Sentences with phrase «labor groups for»

Rep. Tom MacArthur (R., N.J.) on Tuesday received an endorsement from one of the state's most influential labor groups for staying «true to his word» on building trades issues.

The nomination of Puzder, a former fast food executive who had led the company that owned Hardee's and Carl's Jr., had previously come under the scrutiny of labor groups for his support for automation.

The Transport Workers Union, the largest labor group for MTA employees, has released several unflattering ads against the mayor, rapping him for not doing enough.

Not exact matches

The advisory group, in a report submitted to Congress and the U.S. trade representative in late June, suggested the USTR borrow exact language pertaining to the agricultural sector and suggested using the Asiawide trade deal as the basis for text on environmental and labor regulation, with «additional strengthening of measures beyond what was in TPP,» according to a copy of the June 30 letter obtained by CNBC.

The square was declared off limits to demonstrations for a third year running and police blocked points of entry, allowing only small groups of labor union representatives to lay wreaths at a monument there.

(i) Assist companies in determining and interpreting their ratio (revenue stream number one); (ii) Sell the data back to companies to compare and explain ratios among their peers on an industry - by - industry basis, because average worker compensation for Bank of America will be different than that of Apple, for example (revenue stream number two); and (iii) Sell the data to labor groups to assist them in collective bargaining (revenue stream number three).

«We are pleased that Amazon is joining the remarkable group of forward - looking organizations that are pursuing innovations in apprenticeship for the 21st century,» said the Obama administration's Deputy U.S. Secretary of Labor, Chris Lu, in a press release.

To help identify the most promising industries for start - ups, a team of Inc. reporters hit the phones and scoured the data — from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and from private research groups such as Sageworks, IBISWorld, and AnythingResearch.com.

It's prudent for Brain Corp. to frame its machine as non-threatening in the eyes of organized labor groups.

While this figure might not have market watchers jumping up for joy, «it is a positive sign that more people flowed into the labor force and shows the labor market is on the right track,» says Kurt Rankin, an economist at PNC Financial Services Group.

In another email, he compared what the group does to how environmental and labor groups have operated for decades.

Last July, 23.1 million people in that age group were actively looking for a job or working, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Puzder, the chief executive of CKE Restaurants, has been widely criticized by labor rights groups for underpaying workers, failing to offer benefits, and attempting to prevent employees from organizing.

The world's largest retailer raised wages for its hourly workers to $ 10 per hour earlier this year, but labor groups have called the raise inadequate.

For their part, industry groups said they welcomed the addition and hoped Emanuel would soon lead the board to undo Obama - era policies, including allowing employees to organize in «micro-unions» and holding franchisors responsible for franchisees» violations of labor lFor their part, industry groups said they welcomed the addition and hoped Emanuel would soon lead the board to undo Obama - era policies, including allowing employees to organize in «micro-unions» and holding franchisors responsible for franchisees» violations of labor lfor franchisees» violations of labor law.

«We looked at transportation costs, labor costs, productivity, and it made sense,» said Allan McArtor, chief executive of Airbus Group Inc. «We will be building single aisle airplanes (in Mobile) for a long, long time.»

Although revenues for the group rose 3.8 percent, expenses rose further, up 8.1 percent, led by labor (up 8.1 percent) and fuel (up 17 percent).

Barack Obama's administration pushed for the Trans - Pacific Partnership, again over the objections of labor unions, this time joined by many public health groups.

David is coordinator of ICCR «s Bangladesh Investor Initiative, a global collaboration in support of the Accord for Fire and Building Safety; member, Steering Committee of the Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment; member, Advisory Group of the newly formed Responsible Labor Initiative of the Responsible Business Alliance and former chair, Advisory Board, Global Social Compliance Program.

He mocked them individually and as a group for portraying themselves as champions of the middle class while opposing labor unions.

This data included annual salary, annual incentive, long - term equity, and total compensation amounts for Labor Market Peer Group named executive officers.

«Shutting down for days on end during ramp is far from normal,» Kristin Dziczek, director of the industry, labor and economics group at the Center for Automotive Research, wrote in an email.

Following the Company's repayment of the TARP CPP investment in December 2009, the HRC re-evaluated the appropriate base salaries for the named executives based on 2010 Labor Market Peer Group compensation data.

This review was not conducted on base salary alone but also included reviews of appropriate annual incentive compensation and long - term incentive compensation for other post-TARP companies in the Labor Market Peer Group and the ongoing market and legislative challenges facing financial services companies.

For each position, this compensation data was ranked within the Labor Market Peer Group by the aggregate amount of annual salary, annual target and actual incentive awards, plus the annualized grant date value of long - term cash and equity compensation.

The HRC also considered each of the named executive's base salary and annual incentive compensation target in connection with the value of the Performance Share awards to set total fixed and target variable compensation for the named executives between the estimated median and 75th percentile of the Labor Market Peer Group.

