Children are ideal because of their flexible hands and gentle pressure on the chisel and the hammer, says Rana Sengupta with the Mine Labor Protection Campaign (Trust) in Rajasthan.
Workers bewail unfair labor practices and seek protection and advantage from government-backed labor unions at the expense of their employers and consumers.
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We can always support jobs by protecting inefficiencies, such as import protection or prohibiting labor-saving technology.
U.S. labor laws are not applicable to provide protection to crew members at sea, nor is there any real oversight of the cruise lines' operations.
It's not a race to the bottom, but rather it says each country is abiding by everything from strong rules around labor and the environment to intellectual property protection.
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Last week, GOP senators delayed confirmation votes on two of his nominees for cabinet posts: Gina McCarthy for the Environmental Protection Agency and Thomas Perez for labor secretary.
The huge European soccer economy is outsourcing its labor supply to countries where labor laws, or at least oversight, offer little protection.
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At the Deutsche Bank Aviation and Transportation Conference held recently, American Airlines denied seeking bankruptcy liquidation (Chapter 7) but did not rule out the possibility of seeking bankruptcy protection (Chapter 11) to reorganize its labor agreements that put it at a marked disadvantage to airline industry peers such as Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, US Airways and United Continental.
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Voters said no to mandatory bilingual education and defeated a proposal to institute "paycheck protection, " which would have called for written permission for labor unions to use money from dues toward political campaigns.
According to sources at the meeting, Cunningham accused McCain of doing "more harm than good" to Republicans by advocating a ban on soft money without also calling for so-called "paycheck protection" that would impose limitations on the political expenditures of labor unions.
Central to the U.S. pension problem is the fact that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, charged with protection of investors in the securities markets, has seldom provided advice specifically for protection of participants in pensions and the U.S. Department of Labor lacks sufficient understanding of the securities and asset management industries to provide guidance to sponsors of and participants in pensions.
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In addition to Secretary Salazar, the leadership of the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Health and Human Services, Labor, Justice, Transportation, and Treasury, as well as the heads of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Small Business Administration, turned out to report to the tribal leaders on their efforts to help Indian Country move forward.
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