Meanwhile, the prime minister is keeping his head down: to be caught in the crossfire between the free-trade Americans and his doughty farm-workers, and between the European Commission and France's game-shooters, is to risk being wounded by political pellets.
Meanwhile, in the two under-river tubes that cross between Exchange Place and the World Trade Center, PATH workers have jury-rigged a system of walkie-talkies and train-spotting staffers to get service there running at all.
Dalton says elevator installers and repairers are well-rounded trade workers who never stop learning.
One school, which blames globalisation, argues that the rocketing profits and sluggish middling wages of the past few years are the long-lasting results of trade, as all those new developing-country workers enter the labour market.
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But trade-union rules make it difficult to hire and fire workers, lower-paid jobs for the less skilled are hard to come by, and a combination of high taxes on low incomes and generous welfare payments reduces the incentive to seek work at all.
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Mr Klaus lauds the Union as a free-trade area, and he believes workers should be free to move across borders.
Staff are more likely to belong to trade unions: 59% of public-sector workers do compared with only 19% in the private sector.
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Georgia made strides in six of 10 categories, including the time it takes to start a business, dealing with licenses, employing workers, getting credit, cross-border trade and enforcing contracts.
Conservatism in Indiana stretches from the south, which has a rural and religious character similar to nearby Kentucky's, to the northern manufacturing belt, full of blue-collar workers who take a leftish stance on trade and workplace issues but tend to be socially conservative.
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The country's main trade-union confederation, Cosatu, which represents 1.7m workers, hints that it may join in.
One of the arguments you hear for trade restrictions is that, while free trade raises GDP, the effects are uneven and certain low-skill workers are hurt when manufacturing gets outsourced.
At the same time, we must ensure that ordinary citizens in all countries benefit from trade -- trade that promotes the dignity of work, the rights of workers, the protection of the environment.
Of the workers who made a trade in 2009, a quarter of them moved into target-date funds.
And of course she is right about trade, but why does the logic fall apart when we allow high-skilled workers to move here?
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The average trade guess on the non-farm payrolls figure is a rise of 80, 000 workers in August.
Sticking to free-trade principles may mean losing some steel companies, but it need not mean abandoning their workers.
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Although the agreement is mainly on trade, MEPs want to ensure that it includes clear measure to improve employment opportunities for under-represented workers such as women in the two countries.
Among the other ideas championed by Lord Glasman was greater trade union representation on company boards - but he also criticised how much time unions currently spend representing bad workers.
Well, that's going to impact our capacity to do business here, our capacity to trade, our capacity to get U.S. products made by U.S. workers into the fastest-growing market in the world.
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Mr Howard is now painting Mr Rudd as a prisoner of the trade unions, Labor's traditional power base, in an era when only one-fifth of Australian workers belong to unions, and even fewer in the private sector.
Some hope: the trade unions note that employers, both private-and public-sector, have done little to take on new workers.
Trade unions and other groups of employees have since been calling for more information from pension-fund managers about how workers' money is faring.
The district has launched a pilot program to offer landscape workers a good deal on 1500 of the industry's cleanest and quietest leaf blower, if they trade-in their old blowers.
The thorniest question is whether the rise of China and other emerging-markets is affecting wages in the U.S. The textbook view is that trade hurts some workers and helps others and on balance is a net plus.
Workers pay high taxes, but trade job security for a guarantee, should they be laid off, of time-limited but generous unemployment pay that they can live on and a promise that they will get new jobs fast.
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