Sentence examples for a labor condition from inspiring English sources

And, in the mid-1990's, labor pressed Congress to require that all H-1B employers file a "labor condition application" with the Labor Department to protect American workers from being displaced.

Workers found his mutilated body stuck in the machine on the afternoon of April 5. Michael Li, a senior manager at Yiuwah, says the accident was not a reflection of labor conditions at the factory.

They've improved a lot, but labor conditions are still poor.

But the A.F.L.-C.I.O. has become active here and Cambodia has emerged as a test case in perhaps the most contentious issue on the international trade agenda today: establishing a floor under labor conditions in developing countries.

What is ironic about the administration's position is that the UVA president, Teresa Sullivan, who recently was fired and rehired by an irresponsible board of trustees, wrote a textbook on work and labor conditions that called for a living wage for workers: "Being paid a living wage for one's work is a necessary condition for self-actualization".

In an article in Thursday's Times, my colleague Charles Duhigg and I detail the human cost of producing some of the world's most popular gadgets in an investigation into labor conditions at the plants of some of Apple's suppliers in China.

Most of the protesters, who were interested in a variety of causes, including capital punishment and labor conditions in a global economy, spent a week or more in jail and were released after the convention, said the R2K Legal Collective, the main defense group for the demonstrators.

And on Friday, financial markets will take a fresh look at labor conditions when the government releases its August employment report.

The four-week moving average, seen as a better gauge of labor conditions because it irons out weekly fluctuations, rose to 408,750 from 400,000, and is also now the highest since December.

SHANGHAI — Three Chinese employees at Foxconn, one of the world's biggest contract electronics manufacturers, died in what were believed to be suicides in recent weeks, which a group that monitors labor conditions in China says is the latest indication that the company continues to be plagued by labor problems.

While the hustle and bustle of Chinatown makes it a hotspot for terrible labor conditions and illegal work, the numbers themselves are quite unsettling.