The majority are female, persons of color and foreign born, according to the Excluded Workers Congress, a national advocacy based in New York City that represents undocumented workers and others who do not have the right to organize in the United States.
Despite the obvious need for such workers, Congress has not developed a good legal way for farm workers and other low-skilled workers to enter America legally.
The government of Mahinda Rajapakse, Sri Lanka's president, has been hit by the apparent withdrawal of a minor coalition partner, the Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC).
We are nine days away from the expiration of federal transportation funding, which guarantees jobs for almost a million construction workers because Congress has not passed a transportation bill.
Congress says its workers and leaders are being threatened or coerced every day by the Trinamool.
Because of these disturbing trends among workers and job creators, Congress should enact sound public policy to jump-start our economy.
You know, we're going to get Congress to legalize undocumented workers, it's just a matter of when.
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Congress has traditionally paid federal workers for periods when the government has shut down during parliamentary squabbles.
In Lula's first term in Brazil leaders of his Workers Party resorted to buying votes in Congress.
Last year, Congress passed a law enabling workers to get a skills grant to choose the training they need.
Regulatory agencies and Congress are investigating and former workers, who were compensated in part with now-worthless stock, have filed a class action against Corzine and other firm directors and executives.
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As for pensions, the government wants to raise both contributions and the retirement age, and to eliminate special regimes for members of Congress, teachers, oil workers and the armed forces.
Consider that Spanish wind developer Gamesa Corp. said that it had to fire 165 workers in Pennsylvania in the fall because Congress was using the credit as a political bargaining chip.
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Congress now caps visas for foreign workers, a clunky system that does not match supply too precisely with demand.
"Real action is now being taken in Congress to stand up for American workers and businesses, " said House Ways and Means Chairman Sander Levin of Michigan.
If any member of Congress thinks there are no unemployed workers or no down-on-their-luck neighborhoods in their district that would benefit from the proposals in the jobs bill, then they better think again.
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They discussed a number of issues, including the middle-class tax cut, other items on the congressional agenda, actions that Congress can take to help small businesses, actions that Congress can take to put construction workers and teachers back to work.
That's when immigrant workers flooded the streets of major cities, pushing Congress to overhaul immigration laws.
Egged on by economists and Congress, more employers are automatically enrolling workers into 401(k) plans.
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At least in 1939 a disgusted Congress rebelled and enacted legislation barring federal workers from such political activity.
For months now, Brazilians have been hearing accusations that Lula's Workers' Party paid allies to support them in Congress and used undisclosed campaign funds.
Congress turned a blind eye to these workers and their families.
Among the 3, 000 delegates of the 2013 National People's Congress, the percentage of blue-collar workers and peasants has risen to 13% from 8% in 2012.
Mr Dantas is alleged to have been one of the funders of a cash-for-votes scheme in Brazil's Congress mounted by leaders of Lula's Workers' Party in 2003-04.
Here, he argues that allowing skilled foreigners to work in the U.S. will boost entrepreneurship, and outlines the steps Congress should take to attract and retain these workers.
Members of Congress could easily have put 74, 000 construction workers and FAA employees back to work.
In years past, when Congress has added visas for high-skilled foreign workers, there have been bitter, public debates.
Podesta said Congress could extend unemployment benefits for laid-off workers and provide assistance to states grappling with increased Medicaid costs quickly.
The Department of Defense has informed Congress it will have to furlough 750, 000 workers, and the Navy has told Virginia it will have to cancel maintenance on 11 ships.
If there had never been a minimum-wage law passed -- if, as in the years before 1938, Americans today could be paid as little as employers could get away with -- and if, in 2013, someone in Congress proposed the first law ever that would guarantee workers a minimum wage.
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