Sentences with phrase «conditions for all workers»

«What we haven't seen is the efficiency gains translating into higher wages or better conditions for workers.»

That pact has been accused of syphoning manufacturing jobs from the U.S., while expanding employment overseas, often with poor conditions for workers and weak environmental oversight.

«On the other hand, work and working conditions for workers are continuing to get worse.»

Cyrus and James Clark founded shoe business Clarks in Street, Somerset in 1825, and James Clark Junior ensured the company's factories had some of the best conditions for workers in the whole country.

They know how to adapt to climate change and must provide good labor conditions for their workers.

Abetz said the company was wrong to agree to «over-generous» conditions for the workers in early 2013, pointing to a «shiny tin allowance» for forklift drivers as an indication of excessive conditions in SPC Ardmona's enterprise agreement with workers.

These are brands made in China in sweat shops, deplorable conditions for the workers there.

Keptin - Jr continues to work closely with the same production studios in Lithuania for many years, ensuring good working conditions for the workers.

She has grasped that the role of the unions must expand beyond securing better terms and conditions for workers — the long - term survival of the movement demands it.

In the 26th District, Tercyak said his agenda again will focus on improving conditions for workers and the middle class.

He attacked what he argued are unsafe and unfair conditions for workers on non-union jobs sites.

A shocking amount of that high - class yoga gear is produced on the Indian sub-continent in appalling conditions for workers.

Another thing I love about the maker - centered business model that Ten Thousand Villages takes is how they really focus on not only fair wages and good working conditions for their workers / makers, but also really focusing on creating a sustainable, long - term opportunity that's going to ultimately change an entire community.

Leaders should examine policies that set conditions for workers who don't have the protections, or rewards, of powerful faculty members and administrators.

Fair and safe working conditions for all workers.

EQUITY AND FAIR TRADE Fair wages and working conditions for all workers (including construction) as defined by international labour standards HEALTH AND HAPPINESS Facilities and events for every demographic group In June 2007, Masdar City received the first World Clean Energy Award from the Transatlantic21 Association in Basel, Switzerland.

Cultural sustainability will be encouraged so that the architecture will integrate local values, fair wages and working conditions for all workers as defined by international labor standards will apply, and facilities and events will be provided for every demographic group.

The legislation will encourage client employers to provide and maintain safe and healthy working conditions for all workers in their workplaces, including temporary help agency workers.

The lax adherence to safety and industry training standards, along with an increasing demand for faster networks, has led to dangerous conditions for these workers.

«As CEO and a member of the board of directors, Tim is overseeing a company - wide effort to use 100 percent renewable energy at all Apple facilities and has helped improve conditions for workers who make the company's products.

Assists management in the annual inspection of workplaces to assure safe and healthful conditions for workers.

History: in groups, students play two employers from the industrial revolution, one advocating for improved conditions for workers and the other not.

Not exact matches

As a result, safer work conditions are becoming more of a reality for the nearly five million garment - industry workers in Bangladesh.

ISTANBUL (AP)-- Workers and activists marked May Day with defiant rallies and marches for better pay and working conditions Monday.

In Turkey, Zughbi is preparing for a lifetime of exile, but says conditions are not much better, as he struggles to make a living still as a medical aid worker.

Aaron Lamstein was totally up - front about the fact that he can't vouch for every condition under which workers manufacture his products, since the factories he uses are spread out across the United States, nor can he claim that all the components that accompany WorldWise's goods are recycled or organic.

We respectfully asked the Cambodian government to continue to improve working conditions for Cambodian factory workers and treat civil society with fairness, in accordance with international standards and norms.»

If the goal is to have minimum - wage incomes exceed StatsCan's LIM, we probably want to account for the actual labour market conditions minimum wage workers face.

After Ivanka Trump «s fashion brand came under fire for how much it pays its factory workers in China, the Guardian reports that workers at another of the company's manufacturers, this time in Indonesia, face similar conditions.

One organization that has worked to improve working conditions for garment workers is the independent Workers Rights Consworkers is the independent Workers Rights ConsWorkers Rights Consortium.

