Word: laboral
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...same time, Statistics Canada, a government agency, reports that unemployment fell three-tenths of a percentage point to 8.4% in September, the first monthly decline since the beginning of the labor market slump a year ago. According to the report, 31,000 net new jobs were created last month...
...announced they wouldn't play for a Limbaugh-owned team. That's understandable, but they shouldn't forget that playing in the NFL is to be working for sport's biggest plantation. Yes, guys like McNabb are making multimillion-dollar paydays. Yet he and the rest of the players labor within the confines of a football monopoly that has never taken kindly to outside competition or an activist workforce. Consider the NFL players' strike of 1987, which the owners crushed with all the sensitivity of Kentucky coal-mine operators. In ensuing labor agreements, the owners not only imposed a salary...
...Reid's staff have been working for two weeks to match up the Finance bill with one passed earlier this summer by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and to resolve second- and third-tier issues, such as administrative streamlining, preventive measures and reinsurance. Over the next two weeks they will finish merging the two measures and begin counting votes on some of the hundreds of amendments expected to be filed. Some losing proposals will have to be raised, debated and then defeated before winning provisions are adopted. For example, 30 members advised Reid last week that the Senate...
...Calderón moved in during a leadership crisis in the union, his government claiming that the election of firebrand labor boss Martin Esparza had been fraudulent. But the focus of the decree closing down the utility company makes little mention of the union, focusing instead on the losses incurred by the company. Between 2003 and 2008, Light and Power had spent about $32 billion - mainly on salaries and pensions - and only collected half that amount in revenues. The nation could not afford such inefficiency amid an economic crisis, Calderón said...
...Mexico." Many electricity customers are also looking forward to changes after years of complaining of high bills and poor service. But Esparza has called on fellow unions to take to the streets to fight the measure, and the outcome of the battle of wills between the government and organized labor could yet define the President's tenure...