Sentences with phrase «insecure jobs»

We know how the business works, how the cash flow works, and other elements that make a seemingly insecure job very secure.

David Miliband has been applauded by sections of the liberal press — most notably Martin Kettle in The Guardian — essentially for acknowledging the bleeding obvious; that the parties of the European Left are losing three main groups of voters; working class voters in insecure jobs who are fearful of migrant labour; middle income voters, who are scared of losing their standard of living, and younger middle class graduates who are alienated by the compromises of power.

These «flew poor» had always had insecure jobs as waiters, gardeners, maintenance men, nonunionized factory hands, assistant mechanics, assistant carpenters, assistant electricians — and other assistants.

«The bottom line is that all the political parties need to do much more to recognise the market failures in the labour market, the housing market and the childcare market that have left millions of families on poverty pay, with insecure jobs, high rents and unaffordable childcare.»

Is a man without a four - year college degree better off trying to land a well - paying but insecure job in traditionally male fields such as manufacturing or construction, or should he consider lower - paying but steadier employment in a female - dominated field?

In a recently published paper, we show that an important part of the explanation is that the Social Democrats have become unable to reconcile the demands of two groups of voters that have traditionally sup - ported them: on the one hand labour market «outsiders,» who have insecure jobs or no jobs at all; on the other hand labour market «insiders» with stable employment.

Because our economy's over-reliance on a long tail of low wage, low productivity, insecure jobs is a massive weakness and missed opportunity.

«Ed Miliband has addressed head on those concerns which have cost this party five million votes since 1997 - the illegal war in Iraq, insecure jobs, the sense that despite all the good things Labour did to make Britain a fairer place, that the government stopped being on their side,» he said.

The downside is that it's quite an insecure job — you never know where the next contract will come from.

Earlier this week, university research argued that take up of free school meals had become an unreliable measure of poverty - because it could miss hardship among those working in low - paid and insecure jobs.

Surrounded by an insecure job market and following opportunity wherever it may crop up, people can sometimes be like wage nomads, moving to different locations every few years, with some eschewing the conventional office job and going digital nomad altogether.