The unions and the left in general vehemently oppose any challenge to the current labor law, which effectively guarantees most workers lifetime job security.
However, discrimination is not only inconsistent with competition on the product market but it also provides a challenge to the existence of labor market competition.
And there was no commensurate implicit challenge to organized labor, which both Clintons and Obama have tangled with in the past.
Last week, the Times reported that funds from the Koch network are fuelling both ongoing rebellions against government control of Western land and the legal challenge to labor unions that is before the Supreme Court.
The move was a reply to the prime minister's challenge to Labor a week ago in which he said, "We are ready to reach across the aisle".
1938 48-Hour Week Demanded PARIS — Boldly throwing down a challenge to labor, Premier Edouard Daladier, in a radio speech to the French nation last night [Aug.
Besides, TPP obligations also posed great challenges to the country in form of labor rights, freedom of data flows and intellectual property.
But if the unions do succeed in damaging Mr. Adachi's political ambitions, that could serve as a warning to anyone thinking of mounting a similar challenge to labor.
Before pushing the changes through Parliament, Mr. Rajoy was caught on tape predicting that such a challenge to labor unions would lead to a general strike — which it did, on March 29, without lasting consequences.
As president, he has been willing to challenge his allies, the labor unions, by taking a tough stance on labor talks and vowing to speed privatization and to relax some protections for workers, a position that has helped strengthen investor confidence.
