Soccernomics demonstrated that this reality of the professional soccer marketplace and the relative free movement of labor within it ensure that the best players congregate within the teams who can pay the most money.
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Leaders of the organized-labor movement already view service workers with nonexportable jobs as the last best hope of labor unions whose membership is at an all-time low.
Of course, dialing down conflict has been the approach for years in certain quarters of the labor movement.
Solidarity with workers everywhere is the bedrock tenet of the labor movement.
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And of course, a couple of new fiery characters will get written into the last chapter of the history of the labor movement.
However, the work of the labor movement goes beyond the workplace.
And I want to first of all thank Rich, not only for inviting me here, not only for I know making clear my commitment to all of you during an earlier session today, but also for your outstanding leadership of the labor movement.
The founder of the American labor movement had it right when he said the worst unfair labor practice is an unemployed worker.
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Mr. STEWARD ACUFF (AFL-CIO): The economy is growing in different directions and it's growing away from the traditional foundation of the American labor movement, which is manufacturing and heavy industry.
One of the most powerful union leaders at a time that unions wielded a great deal of sway over elections -- and were notoriously tied to organized crime -- Hoffa was forced out of the organized labor movement when he was sent to prison in 1967.
His long support for the labor movement may help make some of the harsh decisions more palatable to workers.
The program would be capped at 200, 000 a year, but the number of visas would fluctuate, depending on unemployment rates, job openings, employer demand and data collected by a new federal bureau pushed by the labor movement as an objective monitor of the market.
So the national party picked Nevada with it's ethnically diverse population and strong labor movement to join the exclusive group of early voting states.
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. (Applause.) The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans.
Among her many accomplishments, part of her legacy will certainly be her role in the transformation of British labor markets and the labor union movement.
Republican strategist Ari Fleischer noted Obama mostly stayed out of race that was so important to the labor movement.
What happened on fast-track over the weekend was a clear win for the nation's labor movement, which ran TV ads and inundated members of Congress with phone calls and letters in opposition.
But I think the vast majority of voters and the folks I talked to in the labor movement - they want to know where the candidates are right now on the economy, healthcare, pensions.
People who follow the labor movement say the carpenters' union is the only one they know of in the country that uses the homeless to picket.
So many things we take for granted came about because of the union movement -- minimum wage, 40-hour workweek, child labor laws -- you name it -- weekends -- a lot of these things came about because people were fighting for them.
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The union partisan authors then try to link the labor movement to Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights struggle of the 1960s.
The situation is a huge victory for Republican proponents of Right to Work laws, who argue they make states more competitive, and shines a spotlight on the dilemma faced by the labor movement, whose membership has plateaued due to the recession, the failure of organizing drives, and anti-union moves by political foes and companies alike.
Back then, populism was an odd mix of progressivism and Christianity and leftwing grassroots deeply wound to both organized labor and the teetotaler movement.
As a result of these changes, several trends are emerging, including movement toward outcome-based payments, higher labor productivity, decreased demand for hospital-based care and better, more efficient consumer markets.
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The classic examples of this traditional minority-majority engagement are the black civil rights movement in the US in the 1960s and the labor movements in the West throughout the 20th century.
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