What vulnerabilities in terms of labor does overseas manufacturing represent in locales where workforces are harder to oversee?
The burden of taxation influences so many of our actions, especially in terms of our labor.
All peripheral countries have made significant progress toward regaining competitiveness in terms of unit labor costs, albeit at a high price in unemployment.
In the past we have argued that colleges have produced a surplus of college graduates (at least in terms of the labor market demand for workers with a college education).
The demand for labor has risen as a response to the large, positive terms-of-trade shock that drove resources to labor-intensive non-commodity sectors.
Once she had the floor, Clinton limited her brief comments to labor issues, speaking in general terms.
The old economic laws defined wealth in terms of land, labor and capital.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics demonstrates this in stark terms.
Owners and players in both professional football and basketball are digging in and letting the rhetoric fly as they posture and position for favorable terms in their impending labor showdowns.
Over the last three decades, American factories have become vastly more productive in terms of output per hour of labor.
Hours after the players ratified the agreement, leaders from the two sides signed a memorandum of understanding about the terms of the new 10-year labor deal.
It is true in terms of how Hilda Solis, our Secretary of Labor, will be thinking about our training programs, to make sure that we are not excluding from training for high-tech jobs, the new jobs of the future, persons with disability.
If our exports are sold to businesses but what we import is sold to consumers then worsening terms of trade will cause consumer prices to rise faster than labor costs.
He has and will have an occasion to have similar meetings with labor and discuss a whole range of ideas that are out there in terms of continuing our fragile economic recovery.
Since late 2008, the prices (in dollars) of commodities like gold, oil, corn and wheat have skyrocketed, while the market values of things like houses, cars, and labor (wages) have experienced relentless downward pressure (especially in real terms).
Thailand's machinery of production -- labor, land, infrastructure -- has also become more inexpensive in dollar terms.
GM, Chrysler and the union have been talking about labor-cost reductions and other concessions required under the government's loan terms.
Meanwhile, the National Labor Relations Act protects workers at most private-sector employers who discuss employment terms and conditions with co-workers, among other actions.
After 3 weeks of game-altering blown calls, on-field melees risking player safety, and mounting pressure from frustrated fans, players, media, and coaches alike, the NFL came to terms with the NFL Referees Association with a new 8-year labor contract.
There are terms and conditions, of course, but once agreed to, the labor must be carried out as agreed.
We have a whole chapter on strengthening the American labor force, because that's where we certainly talk about, certainly in terms of this recession, the degree to which different demographic groups -- young people, blacks and African Americans -- all that have seen higher unemployment rates relative to the average.
Differential tuition could work similarly to scholarships in terms of incentivizing students to choose certain fields of study, said Brewer, a labor economist who studies education policy.
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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.
In terms of reality in the marketplace today, currency is being perpetuated from currency without investment in labor and materials to produce added value.
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As most Americans were getting ready for a peaceful Labor Day, it was war between Apple and NBC as the two companies couldn't agree to terms for carrying the network's shows on iTunes.
But even to be thinking of the relationship in those terms is unusual, and points to probably the greatest stress in the relationship between Clinton and labor since 1993's bitter fight over the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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