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SEOUL, March 27 - General Motors said its loss - making South Korean operations would file for bankruptcy if its union did not agree to cut labour costs by April 20, the union said on Tuesday.

Not exact matches

Most of the experiments endeavour to reduce insect farming's most expensive input, human labour, which accounts for a stunningly high 60 % of costs (in the heavily mechanized cattle farming industry, by comparison, it's rare for labour costs to reach even half of that).

Fuelled by a low peso and cheap labour costs, Mexico's booming manufacturing industry has already overtaken Canada's in terms of the dollar value of exports to the U.S. Indeed, Canada is contending with more than just low oil prices.

No dollar figure has been attached to the costs that will be borne by the brands, but according to labour advocacy groups they will be apportioned based on the amount of business each does in Bangladesh.

According to one of his drinking buddies from the financial sector: «Any measure enacted by fiat that prevents the free exchange of goods, labour and capital seeking economic gain is done at the cost of efficiency.

Manitoba does so by offering a 30 % credit on production costs and a 65 % tax credit for local qualified labour.

«If (German Finance Minister Wolfgang) Schaueble's dogma for a multi-speed Europe and economic zones of low - cost labour is not abandoned, Europe will be brought to the brink of dissolution,» Tsipras was quoted by Realnews as saying.

To add to the uncertainty, Prime Minister Theresa May's handling of the negotiations could cost her her job — she could be replaced by a more «hardline» Tory leader or the Labour Party's leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

In recent years, the country's largest carrier has been hamstrung by high costs, in large part because of its labour agreements.

A commodities boom has driven the Canadian dollar from a 62 cents US low up to parity, vaporizing any labour cost advantage we previously enjoyed over the U.S. and changing the structure of the economy; at the margin, a Canadian worker adds far more to our economy by extracting resources than by building cars.

The impact of mortgage interest rates can be further assessed by Figure 3, which measures the evolution of the mortgage to cash cost ratio of purchasing a residential property in terms of labour time.

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Growth in the all - important US services sector slowed for a third straight month in April, according to a closely watched survey, as optimism over the state of the American economy is tempered by concerns over labour shortage and rising input costs.

By: Sascha Solomons 14th October 2016 With the South African mining industry facing the prevailing costs and uncertainties in the labour market that it does, industrial technology and solutions specialist RTS Africa Engineering says its spin filters offer an ideal solution by reducing dependence on maintenance personneBy: Sascha Solomons 14th October 2016 With the South African mining industry facing the prevailing costs and uncertainties in the labour market that it does, industrial technology and solutions specialist RTS Africa Engineering says its spin filters offer an ideal solution by reducing dependence on maintenance personneby reducing dependence on maintenance personnel.

Similarly, unit labour costs (based on compensation per hour worked) picked up a little in the December quarter, rising by 1.4 per cent to be 2.3 per cent higher than a year ago.

Labour cost pressures also remain firm in the construction sector; a recent survey by the Master Builders Association suggests that labour shortages remain most acute in trades exposed to the latter stages of the building process, contributing to ongoing pressure on rates for subcontraLabour cost pressures also remain firm in the construction sector; a recent survey by the Master Builders Association suggests that labour shortages remain most acute in trades exposed to the latter stages of the building process, contributing to ongoing pressure on rates for subcontralabour shortages remain most acute in trades exposed to the latter stages of the building process, contributing to ongoing pressure on rates for subcontractors.

Strong productivity growth, combined with moderating wage growth and ample spare capacity in the economy, led to unit labour costs falling by 1.7 per cent over the year to the December quarter.

By and large, those jobs didn't migrate across the Pacific, but instead crossed the border south to the US, as the loonie's soaring value made Canadian labour costs uncompetitive.

House purchase costs increased by 2 per cent in the June quarter and by 5 1/4 per cent over the year, as ongoing strength in the construction sector resulted in rising costs of materials and labour.

Unit labour costs (based on compensation per hour worked) increased by 0.9 per cent in the March quarter, to be 2.4 per cent higher over the year.

Non-tradables price inflation continues to be affected by strength in house purchase costs, which increased by 5 1/2 per cent over the year; this increase is the result of rising costs of skilled labour and materials.

This increase was largely attributable to house purchase costs — which rose by 1 per cent in the quarter, to be 6.4 per cent higher over the year — in turn reflecting higher costs of labour and materials.

On its own, however, faster economic growth will not do enough to reduce unemployment significantly, unless it is accompanied by moderation in growth of labour costs.

The profits recovery has been driven by continued strong productivity growth in conjunction with subdued compensation growth (due to the weak labour market), which has seen unit labour costs fall by 5 per cent since June 2001 — the largest fall on record (Graph A4).

Unit labour costs (based on compensation per hour worked) grew by 1.3 per cent in the June quarter to be 2.8 per cent higher over the year, which is around the average growth rate of the past few years.

