In any other global democracy, bargaining rights are much stronger and the commitment to jobs is a cornerstone of economic and trade policy.
There is a reason why President Obama meets with CEOs of huge companies when he wants to show his commitment to jobs, even though huge companies almost never create jobs and usually eliminate them (as they consolidate competitors rendered weaker by regulation, among other considerations).
His proposal comes as the prime minister, David Cameron, counters with a commitment to jobs, confirming that he will extend the employment allowance to 2020, meaning a third of jobs will continue to pay no national insurance for another five years.
The Greens admit, refreshingly, that they don't yet know what they would spend on scientific research, and focus instead on a "radical commitment" to jobs in high-tech manufacturing and research as part of their wider, ambitious plans to reshape the economy into a nicer, greener form.
Had Johnson-Sirleaf touted her commitment to "jobs, infrastructure and clean water"—her bureaucracy would have shrugged it off and plodded along at their normal pace.
And it must be someone who shares the Secretary's commitment to "jobs, jobs, jobs", to fair wages and worker protections, to an ever-present American Dream for our nation's youth, and to healthy comfortable retirements for our nation's seniors.
Blumenthal tried to demonstrate his commitment to job creation by promising to try to restart construction of F-22 jets in Connecticut.
"Frankly, we have not seen a lot of ideas coming forward from Republicans that would indicate that same kind of commitment to job creation," he said.
MC displays a commitment to job security I have rarely encountered in capitalist enterprises: it operates across, as well as within, particular cooperative enterprises.
And her commitment to job, her colleagues and, most of all, to herself, still make her a model we can look up to.
