Sentences with phrase «in labor struggles»

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One struggle is simply finding employment in a labor market which, while improving, is still tight.

The combined effects of discrimination in labor, housing, and education have compounded the struggle for wealth among communities of color.

In the popular consciousness, writers spend years laboring over their manuscripts, honing their ideas and then struggle to be noticed.

Economic growth has been falling since 2010 and the economy has been operating below its potential since then; employment growth, particularly full time employment growth has struggled; in 2014 only 121,000 jobs were created; employment growth has not kept up with population growth; labor force participation has declined to its lowest level since 2000; long - term unemployment has increased; the unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 7 per cent, and youth unemployment is at 14 per cent; business investment has stagnated; and Canadians are losing confidence in their economic future.

After all, the country has an entrepreneurship problem — as in, business growth and its labor market are struggling.

Businesses are struggling to fill vacancies in a tight labor market.

The latest numbers signal that dangerously low inflation — which Japan struggled with for two decades and the U.S. central bank has labored in recent years to avoid — is at Europe's front door.

It is against this background of public moral struggle that the people of Israel prepare to vote on July 23 for their next government, in an election that pits the conservative Likud Party of Menachem Begin and current Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir against the Labor Party headed by two - time loser Shimon Peres.

Further, as I have said before, if this little precarious foothold upon earth is all that we are ever to know of conscious living, if in fact there is no life except the material and physical, those of us who are not particularly altruistic by nature would hardly think our labors and struggles worth while.

Has life on earth labored along for two or three billion years in lonesome struggle eventually to eke out by accident the human species which has to gather itself together in various fragile social arrangements in order to protect itself from the intolerable muteness of the universe?

I strongly feel that the motivating factors which pushed those people to participate in that struggle was a quest for freedom to travel, to live and work and obtain just wages for their labors, and protection for their women from the landowners and their henchmen.

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...

Even wars for self - defense, legally justifiable and pulse - stirring as they are, seem in most cases to retard rather than to advance the labored struggle of mankind toward humane living.

And one of the strongest prophecies, IMHO, is Isaiah 66:7 - 8 which talks about Israel being born in one day with the «labor pains» (i.e.: war and struggles that normally come with becoming a nation) only occurring after the land has become a nation.

In finding the forms of its own narrative, it meets also the labor of the human race in the larger struggle for meaning and freedoIn finding the forms of its own narrative, it meets also the labor of the human race in the larger struggle for meaning and freedoin the larger struggle for meaning and freedom.

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.

Involvement in the multitudinous problems of a rapidly expanding urban area or exposure to the increasingly bitter struggle between labor and management or entanglement in the luxuriant and rank growth so abundantly fostered by the new wealth of the «gilded age»: these and other factors caused many men to re-examine their roles as ministers and to seek more effective ways of ministering to the needs of their time.11 Perhaps the most important thing that happened to such men was that they became aware of the many factors bearing on human welfare and thus of importance to the Christian gospel.

Mortal men strive and struggle, labor to do their best (and fail), move in the direction of fulfillment through the decisions they make.

Process is still operative, and the world is still in labor as it struggles to bring forth the Christ in new ways.

Labor organized and struggled for decades to have a voice in political decisions.

It appeared that the realities were the warring classes themselves, and so it had always been: «The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles».32 It was absurd of the German literati to espouse the misty cause of mankind.33 The only real and pressing issue was that of which side to take, labor's or capital's, in the ongoing class struggle.

Opposition agriculture spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon says Labor will not stand in the way of any support for struggling dairy farmers.

Gareth Bale in particular was struggling, laboring to get around the pitch in open play and taking the opportunity at every stoppage of play to try to stretch out the cramps in his legs.

As further noted in the APA, it appears that epidurals may cause the baby to become lethargic (making labor more difficult), or cause the newborn to struggle with latching on for proper breastfeeding.

Being in that small percentage of moms who've had a home birth, I tend to struggle with whether or not I should bother even talking about my labor and delivery when I meet another mom.

I know I personally struggled in lack of support during labor and postpartum — my mom and husband were there the entire labor and both were amazing, but I do think having a trained doula there would have been ideal, particularly in avoiding unwanted interventions.

From the outside looking in, the 38 - year - old former Calvin Klein model has everything — happy family, career spanning decades — but for Shields, the painful struggle to get pregnant and the ensuing slide into postpartum depression after her labor and delivery marks the most tumultuous time in her life.

