China may be turning from a labor surplus to a labor shortage economy.
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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 players basically argued that the spirit of Norris-La Gaurdia, a product of the 1930s-era clashes between businesses and labor unions, carries an implication that a labor dispute inherently involves a union.
Cheap and skilled labor, low taxes, a 19% flat tax for corporations and individuals, no dividend taxes, a relatively liberal labor code and a favorable geographical location are Slovakia's main advantages for foreign investors.
Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis says that the troika's diagnosis of the labor market is "utterly erroneous" and that the greatest challenge for employers is not a lack of cheap labor but a shortage of demand for their products.
Chronic problems include a shortage of skilled labor and a deficient infrastructure.
This, he hopes, will also help him deal with a labor shortage in a country whose native-born show little ken for factory work.
Salas, whose group is known as CHIRLA, dates the May Day rallies to a labor dispute with a restaurant in the city's Koreatown neighborhood that drew several hundred demonstrators in 2000.
Another part to this initiative is mandatory arbitration: If management does not agree to a labor contract with a newly unionized unit after 120 days, an outside arbitrator can dictate the terms of the contract.
May Day rallies began in the United States in 2000 during a labor dispute with a restaurant in Los Angeles that drew several hundred demonstrators, said Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.
If Democrats are as successful in raising the minimum wage as they were in imposing the costly health insurance mandate, many employers will either find a way to use less labor or a cost-effective substitute.
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Toss in a long-running battle between organized labor and a major telecommunications giant.
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In his opinion, for example, Roberts cites another confusing case from the 1920s where the Supreme Court first determined that a tax on factories that employed child labor was a tax for purposes of the Anti-Injunction Act.
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China is no longer just a cheap source of textile and apparel factory labor but a target market.
It takes much more than a large labor force and a dose of markets to assume the leadership of the global economy.
The private sector needs more flexibility across the euro zone, including greater labor mobility and a unified labor market, to respond to economic shocks.
The bottom line: It takes much more than a large labor force and a dose of markets to become No 1 in the global economy.
Blago also apparently cooked up a plan in which a labor organization would create a highly paid position for him in exchange for the seat.
One of them was with Ford and the UAW. It established a labor management project in a transmission and chassis plant that improved product quality and work life in the plant.
The use of these visas is a highly controversial issue among tech workers who see foreign labor as a threat to their jobs.
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He feared that such a system would deprive the people of the fruits of their labor in a way that was not immediately apparent.
For example, workforce analytics enabled a large distribution company to analyze historical information and use it to optimize its labor force by scheduling the right mix of full-time, part-time and temporary labor on a variety of schedules.
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The current situation is far different, with unemployment falling because of a declining labor force participation rate and a decline in the size of that labor force.
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While labor strife isn't necessarily a sign of financial turmoil, labor peace is often a leading indicator of stability, at least in sports, where struggling owners often blame their woes on player salaries and try to organize attempts to roll back compensation.
The fact that she's a labor of love gives her a warm glow that no varnish could produce.
And with the Memphis metropolitan labor market, we have a labor pool of somewhere around 1.2 million people in the 75-mile radius.
Workers and managers in Dundee are guided by a labor contract the size of a pocket calendar, not the usual Manhattan phone book.
To the list of honors and acknowledgements we can now add Bill The Boy Wonder, a labor of love written by a fan, for fans.
Maybe attesting to increasingly dynamic labor markets, a key difference between U.S. and, for example, German and Japanese labor markets, the data seem to show a U.S. economy on the rise. (Read Price Stability In 75% of US. Metro Areas By Year-End, Double-Dip Looms).
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics, a division of the US Department of Labor, defines marketing professionals as those who examine market conditions to determine potential sales of a product or service.
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