Strikebreakers were detained by union officials who beat them, robbed them and forced them to join the union [source: The New York Times]. During the British miners' strike of the early 1980s, violent clashes between miners and police escalated when buses of scabs were brought in to replace...
The key to maximizing your roofing business’s profitability is to keep material and labor costs down while securing a steady stream of new clients. Establish a reputation as a high-quality roofer and you will eventually be able to charge more than your competitors as customers will be willing ...
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well, that was okay. We’ll see. Later in the episode, Laborers Union General President Brent Booker will join Jen and I to give us a sense of what issues are most important to his members this fall
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Demographics and the ‘gray to green’ transition.The industry is staring down a wave of impending retirements. One-third of semiconductor employees in the United States are aged 55 or older.10The European Union fares better, with one-fifth of the workforce in this demographic, but it ...
Linen is a flax-based textile that is predominantly used for homeware applications. While linen is similar to cotton, it is made from fibers derived from the stems of the flax plant instead of the bolls that grow around cotton seeds.
deals as harmful to American workers, and there’s plenty of evidence that they’re right (and that foreign laborers are being exploited in the bargain as well). When Trump tells them he will bring back their jobs by shredding unpopular trade and climate deals, that sounds pretty damn good...
Newly organized farm workers, fronted by Mexican-American civil-rights activist Cesar Chavez, asked Americans to boycott the popular California fruit because of the paltry pay and poor work conditions agricultural laborers were forced to endure. Using nonviolent tactics like marches and hunger strikes,...
stated unabashedly that "the third reason we were there [in Afghanistan] is because there are 20 million Uyghurs [in Xinjiang]. The CIA would want to destabilize China and that would be the best way to do it to foment unrest and to join with those Uyghurs in pushing the Han Chinese in...