Wal-Mart named Nassa Group its top international supplier in 2002, according to a flier posted on a workers' group website.
Sadly, the thought is lost on those in Europe who proposed rules that have since April allowed British workers to group together and demand information on subjects such as corporate strategy and hiring and firing.
Tube workers are another group which is seen as vital to keeping London functioning.
The results came as workers at the group's brewery in Reading, Berkshire, voted to take industrial action in a row over pay.
In fact, only one of the workers in the group of 40 or so standing around even knows that there's an election going on in the United States.
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If a government-funded initiative requires short-term workers, FLP group members are often the first to apply and as a result will be absent from the sessions for the duration of the contract.
The first is that the sheer size of the emerging giants' labour forces has shifted the global capital-labour ratio (which determines the relative rewards of capital and workers) massively against workers as a group.
"It is now time for companies to move beyond vague promises, business-as-usual self-regulatory schemes and rhetoric, " said Ineke Zeldenrust, director of Clean Clothes Campaign, a garment workers-rights group that helped hammer out the accord.
The company is putting up the first group of workers in a rented house.
In 2010, only 42% of workers in this age group planned to do so.
What group of workers has been hit hardest since the recession started in late 2007?
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Paying one group of workers to dig a hole and another to fill them back up would be good for the economy?
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To improve quality and reduce errors, each pair of jeans is made from start to finish by a single group of workers.
Bangladeshi rescue workers say a large group of people has been found alive inside a garment factory on the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka.
He said the union would concentrate on "supporting the members at risk and working to ensure we maximise any opportunities for that group of workers".
But the average duration of unemployment is a little more than a year for this group of workers vs. 36.1 weeks for those under 55.
Sometimes labor struggles joined one group of workers against a corporation.
Looking for what to do with himself, he stumbled across the people of Baan Borang in his own back yard, befriending a group of workers in his neighborhood.
The Teamsters are assisting the efforts of the music scribes, who are among the few non-unionized workers in the business (with computer effects workers being another large group).
Across the street from Marikana, at a mine owned by Anglo American Platinum mine, a group of workers gave management until Friday to respond to a list of demands.
The machines allow sewing patterns and operations to be standardized across a group of workers by automatically controlling the stitch, pressure of the needle and its speed, which is normally controlled by a foot pedal.
Huge debts forced the car firm to lay off 10, 000 workers, and the group was eventually bailed out in a government-brokered deal in which it was divided into several parts, each run by a different son of its founder, the late Chung Ju-yung, who was forced to resign.
The group of aid workers were taken to the Turkish consulate in Benghazi after their release.
Lola points to an old man shuffling quietly at the edge of the group of farm workers.
After a while, we reached a group of eight workers in cotton shoes, hard hats, and military-surplus uniforms.
At one point, Mr. Bencheneb boasted about the man's Canadian origin to a group of Algerian workers, one of the employees recalled.
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"Generally, we have no problem with a small group of aid workers monitoring and arranging flow or distribution of humanitarian supplies, " Arif said.
Again, the high-status participants were perceived as much more empathic and attentive toward the laid off workers than were the control group and the high-power managers.
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In his first appearance before a parliamentary committee since his appointment in January, Mr Elderfield said was "very sympathetic" to the plight of the 5, 500 workers employed by the Quinn Group across Ireland, but he had to ensure policyholders were protected.
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