Sentences with phrase «retain black workers»

Despite its prodding, however, even the CBC has acknowledged that Facebook, Google and their tech peers continue to struggle to hire and retain black workers and leaders.

Not exact matches

«A lack of affordable housing hurts our economy because local businesses are unable to attract and retain talented workers,» says Iain Black, President and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

It was not freedom for workers to organize trade unions, for blacks to vote, for aboriginal peoples to retain their lands, or for women to have equal rights with men.

When the author recalls the long gallery of persons whom, in the course of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and white, men and women, young and old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.