After Labor won power in 2007 it closed the camps and processed boat people on Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, as well as on the mainland.
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For this client, the inflexibility of labor laws and the power of labor unions is a far bigger constraint to her IT agility than is the complexity of IT systems or internal processes.
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Labor has so much power and courts are so friendly to labor, one of my friends basically had to close down his business when a waitress sued him for a larger share of the tips.
With the NRA, labor unions had greater power to organize and restrict the supply of labor in order to push up wages without necessarily increasing productivity.
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When Labor won federal power in 2007, the party ruled in all six states.
This would be the biggest pro-union shift in the balance of labor-management power since the Wagner Act of 1935.
An opinion poll a week earlier showed his approval rating at 48%, the lowest since he led the Labor Party to power in late 2007 (see chart).
She broke the backs of labor unions whose power she felt was suffocating the British economy, and she allowed residents of council homes, public housing, to buy their houses, giving millions a new part in the economy.
We need to restore the bargaining power that labor has lost over the last 30 years, so that ordinary workers as well as superstars have the power to bargain for good wages.
But unlike with other visa programs, the Department of Labor actually has no power to enforce these standards.
Is the power of labor unions, especially in an industrial stronghold such as Ohio, enough to make a difference?
The second critique of my post focused on the ability of labor organizations to gain power without protective laws.
Jim Bacon, a former union official, who led a state Labor Party government to power six years ago, says modernising Tasmania's image was crucial in order to rebuild its economy.
In other words, all the cold, corporatized exploitation and neatly packaged entertainment of the NFL but with college kids providing the cheap labor and the buying power instead of fully-formed adults.
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The Labor government, in power in New South Wales since 1995, has accumulated sufficient baggage that even some of the development promoters mingling at the Forbes conference expect it to fall at the next election.
Mr Howard is now painting Mr Rudd as a prisoner of the trade unions, Labor's traditional power base, in an era when only one-fifth of Australian workers belong to unions, and even fewer in the private sector.
Half a century ago, IBM and organized labor were both monoliths of power and influence in America.
Aging mine shafts, power supply and labor issues have vexed many miners.
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The NLRA was an attempt to create fairer labor markets by shifting bargaining power from the employers to the employees through statutory regulation.
Chavez has not only sought to uproot the business community through expropriation but also to eliminate the power of the labor unions and workers.
She shattered the power of British labor unions while forcing the Labour Party to say bye-bye to nationalized industry and hello to a severely reduced welfare state and free markets.
Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, 62% of working Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force, with real power and influence, for at least nine more years, to 2020.
And on the immigration issue, Stern is equally isolated from the other big power brokers in the labor movement.
Others underscored the power-sharing arrangement among labor groups that work for airlines, an industry whose workers are divided into several unions.
In April, for example, American Airlines proposed using this power to bring down its labor costs to the level of its rivals, just as Delta and United had in earlier bankruptcy filings.
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This grants bargaining power to employers, and prevents labor markets from efficiently allocating workers.
The real question becomes do labor advocates favor worker voice over expansive bargaining power?
Labor unions have shrunk and with them the power to negotiate contracts that bake cost increases into the cake.
Because the non-moneyed spouse often gave up her potential career and earning power and invested her time and labor into the family.
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