One labor group, the Service Employees International Union, even gets in on the game.
Nontheless, the labor group said that the bill is still "far from perfect, " adding that it continues to "reserve judgment" on the measure as it moves through Congress.
Only one company asked the U.S. government to suspend the Jones Act, though a U.S. maritime-labor group gave its blessing to the decision (the Jones Act was created, in part, to protect maritime jobs).
Early film crew members were often off-duty sailors or longshoremen, a large source of group labor in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century.
Sometimes labor struggles joined one group of workers against a corporation.
Honeywell is also the No. 1 corporate PAC donor to Democrats and, overall, the No. 10 donor, behind eight labor unions and a group of trial lawyers.
Fast Company just featured an article about Labor Link, a group which uses mobile phones to collect information about working conditions in factories directly from employees.
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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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Last July, a group of labor leaders, including Obama ally and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, joined Unite Here at a news conference in Washington, where Unite Here called for a global boycott of Hyatt Hotels.
Chung Yong-Jin announced his resignation as vice-chairman of the board of retail giant Shinsegae Group in late February 2013, following investigations by the labor ministry into charges that the group was illegally monitoring employees to prevent them from joining a union.
BuzzFeed has obtained a three-page memo from Health Care for America Now, an umbrella group run by labor unions and MoveOn.org.
Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, a Washington-based nonprofit monitoring group, said labor-rights groups' calls for better safety measures at Bangladesh factories had been met with "vague promises" from retailers.
"The manufacturing industry is running out of low-cost sourcing destinations, and it's time to invest in making factories safer and better, rather than searching for cheaper labor, " says Auret van Heerden, chief executive of the Fair Labor Association, a monitoring group funded partly by Western companies.
What really matters for jobs and competitiveness is not consumer price inflation, but the rate of change of unit labor costs. (Unit labor costs are wage rates adjusted for changes in productivity.) A recent study from the Boston Consulting Group suggests that Chinese unit labor costs will grow at about 8.5 percent per year over the next five years.
Samsung Electronics Co said on Monday it would inspect 250 Chinese companies which make products for the South Korean firm to ensure no labor laws are broken after a U.S.-based group accused one of its suppliers of using child labor.
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Stinebrickner-Kauffman is critical of the non-profit group, the Fair Labor Association, which Apple has invited to audit most of its manufacturing facilities in China.
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So the national party picked Nevada with it's ethnically diverse population and strong labor movement to join the exclusive group of early voting states.
"Seattle was just the beginning, " U.S. labor leader John Sweeny told a group of journalists, summoning up the anti-globalization melee at last year's World Trade Organization meeting.
These are just some examples from a recent study by the Boston Consulting Group showing how increasing labor costs in China are narrowing the labor arbitrage that has existed for many years.
For the platinum metals group, market watchers said labor negotiations will continue to influence the direction of metals.
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The detente between the nation's leading labor federation and the powerful business lobbying group still needs senators' approval, including a nod from Sen.
In October 2007 the New Delhi group Global March Against Child Labor informed the Observer, the British daily, that 14 kids, some as young as 10, were spending 16 hours a day at a subcontractor embroidering blouses for GapKids.
Labor issues became so serious that Foxconn Technology Group, which now employs 1.2 million workers in China, decided it had to automate.
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He has already started setting up a G-20 group of ex-leaders, labor officials and other nonpolitical, nonelected individuals to interact and advice the G-20.
Joseph Hinrichs, Ford's group vice president of manufacturing and labor relations, said the agreement would push Ford's total labor cost per hour, including benefits, "into the ballpark" with foreign-based rivals.
According to the affidavit, Blagojevich discussed obtaining a substantial salary for himself at a nonprofit group or an organization affiliated with labor unions as well as placing his wife, Patti, on paid corporate boards, the government said.
The case is taking place in Minnesota because the federal courts there have overseen the NFL's labor cases since the late 1980s, when a group of players sued the league there to win the right to free agency.
The group that they want to please is organized labor, where despite the public pronouncements of labor union leaders that they support immigration reform, the rank-and-file may not be so easily convinced.
This would provide a sign to creditors, who are deciding whether to back a merger with American, that Doug Parker and his management team have the strong support of the pilot group and the potential for some degree of labor peace in a merger deal.
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If there is a skills mismatch in the U.S. labor market, therefore, it may be most significant for this group.
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