Technologies are joining brainpower and sometimes muscle from around the world into a common labor pool.

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It is also common to see Labor Day leads shrink dramatically in presidential races or even disappear.

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Other common waiver recipients were labor union chapters, large corporations, financial firms and local governments.

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For cities to survive, we need a post-progressive approach in which the efficient creation of the common good is the shared goal of labor, management and citizens alike.

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This makes no sense, especially if common-sense exemptions are made for manual labor.

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And we should be looking for opportunities, by the way, to make sure that the labor movement is, wherever possible, finding common ground with the business community, because I want America as a whole to be competitive.

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What the two sides of the Coasean coin have in common is that high transaction costs prevented a freer-flowing market for labor and talent from prevailing.

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Of course, proposing few initial layoffs has a strategic purpose--helping the deal gain regulatory approval and backing from labor unions: A proposal that calls for no hub closings and little job loss takes away a common objection.

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