The phrase "are now laboring" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe individuals or groups currently engaged in work or effort.
Example: "The workers are now laboring to complete the project ahead of schedule."
Alternatives: "are currently working" or "are presently engaged in labor".
Diplomats are now laboring mightily to prevent the war from spreading, though hostilities may serve too many different interests to be easily contained.
Many of them tried the cases or handled the defendants' appeals, working thousands of hours to put them on death row and are now laboring to keep them there.
Some are of the opinion that there was a real risk that XM might go bankrupt under the weight of the debt which the combined companies are now laboring to lighten.
Dean is now laboring to reinvent the inner workings of Google and the wider world all over again.
Bristol Township, home of Levittown and other postwar developments, where local officials once scrambled to build schools and recreation facilities for children, is now laboring to provide services for its older citizens.
Long a darling of wealthy art world patrons, he is now laboring on the most extravagant project of his career: a 28,000-square-foot glass house for the former Hollywood powerbroker Michael Ovitz.
The IRS, which has wasted billions trying to upgrade its own computers, is now laboring to staff friendlier 800-number help lines.
During her confirmation hearing, Elaine L. Chao, who is now labor secretary, said President Bush wants states to be able to opt out of future minimum-wage increases (news article, Jan . 25.
The three persons chiefly concerned with it are: its, producer Miss Patricia Farrar, and its two performers: Miss Clara Luisa Barbeito, former teacher & present editor with the McGraw Hill Book Co. & Mr. Jose Roman, who used to be a radio counsellor & is now labor editor of "El Diario de Nueva York".
There are now 26 Labor-held seats in which the implied probability of a Labor win is less than 50%; see the graph above.
Seven unions are now asking the labor board to certify unions as bargaining agents when they represent only a minority of the employees at workplaces.
