The town outside the oilfields, Deadhorse, started because of oil, and you don't live there unless you have something to do with the industry, whether it's repair work or cooking for the workers or running the small amount of tourism that takes the trek north.
The union movement has certainly been jolted by the turmoil sweeping through the platinum and gold mines around Johannesburg, which is being led by new, more militant unions or by the workers themselves.
Ask the people who invested with Bernie Madoff or the state workers who are getting their pensions cut.
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Compared with the film-makers of Hollywood, who populate Los Angeles' most venerable cluster, or the metal workers in northern Italy, who have been around for centuries, toytown lacks a distinctive and deeply ingrained collection of skills that make a region's advantage so hard to imitate.
As globalisation continues then the low skilled workers in Europe or the US are competing with the very much lower paid Chinese workers.
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There is no danger for the plant, for the workers or for the environment.
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So, in the same way we hire workers to repair the furnace or plug the leak under the sink, we hire workers to fix the big national problems.
Planning how to access the material without endangering workers or the environment could take months, Messrs.
During the 1990s companies placed a greater emphasis on non-regular workers, often reducing or freezing the hiring of regular workers, in order to reduce costs.
While many high school dropouts join the ranks of low-wage workers or the unemployed, American employers estimate 3 million skilled jobs are available right now.
However, it is unclear what will happen after that, or whether the wage will apply to the 2m or so foreign workers, many of them from neighbouring Myanmar, whose low pay depresses salaries in the first place.
Of the 300, 000 or so foreign domestic workers living in the city, most of whom are from Indonesia or the Philippines, she said only 120, 000 have lived here for more than seven years.
The dead or missing also include workers from the US, Japan, Norway, Romania, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
But by no means should the Big Three, their suppliers, dealers or the United Auto Workers union breathe a sigh of relief.
Marler says he was shocked to learn that 25% or so of the workers didn't have the necessary skills they were supposedly screened for back in India.
And if we have an issue on the national interest, let the nation pay for it, as opposed to the steel industry or the United Steel Workers.
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The Chamber of Commerce said workers would earn actual wages paid to American workers or the prevailing wages for the industry they're working in, whichever is higher.
At Thursday's meeting, contractors outlined their next steps for dealing with the situation: figuring out a way to test the extent of contamination, then strategizing how to remove it without spreading it or exposing workers, the contractors said.
In addition, we would have provided jobs for 30% of both the 2.4 million discouraged or marginally attached workers and the 4.8 million who have totally dropped out of the work force since January 2008.
The Chamber of Commerce said workers would get paid actual wages paid to American workers or the prevailing wages for the industry they're working in, whichever is higher.
Last night, leaders of the Senate Finance Committee introduced a bipartisan package of breaks for storm victims, charitable donors and those hiring or retaining workers from the affected areas.
The country's 30m or so people, two-thirds of them citizens and the rest expatriate workers or dependents, are largely complacent.
That of course refers to the old minimum wage of course: but there were about 1.9 million workers, or about 2.5 % of all hourly paid workers, who got the minimum wage or below.
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The statement is not that companies and or shareholders conspire to make the workers pay what government has righteously decided should be paid by companies.
The Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA or employer sanctions) was the first such law, and it tried to regulate unauthorized workers out of the market.
The agency is looking for family members or health care workers who might have had close contact with the donor or the recipients to see if they have rabies, according to CDC spokeswoman Melissa Dankel.
Immigration attorneys said the J-1 visa program doesn't face the same oversight as other temporary-worker programs, such as the H-1B, commonly used to bring in skilled workers, or the H-2A, for seasonal agricultural laborers.
What are your feelings about how healthcare workers or the government should address the sitting epidemic?
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Experts agree that there's been no significant upheaval from Iran's industry workers or the merchants at bazaars.
Environmentalists, trade unions and other non-governmental organisations denounced it as a multinationals' charter that would leave governments powerless to protect either workers or the planet.
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