Word: laboral
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Simon H. Rich (SHR): Am I the youngest writer ever? That can’t be true, the show’s been on for 100 years. That’s before child labor laws, so there must have been chimney sweeps and God knows what...
...nerger talk has made labor suspicious. A spokesman for the UAW declined to comment on the merger but one told TIME neither company has approached the UAW. "No one has talked to us about it," said the official who asked not to be identified. "I don't see what we get out of it. We're both way too dependent on trucks and sport utility vehicles," noted the union official who represents Chrysler workers at a plant near Detroit. There are fears that a merger would simply be a way to reduce the workforce. Chrysler has eliminated 22,000 jobs...
...billion a year to meet the original goal. Assistance has been anemic when it was supposed to be titanic. Bad situations will likely worsen with the financial implosion, especially in Latin America and Eastern Europe, where countries depend heavily upon foreign capital. Turbulence will mean compression of capital flows, labor immobility, and restricted access for the exports of developing nations. Droughts, commodity market speculation, and spiked food, oil, and biofuel prices also bring sorrow. While some first-graders will say goodbye to friends when they are forced to move houses in Indianapolis, more six-year-olds will die from...
...best economic growth during the last 5 years, averaging 5.1 percent per year.” He explained that since 2004, the Colombian government has poured significant sums of money into improving Columbia’s attractiveness to foreign investors. As a consequence, the demand for domestic labor and the foreign direct investment have both greatly increased in the past four years. While the minister praised his own country’s economic performance, he criticized America for allowing its own economy to fall into a state of crisis. “We are facing one of the worst financial...
...Democratic strategists advocates abandoning the hopelessly benighted South and other states—like Ohio and Pennsylvania—that are falling behind in the new economy. But any victory they might win in this way is really quite Pyrrhic from an ideological standpoint: The yuppified Democrats would abandon labor unions and economic populism altogether, marginalize civil rights, and attract middle-to-upper class whites with a boring but effective message of competent governance. This strategic shift would only ignite another culture war, one perhaps just as divisive, fueled by the Oedipal resentment of pseudo-bohemian youth against their suburbanite...