As the woman screams while in labor, she continually gets comforted by the familiar faces around her and this reassures her that she is not alone in the struggle.

You don't want to be struggling with directions and seatbelts when you are in labor.

This is so comforting for other Moms struggling with labor and what is coming in the very near future.

Iannuzzi will begin his latest term at a critical juncture for the labor movement, as issues like collective bargaining and seniority are under attack nationwide, and as public K - 12 and higher education in New York struggle to cope with the devastating effects of more than $ 1 billion in cuts by state government.

At the mid-summer mark, the private sector in upstate New York was still struggling to produce net employment gains, according to the state Labor Department's latest monthly report.

From the battles of the unemployed and the campaigns to organize the CIO in the 1930s - 40s, through the civil rights and peace movements of the 1950s,»60s and»70s to the struggles that have given us the «new» labor movement, to the people's upsurge that elected our first African American president, and now the growing movements for a progressive, people's agenda — the 99 % — People's World and Mundo Popular have been there.

As federal Labor MP Andrew Leigh notes in his book on equality, unions in Australia remain fundamental in the struggle against growing economic inequality.

An apparent fall in construction - union membership in the same year that Wisconsin became a right - to - work state has labor officials shaking their heads and struggling to square the statistics with their actual experiences.

«Given the damaging and destructive tax and budget policies coming out of Washington that seem to target poor and working class families, it's good to know that our state has some countermeasures in place that actually help struggling New Yorkers,» said Ron Deutsch of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a labor - backed group that lobbies for the working poor.

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In the annals of the American labor movement, contested unionization campaigns are a common story, often involving downtrodden workers struggling against the concerted opposition of wealthy, powerful, even malign employers.

If you are struggling with prodromal labor, try to focus on the fact that even if you aren't in active labor yet, the contractions are preparing your body and may make things easier when real labor starts.

After my first birth I realized an important fact: labor pain can not be accurately described in smiley or sad faces, and my biggest struggle is relaxing and staying joyful during labor (which is what helps me the most when I'm able to do it).

Kevin Yenerall, Surveying Social Justice in American Films: Civil Rights, Labor Struggles & Gay Rights # 30.

Kristen Bell fares just as poorly as the repressed stay - at - home mom who struggles to find her voice in her marriage, trying to drum up laughs in a bra - shaming sequence that is almost identical to the one she was involved in just in the last year in her role in the Melissa McCarthy vehicle, The Boss — that it's Kunis's character, the most fashionable of the three moms (the one with perfect hair, make - up and 5 - inch designer heels) who wears doesn't know her bra isn't sexy only speaks to the film's laboring to force comedy without build - up.

Everyone is separated but must hurry back home, because as Evelyn struggles with being in labor, the creatures make their way to the farm.

In order to meet these new demands, states will need to restructure work along several fronts, including brokering support to struggling schools and districts, raising standards and expectations, addressing weaknesses in the teacher and principal labor market, and strengthening connections between early childhood education, K — 12, higher education, and careerIn order to meet these new demands, states will need to restructure work along several fronts, including brokering support to struggling schools and districts, raising standards and expectations, addressing weaknesses in the teacher and principal labor market, and strengthening connections between early childhood education, K — 12, higher education, and careerin the teacher and principal labor market, and strengthening connections between early childhood education, K — 12, higher education, and careers.

This research study from the Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment (CAPSEE) examines academic and labor outcomes for struggling students in an unnamed state who transfer from a four - year to a two - year postsecondary institution (also known as «4 - 2 transfer students»).

Yet the struggle to advance labor rights continues, including the battle in Springfield to close the 4.5 loophole — Section 4.5 of the Illinois Educational Labor Relationslabor rights continues, including the battle in Springfield to close the 4.5 loophole — Section 4.5 of the Illinois Educational Labor RelationsLabor Relations Act.

Intertwining myriad voices, Wiley Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of the now forgotten struggle of the labor movement in early twentieth - century America - and pays tribute to the thousands of heroic women and men who risked their lives to win basic rights for all workers.

But publishers and online retailers warn that when Amazon expands its retail offerings, it will struggle to replicate its efficient business model in Brazil, where labor costs are high, taxes complex and less than 20 percent of roads are paved.

In the past, large - balance borrowers posed less of a risk to taxpayers and were unlikely to struggle with their loans because most went to graduate or professional schools, borrowed modest amounts and had strong labor market outcomes.

Now, she is pregnant, in labor and struggling.