He added that sawmills aren't as labor-intensive as they used to be, which means there likely won't be the same level of hiring as before.
Clinton knows he won't win labor's support on this issue, but wants to limit collateral damage as much as possible.
Foxconn has been in front of most other factories with wage increases to make sure it doesn't face labor shortages as it ramps up production for products, like the iPhone 5, that are critical to the success of its customers.
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The scope of what would constitute a disability also isn't clear since the Labor Department's proposal doesn't include a specific list.
When Philippine Airlines workers went on strike last year, he didn't side with labor.
The president signed an executive order on Tuesday to strengthen protections so that federal contractors aren't using forced labor.
"I certainly don't want to labor in a corner unnoticed, " she said.
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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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The biggest problem areas, said Harvard University economist Lawrence Katz, are young people who haven't entered the labor force and a large number of people who have applied for long-term disability benefits after losing their jobs.
There are also sommeliers who know a lot about wine but don't like the labor that comes with the job: "They tend to spend more time acquiring degrees than working the floor, " said Mr. Johnnes, who once hired a sommelier who could name all of the subregions of the Loire (there are quite a few) but didn't enjoy the physical part of the work.
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While labor strife isn't necessarily a sign of financial turmoil, labor peace is often a leading indicator of stability, at least in sports, where struggling owners often blame their woes on player salaries and try to organize attempts to roll back compensation.
They don't want to worry that their seats might come loose or that management and labor can't seem to get along.
You can't have the two labor flows exist within the same labor market.
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Congress is scheduled to go on its August recess at the end of the week and won't return until after Labor Day.
If a bill isn't sent to the president by the time Congress breaks for its August recess, it won't happen until after Labor Day, at the earliest.
And this is something I think you're going to hear a lot of today on Capitol Hill, that they didn't control their high labor costs earlier, and then they got caught in this recession.
"We generally don't weigh in on local labor disputes, " he told the Journal last month.
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The labor support doesn't appear to be costing Mr. Grimm much on the right.
The owners said the old labor deal didn't take into account the rising costs related to building stadiums and promoting the game.
Republican candidate Joseph Lhota, a former city budget director, called it problematic that Bloomberg's proposal didn't set aside money for resolving labor matters.
The labor organizations can't agree on how to ameliorate the situation.
State labor inspectors hadn't conducted a follow-up visit since then.
Since these meals don't have much higher ingredient or labor costs than those dished out to the hoi polloi in the main room, the premium collected on them is almost all profit.
The regionals' small workforces don't bring the same kind of antagonistic seniority problems to a merger that a pairing of two large airlines does, so labor issues aren't likely to kill a deal.
Mr. Woo, the Hon Hai spokesman, said labor expenses aren't a major cost for Foxconn and that the more important question was whether China's younger workers will continue to have the desire to work difficult manufacturing jobs.
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