Like Sachs, Whippman believes that «there are many reasons why life in America is likely to produce anxiety compared with other developed nations: long working hours without paid vacation time for many, insecure employment conditions with little legal protection for workers, inequality, and the lack of universal health care coverage, to name a few,» but she stresses that our «happiness - seeking culture» is also part of the problem.

Labor Day is almost here — and employment conditions for U.S. workers is as divisive an issue as ever.

The idea of May 1 as a day for workers» rights was born in the US city of Chicago, where on May 1, 1886 hundreds of thousands of people walked off the job to protest long hours and harsh working conditions.

The USTR's Ambassador Michael Froman said in a statement, «Our GSP [Generalized System of Preferences] statute requires certain basic standards for worker rights and worker safety as a condition of eligibility.

Factors to consider may include whether a possible employer has the power to direct, control, or supervise the worker (s) or the work performed; whether a possible employer has the power to hire or fire, modify the employment conditions or determine the pay rates or the methods of wage payment for the worker (s); the degree of permanency and duration of the relationship; where the work is performed and whether the tasks performed require special skills; whether the work performed is an integral part of the overall business operation; whether a possible employer undertakes responsibilities in relation to the worker (s) which are commonly performed by employers; whose equipment is used; and who performs payroll and similar functions.

In Bangladesh, workers, mostly women, work long hours for minimum wages that labour advocacy groups say keep those workers trapped in poverty and with few or no rights to organize to improve conditions.

Fast - food workers from McDonald's and other chains on Wednesday are participating in the latest in a series of national protests calling for higher pay and better working conditions.

Rollovers would be administratively expensive and would defeat the goal of connecting workers» long term savings to longer - term assets — a necessary condition for guaranteeing secure and adequate returns.

My mentor Michael Dooley once observed of employee participation in corporate democracy that workers will be indifferent to most corporate decisions that do not bear directly on working conditions and benefits: «As to the majority of managerial policies concerning, for example, dividend and investment policies, product development, and the like, the typical employee has a much interest and as much to offer as the typical purchaser of light bulbs.»

The Department of Commerce is committed to creating the conditions for continued business and job growth by supporting advanced manufacturing, fostering innovation, increasing trade and investment, and equipping our workers with the skills and training needed to succeed in a competitive global economy.»

Jefferson, Washington, and the Congress chose to help the industry get back on its feet by what was essentially a tax cut (in lieu of tariffs paid for supplies coming from outside the U.S.) to the owners and workers of the cod fishery on the condition that the ship owners share the tax credits with all the workers.

We will make it easier for federally regulated workers to request more flexible working conditions.

As for the conditions of Chinese workers etc that some have blamed on multinationals like Apple (and thus by proxy on Jobs), I thank my lucky stars I was born in the West and not in China, but does anybody really believe they were better off slaving in a rice field for 12 hours a day under hardline communism?

A group of workers at Venezuela's state - owned oil company is requesting wages in dollars as well as meal plans and better health insurance to make up for what they called «suffocating» economic conditions.

Consequently, even «best practices» that fully enforce Title VII «are insufficient to realize a labor market responsive to the needs of low - income workers for adequate wages, safe work conditions, and work hours and schedules that allow for fulfilling family and civic lives.»

Temporary migration leaves these workers vulnerable by controlling the conditions of their work, and sets a dangerous precedent for all workers.

The conditions for oil workers have deteriorated for years, with shortages of food, unsafe working conditions, and hyperinflation destroying the value of paychecks.

Our proposals also include a number of other measures to improve workplace conditions: enhancing members» right to refuse dangerous work; specific measures to reduce stress for front - line workers and shift workers; improved collective agreement language on workplace harassment and discrimination; strong maternal health provisions; and fairness for injured workers.

At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»

On Monday, the Philippine Senate ratified the Domestic Workers Convention, launching into effect new levels of labor protection and working conditions for millions of Philippine wWorkers Convention, launching into effect new levels of labor protection and working conditions for millions of Philippine workersworkers.