Sentences with phrase «workers more labour»

Not exact matches

They can look for win - win ways to raise labour standards to make workers better off and more productive.

Squeezing more hours out of workers is a short - term fix to labour shortages for some employers.

He'd like to increase military spending, sign free trade deals with other Asian countries, make it easier for companies to hire and fire workers, change immigration laws, get more women in the labour force and much more.

It's time for labour to explore creative ideas and inclusive approaches to organizing more workers in this new economic era.

The pact's intellectual property measures will protect CGI's proprietary technology, says company spokesman Lorne Gorber, while the enhanced mobility of skilled labour would allow it to more easily move workers across the Atlantic.

An hour of an American worker's labour, for example, produces far more output than an hour of a Chinese worker's labour.

A commodities boom has driven the Canadian dollar from a 62 cents US low up to parity, vaporizing any labour cost advantage we previously enjoyed over the U.S. and changing the structure of the economy; at the margin, a Canadian worker adds far more to our economy by extracting resources than by building cars.

More than half of the 243 employers in the province permitted to hire temporary foreign workers at minimum wage over a 10 - month period ended in June were in the food - service business, the Alberta Federation of Labour found recently through a freedom - of - information request.

More than 40 years ago, the Magna founder decided his company would experience higher productivity and less labour strife — and, as a result, faster growth — if its workers got some of the financial benefits of strong performance.

Saunders, the president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, says that Canadian workers and their pensions are more exposed to risk during market trouble because of the successful campaign over the past decades to move from defined benefit pensions, which guarantee a certain monthly amount when you retire, to defined contribution plans, promoted by market enthusiasts.

Just in from Paris, some fascinating quotables from the OECD: Governments must do more to help workers adapt to new global economy, says OECD Rather than seeing globalisation as a threat, OECD governments should focus on improving labour regulations and social protection systems to help people adapt to changing job markets.

«The Mayors» Council plan not only quickly improves transit service with 25 % more buses, it will give those driving to work or school the option to leave the car at home and take transit, which is better for our environment,» McGarrigle said, adding that the BC Federation of Labour, representing over 500,000 unionized workers across the province, unanimously supported a resolution Unifor Local 111 introduced to endorse a Yes in the referendum.

For example, faster labour force growth will encourage firms to invest not only to meet greater demand but also to equip these additional workers with machines and other capital to raise their productivity.5 The rate of technological progress is also a key factor, since a faster pace of innovation raises the return on each additional unit of capital, stimulating firms to invest more.

He also called on businesses to invest more in training, improve working conditions, and seek workers who are under - represented in the labour force.

The program, which was first designed to address a shortage of skilled labour in Canada, brought 100,000 workers to Canada in 2002, to more than 330,000 in 2013, the C.D. Howe Institute report said.

In turn, the investment spending increases labour productivity as more equipment boosts worker output per hour.

As the labour movement well knows, unionism is now an uncomfortable fit for workers more likely to be employed in a branch of Tim Hortons than a branch plant.

Even more startling, over 350,000 young workers left the labour force entirely over that same period.

We are used to seeing the party doing better in places with more routine manual workers who are traditionally part of Labour's base.

More than half of voters, forced to choose between the three, named David Cameron as the best Prime Minister, 17 points ahead of Ed Miliband, who led only among Labour voters and social group E (state pensioners, casual workers and those dependent on benefits — the group that is also least likely to vote).

I don't agree with Tory plans to have more free schools, but I want an EU referendum; I agree with Labour's plans to stop the exploitation of immigrant workers, but disagree with their manifesto commitment to abolish zero - hours contracts.

Leftwinger said his life has been a «moral opposition to nuclear weapons», as he seeks to retrain Faslane workers for more peaceful endeavours to protect jobs Labour leadership's team rejects accusations of antisemitism and says north London MP is «proud to represent a multicultural constituency»

In front of a hall full of people frustrated with New Labour, feeling betrayed by a government more interested in big business than workers, Ms Clark did her bit to make them feel even more infuriated.

Jeremy Corbyn pledges that a future Labour government will hand workers «more power» to fight for higher pay

After seven years of painful austerity, our workers deserve a break — and under a Labour government, they will have the opportunity of four more days off a year.

With the current attacks on working people it is most important that the Labour Party and trades unions work effectively together — poor working conditions and low wages require more union organisation and legislation to protect workers.

Former naval commander Lord West said: «It sounds to me almost as if he's decided he wants to destroy the Labour party and set up a new party which would be more like the Socialist Workers Party.

How much more constructive and politically astute if he had faithfully represented the views of Labour voters (and almost certainly his own personal preference) as a step towards a democratically elected Labour government that would have been the best protector of workers» rights.

