Sentences with phrase «immigrant workers which»

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Nor can the nation's school systems account for foreign - educated adult immigrants, the dated skills of older workers and the changing needs of workplaces, which are often driven by technological change.

«Brexit seems like a step in the wrong direction in terms of integration,» noted Mehdi Jaffer, head of marketing at the London - based IT services startup AlphaSights, which employs around 300 workers — a large share of whom are immigrants.

Uber came under renewed pressure over the weekend for a Tweet promoting surge - free pricing during a taxi worker strike in support of immigrants impacted by Trump's Executive Order, which has been widely interpreted as a Muslim ban.

Trump's move also drew sharp rebuke from Silicon Valley, which relies heavily on immigrant workers, some of whom have helped start Alphabet's Google, Facebook, eBay and Yahoo.

Dwivedi says Quebec, which already struggles to retain its immigrants, would also face an even greater exodus of workers.

[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order to make permanent his Task Force To Combat Worker Exploitation, which is aimed primarily at protecting immigrant workers, permanent, and would also addressing the misclassification of employees.

«These community groups, which represent tens of thousands of working families, have been at the forefront of the Fight for $ 15, worker and immigrant rights, affordable housing, criminal justice reform, climate justice and more.

Hector Figueroa, president of 32BJ SEIU — which represents thousands of immigrant workers — said that Schneiderman is proving that New York «welcomes DREAMers,» and also praised Cuomo for his role in the effort.

They are::: The revelation in November 2007 that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was aware the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers but did not think the Home Office's official explanation was «good enough» for the press office or ministers to use;:: The fact that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons, which emerged in February this year;:: A whips» list of potential Labour rebels who might vote against the Government over plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days in a crucial Commons vote;:: A letter from Ms Smith to Prime Minister Gordon Brown warning that the recession could lead to a rise in violent crime and burglaries.

This is the kind of situation in which a postdoc society may provide support, especially for immigrant workers; unfortunately not every institution has one.

McFarland, USA Kevin Costner plays a track coach in a poverty - ridden high school, which combines the usual sports story with an immersion into the immigrant experience of Mexican field workers in California.

And it undeniably plays differently in the wake of worker strikes today for «A Day Without Immigrants» and greater divides between the working class and the President of the United States than when the film premiered at Toronto last year (which is not meant as a political statement, just a fact, and not an alternative one).

A deceptively simple tale of the doomed love affair between an ageing cleaner (Mira) and a young Moroccan gastarbeiter (immigrant worker) which exposes the racial prejudice and moral hypocrisy at the heart of modern West German society.

Competition between American workers and Chinese immigrants plus a growing nativism brought pressure upon Congress to take some kind of restrictive action, which began with the Chinese Exclusion Act of May 6, 1882.

Marrin presents an exemplary, accessible overview of labor history in this detailed account of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 workers died — most of them immigrant women between the ages of 14 and 23.

The principal residence for a foreign national under the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program, which is designed to help employers having trouble finding qualified workers in Ontario.

And now we move to the next level, which is a multiracial, people of color alliance that is hosted by the Movement for Black Lives action table, but has immigrant justice folks, climate justice folks, Black feminists, education workers, folks who're doing anti - war / anti-militarism work, folks who are veterans.

Immigration reform, which once garnered bipartisanship support in the Senate a few years ago, has wilted as American - born workers battle lower - paid immigrants for vanishing low - wage jobs.

students worked with The Woman's Fund of Miami - Dade County, a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of local women and girls; the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a community organization championing the rights of Florida migrant farm workers; the ACLU of Florida; Legal Services of Greater Miami, which provides civil legal services for the poor in Miami - Dade and Monroe County; the Community Justice Project, a nonprofit organization comprised of community lawyers who collaborate with community organizers and low - income communities of color; Catholic Charities Legal Services, which provides immigration services to South Florida's refugee and immigrant community; and Catalyst Miami, an anti-poverty non-Workers, a community organization championing the rights of Florida migrant farm workers; the ACLU of Florida; Legal Services of Greater Miami, which provides civil legal services for the poor in Miami - Dade and Monroe County; the Community Justice Project, a nonprofit organization comprised of community lawyers who collaborate with community organizers and low - income communities of color; Catholic Charities Legal Services, which provides immigration services to South Florida's refugee and immigrant community; and Catalyst Miami, an anti-poverty non-workers; the ACLU of Florida; Legal Services of Greater Miami, which provides civil legal services for the poor in Miami - Dade and Monroe County; the Community Justice Project, a nonprofit organization comprised of community lawyers who collaborate with community organizers and low - income communities of color; Catholic Charities Legal Services, which provides immigration services to South Florida's refugee and immigrant community; and Catalyst Miami, an anti-poverty non-profit.

The AFL has repeatedly called for the phasing out of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, especially in low - wage sectors, because it is driving down wages and blocking the first rungs on the job ladder which traditionally have been filled by young workers, seniors and new immigrants.

Instead of relying on cheap, vulnerable and exploitable workers, governments and businesses will have to do what they should have been doing all along, which is to nurture, develop and support our domestic labour force — which is a labour force that has always included new immigrants with full citizenship rights.

In the mid 1980s, while in private practice, he successfully litigated a major pro bono case in defense of funding for national support centers, which served as a resource to attorneys representing at - risk and underserved clients, including older Americans, Native Americans, immigrants and migrant workers.