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...— Rishi Sunak’s big test Market structures: Profit motive to return to British rail network as part of long-awaited shake-up Production: Is the IMF right about the UK economy?...
...Brazil’s industry ministry has in the past six months opened at least half a dozen probes into alleged dumping of products from China’s manufacturing industries, ranging from metal sheets and pre-painted...
...The train and engine service members of the transportation division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART-TD) voted to reject the five-year collective...
...“To our knowledge, a lot of the cable that is stolen is used for illegal electrical connections in the townships,” Quintin Starkey, chair of South Africa’s Metal Recyclers Association, told me....
...The Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers — Transportation Division and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen have said they will not accept any proposal from the railways that...
...The supply of workers has been hit by deaths and long Covid....
...“When I go outside of London, it’s harder. Precious metals is still incredibly white-male dominated. In Asia, it’s a lot harder to be a woman or any kind of diversity,” she says....
...Nick Bosanquet: End era of centralisation/politicisation. Move to devolution and local/regional initiatives....
...The average cost of taking the standard 40-foot metal box across the world’s oceans is down by about 45 per cent from its peak in the autumn of last year, according to data from international freight company...
...Although the number of people travelling by public transport on weekdays globally has returned to between 70 and 90 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, according to the International Association of Public Transport...
...I know from reading Daltrey’s entertaining autobiography, Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite, that he did actually build this network of lakes himself; a former sheet-metal worker, he’s always been pretty handy...
...We may be seeing upward pressure on wages in lower-paid jobs at the moment as the service sector reopens and worker shortages in leisure and transportation bite, but these are likely to be one off pandemic...
...We have a lot of start-ups,” says Denis Arroyo Alves, director at Orplana, an association of sugarcane producers. “It is a new economy based in the countryside.”...
...The British Constructional Steelwork Association, which represents fabricators that bend, cut and weld the metal, wants 90 per cent of the 400,000 tonnes of structural steelwork it estimates will be needed...
...The Covid-19 response has been among the worst in Europe. The Brexit debate has been revealing for an international macroeconomist....
...Further investment in diagnostics and protective equipment for healthcare workers will be required to prepare countries for the potential arrival of COVID-19 and help stop it achieving an even greater case...
...for the metal....
...But the sectors using red diesel are some of the biggest contributors to our air quality problem - emitting nearly 10% of the most noxious gases polluting the air of cities like London....
...of Hampstead Heath storming their local Waitrose....
...Yet the appeal of manufacturing jobs remains outsized. Every dollar spent in manufacturing adds $1.89 to local communities, according to the National Association for Manufacturers....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on March 19 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Many of them are only reachable by road when the swamps freeze over in winter. Local air travel costs between Rbs20,000 (£250) and Rbs50,000 — well in excess of the average monthly salary....
...international growth....
...by local authorities....
...It is a source of local pride. Workers and managers tell visitors how the hot strip mill, where slabs of steel made on the site are rolled, has recently broken production records....
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