Sentences with phrase «pressure on labour»

These macroeconomic developments have ramped up the pressure on labour markets across the world.

But anti-hunting groups are stepping up pressure on Labour to tighten the law, amid concern at the low level of prosecutions.

The messages will increase the pressure on Labour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) to strip her of the candidacy in the marginal seat.

Two powerful groups representing young people have joined forces to pile pressure on the Labour leader over his refusal to offer the public a referendum on the final EU deal.

Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps has insisted Ed Miliband's response over the Co-operative Bank row was «ludicrous» and stepped up pressure on Labour over the merger deal with Britannia.

As the government's main political strategist, Osborne also hopes to put pressure on Labour.

The numbers will also pile pressure on Labour bosses to further soften their stance on Brexit and call for closer ties with the bloc.

In a press conference today, Mr Cameron said he would be continuing pressure on Labour to hold a referendum on the EU treaty, but repeatedly refused to commit his own party to the same demands.

Nuneaton and Gedling are seats where the Tories are piling huge pressure on Labour.

The Observer this morning reported that Mr Benn had been calling other members of the Shadow Cabinet to coordinate putting more pressure on the Labour leader.

Let's keep up the pressure on Labour and the issue alive in the media by running a nationwide campaign to keep Gordon Brown's promise for a referendum on the Treaty and to kick UKIP into the long grass.

It will also put further pressure on Labour over the West Lothian question and give succour to those like Boris Johnson calling for more powers for London.

Though technological developments might put downward pressure on labour's share of national income, workers would be compensated for this by their greater access to the return on capital.

He poured relentless pressure on the Labour leader, who clearly said he would oppose an in - or - out referendum.

Anthony Barnett's Charter 88 created important civic pressure on Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians to create an extensive reform agenda.

The Tories are keen to pile as much pressure on the Labour leader as possible during the strike period.

If the Lib Dems did emerge as as an attractive progressive alternative - and they have been rowing in the opposite direction in some ways of late, e.g., on tax policy - that would put useful pressure on Labour to mend its ways.

But the construct is vulnerable due to its own contradictions: the disproportionate size of financial capital faced with the activities of production and services; pressure on labour income and the resultant crisis of under - consumption; the class divide, the bases of which cross borders.

Also, if domestic economic activity and demand were to be even stronger than expected, given the existing strength of the labour market, upward pressure on labour costs could emerge, eventually pushing inflation higher.

Not exact matches

In a competitive labour market, the increase in the demand for labour produces upward pressure on wages, and an increase in output supplied to a competitive goods market will drive down prices.

The company has warned that it expects to experience pressure on food and labour costs this year, with unstable cheese prices and increased payroll taxes looming.

Though thick, lavishly illustrated Sunday papers became popular in the United States during the late 19th century as a form of weekend leisure, religious pressure to ban labour and trade on Sundays assured that Saturday papers remained the more popular weekend reading in Canada — something cemented by the passing of the federal Lord's Day Act in 1906.

The so - called MTV Problem has put pressure on the three big cities to integrate a large number of immigrants while denying most other areas of the country the benefits of an expanding pool of labour that immigration can bring.

Labour's Scottish presence was effectively wiped out by the SNP in the 2015 general election, and pressure is on Dugdale to steer the party to a second place finish at the very least.

The huge pool of low - cost labour that this has brought into play has put sustained downward pressure on a wide range of prices of internationally traded goods.

The immediate effect of the increase in the demand for labour in the resources sector is to produce upward pressure on wages in the resource sector.

This, in turn, led to increased labour demand, which put downward pressure on the unemployment rate and upward pressure on wages, resulting in higher inflationary pressures.

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.

In addition, labour market conditions have tightened over recent months, as seen in the above - trend growth in employment in the December quarter, the fall in the unemployment rate and reports of labour shortages and pressure on non-wage costs.

Nonetheless, it is likely that considerable slack remains in the labour market, with the participation rate remaining well below the level of earlier years and little sign of upward pressure on wages.

While it is almost impossible for Chinese civil society to bring pressure on its own government, there could be other ways of addressing labour standards.

Infrastructure spending can be particularly effective if it raises trend labour productivity, since it can help raise potential growth and ease pressures on the neutral rate.24

Demographic pressures place increased stress on already stretched labour markets and healthcare system.

David Cameron pledged to reduce immigration to «tens of thousands» rather than «hundreds of thousands» in order to ease the pressure on public services and the former Labour welfare Minister, Frank Field, supported this.

Pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister and Chancellor to relax austerity, with several Tory MPs calling for an end to the pay cap after the party disastrously lost its majority in the General Election to anti-austerity Labour, which has pledged to scrap the 1 per cent ceiling.

Barden said that input costs are rising on everything from commodities to labour to energy, and the six years of retail price deflation and rising labour costs the industries had undergone «continues to cut margins, placing the sector under increasing pressure».

Your baby may suffer damage to her hip joints because of the pressure being exerted on her bottom half during labour

Located above the ankle, on the backside of the lower calf, SP6 is one of the points that can easily make you go into labour by applying pressure firmly using the index finger for some seconds.

According to acupressure specialists, there are 6 points on the body where pressure can be applied to induce labour.

Apart from the argument that we have a moral duty to help those who wish to come to this country (which you may or may not accept), there is an economic case in favour of immigration in that the economy benefits from the availability of cheap labour, and there is a case against in that growth in population especially in the crowded South - East creates a lot of pressure on infrastructure such as housing, transport, hospitals, and schools (and the growth in population is largely due to immigration).

It seems rather more plausible to me to say that where the Liberal Party failed to recognise its own enlightened self - interest was in failing to do more to hug close the labour movement and perhaps Labour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive alllabour movement and perhaps Labour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive allLabour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive allLabour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive allLabour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive alliance.

Rumbling on in the background is another example of the Labour Party making life difficult for itself, with accusations of anti-Semitism in local candidates seeing Corbyn face pressure to act.

Of course, Labour as the official opposition, should be piling on the pressure for these sectoral studies to be released.

«Under Labour's manifesto plans, health care funding would not match the demand and cost pressures on the health service,» said Anita Charlesworth, director of research and economics at the Health Foundation.

The Labour leader then did his best to heap further pressure on the prime minister over her dealings with Donald Trump.

Gordon Brown focused his attention on Labour's fight against poverty as pressure about the 10p income tax rate abolition continues.

Neal Lawson, chair of the left - wing Compass pressure group, said: «Labour can never win on who kicks down hardest on the poorest.

The extraordinary poll will put pressure on the Deputy Prime Minister, who opened his party conference in Glasgow yesterday, to start distancing himself from the Conservatives and open talks with senior Labour figures.»

In further pressure from the Labour hierarchy, Tessa Jowell issued a direct plea on TV to Corbyn to stand down.

The Health Secretary has gradually moved, partly under pressure from Conservative backbenchers, to put some of the blame where it belongs - on the consequences of Labour's command and control targets regime.