Sentences with phrase «improving labor conditions»

Economic growth is further supported by steadily improving labor conditions, expanding credit creation, significantly de-leveraged consumers and corporate balance sheets, and even signs of an improving housing market and modest inflationary pressures.

Phasing in land reform, improved labor conditions, free education and healthcare, Nasser argued that the road to democracy had to begin with freedom from poverty and colonialism.

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Indicators suggest slightly improved labor market conditions this month.

With an energy - related rebound in inflation fading, signs of improving economic conditions need to be put into perspective, as the output gap across the region as a whole remains large, and so does the slack in its labor market.

Damore asserted that his memo was designed to enlist his fellow employees in improving working conditions at Google, «concerted activity» protected by the National Labor Relations Act.

With an energy - related rebound in inflation fading, signs of improving economic conditions need to be put into perspective — despite the strong performance of Germany, the bloc's largest economy — as the output gap across the region as a whole remains large, and so does the slack in its labor market.

The agency's mission includes oversight of work - related benefits and rights and improving working conditions for people at all levels of the U.S. labor force.

[U] nderpinned by an improving labor market, better household balance sheets, favorable financial conditions, a healthier housing market as household formation gradually returns to levels that are more closely aligned with demographic factors, higher nonresidential investment as firms finally upgrade aging capital stock, and a smaller fiscal drag.

It contains no stories drawn from the thousands of mothers, children, labor activists and university workers who have been «disappeared» or slain because of their efforts to improve living conditions.

Legislation to shorten hours of labor and improve sanitary conditions for men, women, and children employed in mines and factories was indebted chiefly to Evangelicals.

Clergy and laity, both of the Church of England and of the Nonconformists, were active in adjusting disputes between laborers and employers and in seeking to improve housing and other labor conditions.

«I am a former retail worker and a former labor organizer, and I understand the need to make our voices heard when it comes to improving conditions, payment, benefits and security in the workplace,» she said.

Powderly articulated the Knights» rejection of craft - based organizing, in favor of universal labor solidarity, by saying «the condition of one part of our class can not be improved permanently unless all are improved together.»

«I am a former retail worker and a former labor organizer, and I understand the need to make our voices heard when it comes to improving conditions, payment, benefits and security in the workplace,» said Alcántara.

Peoples - Stokes says a key part of the weekend was showing the connection of labor unions and the working poor in improving conditions.

Fall seeding, in particular, enables improved seedling establishment when field conditions are warmer and drier, creates more balanced field labor requirements between fall and spring, and improves yield by avoiding high temperatures that quicken maturity (Chen et al. 2006; Cutforth et al. 2007).

«Neither NUMMI's labor costs nor business conditions are competitive, so we are working hard to improve them and make NUMMI more attractive to Toyota,» the statement said.

Labor market conditions have improved further, with strong job gains and a lower unemployment rate.

«Rising equity markets, improving labor market conditions, rising home values and relative stability in Washington has consumers feeling more optimistic as we turn the corner into 2014,» said Lindsey Piegza, chief economist at Sterne Agee.

Labor market conditions have improved in recent months; the unemployment rate has declined but remains elevated.

Labor market conditions improved, with the unemployment rate declining further.

The Committee expects that, with appropriate policy accommodation, economic activity will expand at a moderate pace and labor market conditions will continue to improve gradually, moving toward those the Committee judges consistent with its dual mandate.

The employee filed a charge claiming that her termination violated a provision of the National Labor Relations Act that protects concerted activity on behalf of employees to improve wages or working conditions.

«Concerns about business conditions and the labor market are casting a dark cloud over consumers that is not likely to lift until the job market improves,» said Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board's consumer research center, in a statement.

Despite the unemployment rate dropping to 8.2 percent, the lowest rate in more than three years, it is not indicative of improving labor market conditions, as the rate was driven by a substantial decline in the labor force.

Consumer confidence increased in response to improving labor market conditions.

Fannie economists point to several positives in the housing recovery's favor: Low gasoline prices, stronger labor market conditions, rising household net worth, improving consumer and business confidence, and reduced fiscal headwinds.

Consumers seem to have gotten out of their summer rut due in large part to improving labor market conditions and improving attitudes toward employment prospects and future income.

Importantly, labor market conditions continued to improve with nonfarm payroll job growth increasing nearly 250,000 across many industries, including construction.