Sentences with phrase «labor reform»

Their efforts ultimately fails, but helps put labor reform on the political map.

Over the longer term, we want to see tangible progress in labor reform and in cutting red tape for local businesses.

French president faces biggest test yet over labor reform.

Ellis - Lamkins herself has a diverse work background: She spent decades campaigning for labor reform, but also helped the musician Prince secure the rights to his musical masters in 2014.

NEW YORK Puerto Rico's governor said on Sunday he would submit a revised fiscal turnaround plan on Thursday to the island's federally appointed oversight board, but the plan would not include labor reforms and pension cuts the board demanded.

Bowers creates photo - realist drawings of isolated individuals who marched on behalf of immigrant labor reform on International Workers» Day in 2011 and were in TransLatina Coalition protests in 2016.

Peter Hartz, VW's chief of personnel and the architect of Chancellor Schröder's radical labor reforms, pleaded guilty to criminal charges.

The French government is to unveil final details of proposed labor reforms Thursday in what is seen as a key plank of President Emmanuel Macron's political and economic strategy for the next five years.

NEW YORK, April 18 - Puerto Rico's federally - appointed oversight board on Wednesday unveiled a framework for the bankrupt island's fiscal turnaround that breaks with Governor Ricardo Rossello's vision, pushing pension cuts and labor reforms while hinting at layoffs.

And if Macron is able to achieve some success with labor reform, I think we could see operating margins in France rising higher, unemployment going lower and the overall prospects for gross domestic product (GDP) growth improving.

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.

States that have implemented public sector labor reforms have witnessed plummeting union membership rates.

In the Senate, bills considered for scoring by Unshackle Upstate included measures such as the formal adoption of the state spending cap and labor reforms such as changing the Scaffold Law.

In the following months, labor reform laws and factory safety regulations were readily passed, including the Sullivan - Hoey Fire prevention law mandating the installation of sprinkler systems in factories.

This week, the Washington Examiner restated its position that the Employee Rights Act (ERA), a widely supported piece of labor reform legislation currently before Congress, would expand the opportunities for employees to have their voices heard in the workplace.

«AAE is proud to represent educators who are thoughtfully considering commonsense labor reforms, and we hope these findings will be a useful tool for policymakers and stakeholders on all levels» stressed Beckner.

As Wisconsin marks the one year anniversary of historic labor reforms, the public employee unions, backed by legislative Democrats, vow to reclaim the state for their members.

But distinctly missing from ballots at the state level are any pension or government labor reform measures...

Providing regular commentary on education and labor reform issues for radio and television programs, his writings also have been featured in major Colorado publications.

Do some research on any historical figure or event from 1852 to 1887, from the abolitionist, women's suffrage, spiritualist, or labor reform movements, to share with your book club.

3/14/2012 - Understanding Labor Reform's Newest Front Lines, presented for the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA)

Every year, union workers, young students, advocacy groups, and members of the New York City Fire Department gather at the site to remember the victims and bring awareness to the ongoing fight for labor reform.

Germany, which enacted its labor reforms more than a decade ago, when economic growth in the rich world was much stronger than it is now, is home to an organized labor culture that is less combative than in places like Italy or France.

Matteo Renzi, a member of the Democratic Party appointed as Prime Minister, was going forward with his reformist agenda, including a labor reform and an overhaul of the Italian electoral and constitutional laws to put an end to political instability in the country.

While China is usually singled out for its policies, other countries have behaved more irresponsibly, most notably rich Germany, whose surpluses, the largest in history, were built primarily on an undervalued currency, after the creation of the euro, and on weak wage growth, after the 2003 — 05 labor reforms.

In Germany, ever since the 2003 — 20 05 labor reforms that caused business profits to soar at the expense of wages, German banks have exported the gap between rising savings and declining investment — a figure that rose in less than five years to become among the largest ever recorded.

It included broad public works programs (building dams, swimming pools, public buildings, roads, etc. across the country), labor reform, market regulations, and more.

The general strike was called by unions in response to the conservative government's labor reforms, which let companies opt out of collective bargaining agreements and fire workers more cheaply.

Kyle Olson, a Republican operative infamous in Michigan and other states for his confrontational attacks on unionized teachers, gave a presentation on labor reform in K - 12 education.

As educators retire and the demand for great teachers rises, policymakers are examining initiatives that attract, retain, and support great talent, and as they give serious consideration to sweeping changes effecting the profession, it's critical that educators» opinions and experiences are taken into account as these labor reforms are debated and implemented.

Despite a series of recent reports and mounting evidence that support the Labor reforms...

Along the way, readers witness the rededication of the Holy Temple in Maccabean times (the event Hanukkah commemorates), a perilous transatlantic journey to Ellis Island, and the eventual good life in the Golden Land (present - day America), created from the hard work and labor reforms of immigrants who kept alive Old World traditions in a New World.

«Bray empties a wealth of topics into her complicated narrative - labor reform, a steampunkish robotics experiment, flapper culture, religious zealotry - but her trademark humor is less apparent.»