Sentences with phrase «worked at a labor»

As a child, she was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective.

The artist was born in Borownica, Poland in 1928, and worked at a labor camp in Siberia during World War II.

Prior to law school, Mr. Brudney worked at a labor union where he fought for workers across Washington state as they strived for economic justice and equity in the workplace.

Not exact matches

More than 110,000 of VW's worldwide labor force of 589,000 work at its immense headquarters in Wolfsburg and four other plants in Lower Saxony.

It has already automated sorting and distribution at a number of its busiest facilities — which the company said has improved labor productivity by 20 % — and plans to fully automate all work at its 30 largest US hubs by 2020.

The latest U.S. proposal for updating NAFTA's automotive rules would carry a four - year phase - in to meet a higher, 75 percent regional value threshold as well as new labor content rules requiring substantial work at hourly wages of at least $ 16.

According to the National Labor Relations Board complaint, Tesla violated workers» rights by requiring them to sign a confidentiality agreement that could bar them from talking about their working conditions and safety issues at the company's facility in Fremont, California.

He is aiming at no less than a revolution in how work gets done, one that would change the economics of labor.

Drinkwater said the new investing rule announced in early April by the Labor Department may spur advisors and clients to work more closely on keeping inflation's effects at bay.

A federal agency for labor practices offers long - awaited guidance to employers on social - media guidelines at work.

The labor force participation rate, or the share of working - age Americans who are employed or at least looking for a job, was steady at 62.8 percent.

The reactors — six - foot - tall metal and glass boxes that glow seafoam green when at work — mimic what happens to carbon after millennia of pressure, but faster, with less human labor and a carbon - neutral footprint.

One - quarter of those actively earning money from labor platforms heavily relied on this income, earning 75 percent of their total income for a given month from gig labor.71 Overall, those earning money from online labor platforms appeared to use it as a substitute for volatile nonplatform work during downturns at their other jobs.

Furthermore, a study by JPMorgan Chase looked specifically at gig economy workers working for labor platforms — such as ride - sharing companies — and capital platforms, like temporarily renting one's apartment.

«Since labor law has mostly been written for those with formal employers, we need to imagine a world where things are different,» says Libby Reder, a fellow at the Aspen Institute's Future of Work Initiative.

WASHINGTON, April 30 The latest U.S. proposal for updating NAFTA's automotive rules would carry a four - year phase - in to meet a higher, 75 percent regional value threshold as well as new labor content rules requiring substantial work at hourly wages of at least $ 16.

By 2001, Bowen had moved from Anchorage to Seattle to work as a labor and employment attorney at a law firm.

Uber, and more broadly the app - driven labor market it represents, is at the center of what could be a sea change in work, and in how people think about their jobs.

But despite all this, the important thing is that the real estate bubble would have developed in any event, simply because of the exponential financial dynamics at work and the increasing tax favoritism for real estate — taxing labor and industry rather than land rent.

Another way to assess labor market tightness is to look at labor flows — in other words, how workers move between being employed, unemployed (not working, but looking for work), and out of the labor force (neither employed, nor looking for work).4 Figure 11 shows the flow from being employed to unemployed.

Although none of our employees are currently represented by a labor union, it is common throughout the automobile industry generally for many employees at automobile companies to belong to a union, which can result in higher employee costs and increased risk of work stoppages.

Later this week, Gensler will also speak on a panel at «The Future of Work: Capital Markets, Digital Assets, and The Disruption of Labor» in New York, where he will appear alongside Nasdaq president and CEO Adena Friedman and Bank of America chairman and CEO Brian Moynihan.

Damore asserted that his memo was designed to enlist his fellow employees in improving working conditions at Google, «concerted activity» protected by the National Labor Relations Act.

The labor strike is over and traffic at the two ports is picking back up as they work through the backlog.

Labor productivity, or output per hours worked, increased at a 1.9 % annual rate from July through September, the Labor Department said Thursday.

The agency's mission includes oversight of work - related benefits and rights and improving working conditions for people at all levels of the U.S. labor force.

