PT Lontar Papyrus, a wood-pulp supplier — pledged to train workers not to kill or injure orangutans.
Samsung officially bans suppliers from charging foreign workers recruitment fees or confiscating passports and, as a member of the Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition EICCC) has also pledged to repay worker recruitment debt.
Many of them were low-wage employees of companies like Walmart and McDonald's, which have since pledged to increase their workers' pay by $1-$1-$2 hour, a raise activists said is still not enough.
Foxconn, China's largest private employer, pledged to sharply curtail workers' hours and significantly increase wages — reforms that, if fully carried out next year as planned, could create a ripple effect that benefits tens of millions of workers across the electronics industry, employment experts say.
Its funding level is 193%, meaning the amount it has pledged to pay out to workers is covered almost twice over.
The tax scheme, like so many of Trump's other pledges to workers, is a stab in the back of that indigo shirt.
