The phrase "a time when labor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific period or situation involving work or employment.
Example: "The book discusses a time when labor movements were gaining momentum across the country."
Alternatives: "an era of labor" or "a period of work".
And, at a time when labor is already struggling to organize new workers, this is grim news.
He entered academia at a time when labor studies was a field viewed largely in terms of economics.
"People laud the Hawke-Keating era as a time when Labor took hard decisions that delivered generational dividends.
With the economy in crisis and a new labor-friendly president in the White House, this should be a time when labor unions pull together.
At a time when labor leaders see immigrants as a group ripe for unionization, the conflict highlights how difficult it can be to organize workplaces that include unauthorized workers, who are entitled to certain labor protections despite working illegally.
Reagan went to work for G.E. in 1954, a time when labor unions were much more powerful than they are now, and Boulware was a leader of an effort by alarmed corporate executives to counteract labor's growing power.
"We need to make sure that companies compete on the basis of engineering, design, quality and innovation — not on who can pay their workers the least". The Southern battle is shaping up at a time when the labor movement is facing new assaults from anti-labor governors and legislatures in traditionally friendly environs such as Wisconsin and the industrial Midwest.
Oddly, Japan's unemployment is rising at a time when the labor force is starting to shrink.
There was a time when organized labor underwrote the most socio-economically equal period in American history.
Germany's fondness for deficits, he said, will be a millstone for future generations at a time when the labor force is shrinking.
At a time when the labor movement is struggling to organize more workers, a federal appeals court has issued a decision that could hurt those efforts by cutting the amount of money available for union organizing drives.