Labour's relationship with sex workers gets more fraught by the day.

A Labour government will mean more workers paid a living wage, (as many enlightened employers and, I'm proud to say, increasing numbers of Labour councils, are already doing)- offering temporary tax breaks to employers that commit to paying it, and requiring transparency of large companies, so employees, consumers and campaigners can hold them to account.

At present more than 140 Labour MPs, including the former cabinet minister Peter Hain, are opposed to part privatisation, and the Communication Workers Union is due to hold a rally at Westminster tomorrow at which threats to disaffiliate from the Labour party will be made.

Labour's infrastructure spending would, if well targeted, deliver a productivity boost, but the IFS warned that this was cancelled out by the negative impact of more workers» rights, a higher minimum wage, more bank holidays and higher corporation tax.

Labour said it would not be shifting ground to curtail the free movement of workers within the EU, but would say more, on its own timetable, about the trio of immigration issues of integration, exploitation and contributions.

Unfathomably, Labour ministers were more concerned about helping Middle England's property values to appreciate than they were in tackling housing shortages for first - time buyers or putting construction workers back to work.

Richard McKinnon.the idea the far left ago are still trying to save face that they nearly destroyed the party in the early 80's are only letting young student momentum types, takr over some Moribund areas, or ousting hard working councillors from positions by getting their mates to tun up, is more obvious, they're not doing it because not enough people want Blair at th Hague, in fact some blairites were dead against Iraq, some blue labour types want Blair at The Hague, the far left would have gone done their path, had nine of this happened, they waited for their chance 2010 we were bunt out, 2015 was the first time, after we'd lost power in history, where we didn't have a civil war, we showed loyalty to Ed M, and look what happened, the hard left are using tricks, on having their open meetings with motions, or getting George Galloway backers to turn up to meetings, momentum, even have kill Blair protests, via Socialist worker

Jeremy Corbyn stood on a platform of investing in public services, standing up for workers» rights, moving to a more just and fair foreign policy, and has been rewarded with a quite remarkable turnaround in the Labour vote.

Public sector workers are more likely to support Labour than private sector workers... but not monolithically so.

Labour needs to regain voters» trust — especially in the south of England — by rebuilding the welfare state around its original social insurance model so benefits are more directly linked to what a worker has contributed, John Denham, the former communities secretary and one of the few Labour MPs left in the south, proposes today.

«Labour leadership hopeful Ed Miliband has called for every worker to be allowed to work more flexible hours.

The Cuban labour federation said more than a million workers would lose their jobs — half of them by March next year.

For a start you're not questioning why working class socialist labour voters went Ukip in the first place, it wasn't some guardian reading, snobbery that the working class are think, therefore are bigoted, so they must vote UKIP as they're nasty right wingers who dint like immigration, the decrease in wages among blue collar workers, due to immigration, is by the bosses seeking immigration to pay lower wages to make themselves more profits, Appeasing implies going along with something through fear of something worse, to agree with controlling immigration, because ex labour voters are going UKIP isn't appeasing it, why would us being afraid of losing is our votes to.

A Labour government will make it a criminal offence to use low - skilled European workers to undercut local workers and businesses, and change the rules so that more foreign national criminals are considered for deportation, the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has said.

But instead, he fears, the current leadership appears more interested in trying to «destroy the Labour Party and set up a new party which would be more like a Socialist Workers Party».

The OBR says more public sector workers will lose their jobs under David Cameron's government, and it says much of the expected increase in overall employment would have occurred under Labour as well.

One reason Labour have not introduced the Conservatives bank lending scheme is (a) it's the Conservatives» idea and (b) there is more political milage in looking to the Jaguar workers as if you are specifically helping them rather than a contrywide scheme that happens, because it is effective, to solve the problems.

Speaking on the theme of this year's May Day, «Labour relations in economic recession: An appraisal,» Fajobi said government must give more attention to workers» welfare.

The shift away from manual labour may mean that a larger proportion of workers may now find their jobs more satisfying, emotionally and intellectually.

Part of the reason Labour are proposing these new bank holidays is to allow workers more time to spend with their families.

We need to be developing an alliance with what remains of the unionized labour movement: at a minimum to support the development of training programs for fossil fuel sector workers, and more ambitiously to support the emergence of an electable political ideology that calls for the transition away from capitalism intent on endless growth in consumption.

If the Browning - Ferris decision signals a coming shift by Canadian labour boards from traditional legal tests that focus on actual control (like hiring, firing and discipline) to tests which focus more on indirect or reserved control, then employers will face even greater challenges when dealing with temporary workers.