The power of organized public-sector workers, notes historian Fred Siegel, was a non-issue in the 1930s and 1940s.
Inside the offices, workers make notes on electronic tablets which recognize their handwriting as well as anything typed.
Yet a group representing Treasury employees notes these workers already face unpaid furlough days.
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Racenstein, a company that has supplied window cleaners since 1909, notes that workers in the industry are notoriously hidebound.
Various big names in the drug industry sent notes to their workers urging them to support the Bush stance.
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Moretti notes that highly skilled innovation workers certainly get paid a lot more than the average folk.
These two banks alone have shed more than 5, 500 workers since January 1, Challenger, Gray notes.
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But in a recent report the Hamilton Project, a moderately liberal research group, notes that the number of foreign workers in America has been declining for some time.
"The French, when they work, are quite productive--in production per hour they are second in Europe to Norway, " says Favre, who notes that the most productive French workers will likely get the most overtime.
Dawn Chandler, a management professor at California Polytechnic State University, notes that spending time abroad can teach workers to deal with very different leadership styles.
Gustavo Gonzaga, an economist at Rio de Janeiro's Catholic University, notes that a remarkable one-third of Brazilian workers are made redundant each year, a fact he attributes in part to the labour laws themselves.
In India, for example, enforcing a simple commercial contract takes 56 procedures and nearly four years, notes the World Bank, while in Venezuela, workers who earn less than 1.5 times the minimum wage can't be fired.
Joseph Quinn, an economist at Boston College, notes that workforce-participation rates for older male workers fell steadily from the late 19th century until the mid-1980s, then gradually began to turn up, while for women at that time they began to rise.
Fisman notes that the study is obviously framed around low-wage workers and a cash bonus that is quite small.
In recent years carmakers like Toyota have had a more difficult time luring young workers to their plants, where many employees traditionally lived in Spartan corporate barracks, notes McElroy.
He thus notes that the government has a rational basis to expel from its food stamp program any employer whose workers swapped food stamps for cash behind his back even though the employer was innocent of any wrongdoing.
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