Among the 3, 000 delegates of the 2013 National People's Congress, the percentage of blue-collar workers and peasants has risen to 13% from 8% in 2012.
Mr Dantas is alleged to have been one of the funders of a cash-for-votes scheme in Brazil's Congress mounted by leaders of Lula's Workers' Party in 2003-04.
As for pensions, the government wants to raise both contributions and the retirement age, and to eliminate special regimes for members of Congress, teachers, oil workers and the armed forces.
If any member of Congress thinks there are no unemployed workers or no down-on-their-luck neighborhoods in their district that would benefit from the proposals in the jobs bill, then they better think again.
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Members of Congress could easily have put 74, 000 construction workers and FAA employees back to work.
In Lula's first term in Brazil leaders of his Workers Party resorted to buying votes in Congress.
That's when immigrant workers flooded the streets of major cities, pushing Congress to overhaul immigration laws.
You know, we're going to get Congress to legalize undocumented workers, it's just a matter of when.
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Because of these disturbing trends among workers and job creators, Congress should enact sound public policy to jump-start our economy.
The government of Mahinda Rajapakse, Sri Lanka's president, has been hit by the apparent withdrawal of a minor coalition partner, the Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC).
Under federal law, the Pentagon is obligated to notify Congress of furloughs 45 days before they go into effect, and the workers 30 days before they are furloughed.
Almost no one believes that the U.S. auto industry can be competitive in its current state, but some members of Congress--as well as automakers in the United Auto Workers (UAW) union--say that a bankruptcy would drag an already ailing U.S. economy into further depths.
Even if Congress goes along with the freeze, perhaps 60% of those 2 million workers will get raises each year anyway.
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The Department of Defense has informed Congress it will have to furlough 750, 000 workers, and the Navy has told Virginia it will have to cancel maintenance on 11 ships.
The majority are female, persons of color and foreign born, according to the Excluded Workers Congress, a national advocacy based in New York City that represents undocumented workers and others who do not have the right to organize in the United States.
Congress should have passed a bill a long time ago to put thousands of construction workers back on the job rebuilding our roads and our bridges and our runways.
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The 401(k) plan accelerated in 1986, when Congress passed legislation permitting the replacement of the defined-benefit plan offered to government workers with a less attractive defined-benefit plan and an attractive defined-contribution plan.
With members of Congress on vacation, this means they are leaving these 74, 000 workers without a paycheck, without an ability to pay their mortgages, to pay their rent, to make their car payments, to take their own families on vacation for at least six weeks.
And for members of Congress to give speeches about jobs and then go on their vacations while construction workers have vacated their jobs rings very hollow.
The widespread failure of 401(k)s plans to provide adequate retirement income security for American workers has caught the attention of the courts, regulators, the administration, Congress, academics and participants.
We are nine days away from the expiration of federal transportation funding, which guarantees jobs for almost a million construction workers because Congress has not passed a transportation bill.
Over the past eight years, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance has promised universal education and 100 days of employment each year for rural workers.
In the coming days, Members of Congress will have to take a stand on whether they believe we should put teachers, construction workers, police officers and firefighters back on the job.
Instead of just talking about job creators, Congress should give small business owners a tax break for hiring more workers and paying them higher wages.
"Real action is now being taken in Congress to stand up for American workers and businesses, " said House Ways and Means Chairman Sander Levin of Michigan.
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