Sentences with phrase «rights in a race to the bottom»

We need to compete on skills and ingenuity, not on sacrificing workers» rights in a race to the bottom.»

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The rise in interest rates to 20 percent by 1980 forced most states to revoke their usury laws, and credit card companies played states against each other in a race to the bottom when it came to protecting consumer rights.

Globalization is the era of mega-competition, in other words, the competition among giant TNCs which accelerates the race for the bottom to make TNCs acquire more profit by further exploitation of labor including lowering the wages, cutting the welfare benefits, laying off employees, depriving workers of their labor rights, using cheap labor such as casual and even child labor, and also by further destruction of environment.

Having fallen even further off the pace in the top four race, the last thing Antonio Conte's side need right now is to come up short against a side in the bottom three.

The «right» to a public education in this country has made schools impotent to discipline young people who have turned the education system into a race for the bottom.

«The bottom line is, he has the right to change his mind about what party he belongs to,» said Mr. Purcell, whose union has made no endorsements in the governor's race.

David Davis [Minister for Leaving the EU] said the UK wanted to lead a «global race to the top» in rights and standards not, as some feared, a «competitive race to the bottom».

We will introduce a comprehensive programme to strengthen rights at work, make sure new jobs are good jobs, and end the race to the bottom in pay, conditions and job security.

The bottom line is that only one candidate in this race will fight to protect women's rights and healthcare, and that's Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk.»

Others want to use Brexit to put rocket boosters under our current economic system's insecurities and inequalities, turning Britain into a deregulated corporate tax haven with low wages, limited rights, and cut - price public services in what would be a destructive race to the bottom.

Lewis, Labour MP for Norwich South — who won his seat off Liberal Democrat Simon Wright, but whose nearest challenger in 2015 was the Conservatives — said: «The Tories» plan for Brexit is a plan for a race to the bottom which we will all lose — with weakened human rights, rampant deregulation, and a diminished Britain.

If it continues, I fear Bjarnason is right about a race to the bottom in terms of styling content as simply as possible to avoid reading platform rendering issues.

I had the best remote play experience with Ride 2 after creating a custom control scheme in which acceleration was re-mapped to R1 with braking moving to L1 and switching chat from R1 to the bottom right of the touch screen and moving rewind from L1 to the bottom left of the touch screen; therefore providing a comfortable control scheme much better suited to the racing genre.

Maybe it's just that we are all playing on larger screen TVs these days, but the only way to know where to turn is either to memorize the map, or take your eyes off the race long enough to look at the map in the bottom right.