Mr. Passos Coelho is also taking charge as Portugal's jobless rate has climbed above 12 percent, with unions threatening to intensify labor unrest should the new government carry out steeper spending cuts and privatize more state-owned companies.
Ms. Smith said the effort was part of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's push to intensify labor enforcement, not just against wage claims but also companies that improperly classify employees as independent contractors and that do not pay workers' compensation premiums.
As this fight intensifies, labor unions and the workers that they represent -- reduced in membership, short of funds, savaged by their enemies and too often ignored by their friends -- will by what they do or what they fail to do make a fundamental difference in what kind of society we build out of the ruins.
WASHINGTON -- As the Democratic Party feud over President Barack Obama's new trade deal intensifies, American labor unions are fighting another battle: getting Obama to do something about rampant trade violations taking place on his watch.
However, while the call for it is intensifying through indigenous, labor, social, women, youth and popular organizations and movements, its ideological basis is at the best hybrid.
Despite that, she carried a memorable smile tucked between intensifying layers of labor pain.
The effort to restrict work hours comes as Congress is considering legislation to reduce medical errors and as labor unions are intensifying their efforts to enlist doctors.
In London and at Trinity, his labors intensified; his five-volume edition of Manilius, an astronomer-poet from the age of Augustus, consumed no fewer than thirty-four years of his professional life — if you include the addenda to the second edition of 1937, as Housman would wish you to.
Public policymakers should promote the adoption of labor-using technologies to enable the use of cheap labor to intensify agriculture.
