No one wants to turn the labor practices clock back to a century ago.
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Restrictive labor practices mean that employers avoid growth and hiring, even when it is a no-brainer.
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Nike learned the hard way and was criticized for some of the labor practices in its supply chain.
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Then last Monday the NFL filed an unfair labor practices complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Others refuse to shop there because they are opposed to Wal-Mart's effect on communities or dislike their labor practices.
The company declined to comment on whether it has made any changes to its labor practices after the 2011 factory explosion.
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Workers bewail unfair labor practices and seek protection and advantage from government-backed labor unions at the expense of their employers and consumers.
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Better yet, he filed an unfair labor practices complaint after the officer turned him over to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
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Wal-Mart employees have filed 20 unfair-labor practices with the NLRB since August.
The NLRB focuses on unfair labor practices and defends the right of employees to join a union and bargain collectively with their employers.
Craig Becker and Mark Pearce were nominated to serve on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which protects American workers from unfair labor practices.
Last week, the FLA released its latest report card on the labor practices of Foxconn, which is the world's biggest contract-electronics manufacturer by revenue.
The injunction requires the employer to reinstate striking employees before the NLRB has even issued a final ruling on allegations of unfair labor practices.
Chris may not have reduced the carbon footprint of a Fortune 500 company or changed the labor practices in factories halfway around the world.
Last week, the FLA released its latest report card on the labor practices of Foxconn, which is the world's biggest contract electronics manufacturer by revenue.
While Daisey and others remain intent on associating Apple's late founder with the company's poor labor practices, this can and should be Cook's defining moment.
First, it has historically been difficult to prove unfair labor practices.
People want to do the right thing, she says, citing growing excitement around organic food, fair labor practices, and even faux fur and leather as evidence.
Earlier this year it agreed to change its labor practices after an outside audit found widespread breaches of work rules, including 60-hour workweeks and regarding health and safety.
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It stresses flexibility and collaboration over traditional high-cost labor practices. union Union employees work side by side with lower-paid contract employees doing work once performed by Big Three laborers.
By the end of this year, the CalPERS board hopes to have a formula for weighing such factors as the transparency of government regulatory activities, political stability and labor practices.
The firm also joined the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (Sedex), a web-based platform and registry where companies report on CSR-related initiatives around business and labor practices, health and safety, and the environment.
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Labor does not flow as easily across international borders as does capital and IP, but even so, we are seeing a change in cross-border labor practices, with the shift again coming from Chinese companies.
Our holding, based on decisions of the United States Supreme Court, in no way prohibits any business enterprise from speaking out on issues of public importance or from vigorously defending its own labor practices.
In that case, White and the four other named plaintiffs alleged that a number of labor practices in the NFL violated antitrust law: the right of first refusal, the college draft system and the standard NFL contract, to name a few.
Although Pegatron briefly caught the public eye in 2011 due to a factory explosion that injured dozens of workers, the smaller company has largely escaped the laserlike spotlight that has forced Foxconn to increase wages and make changes to its labor practices.
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The company could have continued to litigate the case for years, attempting to prove that it had spoken truthfully about its offshore labor practices, but it understood that every new twist and turn in the litigation would amount to millions of dollars in bad publicity for a company that spent millions trying to build and maintain its brand.
The story of the feather industry's boom and bust spans three continents and nearly four decades, involving transnational trade, culture clashes, questionable labor practices and a ridiculous bubble market that, when it burst in roughly 1914, wreaked havoc on thousands of people, particularly--argues Sarah Abrevaya Stein in her new book Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce--Jews.
Though Nike committed to fair labor practices more than a decade ago, it still faces problems, including a report by the Associated Press last year that workers for its Converse brand in Indonesia were being slapped by supervisors, forced to stand in the scorching sun for hours at a stretch as punishment for not meeting quotas, and insulted as dogs and pigs by bosses.
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