Unions still primarily operate in an adversarial world of labor-versus-capital, demonstrating their value by raising tensions between employees and management.
We do indeed see that ratio of unit-labor-costs to consumer prices fell particularly fast during the last recession.
Calvin Scovel, Inspector General for the Department of Labor--charged with watching the watcher--agreed runways were a primary safety concern.
And he's had quite a number, even in the economic departments -- the USTR or Commerce or Labor -- vacancies.
But Clinton's own relationship with organized labor -- a traditional bedrock of Democratic support -- has not always been harmonious.
Ironically, to counteract this, the Big Three automakers have increasingly moved production from the U.S. to lower-labor-cost countries like Mexico.
The demand for labor has risen as a response to the large, positive terms-of-trade shock that drove resources to labor-intensive non-commodity sectors.
The House is expected to vote on as many as five bills, while the Senate will take up the Labor-HHS-Education spending bill.
Getting Republicans -- and, frankly, conservative and pro-labor Democrats -- to support an earned pathway to citizenship would be a heavy lift.
Did they cut too many deals -- the exception for the NRA, the exception for labor unions -- and so politicized it?
First of all, I want to say thank you to one of the finest leaders that we have in labor -- Bob King.
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To prove it, the elites who run the Democratic Party -- along with their surrogates in the media and organized labor -- went after the plumber.
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It's an answer that will enrage the Democratic left -- and, most notably, labor -- but it might actually help sell the legislation to the public.
In all, one-third of low-wage workers are employed by businesses with fewer than 100 employees, according to estimates by the National Employment Law Project, an organized-labor-backed advocacy group for low-wage workers.
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Blue chips were bolstered by a better-than-expected labor-market report.
Many products and services are created along supply chains that travel from idea conception to final consumption and that include value-added activities of varying degrees of labor-, physical capital-, and intellectual capital-intensity.
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And they threatened to scrap the entire campaign -- like they did for the 2004-2005 season, which was also due to labor strife -- if a deal couldn't be reached in January.
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John McCain, have called for a hiatus in the 18.4 cent-a-gallon federal gas tax between Memorial Day and Labor Day -- a period when vacationing Americans spend the most time on the road.
With many mouths to feed but a good deal of free labor--Kenny is the youngest of nine children--the family cast about for a new business opportunity and started breeding guppies in the concrete pigpens.
One reason it had the market to itself for so long was that indexing was extremely labor-intensive -- so much so that someone long ago suggested that convict labor be used to keep down costs.
Even those jobs that demand physical labor -- manufacturing, for example -- are much less grueling than they used to be, as electrically powered machines do the lifting and shifting that used to consume human energy.
On March 4, 1913, President William Howard Taft signed a bill establishing the United States Department of Labor -- an agency charged with promoting the welfare of American workers and ensuring their efforts are rewarded with fair wages and real protections.
So many things we take for granted came about because of the union movement -- minimum wage, 40-hour workweek, child labor laws -- you name it -- weekends -- a lot of these things came about because people were fighting for them.
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It's a big problem--and growing--but the question is what to do about it, especially since obesity is in large part a byproduct of cheaper food, more cars, greater urban sprawl, more TV and videogames, and less manual labor--all world trends that go well beyond diet plans.
Most of the health care funding would be contained in the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill, which funds a lot of the programs that get the most use, like public schools, low-income heating assistance, unemployment insurance, job training, and public broadcasting, so it would be a very high-stakes game.
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During this week when there's been a lot of labor news - starting with the big strike at Chrysler that lasted all of six hours before ending with a labor deal - let's take a look at labor unions - trade unions in particular - in a very different country, Egypt.
The dangerous confusion is, as so often in well-meaning economic rule-making, one of mistaking an ideal-utopian labor world (where even unskilled workers make a decent living from the get-go) with the world as it is: one where the value-creation of labor, not utopian ideals, sets the price.
Manufacturing is coming back to the U.S. But the evidence suggests it will be in a stripped-down, labor-lite version.
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Its two standard bearers - Meretz and Labor - were effectively wiped out.
Some of the most optimistic remarks came from temporary-staffing and labor-outsourcing companies.
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