Sentences with phrase «in labor power»

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«The notion was there were three sources of power in society: government, business, and labor,» Mills, the Harvard professor emeritus, says.

All individual authorities — the Labor Department, the IRS, the states — have their own particular mix of criteria, but each of them seeks to clarify two essential facts: whether the worker is under your control, and who has the most power in the relationship.

Premier Colin Barnett has softened his position on the proposed privatisation of Western Power, saying it could be used by Labor as a scare campaign in the state election next year.

While contractors with specialized skills may be able to negotiate with a company individually in order to obtain good pay and benefits, lower - skilled contractors have little power to negotiate on their own and are not covered under the federal labor laws that allow employees to come together in unions.

The overwhelming power of business to raise prices at will means in a full employment situation where labor would otherwise be able to fairly bargain for a real wage increase, instead, things blow up (spiraling inflation, that 70s show).

In order to implement labor reforms, Macron is going to have to take on the French unions and reduce their political power, which is immense and which has been accumulated over decades of French political infighting.

And unemployment means no pricing power for labor, no wages to pay off debts accrued during the bubble, a potential wage of foreclosures and a resulting set off layoffs in the service sector.

Instead, we had the Secretary of the Treasury wringing his hands over the power of their contracts, while others within the Administration were cavalierly dismissing the importance of the existing labor contracts in the auto industry.

On this Labor Day we would do well to remember that unions have long played a crucial role in the American economy in evening out the bargaining power between employers and employees.

In a demonstration of worker power, the supervisory board on Thursday also named a high - ranking labor representative, Gunnar Kilian, as head of personnel.

But industrial capital as well as labor has come under attack in an internecine war of finance capital against industrial capital, and even against the power of governments to retain control over national economies.

The power of Google snippets is in gathering data to demystify the black box of the notoriously fuzzy production process — in which raw material turns into output with the application of labor — and makes progress possible to measure, analyze, and recognize.

If successful, growth in labor, capital and technology in tandem can power productivity and industrial output in ways that are simply not possible in Reform Club peers such as Japan, South Korea and China.

Conversations about the power of making arrests, the corruption and complicity of local governments, the holistic care for survivors, the mechanisms of business and labor, the dangers of coming against criminal syndicates — these are not simple ideas or odds to overcome — especially in the NGO community.

Presently Mexico is home to militant, high - powered unions and the most burdensome labor regulation in North America.

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

We Presbyterians, who share so much — a confession of faith, a rich theological heritage, the advantages and the burdens of wealth and social power — could covenant to stay together, to labor with each other, in love, for justice and truth.

In addition to anxiety about the overwhelming influence of the profit motive, editors also worried about whether the power of labor organizations could develop rapidly enough to counter the autonomous industrial associations created by the NRA (January 3, 1934).

The unusual short - case justification for the first two options assumes that shifting the balance of power in favor of labor can force a redistribution of income from capitalist bad guys to worker good guys and thereby achieve a living wage for the firm's employees.

Much of the debate about the Church and power conflicts now going on in many American cities seems very familiar because it is a replay of discussions in which I was involved in the 1930's when the chief issue was the relation of the churches to the labor movement in its early struggles to achieve...

It means also that the government s power will rest on a strict execution of justice, on the rights of the family and of labor, and on the proclamation of the gospel.60 Essay four, «On the Possibility of the Word of the Church to the World,» is unfinished but it poses the issue of the church's responsibility for answering particular problems in the world.

But the computers, data banks, terminals, programs, and software of multinationals provide them with the power to move money, labor, parts, and natural resources in ways to emphasize profits without consideration of the welfare of any nation, especially the new Third World nations and their peoples.

When capital and labor, as categories, no longer make as much sense as they once did, it is not clear who in a corporation should have more power than others.

In more agrarian cultures, for example, women must be skilled in a variety of occupations and may share manual labor and earning power with their spouseIn more agrarian cultures, for example, women must be skilled in a variety of occupations and may share manual labor and earning power with their spousein a variety of occupations and may share manual labor and earning power with their spouses.

The coalition holds the kind of veto power that bigcity mayors, African - American leaders and labor unions hold in the Democratic Party.

