Sentences with phrase «us labor rights»

1817: Welsh manufacturer and labor rights activist Robert Owen coins the phrase «Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest,» dividing the day into three equal eight - hour parts.

Puzder, the chief executive of CKE Restaurants, has been widely criticized by labor rights groups for underpaying workers, failing to offer benefits, and attempting to prevent employees from organizing.

«Li & Fung claims to be monitoring factory conditions, but they don't publicly release their investigation reports or even the full list of the factories they use, so it's impossible for independent organizations to assess the effectiveness of their monitoring,» said Tim Connor, a former labor rights advocacy coordinator for Oxfam.

He remains convinced that Unilever's sustainability plan — including the initiatives on labor rights and zero carbon emissions — will inevitably lead to business growth, even if the two imperatives are not always in sync.

Just endless rounds of downsizing, mergers creating economies of scale and less jobs, globalization, importing workers who depress wages due to country of origin standards, or because they don't have full labor rights or any labor rights (all employer sponsored based immigrants).

-- Similarly exploited immigrant labor without labor rights (all temporary and dual purpose immigrants), employer sponsorship being the key to suppressing wages (plus all of David Card's papers and equations are wrong due to DNWR)-- Fair Labor Standards Act generally doesn't apply to office workers and other positions that corporations tag as professionals and / or managers, despite recent Obama hike of minimum applicable wage.

There is no doubt about the fact that Millennial consumers in particular are obsessed with making sure that they are only buying from companies with a good track record in terms of environmentalism, labor rights, and charitable contributions.

Drilling down further into the research, results show that the number of shareholder resolutions involving human and labor rights is up 15 percent.

In making its case for KORUS, the Obama Administration argues it will challenge violations of labor rights related to trade, as it may do with Guatemala.

«We just moved the Vietnamese Communist Party to recognize labor rights in a way that we could never do by bullying them or scaring them,» Obama told me, calling this a key victory in his campaign to replace stick - waving with diplomatic persuasion.

From 1986 to 1996, these took the form of special tax credits (pre-1986 the tax advantage worked differently but had a similar impact) that were rationalized as a way to help Puerto Rico be competitive with developing countries as a manufacturing location, given that Puerto Rico - based firms need to comply with basic US labor rights and safety standards.

I am willing to fight for awareness of that; And the numerous cults utilizing slave labor right in in the US.

Globalization is the era of mega-competition, in other words, the competition among giant TNCs which accelerates the race for the bottom to make TNCs acquire more profit by further exploitation of labor including lowering the wages, cutting the welfare benefits, laying off employees, depriving workers of their labor rights, using cheap labor such as casual and even child labor, and also by further destruction of environment.

In Mexico I met prophets who had been beaten for their stand on labor rights, and others who had escaped from Guatemala to tell of incredible conditions on the coastal plantations.

Labor rights issues are broad and complex, and we can't always be certain that a small change in our consumer habits will improve the industry.

Easier to eat the fruits of your labor right there.

This voluntary food, flavors and fragrances industries program engages with vanilla exporters, producers, sector organizations and public authorities worldwide to progress issues of governance, traceability, labor rights and technical assistance to grower groups.

Farm workers given decent labor rights, housing and healthcare.

Its not Baby Milk Action's issue (I work for Baby Milk Action) so I interviewed the Director of the International Labor Rights Fund to find out more.

Information for the submission was drawn from Baby Milk Action (marketing of breastmilk substitutes, water pumping in São Lourenço, Brazil), International Labor Rights Forum (child slavery and labour in the cocoa supply chain, Labour rights abuses in Colombia), Union of Filipro Employees (Labour rights abuses in the Philippines), Corporate Accountability International (Conflicts with communities over water resources), Attac Switzerland (Spying on campaign organisations), with additional information drawn from Food Inc. published by the UK Food Group (reference in the submission, treatment of dairy and coffee farmers).

Scorpio dad was probably reading up on labor right up until the moment you started pushing.

Demonstrators, led by filmmaker Michael Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Robert De Niro and Sally Field, crowded in front of Trump International Hotel and Tower to speak about a variety of issues including health care, labor rights, climate change and protection for immigrants, lesbians and gays.

Dave recommended Dems should push voting rights, labor rights, and women's rights.

