Sentences with phrase «for poorer workers»

He itemised for the Liberal Democrat's victories on tax: no inheritance tax cuts, the capital gains tax rise, income tax reductions for poorer workers only.

But recently, new minimum - wage laws and a tight labor market have pushed up wages for the poorest workers, squeezing retailers who are already under pressure from Amazon.

Not exact matches

Standard & Poor's cited the possibility that Air Canada may be called upon to pay severance for Aveos 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.

As the world's largest sourcing and logistics company, Li & Fung plays matchmaker between poor countries» factories and affluent countries» vendors, finding the lowest - cost workers, haggling over prices and handling the logistics for roughly a third of the retailers found in the typical American shopping mall, including Sears, Macy's, JCPenney and Kohl's.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

«I worry for the country and what's happening to the economy and the poor federal workers,» Virts - Mozer says.

It found that workers on labor platforms relied on their gig economy earnings either as a primary source of income or to make up for poor earnings from nonplatform work.

Just last month, two Chinese restaurants «fired» their robot waiters after the machines proved to be poor replacements for human workers.

For those who argue that China is poor because capital stock per worker in China is much lower than in the advanced countries, and that China should aggressively increase investment to close the gap, the findings in this paper ought to be surprising.

Understanding Changes in Ontario's Electricity Markets and Their Effects finds that poor energy policy choices — including Ontario's Green Energy Act — has increased electricity prices for residents, cost tens of thousands of manufacturing workers their jobs and produced only minimal health and environmental benefits.

Workers and visitors pray and sing outdoors, discuss Jewish texts about nature and learn hands - on about the countless Jewish laws and customs connected to farming and how they can be applied for stopping waste, helping the poor and sustaining the planet, Chain said.

That law, for example, forbids favoritism, whether to rich corporations or poor workers, as well as the manipulation and distortion of currencies.

He repeats his description of the ways bad charity (the Great Society) drove out good charity (religiously based groups): It reinterpreted the causes of poverty as exclusively material and environmental; its bureaucracy tried to reach ever - larger numbers of poor people with a decreasingly personal strategy for fighting poverty; it dismissed the role of volunteers in favor of professional social workers; and it removed the incentives for work, saving, and marriage.

The resolution offered in all three passages is also remarkably similar: God recruits the prophet to plead on behalf of the poor and needy; Timothy recruits the community for a vocation of holiness; and the crafty worker fiddles with the books to recruit sympathy for himself.

We need the Wal - Mart worker who depends on her job despite its poor benefits as well as the leader of the local movement to boycott the megachain for its labor abuses.

The workers are very poor and platinum sells for an enormous price.

Typical of this approach are the activities of Nader's organization, Common Cause, legal aid for the poor, Chavez» organization of farm workers, the enforcing of civil rights, legislation for minority groups, and revival and application of the doctrine of just war to international conflict.

Today thousands of garment workers took to the streets to protest the industry's poor working conditions in the country where many work 12 - hour shifts for up to 30 days a month.

To front - load the story by saying people were being treated in animal stalls, and only later point out it was a free clinic held in a county fairground (rural area, large crowd... likely the only suitable place that passed health and safety requirements for such an event), and to not mention that many if not most of those taking advantage of the free medical care were likely farm workers and not here legally... is beyond poor reporting.

The renewal of funding for welfare, with its goal of turning the dependent nonworking poor into self - sufficient workers, could offer a chance to recalculate what it takes to make a worker self - sufficient.

The enemies of Justice for the poor peoples are linked together: networking, merging companies, developing technologies that reduce labour requirements, hence reduce employment and the power of organized workers.

So, for these and other reasons, we do not now often see our society as one divided into wealthy exploiting owners and poor exploited workers.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

But almost every element of this dynamic of human dissolution has also been aided and abetted by Republican policies, if in different guises: commercial self - interest, disregard for the poor and the survival struggles of economically battered workers, lack of interest in environmental self - discipline and generational concern for the future, disrespect for the Nations.

In the space of time available to him, of course, Mr. Clinton could offer little more than a hasty outline of this proposal, but he did manage to make clear that what he was referring to was some sort of system whereby American high school (and, as it was to turn out, also college) graduates would exchange some years of service, either as policemen, environmental workers, or offerers of some form of assistance to poor children, in exchange for the government's subsequently paying their college tuition» a kind of GI Bill for non-GIs.

One reason for the lack of improved feeling on the part of Mexican workers is that their wages are extremely poor.

