But when a company runs into hard times, we need to give workers and retirees a fair chance to negotiate for the benefits they've earned.
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Onerous labour laws are partly to blame, because they make it hard for a firm to sack workers unless it is about to go under.
On a recent day, hard-hat construction workers were inspecting the Art Deco and Belle Epoque buildings, which are classified as historical monuments.
Meanwhile, the table, prepared for forbes by Watson Wyatt senior consultant Alan Glickstein, shows how workers of a certain age and job tenure fare if their plan is hard frozen, meaning that even senior workers earn no additional benefits.
In Michigan and Ohio, he may also prove that he has another advantage over Mr Romney: an appeal to blue-collar workers that is hard for a member of the 1% to match.
After a while, we reached a group of eight workers in cotton shoes, hard hats, and military-surplus uniforms.
Robinson developed a 25-question test to distinguish workaholics from hard workers.
And we all have friends, neighbors, or family members who already knows how hard it is to land a job when five workers are competing for every opening.
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Among drawings by less well known artists is an oil on paper by Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau which captures the hard and heavy labour of workers in a paper mill.
But they are also a reflection of the hard graft of public-health workers in many countries, who have persuaded millions of people to modify or abandon risky behaviour, such as having unprotected sex, as they have also created the medical infrastructure needed to distribute anti-retroviral drugs that can keep symptoms at bay in those who do become infected.
Yet it is hard to decry a reform that is cheaper for the workers and also does away with the phased reductions in benefits that were part of the old system.
Britain is fighting hard against a directive that would give more rights to temporary workers.
Workers have accused the local managment of taking a hard line stance on the issue that is at odds with the rest of the Royal Mail.
"They are hard workers and obedient employees, " Zeng Xiangbiao, a shoe factory owner in Dongguan, told a Chinese reporter in a familiar refrain on immigrant labor.
The idea would be to bring in a few hundred thousand temporary "guest workers" to do the hard and dirty jobs that Americans won't do at any wage.
It's a source of deep pride for the generations of American workers whose hard work and imagination led to some of the finest cars the world has ever known.
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Put those two together, you get companies in the fast-growing sectors taking on workers to meet rising demand, because they can't get a loan from the bank, and companies in the hard-hit companies holding on to workers, hoping something will turn up.
"I think professional workers and their employers are going to come to appreciate and understand networking as more of a hard skill than a soft skill, " she says.
But trade-union rules make it difficult to hire and fire workers, lower-paid jobs for the less skilled are hard to come by, and a combination of high taxes on low incomes and generous welfare payments reduces the incentive to seek work at all.
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