Their growth was accelerated by a rapid increase in exports to industrialised countries with whom they successfully competed thanks to low labour costs.

They say: «In the months prior to becoming Labour's Shadow Schools Minister in October 2016, Mike Kane was gifted # 5,218.55 by the Catholic Bishops» Conference of England and Wales, also to cover the costs of a parliamentary intern for 10 months.»

Currently, the cost of this is as high as 5 % of a manufacturer's turnover driven by factors such as increasing labour costs.

Coles says its «preliminary analysis» is that the proposed order could increase transport costs by about 25 per cent or $ 300 million a year, but does not break this down between labour and rules costs.

«There is a lot of cost pressure, and now you have Brexit as well, so there is a question over labour availability, and a lot of companies are hurt by currency swings, so to go and ask for # 10 million to build a new food factory, it's a difficult climate,» he says.

Vegetable growers saw a decline in production costs (decrease of 10 per cent), particularly labour, which is the largest production cost on average for Australian growers, which decreased by 6 per cent during the period 2013 - 14 to 2014 - 15.

The reduced profitability of the seafood processing industry in 2014 appears to have been driven by higher labour, energy and other operating costs.

Unit cost estimation involved a combination of bottom - up and top - down costing methods and followed guidance on costing healthcare services as part of an economic evaluation.15 17 Detailed unit costs, derived from the finance departments of participating trusts and information provided by senior midwives, were estimated for resource inputs into the following components of intrapartum and after birth care for all settings: homebirth delivery packs; NHS reimbursement for midwifery travel; some forms of pain relief; alternative modes of delivery; active management of the third stage of labour; suturing for episiotomy; suturing third and fourth degree perineal tears; manual removal of the placenta; blood transfusions; and care after a stillbirth or neonatal death.

Antenatal admission to hospital; induction or augmentation of labour; perineal status after birth; blood loss after birth; gestational ages and birthweights of the infants; breastfeeding at hospital discharge, 6 weeks and 6 months postnatally; and perinatal and maternal mortality, Hospital cost by mode of birth (cost of birth per woman).

Antenatal admission to hospital; induction or augmentation of labour; perineal status after birth; blood loss after birth; GAs and birthweights of the infants; breastfeeding at hospital discharge, 6 weeks and 6 months postnatally; and perinatal and maternal mortality, hospital cost by mode of birth (cost of birth per woman)

Figures obtained by the BBC suggested that, once maintenance and other costs were taken into account, the NHS would have repaid # 65.1 billion for the huge investment seen under Labour, when the original value of the investment was just # 11.3 billion.

Their letters provide a rich insight into their experiences of migration over 150 years: they're delighted by easy access to the labour market and higher salaries, for example, but also talk about the uncertainty of succeeding in the host country because of job insecurity and higher living costs.

The scheme was abandoned by the succeeding Labour government in 1974 on grounds of soaring costs and damage to the environment.

Abolishing the 50p rate costs ministers political pain in the months after it was cut and by refusing to join Labour in re-introducing the 50p rate - Labour hopes this decision will cause more pain for David Cameron and George Osborne.

A group of 53 Labour MPs, led by shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer, have sent a letter organised by the campaign group Open Britain demanding a «rigorous and publicly available cost - benefit analysis» to demonstrate why it would be the best option.

This is certainly true in East Lancashire, where a recent meeting of local politicians convened by Labour grandee Jack Straw resolved to examine the feasibility of creating a single cost - saving authority.

Now Unison has said the number of its affiliates will fall by 70,000, costing Labour a further # 210,000.

In Copeland Tory support increased by no less than 8.5 points — the biggest increase in support for a government party since Harold Wilson's Labour government won the Hull North byelection in January 1966 (at the cost, incidentally, of a promise to build the Humber Bridge).

Lewis stated that he, The Guardian newspaper, and Labour MP Chris Bryant had all been threatened to be sued by solicitors Carter - Ruck acting for AC John Yates, all the costs for which after the actions were dropped were picked up by the Metropolitan Police; Lewis submitted letters from Carter Ruck in evidence to the committee.

But it must be careful — being honest that Brexit is going to hurt and that only Labour can fix the messes and divisions the Tories have left is a start, but it much stretch every sinew to ensure the costs of Brexit are not borne by our people.

And in exchange we will ask for your help in solving Labour's Debt Crisis by keeping the cost of public sector pay only as high as the country can responsibly afford.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has been speaking to supporters in Birmingham outlining his party's plan to tackle the cost of living crisis faced by many across the UK.

Labour says it backs government's position for a downward review of utility tariffs, proposing that the cost of electricity and water should be slashed by at least 20 %.

First, it's the idea at the heart of it: the idea that Labour needs to win, almost at any cost, even by trickery.

In the real world the cost of Labour's equality and diversity agenda is the increasing number of passengers carried by organisations both private and public.