Manpower seemed to have some small area of focus on this that appeared driven by a contract with the U.S. Department of Labor to do so.
Chinese leaders have called on official labor unions to do a better job of representing workers.
Immigration advocates insist that this huge surge of cheap labor has nothing to do with the persistent decline in wages that began about the same time.
Rather than building huts in Costa Rica, a Free Radical invents cheaper building materials, improves the logistics of getting materials where they need to be, creates a market to discover the right prices for materials and labor, educates Costa Ricans, hires them to do twenty-first-century work well beyond the grueling labor in sweatshops of the Far East and in the end, they can afford to build their own homes.
Labor issues do seem to be front and center this election season.
Again, out of the endless number of specific issues a company could respond to, from child labor to malaria, how do you determine where corporate responsibility lies?
The president said he'll push for changes in the nation's immigration policy, saying labor from abroad is needed to do jobs Americans won't.
They perform tasks that we don't have a labor market to supply, they do it a little bit cheaper, and it makes us all a bit better off.
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And since educated immigrants are less likely to fill low-paying manual labor jobs, a demand for illegal immigrants willing to do that work would be created.
Because there is no profitable work for them to do at present labor rates.
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Indeed, even the most ardent worshippers of big government would have trouble asserting that the Departments of Commerce, Energy and Labor add more to the economy than do Apple, Walmart, and Cisco Systems.
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In 1960, half of the native-born men in the labor force were high school dropouts happy to do physically demanding, low-skilled work.
But still, some (private) firm wins the design contract, and then some other (private) firm or (private) firms contract out the labor (or most of it) to do things like, environmental studies, surveying, accounting, pouring concrete, laying bricks, stretching wire, managing the people who do environmental studies, surveying, accounting, pouring concrete, laying bricks and stretching wire.
People will often sign a pro-labor petition because they've been pressured to do so but will vote against the proposition in the subsequent secret ballot.
Ownership of the remainder would be through individual shares, with some workers earning theirs through labor if they do not have the cash to buy them.
The Department of Labor has provided written guidance as to what to do to address these issues, but too few plan sponsors are aware of this guidance or have embraced it.
If there is an evidentiary hearing, which I suspect there will be, the issues would probably include first whether the court has jurisdiction of the labor dispute (as opposed to the National Labor Relations Board) and then most insightfully, whether the players really do have a substantial chance of success on the merits.
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The Detroit Three will not bounce back until they're free to buy labor in a competitive marketplace as their rivals do.
There is thus a possibility that the countries which have traditionally exported labor to Russia will no longer be in a position to do so.
Firms hire when they have a need for labor, and since the crisis began many businesses have learned to do more with less.
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If she hasn't been able to do that in the past, one would have serious questions about whether she'd be able to do it in her capacity as secretary of labor.
Because labor costs are relatively low, many homeowners would rather hire someone to do the work than do it themselves.
Legalizing all or most of them could do a lot to bolster the ranks of fading labor unions, which represent only 7% of the private-sector workforce today, down from over 30% three decades ago.
We provide what's needed to do the program ... their contribution is the labor.
We do indeed see that ratio of unit-labor-costs to consumer prices fell particularly fast during the last recession.
And they still have plenty of clout with Democrats, including Barack Obama, who put saving General Motors and Chrysler atop his to-do list in part because of his support for labor.
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If Team Romney were to do that, the media will declare it old news by Labor Day.
What do we do if the value of labor falls far enough that you have to pay employers to hire workers at zero salary?
It's the equivalent of the government's Bureau of Labor Statistics deciding to formally compete with Wall Street firms and other private entities that do economic analyses and research, or of the U.S. Postal Service using government money to drive UPS and FedEx out of business.
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