Most debts in early Mesopotamia were owed to the palace, so rulers basically were cancelling debts owed to themselves and their collectors when they proclaimed Clean Slates that saved their economies from widespread debt bondage that would have diverted labor to work for creditors at the expense of the palace.

Underemployment Rate — A measure of employment and labor utilization in the economy that looks at how well the labor force is being utilized in terms of skills, experience and availability to work.

In fact, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 24 % of U.S. workers did their work partly or entirely at home.

The governor's administration worked closely with the board of directors of the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, the port's staff, and business and labor leaders throughout the port to develop the very best, most effective capital program to improve commerce at the port of Philadelphia, and to prepare the port to meet industry trends for years to come.

Every policy tool available will be thrown at the labor markets, up to and including possibly the creation of New Deal - style make - work agencies.

As the industry digests the 1023 - page final Department of Labor's (DOL) rule, let's take a trip back in time to examine what forces may have been at work behind the rule.

When members of the University of Texas at San Antonio student chapter of NAHB learned about a local family in need of a new roof after it was destroyed by Hurricane Harvey, they decide to put their construction knowledge and labor to work.

And when I look on my people I see them work and work and toil and labor, and at the end of the week they have only for their wages wretchedness and misery.

Leaving aside the manifold ways in which stay - at - home moms are utterly crucial to their families (some of which — to be sure — can be replaced, however imperfectly, with paid labor of one sort or another), there is this: could the many institutions of our civil society continue to function without the tireless efforts of women who don't regularly participate in the working world?

The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.

Because they did not receive the work accomplished by Christ at the cross, they will be judged by their own works, self righteousness, labors.

At the same time labor unions were assailed, so called «right to work laws» were enacted, and «at - will - employment» became a favorite buzzworAt the same time labor unions were assailed, so called «right to work laws» were enacted, and «at - will - employment» became a favorite buzzworat - will - employment» became a favorite buzzword.

The labor et virtus of our time — and surely we live in an age of intense self - discipline, long hours at work, and seemingly boundless activity — does not strive toward the founding of a new city.

It does not stand at the beginning of the path; rather; the individual can win it only as the fruit of a long, difficult, and tiresome labor, throughout which he believes and hopes as the theology teaches and lives and works as the ethic commands.

It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.

While most Americans spend their Labor Day weekend savoring the last moments of summer vacation, political scientists are normally hard at work at their annual association meeting, held this year in Seattle.

Here much remains to be done; yet there are encouraging signs that Christian theologians are at work on this task, and we may hope that a more genuinely Christian theology may be the result of their labors.

For example, if someone is working at an extremely labor intensive job in harsh weather, he / she can postpone his / her fast and replace it later.

So I went to the «slave market» (day labor, show up at 5 a.m. and hope you get called to clean restrooms, work in warehouses or chop weeds..

You must be mistaken... why, the conservatives HAD to be at the forefront of assuring the rights of freed slaves, ending the deliberate government policy of destroying native cultures, extending the vote to ex-slaves and women, ending child labor, creating safer and better working conditions for laborers, etc?

Shielded neither by statistical and programmatic facades of self - description nor by normative proclamations about what the church should be, we look at our finite, culture - bound symbolisms and find in them our idiomatic expression, but also structures wrought by the imaginative labor of all humanity.

Whatever the specific reforms — and we would expect a period of experiment to see what forms are most effective — the major benefit in the democratization of the economy would be to limit the harshness of the labor market, to give everyone who works a stake in the enterprise he or she works in and even in the economy at large, thus reducing both the anxiety and the cynicism that are rampant in our present economic life.

The democratization of the economy would limit the harshness of the labor market, give everyone who works a stake in the enterprise he or she works in and even in the economy at large, thus reducing both the anxiety and the cynicism that are rampant in our present economic life.

Now that energy is becoming the factor that is scarce and labor is plentiful, it would make more sense to replace fossil fuels by labor, especially at those points where that could also restore interest and dignity to work.