Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonder, then, that several council members were surprised to learn that Darling was enthusiastic about getting the voices of activist groups such as the Progressive Student Labor Movement--a collection of liberal students fighting against sweatshops and for a living wage--more involved in the undergraduate council...
...Over Labor Day weekend, the Reform Party's highest public-office holder and a kingmaker, Minnesota's Jesse Ventura, tracked Trump down in Las Vegas and encouraged him to run, telling him Trump could draw from the same disaffected groups as Ventura did. The two stayed in touch, and last week Ventura called to say he could come to New York. Trump said, "Come to dinner at my place [the four-star Jean Georges at the Trump International Hotel]. I'll bring Melania." Ventura said, "Great. I'll bring Woody Harrelson...
...Parisian streets with fruit and vegetables to protest low prices; striking truckers shut down major highways until their demands for better working conditions are addressed. And last week, another howling, angry mob jammed a cavernous exhibition hall in Paris to vent its outrage over a proposed change in French labor law. Only this time the participants were senior executives and business owners...
...boxing ring, speaker after speaker denounced the legislation as "retrograde," "idiotic" and "criminal." "This law is antieconomic," thundered Ernest-Andre Seilliere, head of the main employers association. "Nobody can make more by working less!" Truer to form, the Confederation Generale du Travail, one of the country's largest labor unions, was leading tens of thousands of workers in protest marches across the country, demanding that the law even mandate the hiring of new workers...
...been unable to substantially lower the country's alarming unemployment rate, which is currently 11.3%. His Labor Minister, Martine Aubry, has argued that a shorter workweek would oblige companies to hire more people, thus dividing the employment pie into more slices...