This could be due to slightly more affordable mortgages, as well as other draws for millennials such as a strong labor market — unemployment is below the national average at 3.7 percent — and relatively high incomes for people in that age group, according to a Zillow analysis.

The GNC reviews the individual components and total amount of director compensation at least annually and may recommend changes in director compensation to the Board for its approval more or less frequently based on, among other factors, competitive pay data for non-employee directors of the financial services companies in the Company's Labor Market Peer Group.

Carmakers and suppliers getting most of their aluminum and steel from U.S. producers may not shield them from rising costs, said Kristin Dziczek, director of the industry, labor and economics group at the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Lighthizer is expected to try to nix another transnational court for investment disputes, and he has backing from a wide variety of constitutional lawyers, environmental and labor groups, and conservative think tanks that say the special courts encroach on U.S. sovereignty.

The Department of Labor is not the only group looking to implement a fiduciary rule for financial advice either.

As an example, «We're thinking about something like a 16 percent drop in the labor costs for manufacturing plants over this time period,» Hal Sirkin, a senior partner at The Boston Consulting Group, told CNBC.

An answer to both question could go like this: It is sometimes fair to tax one group higher than another because we have created an economy where there is an incredible potential for group A to accumulate drastically more amounts of economic wealth than group B, even though the labor of group B is more intrinsically valuable than group A. Given this inefficiency, it is just to redistribute asymmetrically because the initial distribution was flawed.

I've sat across the room from a group of fisherman who shared their stories of being drugged, forced to labor 20 hours a day for years on fishing boats, under horrific conditions.

According to a new report by the group Asia Floor Wage Alliance, labor violations in factories making clothes for American brands are still prevalent.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

Paramilitaries terrorize people into leaving their land, and labor organizers are the group most targeted for assassination.

Moreover, the two major American parties are not primarily competitive interest groups, with one, for example, representing capital and the other labor, or one reflecting rural interests and the other the interests of urban people.

During my thirty years of academic labor in the humanities, I have observed my colleagues across the country promote racial and sexual criteria in admissions and hiring, review curricula, textbooks, and tests for proper representation of groups, and elevate race and sexuality to essential research fields.

This will be taken to Include political organizations; fraternal organizations; college and school groups; labor groups; industrial, business and professional organizations; religious orders; civic clubs, memorial and patriotic societies; philanthropic and reform societies (Anti-Tobacco League, for example); athletic organizations; women's groups, etc., which are in good standing.

Walmart, which often comes under fire for labor practices by some groups, has a plan to become significantly more green.

When a person working that much can't pay for basic necessities without a government bailout, then there is indeed a problem with the cohesion of society, in that a group of employers gets the entire society to underwrite their labor costs via government «handouts.»

There are many forms of community in existence — family, neighborhood, school, the people one works with or plays with, the team one plays on or cheers for, bridge clubs, political parties, labor unions, Rotary clubs, Masons, the «solid south,» Florida versus California, the nation, and a host of other groupings in between.

But for the most part their influence is small in the organizations — political parties, labor unions, manufacturers» associations, farm groups — which are most effective in determining the direction of community affairs.

Even if there were no unfair barriers to opportunity for individuals or groups in the labor market, unequal capability could impede what Sen sometimes calls «effective freedom» or «real opportunities.»

However, the premium didn't cover the total costs of organic producers, which includes the opportunity cost of unpaid labor, in either year for any size group.

For crops that are not harvested, due to cost or other constraints, but are wholesome for human or animal consumption, explore partnerships and opportunities with secondary markets, feed operations, or non - profit / volunteer groups to reduce or eliminate cost, transport, and / or labor barrieFor crops that are not harvested, due to cost or other constraints, but are wholesome for human or animal consumption, explore partnerships and opportunities with secondary markets, feed operations, or non - profit / volunteer groups to reduce or eliminate cost, transport, and / or labor barriefor human or animal consumption, explore partnerships and opportunities with secondary markets, feed operations, or non - profit / volunteer groups to reduce or eliminate cost, transport, and / or labor barriers.

I was treated during labor for group b strep and wonder if that was the cause.

The hospital birthing center where I had my baby offers it... My midwife was actually excited that I wanted to do water labor but no water birth... I was the only one of her patients who DID N'T intend to birth in the water and she needed people birthing out of the tub for a control group in a waterbirth infection study she was contributing to.

Information for the submission was drawn from Baby Milk Action (marketing of breastmilk substitutes, water pumping in São Lourenço, Brazil), International Labor Rights Forum (child slavery and labour in the cocoa supply chain, Labour rights abuses in Colombia), Union of Filipro Employees (Labour rights abuses in the Philippines), Corporate Accountability International (Conflicts with communities over water resources), Attac Switzerland (Spying on campaign organisations), with additional information drawn from Food Inc. published by the UK Food Group (reference in the submission, treatment of dairy and coffee farmers).