Sentences with phrase «white workers»

The numbers suggested that the protective effect public - sector employment has long offered black workers dropped dramatically after the Great Recession, while white workers remained fairly insulated.

In Erie County, black workers earn 74 cents, and Hispanic workers earn 73 cents, for every dollar earned by white workers.

LinkedIn was the most racially diverse tech company, with 34 percent white workers, and eBay was the most gender diverse, with 76 percent male workers.

Compared to the demographics of the overall employed workforce, Asian and white workers at these 16 companies are overrepresented in senior leadership by 15 and 10 percentage points, respectively.

If conservatives want to win over struggling native - born white workers and struggling foreign - born workers, then they should start with an agenda (including on immigration) that offers those workers respect and the chance to earn higher living standards with a little more economic security.

The Church League for Industrial Democracy, founded in 1919 by Vida Scudder, an Episcopal laywoman and Wellesley College professor; the ecumenical Religion and Labor Foundation, a movement spanning three decades, led by Presbyterian minister Willard Uphaus; the work of the Methodist Federation for Social Action; and the remarkable ministries of Claude and Joyce Williams to black and white workers involved in labor struggles in the South in the 1930s need to be brought to light and affirmed.

In departments in which white employees believed that differences should be ignored, we found that the sense of engagement felt by nonwhite workers was lower than in departments in which white workers publicly espoused support for diversity — regardless of how many persons of color actually worked in the department.

But that's not all because many spaces require one of the three different worker colors, and since everybody starts with the basic black worker certain action spaces and raids might not be accessible until the grey and white workers start appearing, and they won't show up until some of the initial raids are completed.

The Congress has already pass legislation that will reduce some union pension by more than half and the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to deal unions a major setback again effecting mostly white workers.

In one of the Association's most publicized actions, CCLA activists called employment agencies posing as employers but specifying they wanted only white workers.

[3] The Commission further accepted that, if equal wages were granted to Aboriginal workers, many would lose their jobs, displaced by white workers.

(2) White workers will not tolerate any change that might threaten their advantages.6 The problem is to increase productivity among the blacks without causing unmanageable turmoil among the whites.

Earnings differences between African - American and white workers have remained constant — African - Americans earn 70 cents to white workers» dollar.

And when another black worker who asked for a cell phone, the boss refused to give him one, and instead handed one to a white worker with less seniority.

And it's about the same ratio for minority employees versus white workers.

Today, many believe that the continuing difference between the earnings of black and white workers is due in good part to differences in their educational achievement, as measured by tests of cognitive ability.

Robert Margo in 1994 found evidence suggesting that historical differences in school - year length accounted for a large fraction of differences in earnings between black workers and white workers.

The stereotype of the «happy singing slave» gave way to that of the «uppity,» «insolent,» «pushy» Negro who did not know his place, who was out to compete with the white workers and to rape white women.