The NFL will hold its own press conference to address labor issues on Friday.
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Once she had the floor, Clinton limited her brief comments to labor issues, speaking in general terms.
Begic admitted it is a challenge, with labor issues, particularly wage inflation, something all firms must address.
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At the start of the year, Freeport was still dealing with labor issues after a strike in 2011.
Amplats reported an annual loss for last year, hurt in part when labor issues disrupted output for two months.
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Rankin is listening to a lot of advice lately from many different people and weighing competing interests, including labor issues.
Aging mine shafts, power supply and labor issues have vexed many miners.
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Labor issues do seem to be front and center this election season.
Joseph Lieberman, a strong advocate of pro-labor issues, his vice presidential candidate.
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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Buchanan, says Hoffa, is good on globalization (meaning he's against it) but not so great on other labor issues (health and safety laws, for example).
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Of course, eventually GM President and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner would have to consider non-labor issues such as dividends to shareholders and debt payment to creditors.
Franken's impact might be felt most on labor issues, such as the Employee Free Choice Act, which would make it easier for workers to join a union.
One bank, however, pointed out that much of the recent buying appears to be speculative in nature, meaning potential for a pullback if the labor issues are resolved.
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But labor issues are not just plaguing major American sports.
By comparison, though, those labor issues were microcosmic struggles.
But Randel Johnson, vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for labor issues, said the increase would come "on the backs of employers, " who would hire fewer people and cut overtime.
According to gurgaonworkernews.com, a Web site that documents labor issues in Gurgaon-Manesar-Faridabad industrial areas, there are 192 automobile companies and component makers in the belt that are partly or fully owned by foreigners.
Companies in the South Asian nation, despite its rapid economic growth in recent years, have often been faced with tough labor issues because of archaic laws and company policies on hiring and retrenchment.
The regionals' small workforces don't bring the same kind of antagonistic seniority problems to a merger that a pairing of two large airlines does, so labor issues aren't likely to kill a deal.
These include increasing difficulties of mining far below the ground in the key producing nation of South Africa, as well as labor issues that mean higher costs and the threat of supply disruptions due to strikes.
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At the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics conference here Friday, a panel of experts including former NBA exec Russ Granik of Galatioto Sports Partners, sports economist Andrew Zimbalist of Smith College, former Houston Rockets CEO George Postolos and former Portland Trail Blazers VP Tom Penn, a noted salary cap expert, kicked around the labor issues confronting the major sports leagues.
The chamber and AFL also have agreed to create a new federal bureau to inform Congress and the public about labor supply issues, but the role of that entity remains unclear.
As a matter of principle, they should not accept the use by developed countries of trade sanctions to tackle labor and environmental issues.
You might say, however, that Lagarde and the IMF will have their work cut out for them in tackling labor and benefits issues.
Marc Edelman is an Associate Professor of Law at Barry University School of Law, where he writes regularly on sports labor and antitrust issues.
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"If Mississippi had the same minimum wage as San Francisco, it probably would cause a lot of unemployment, " speculates Eric French, a senior economist specializing in labor and health issues at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Participants also attended ten different technical assistance workshops that addressed civil rights, economic development, health disparities, the Affordable Care Act, and senior, education, housing, labor, and immigration issues.
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