They raise fears that protections for labor rights, state pensions, the Adirondack Park's «Forever Wild» Forest Preserve and our obligations to educate our children and care for the needy could be curtailed, or even overturned.

«If de Blasio wants to lead an administration that addresses the tale of two cities, as he calls it... he needs to take a much more progressive stance on this issue,» Eric Glatt, a member of Intern Labor Rights told Capital.

So too, the Conservative Party and the Working Families Party, and the AFL - CIO, fighting for labor rights for farmworkers, and the Farm Bureau opposing that cause.

«Every year we have gotten close» to the act's passage, said Victoria Daza, organizer with Long Island Jobs With Justice, a labor rights group.

«It is long past time to give farm workers the same basic labor rights as other workers, and Tkacyyk should vote to correct this longstanding injustice,» Hawkins said.

Three workers made the claim against the International Warehouse Group in a labor rights charge filed with the National Labor Relations Board.

«She was under attack by some trying to rid the bench of this hero,» Handel said, praising her for her support of «tenant rights, consumer rights, labor rights, and LGBT rights with an unblemished body of work.»

«Tony Avella has shown a true understanding of the issues important to postal workers and is a fighter for important labor rights,» said Tony Paolillo, president of the postal workers group.

«Action against the climate crisis has been stymied by pressure from the same special business interests that are wrecking our economy, depressing wages, and pressing Congress and the White House to repeal labor rights and protections.

The protests also sought increases in labor rights.

President Roosevelt put people back to work, while he regulated banks, establishing a minimum wage, creating labor rights that built labor unions, Social Security, and building infrastructure, all at the same time.»

Meanwhile, the «immoral money» group was told that the source of the prize money was Walmart, and also given information on a 2005 lawsuit by the International Labor Rights Forum that alleged Walmart had failed to meet internationally mandated labor standards.

Of course, along with playing the class clowns, the Malloys are also the hardest working members of Ocean's crew, often taking on multiple roles in each heist, and even going the distance on one particular occasion to help a group of Mexican factory workers fight for labor rights.

With their diverse membership, they do not focus on just on the labor rights of one set of professionals.

While Republicans are aiming to weaken teachers unions through such policies as private - school vouchers and legal battles over dues collection, the unions are colliding with Democrats who are challenging bedrock labor rights, such as seniority and teacher tenure.

In a statement, Clinton said she was «honored» to stand with the NEA, and she promised to back labor rights:

I am passionate about education, labor rights, income inequality and creating an economy and government in the USA that is truly of, by and for the people

That's right, labor rights.

Labor rights exist for union and non-union laborers, but they are fought for, and protected by, unions.

Yet the struggle to advance labor rights continues, including the battle in Springfield to close the 4.5 loophole — Section 4.5 of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act.

Ditching the unions = ditching labor rights for all.

Diesel is an hourly job for the most part, and for the most part, diesel techs have the same labor rights as the rest of the country.

Themes that were central to Guerrero's artistic practice and life's work, including labor rights, displacement and gentrification, immigrant's rights and social equality, are expressed in the collection.

He consistently fought against racism, fascism, and sexism to promote equal human and labor rights.

Participants will include: All in the Red, Art Production Coop, Arts & Labor, The Base, Beyond Childcare Coop, Books Thru Bars NYC, Claiborne McDonald, Center for Urban Pedagogy, Deep Dish TV, Democracy Now, Fair Pay Music, Fixers Collective NYC, Flatbush Mutual Aid, Flux Factory, Fractured Atlas, Free Cooper Union, freeDimensional, Hibridos Collective, The Illuminator, Intern Labor Rights, I Ran into Iran, Lanchonete, Making Worlds, Mayfirst / PeopleLink, MetaLocal, Mexicali Rose, Mutual Aid NYC, Neter, NYC Anti-Eviction Network, Nsumi Collective, OurGoods, OWS Screen Printers Guild, Paper Tiger Television, The Pedagogy Group, The Public School, Radix Media, REV -, Tech - Ops, TimeBanksNYC, Times Up, Trade School, Trust Art, US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, W.A.G.E., and more.

This action aims to stop the impending destruction of Blair Mountain by mountaintop removal coal mining, strengthen labor rights, and promote sustainable Appalachian communities.

* Labor rights: Will the Trans - Pacific Partnership FTA include labor standards based on International Labor Organization conventions, and if included, how will they be enforced?