One reason is Mexico's labour laws, and in particular the closed shop, whereby only one union is recognised in each company.
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As a practical matter, Friedman doubted that employers in a competitive labor market would ever find it profitable to offer the closed shop option.
The plight of the town was evident in the closed shop fronts, and John told me they had enormous problems recruiting doctors to set up practice in rural areas.
He believes the next 24 months will be crucial in determining if the cloud becomes an open area in which most of the value goes to customers or a closed shop where the vendors reap most of the benefit.
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However, the shop closed in April 1998 when the building began to collapse because of old mine workings.
Thieves broke into the Apple store behind the Paris Opera at around 21:00 (20:00 GMT) on Monday, three hours after the shop closed.
Hundreds of daily news publications around the U.S. have closed up shop in the past several years and even Newsweek is up for sale.
Rent and salaries to her assistant and driver were still due, even though the shop was closed.
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They did so with one of the machinists' strikes for which Washington, where the union-friendly closed shop is legal, has an unfortunate reputation.
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But when employees found a seller listing "molds of their naked body, " company employees debated if the shop should be closed, says Mr. Christofferson.
The National Football League is a closed shop, which has been dubbed "socialist capitalism".
When they finally arrived, they had two hours to shop before the stores closed.
Meantime, a clutch of poker websites closed shop or left the country.
Mr Farage said there was a "closed shop" mentality among the three main parties and much of the media about UKIP's rise.
" But Rhona tells us: "Very bad start to the morning - my favourite coffee shop was closed.
People in a Shropshire village have launched a bid to run their own community shop after the only local store closed down.
In Corby, the borough council's One Stop Shop, Lodge Park Sports Centre and the East Midlands International Pool are closed for the day.
At the beginning of this year Home Depot closed its last shop in Beijing.
Time elapsed between the founding of Palm Computing and when HP closed up shop? 18 years.
She said the cafe and shop a few doors away were closed on Friday because of financial difficulties facing CAT plc, which in turn were fuelled by the economic downturn.
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That figure includes transactions that closed during the period, such as the auto body-shop chain King Collision Repair Centers, and those announced but still pending, such as the acquisitions of asset manager TCW Group and photo library Getty Images.
American firms had closed their factories on this side of the border to set up shop in Mexico.
Left-of-centre Greeks voted for Syriza both to punish Pasok for impoverishing the country and because Syriza opposes reforms that would open up closed-shop professions in a bid to make Greece more competitive.
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True closed-shop contracts are already prohibited by federal law, on the grounds that they violate the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of association.
This was also to be the shop that, when Michael Jackson was in town, would be closed down for him to browse in private, and I remember glimpsing him wandering through the empty aisles of a ghost-like megastore.
Unions say that without a closed shop, which requires employees to join or pay dues anyway, the quality of jobs and income will swiftly deteriorate in Michigan.
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The property has also retained April Yvonne as their resident stylist for guests who prefer to shop behind closed doors.
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Two of London's busiest streets have been closed to traffic for the weekend to try to encourage people to head into the West End to shop for Christmas.
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