The (relatively) tight labor market for low - skill workers reveals the pathologies not only of the American poor, but of an American elite who would gladly displace and replace low - skill American workers.

In January 1995 the Washington Post quoted Newt Gingrich as saying that public broadcasting is a «sandbox for the rich» which should not be paid for by «poor workers.»

I believe that people, poor as they were by our standards, had more control over their own lives in those days than is possible today for most workers, especially in the developing countries.

But consider also that «Christian» in India is often perceived as synonymous with «medical worker» or «healer» because so many Christians there are caring for the poor and wounded.

Raymond Fung28 argued for a missionary movement among the world's poor so that the slum dwellers, factory workers, street laborers, farm hands, and their families could be confronted with the claims of Jesus.

Essentially they are the ones who are not strong enough to be advocates for themselves: prisoners, very old and very poor people, household workers, most people who live in Third World countries, retarded children and adults, schoolchildren, immigrants, farm workers, unemployed persons, the institutionalized mentally ill, sometimes women, sometimes gays.

These monies were now combined to form a «Common Chest» from which funds were provided for the poor, the aged, the orphaned, and for loans to poor workers and for dowries to poor girls at four per cent.

Jesus tells us that we are called to do for the poor farmer in Cuzco, the inner - city gang member, the undocumented worker and the pregnant teen what we would want done if we were in their places.

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

Worker Exploitation: Many banana plantation workers work long hours in difficult conditions - handling pesticides and herbicides without sufficient protection - for low wages and poor job security.

«Whatever your ethics or religion, it's just good business to treat the workers well,» he told me, as we toured the neat, clean, well - maintained barracks that house 480 seasonal workers on the farm at harvest time, most of them very poor Nicaraguan families who come into Costa Rica for a few months each year.

Qualities: Giroud - Hold up (but not against top defenders Tery, Cahil, etc), short pass, hard working, team player, defensive duties (set - pieces), injuries Benteke - Hold up, short pass, better dribbler, long shots, finishing, positioning, defensive duties (set - pieces), can play with his back to the goal and also drop deep and face the goal when marked weakness: Giroud - very slow, easily marked, poor finishing (not wc finisher), technique Benteke - injuries, not a hard worker If you look the stats for the since 2012/2013, they have almost similar records except that Benteke scored like total of 19 goals (correct me if I'm wrong) in his 1st season and also have a decent record against top teams, keep in mind he plays for AstonVilla not Arsenal where you get much more chances and better players around.

Donor contributions help us buy medical supplies and food for the poor and fund the salaries of national midwives in the Philippines, and help us travel to train health workers in lifesaving skills around the globe.

How can you be accused of neglect when there is no abuse well cps said we both need to see doctors we both need to see them for a medical physiological evaluation all because we objected to a false claim from a hospital a hospital that did a forced c section on my wife so that they could receive more money from DSHS The cash machine for the poor who in return take's babies to keep there service going selling babies for 25.000 dollars yes it's a sick system one that «Hitler Would be proud of The SS worker who brought a Sheriff with her all to see yes our child, is safe yes we care for him!

(No paid maternity leave or sick days, and poor workplace protections for pregnant workers.)

What of Tomasi's second claim, that capitalism has raised the standard of living for workers and even the (relatively) poor?

She truly understood the vital role labor unions serve in strengthening our economy, and worked hand in hand with us to improve workplace protections, increase wages for America's working poor and middle class, and protect workers» health and retirement benefits.

De Blasio is also is calling for an overhaul of housing programs and tax incentives to spur the construction of tens of thousands of apartments for poor New Yorkers, as well as teachers, firefighters and other workers, who increasingly find themselves priced out of a booming real estate market and rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.

«The Democratic field for Mayor this year was comprised of candidates who are passionate about improving the quality of life for workers, the middle class, and New York's most vulnerable, such as the poor and senior citizens,» said UAW Region 9A Director Julie Kushner.

Hawkins» platform includes tax reform that would create a city income tax, anti-poverty initiatives, state - supported worker co-ops for poor and working - class people, public ownership of utilities and desegregation of schools and housing.

He added that poor health services and motivation for workers had been responsible for the exodus of Nigeria's...

Public worker unions are expected to soon air TV ads opposing cuts, emphasizing that deep cuts will mean layoffs for New Yorkers and reduced services for the elderly, the infirm and the poor, many of them children.

The groups — including the United University Professions, New York State Nurses Association and the Transit Workers United Local 100 — want to see billions spent on renewable energy and infrastructure projects, resources for environmental concerns in poor communities and fair labor and training standards in clean energy.