The recent spate of accidents in the garment trade, especially in Bangladesh, where in addition to the building collapse more than 100 have also died in factory fires over the past year has led labor unions and worker-safety groups to press Western retailers to tighten oversight of their supply chains.
Mr. Kanavos says that requirement led to labor shortages and inefficiencies, which produced delays.
An opinion poll a week earlier showed his approval rating at 48%, the lowest since he led the Labor Party to power in late 2007 (see chart).
Jim Bacon, a former union official, who led a state Labor Party government to power six years ago, says modernising Tasmania's image was crucial in order to rebuild its economy.
Last month, after a Ceres-led dialogue with labor and human rights groups, NGOs, suppliers and other companies, Levi Strauss released a new blueprint for supply chain engagement that promises deeper efforts to improve the lives and well-being of its supply chain workers, and challenges and inspires other companies to do the same.
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The spending and higher labor costs led to massive consumer and corporate demand that drove inflation.
The suit, led by writer and labor activist Jonathan Tasini, hangs on a claim of unjust enrichment.
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The publicity generated by his labor policies led President Jimmy Carter to appoint Harman deputy secretary of commerce.
Until Tuesday, he planned to bring the Labor Party led by Ehud Barak into his government while leaving Kadima out in the cold.
He said the former Jamaica Labor Party-led government never tried to legislate against lottery scamming.
But neither the government nor the opposition Labor Party, led by Kim Beazley, a republican, supports direct election.
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This month's clashes between Hezbollah and the Sunni-led government happened when a labor protest May 2 escalated into a flashpoint over Lebanon's political crisis.
Before rising to the Justice Department position, Perez led Maryland's Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.
But a labor-management dispute led to a worker slowdown soon after the campaign started, causing the whole thing to blow up.
The fact that Israel was led by the leftist Kadima-Labor government during the wars in Lebanon and Gaza did not improve the West's negative reaction to the fighting.
One of her most prominent rulings came in 1995, when she sided with Major League Baseball players in a labor strike that had led to the cancellation of that season's World Series.
Opinion polls show the opposition Liberal-National coalition led by Tony Abbott well ahead of Labor, which formed a minority government after the last elections in 2010 with the support of independents and the Greens.
Job growth has improved, but remains well below the levels necessary to substantially bring down the unemployment rate, while a falling labor participation rate has artificially led to bullishness over the gradual decline in the jobless rate.
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Greece has already agreed to a harsh austerity program and labor market reforms, which have led to violent street demonstrations and crippling unemployment.
The decline, combined with an increase in hourly compensation, led to a 4.5 percent increase in unit labor costs.
In return for international bailout funds, Greece has agreed to a harsh austerity program and labor market reforms -- measures that have led to violent street demonstrations in the past.
The Justice Department had gone to court after a five-member commission majority led by Chairwoman Mary Frances Berry refused to seat Cleveland labor lawyer Peter Kirsanow, a prominent conservative African-American.
This led owners to experiment with ways of increasing the pace of labor, Rosenthal explains, such as holding contests with small cash prizes for those who picked the most cotton, and then requiring the winners to pick that much cotton from there on out.
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Also, by cutting tax rates on labor and capital, Reagan freed up venture capital that led to the development of the technology that now drives the U.S. economy.
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The biggest surprise of the elections was the newly-formed Yesh Atid Party (There is a Future), led by Yair Lapid, which gained 19 seats, and the Labor party which also managed to increase its number of seats slightly to 15.
Growth has been led by the tourist sector, which employs about 30% of the labor force and provides more than 70% of hard currency earnings, and by tuna fishing.
Led by vocal activist front man Zack de la Rocha and guitarist and labor union supporter Tom Morello, Rage staged a protest concert on the lawn of the Minnesota State Capitol during the Republican National Convention in 2008.
Ms Gillard's Labor Party has the backing of one more MP than the Liberal-led coalition, and analysts say the prime minister will be forced to negotiate issue-by-issue with the opposition.
While he said it's possible that a centrist coalition could emerge led by Yesh Atid, which means "there is a future, " and Labor, he thinks Netanyahu and Lapid will form a government.
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