Much of the debate about the Church and power conflicts now going on in many American cities seems very familiar because it is a replay of discussions in which I was involved in the 1930's when the chief issue was the relation of the churches to the labor movement in its early struggles to achieve power.

The Israeli Labor Party, which governed Israel from its beginning as a state in 1946 until Prime Minister Menachem Begin took power in June, had avoided cultivating the kind of American evangelical support expressed in the recent newspaper ads because it knew that to engage in religious arguments over national boundaries would be self - defeating.

Hence labor unions, which can confront owners with effective power, are an essential ingredient in a healthy capitalist society, for power must be shared in order to prevent exploitation.

Unlike the labor movement at its height, this policy initiative poses no threat to the structures of power in our society.

The Tasmanian poll is on the same day as the South Australia election, where Labor's Jay Weatherill will also try to hang on to power — in part by blaming the Abbott government for Holden's announced shutdown of car manufacturing in 2017.

Labor first proposed the idea of an inspector - general for animal welfare in 2013, but former agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce dumped it when the Coalition came to power.

After a Newcastle midfielder named George Eastham successfully challenged the system in a British court in 1963, the balance of power shifted toward labor — but only slightly.

What I really love is the power and strength that women find in them selves during labor.

That power places my hands in exactly the right spot to ease the discomfort of back labor.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

A return to natural childbirth started by giving women the power to have a say in the way they chose to labor and deliver.

'' [T] he play was more than a piece of art; it was an opportunity to engage communities in a movement to make maternity care mother - friendly, to end wrongful acts against mothers in the labor and delivery rooms and encourage mothers to take back their power and know their birth options.»

Almost nine months to the day that it launched its wedding registry, the recognized world leader in pizza delivery is sending out birth announcements for its latest labor of love — a baby registry powered by yours truly!

Successful achievers — those of us who have built companies and high - powered careers from the ground up — are especially afraid of being forced to hand over all the fruits of our hard labor and may make the decision never to get involved in a serious relationship again.

So as a dude, we owe it to the women in our lives, whether that be our significant others, whether that be to the moms in our practices, whether that be to the other birthing providers who are helping these women to meet them where they are and to help them through the process by giving them information, by offering support, and by absolutely not judging so that moms can maintain their power 100 % through not just the pregnancy process, but labor and then on to postpartum.

I strongly believe in the power of yoga to enhance the incredible mind / body transformation of being pregnant and to help ease and shorten labor.

Which in turn, allowed me to listen to and trust my own inner voice and intuition, instilling confidence and joy in my own innate powers to have a positive pregnancy, labor, and birth.

The pelvis is a fixed dimension as well, so in a labor process you know the only thing that I have any control over is the power or that is this labor adequate to try and keep things moving in and you know, you can have a woman with a good pelvis, if she's got a 10 pound baby there could still be a dystocia or inability to get that kid through that and she could have an eight pound baby next time and do very well with that and you see that sometimes.

In New York, Cuomo used the power of a state wage board at the Department of Labor to increase the wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 over the next several years.

State Sen. Tim Kennedy wanted no part of a heated exchange between a former labor boss (Steve McInnis, of the Carpenters Union) and power lobbyist (Brad Gerstman) that unfolded in front of him at an Albany hotel bar.

Both are labor intensive, since it takes a sizable staff to crank out messages and organize canvassers, meaning that grassroots - powered campaigns by their nature generate trained staff and volunteers in droves.

The 23,000 - member union has a habit of getting in very early with candidates in hopes of maximizing its investment and gaining maneuvering power in a field dominated by bigger labor heavyweights like SEIU 1199, CSEA and the AFL - CIO.

A trade union increases the power of the employees by allowing them to bargain collectively with the employer: when the employer has too much power (e.g., the only job in town), a union can «level the playing field» by controlling a large % of skilled workers and negotiate a better pay or benefits which would otherwise be denied by the employer's access to other labor sources.

He highlighted the power of New York State labor unions, which increased by 75,000 members in the last year.

Labor's power was also on display in the silence from Gov. Cuomo's office on a letter from three business leaders asking him to save billions for the MTA by opening up subway - construction projects to non-union firms.