Word: labors
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...household in Argentina employed two immigrant domestic workers: one to cook and one to clean, a common phenomenon in Buenos Aires, where labor is cheap, especially foreign labor. My host mother happened to mention one day that she discouraged Julia, the cook, from working as many hours as Lourdes, the cleaner. Julia, a Nicaraguan who never completed high school and has difficulties understanding the thick Argentine accent, cannot read written directions and is easily confused by regional differences in Central and South American vocabulary. One night, for instance, she was sent out to the grocery store to buy palta (avocado...
...could see myself in some sawmill," says Mario Navarrete, 18, whose two older brothers labor as sheet metal and chemical workers, respectively. Two decades after immigrating from the Mexico City suburb of Michoacan, Javier Navarrete is still stretching his logging company wages to provide for his wife and the four children, including Mario, who remain at home. College, he told his progeny, was too much of a stretch. "Sorry, but there's no money," Mario remembers his father saying. He also remembers his father's amazement when told that, yes, there was money. "He didn't cry. I wanted...
...area" in both public and private venues. The measure, which came into force on Thursday, limits indoor smoking in collectively-used areas to sealed "fumoirs," the specifications for which are so rigid and so costly that few have been built. To enforce the law, some 175,000 agents - primarily labor and health inspectors - have begun scrutinizing places of work, commerce and administration during their rounds for signs or smells of illicit puffing. They can fine errant smokers $88, and employers up to $975 for repeated infractions. But even if every one of France's 15 million smokers were caught brown...
...TIME: That was your husband's Adminstration, wasn't it? Because I recall a lot of debate about it not having labor standards and environmental standards...
...voted against CAFTA [the Central American Free Trade Agreement], because I looked at the facts and I thought we have no environmental or labor standards-something that I believe is within the rubric of free trade. Free trade doesn't mean trade without rules. It doesn't mean a race to the bottom. It's supposed to be based on comparative advantage, so the trading partners all improve their standard of living. If you don't have some rules that will create conditions for employees to be treated fairly, the money is all going to go to the pockets...