Because we are in an information economy, rather than an industrial one, pursuing growth of industrial jobs today is as misguided as trying to preserve manual labor and farm jobs was in the 1960s and 1970s.
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He also announced that the California labor commissioner was initiating proceedings to revoke Merced Farm Labor's license as a farmworker contractor.
Bautista says that after Jimenez collapsed, the farm labor contractor delayed bringing Jimenez to a hospital.
The Democratic Party and Farm Labor Party were one and the same and produced neo-socialists like Hubert Humphrey.
Merced Farm Labor was fined and cited for failing to train its employees on heat safety two years ago.
In 1927, farm labor organizer Cesar Chavez Estrada was born in Yuma, Arizona.
During China's 30 years of economic growth, hundreds of millions of factory and urban jobs soaked up surplus rural farm labor.
Kennedy -- six days before he announced his run for the presidency -- made a pilgrimage to Delano, California, to help farm labor leader Cesar Chavez break a 25-day fast.
And they peeked in places that maybe the ADM lobbyists overlooked, such as the energy used to manufacture farm machinery, or the energy burned up indirectly in the form of farm labor.
In a written statement to NPR, Merced Farm Labor says Bautista was the one who decided to stop at the drugstore, and that he had refused the company's offer to call a doctor.
"Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history, " Eisenhower wrote his brother.
Noah Smith replies on twitter that high birth rates were never about caring about the future of society, rather it was based on the need for more farm labor, a lack of birth control, and conformity.
Moreover, he said, farm-labor wages have remained flat or even declined.
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Organic foods have no proven nutritional advantages over conventionally farmed products, but because they are more labor-intensive to farm and the yields are low, they are far more expensive and because consumer demand for fresh fruits and vegetables is elastic, higher prices mean people buy less of them.
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The H-2A visa controversy involving farm workers exemplifies labor's mixed bag as much as any other issue.
The U.S. Labor Department reported non-farm payrolls rose just 88, 000 in March, which was well below trade expectations.
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In 1996, the Labor Department accused DeCoster of maintaining "sweatshop conditions" for migrant workers at its Turner, Maine, chicken farm, where then-Labor Secretary Robert Reich said workers risked salmonella by handling dead chickens and manure with their bare hands.
As markets digest the positive surprise provided by the ADP employment numbers, which showed that 217, 000 private sector jobs were added to the economy ahead of the all-important non-farm payroll report by the Labor Department on Friday, planned layoffs reached an 11-month high on February, with the number increasing for a second consecutive month, giving investors reasons to be concerned.
While consumers cited more favorable prospects regarding the labor markets, November's non-farm job payroll numbers showed that unemployment actually ticked up, reaching 9.8%.
The Labor Department reported early Friday that non-farm payrolls climbed just 69, 000 in May, when consensus expectations compiled by various news organizations had been for around 150, 000 to 170, 000.
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The Labor Department said only 54, 000 non-farm jobs were created in May and the unemployment rate ticked up to 9.1%.
At least 50 percent and as much as 70 percent or 80 percent of the nation's approximately 2 million farm workers are here illegally, according to labor and industry estimates.
"It's hard to think of people that make that much money as labor heroes, but they're really betting the farm, " he says of the show-runners' decision to break studio contracts and walk off the job.
Think of all the farm jobs lost to tractors and other farm equipment, and all the factory jobs lost to labor-saving technology, equipment, and computers.
Second, the bracero program, a temporary annual guest worker permit for low skilled Mexican farm workers, was discontinued on the eve of the Immigration Act of 1965 due to labor union pressure.
Early versions of new labor restrictions still being hashed out in Congress would have barred children under 16 from operating power-driven farm equipment and kept anyone under 18 from working at agricultural co-ops and stockyards (the latest version would let kids keep running machines on their parents' spreads).
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