Stanley Galanski, The Navigators Group president and CEO, said the firm expects to finish the move from Stamford around Labor Day.
The Fed announced its move minutes before the Labor Department said the February employment picture in the United States was far worse than had been expected, with 63, 000 jobs lost.
Indeed, if Northwest succeeds in its battle with the machinists, it could become a template for other big airlines to slash labor costs and move toward profitability.
Indeed, if Northwest (nasdaq: NWAC - news - people ) succeeds in its battle with the machinists, it could become a template for other big airlines to slash labor costs and move toward profitability.
This is normal for a depressed market, as beleagured manufacturers move production to regions with lower labor costs.
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The principles of substitution states when a several similar or commensurate commodities, goods or services are available, the one with the lowest price will attract the greatest demand and wide distribution which is why many US companies move their manufacturing overseas, lower labor cost.
Lazear pointedly stated that he expects strong growth due to high productivity and low taxes, adding that "two trends are most important when looking at last year's economic picture and the scene as we move into 2007"--the labor market and export growth.
That will allow China to move up the value chain and redeploy its labor force away from assembling high tech products and sewing fabric together.
Leather-goods maker Coach Inc. plans to gradually move some production out of China, where labor costs are rising, and into lower-cost countries, such as India and Vietnam.
But both the SEC and the Labor Department have not been able to move forward with any changes, due to the opposition of many in the financial services sector and their Democratic and Republican enablers in Congress.
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By contrast, last month the administration, through the National Labor Relations Board, in an unprecedented move sued Boeing Corporation to stop it from using a manufacturing facility it had already built in South Carolina to produce its new 787 commercial aircraft.
They have to move up the value chain or they will face a labor shortage.
There was a fair amount of debate going into the Labor Day weekend about whether the Fed would move at all today, but then the jobs report came out showing a significant deterioration through the summer.
In industry after industry when minimum prices are set on labor either capital ends up getting substituted through investment in labor-saving technology or low-skill jobs move overseas.
But the move would help the board and management make a better case to labor unions that they are spreading the pain to other GM constituents, including shareholders and executives, whose ranks are also shrinking while merit pay raises are being eliminated.
Their workers should move freely across each others' borders to even out any imbalances in labor demand.
While it is not necessary for the merger to move forward, approval of the MOU helps to clear the path to labor integration should a merger to occur.
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One reason for the turnaround is that local governments have ramped up the tax incentives to get companies to move to or stay on Long Island, said Shital Patel, a state labor market analyst who studies Long Island.
Chongqing also hopes to turn a wave of migration into a labor pool for the low-wage manufacturing industries it is trying to lure to move from China's coastal areas.
This helps fuel true labor mobility in the U.S. Not only are individuals willing to move within the U.S. to seek economic opportunity, but they also share a common language and cultural context.
Dara O'Rourke, professor of environmental and labor policy at the University of California, Berkeley, applauded Wal-Mart's move to be more public with the results of its factory inspections.
Labor's senior leadership reacted to their defeat by declaring that the time has come to move into the opposition.
Foxconn said workers who agree to move to a different location are given clear timetables for when they will return to their original factory, but labor-rights groups say the company often gives only vague schedules, and many workers are forced to stay longer than they planned.
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Even if you hold everything fixed, there will be workers elsewhere in the world who at given the current supply and demand for labor in the U.S., and the resulting market wages, will find it optimal to move here and be hired.
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