During his presidential campaign, Obama said he would renegotiate NAFTA in addition to obtaining more protections for U.S. workers, an issue that has long been on the agenda of American labor unions.
The union's general secretary Brendan Barber said employers should discuss the issue with workers "to avoid any tensions".
The deal GE (nyse: GE - news - people ) reached with the International Union of Electronic Workers-Communication Workers of America (IUE-CWA) and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) covers wages and pensions--but what to do about rapidly rising health costs was always the thorniest issue, as it is an issue with workers, unionized and nonunionized, across the economy.
The use of these visas is a highly controversial issue among tech workers who see foreign labor as a threat to their jobs.
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The union, Britain's second biggest, has said it will ask the giant German trade union, IG Metall, to raise the issue of UK workers' pensions with Deutsche Telekom's supervisory board.
The issue of which workers are going to be affected, I was interested that in your previous segment talking about the debt that people have and how it's very hard to become middle class and to retain middle-class status these days.
The issue of lost women workers remains a delicate one for many companies, particularly in highly skilled professions, such as consulting or banking.
The BMA applauded the government's decision to refer its plans for Viagra for consultation with patients and health workers and for tackling the rationing issue.
For example, there must be a live dispute between the striking workers and their employer over an issue such as terms and conditions of employment or working arrangements.
The foreign workers debate has become a hot political issue in Singapore.
Allowing untrained council workers or police community support officers to issue orders "could lead to compromises in animal welfare or even make dog behaviour worse due to lack of understanding in these areas", the letter added.
But while Mr Jaitley was fending off the US, in the UK the issue of both outsourcing and of fast-tracked incoming staff - a hot issue among some local IT workers - was returning to the fore.
Cost is clearly a major issue for most laid-off workers, says Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund.
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The points above will hopefully shed some light on the complicated issue of health insurance for independent workers.
On the other hand, 65 percent say the issue of job opportunities for younger workers hasn't been getting enough attention.
If you are not sure and have the guts for it, issue a survey to co-workers and your hired resources.
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But Mr. de Blasio charged that the Democratic front-runner hadn't been listening to workers, and he pledged to keep the issue alive during the campaign.
"Another interesting finding was that the workers left the nest voluntarily and were not carried away by other workers, " he writes in the same issue of the journal.
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Efforts to issue cards to pilots and other airport workers - a scheme which is being trialled at Manchester and London City airports - are meeting with growing resistance.
Liberal Democrat Robert Brown said passing new laws might not necessarily be the most effective way of combating the issue, as attacks on public sector workers were already treated with gravity under existing law.
While some have criticized the House for turning a witness chair over to Stephen Colbert, in reality, the comedy show host and satirist used his testimony to explain well the issue of illegal immigration and migrant farm workers.
Space shuttle mission specialist Daniel Barry battled an issue common for many Earth-bound office workers: printer problems.
This leads then to the real issue: can a company which pays its workers the minimum wage pass the additional cost onto the end customer?
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The Communication Workers Union, which has criticised the government on the issue in the past, said the report should be a step towards taking action.
The big issue in immigration is the families of the workers.
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The issue has also exposed a split among aid workers on the ground, who tend to oppose criminalisation, and those in distant western capitals that make policy, who back it.
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Relief agencies say authorities in Myanmar have been slow to issue visas to a small army of relief workers gathered in Thailand who are poised to fight a tide of hunger and disease.
The power of organized public-sector workers, notes historian Fred Siegel, was a non-issue in the 1930s and 1940s.
Not only does jobless compensation make securing work less of a pressing issue, it also raises the cost of luring workers from the sidelines.
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