Sentences with phrase «adding more labour»

The falling loonie also made it more expensive to import machinery and equipment, so Canadian firms avoided making investments in automation and instead increased production by adding more labour.

Not exact matches

To add to the uncertainty, Prime Minister Theresa May's handling of the negotiations could cost her her job — she could be replaced by a more «hardline» Tory leader or the Labour Party's leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

Add in all the perks of producing at home — such as eliminating exchange rate uncertainty, lower chances of supply chain disruptions, a more plentiful supply of qualified labour and the synergies that develop when the R&D guys can easily chat with factory floor employees — and the overall costs of building a new factory in the U.S. or China are roughly equal.

A commodities boom has driven the Canadian dollar from a 62 cents US low up to parity, vaporizing any labour cost advantage we previously enjoyed over the U.S. and changing the structure of the economy; at the margin, a Canadian worker adds far more to our economy by extracting resources than by building cars.

«The Mayors» Council plan not only quickly improves transit service with 25 % more buses, it will give those driving to work or school the option to leave the car at home and take transit, which is better for our environment,» McGarrigle said, adding that the BC Federation of Labour, representing over 500,000 unionized workers across the province, unanimously supported a resolution Unifor Local 111 introduced to endorse a Yes in the referendum.

The International Labour Organization estimates that halving this youth unemployment could add more than US$ 2.2 trillion to global gross domestic product (GDP).

This labour market trend is very much in evidence in recent data too, with the service / information industries adding jobs much more rapidly than goods - producing sectors.

The perfect risotto is often perceived as a labour of love where you slowly add the stock, stir, wait for the stock to be absorbed, and then add more stock.

And other businesses have just bitten the bullet and added more temp labour to account for expected turnover because they can not sacrifice fulfilment speed and fall behind.

«Labour has called on the government to allow registration en bloc for certain institutions — such as schools, care homes and Universities — and to allow councils to use local data more extensively,» Twigg added.

Lord Michael Levy, a Labour member of the House of Lords (the upper house of Britain's Parliament), said in a BBC appearance that the party had a «serious problem» with anti-Semitism, adding that it seemed «more prominent» in Labour than in its rival Conservative party.

The 5 million poorest households are paying more in tax and receiving less in benefits than when Labour came to power, a difference that adds up to # 1,300 per annum.

Despite more than 90 MPs signing the parliamentary motion against the proposals tabled by Audrey Wise MP, outbursts of anger at meetings of the PLP addressed by Harriet Harman, protests and vocal opposition from women Labour Party members and lone parent organisations — even Glenys Kinnock MEP added her name to a petition and letter against the proposals — the new batch of Labour women MPs were largely noticeable by their absence.

The boundary changes haven't made a vast difference to the seat directly, although there may be more Labour voters in the newly added part of the seat.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

He also outlines two further «concrete steps» that should be taken by Corbyn, adding that Labour MPs should threaten to resign en masse if the leader refuses to do more.

She added: «I'm confident more people will sign up and get involved in the Labour party and get out campaigning.»

Labour will recruit 500 more border guards to add to our safeguards and controls.

Having distanced itself from a potentially unpopular relationship with the ever more confrontational trades unions and binned a strategic position on public spending that didn't add up, Labour now has nothing distinctive to say.

Eddie Izzard, normally more used to 26 miles of running, added some glamour to the early morning run, while Andy Burnham had recovered from Labour's crushing defeat to the Lobby in Sunday's annual football fixture to join the joggers.

Mr McDonnell added: «We have a solid Labour base in England and Wales, but there is much more work to be done.

After the result was declared, he added: «The Scottish Labour party has been around for more than a century.

Shares in Lloyds Banking Group rose 5.75 % while Barclays was 3.7 % higher», adding, «Energy firms also saw their share prices rise, as Labour had wanted a price freeze and more powers for the energy regulator.

He added: «There are of course, many more Labour than Liberal Democrat candidates in winnable marginal seats, so I've had to concentrate my cash on first - time Labour candidates, rather than ex-MPs.»

(In fairness I should add that Labour - run Manchester has an even more staggering total of 1,830.)

He argued that unity in Labour was essential if the party was to win the next general election, adding: «I heard in the speech yesterday a coming to terms with the need to change to a more collaborative and unifying style.»

Brown's detailed proposals add to expectations that Lamont will announce next week that Labour will give Holyrood far greater control over income tax rates, cede control over some welfare policies to Holyrood, and devolve more financial powers to local councils.

His letter to members adds: «It is certainly our belief that Labour needs more trade unionists in parliament, as opposed to seats being handed out on a grace - and - favour basis to Oxbridge - educated «special advisers», but we make no apology for that.

«The way British people get jobs of the future is to get educated and more skilled because we can not compete on labour costs alone,» he added.

In a speech in London, Mr Corbyn said that labour will «cut class sizes not cut schools» and «take a million people off the NHS waiting lists not add millions more».

«Momentum is trying to help the Labour party become more democratic, participatory, more open and more campaigning,» he added.

He added: «The pitfall is that it works more against Labour than for us.

He said the Government had added «more to our national debt than even Labour managed in 13 years» and criticised the decision to promise to retain a funding formula that favours Scots over the English.

The additional funding means this government will be investing more than # 3.1 billion compared to # 2.7 bn in the previous 5 years under the last Labour government,» he added.

The Conservatives say Ed Miliband is «too weak» to take on the unions and the proposed changes will make no difference, adding: «All he has done is give the union barons even more power to buy Labour's policies and pick Labour's leader.»

He added that if more members of trade unions were to join Labour it would «transform the party» with thousands of activists with strong opinions working at grass - roots levels.

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More recently, Gabrielle Fortier - Cofsky (in labour, employment, pensions and benefits law) and Anne M. Lemay (in labour and employment law) joined our office to add to our ability to serve clients in both official languages.

Add new grounds for employers or employees to seek decertification of a union: three or more years inactive; continue the current grounds for seeking to decertify a union: loss of support and unfair labour practices

The entire sequence of events, she adds, including the company's training record and visits by the Ministry of Labour, was more relevant to a court deciding an issue related to the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

Fold articling and bar admission courses into law school curricula + add a 4th year to law school for specialization: (1) because the great shortage of jobs compels more new lawyers to become sole practitioners earlier than they should have to, given the present law school course content and purpose; and, (2) because of the need to specialize earlier so as to increase the efficacy of their qualifications earlier; (3) articling jobs are now scarce, and increasing shortages of clients is causing law firms to more frequently and thoroughly use articling law students as a source of cheap labour.

Marianne Thyssen, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility, added: «This Commission is firmly delivering to make Europe more social.