Sentences with phrase «poor labor conditions»

Workers have protested the poor labor conditions in Chinese mines in Zambia.

Cuomo announced «emergency» measures following a New York Times investigation into poor labor conditions at city salons, including too little pay and too many hours.

There, with 90 million people and a fast - growing middle class, Unilever could ill afford a public backlash over poor labor conditions.

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Despite frequent inspections and the armies of auditors enlisted in this cause, labor abuses and poor working conditions have continued to stain the fashion industry.

When economic conditions are poor, this rigidity can disrupt normal labor market functioning, especially in a low - inflation environment.

That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?

The conditions that make human trafficking possible and profitable arise not just in the poor countries that supply slaves but wherever the demand for unprotected labor is outmatched only by the wealth and greed of those who pay for it.

Peoples - Stokes says a key part of the weekend was showing the connection of labor unions and the working poor in improving conditions.

«Working conditions are also poorer,» and less mechanization means more people are doing manual labor in harm's way.

The public - sector labor movement took hold in the second half of the 20th century when, in the face of poor working conditions and low wages, unions began lobbying for collective bargaining rights.

And while Amazon has escaped much of the kind of negative attention that has surrounded Apple and its FoxConn manufacturing plant in China, there is an emerging campaign among labor activists and progressive journalists to focus a spotlight on poor conditions in Amazon fulfillment centers.

I don't blame the Fed for the poor labor market conditions; it's not in their power.

Signs of heartworm disease are listlessness and poor endurance, frequent coughing, labored breathing and loss of weight and condition.

On October 21st of last year, SAG - AFTRA, a labor union coalition representing over 160,000 media professionals working in various mediums, began a strike after 19 months of failed attempts at negotiating deals with games industry employees regarding the poor treatment, conditions, and pay faced by voice actors.

In May, protesters led by the Global Ultra Luxury Faction (GULF), a subset of activist group Gulf Labor, shut down the Guggenheim, just one in a series of demonstrations against the poor conditions facing the workers constructing the Guggenheim's offshoot in Abu Dhabi.

The family was struggling, so his father worked in the copper mines and due to bad labor conditions soon became incapacitated by poor health.

Because of the long hours, unsafe and unsanitary working conditions, and poor treatment by management, labor unions organized and workers began holding strikes and protest rallies.

Apple's suppliers have come under fire in the past for poor working conditions, and British and Chinese journalists have documented large - scale labor rights abuses from within iPhone factories.