Sentence examples for interests of labor from inspiring English sources

Harrison A. Williams Jr., the Democratic senator from New Jersey who used his considerable power to further the interests of labor and education before being convicted of bribery and conspiracy in the Abscam scandal, died on Saturday.

It's an issue that will be worked through, but in the end the interests of labor and the Democratic Party are so consistent with one another that everyone will be working toward the same goal".

As management guru Peter Drucker predicted in 1976, American workers eventually owned the means of production through their pension funds, so the interests of labor were no longer entirely at odds with the interests of capital.

Powerful arguments have been made here that the longrun interests of labor would be better served by the development of democratic traditions in trade unionism without the coercive element of the union or the closed shop.

"But what people have with me is someone who will always try and work out what is the best interests of the nation first, and then the best interests of Labor, and that's how I approach my decisions," Mr Shorten said.

The Moral Argument Carries the Day in Santa Fe Santa Fe's City Council asked nine residents, representing the interests of labor and management, to join a round table that would settle the specifics of the proposed living-wage law -- how high the wage would be, for instance, and how soon it would be phased in.

We do not override the [state] law; at the same time, we do not compel the Federal Government to go in where the law is adverse to the interest of labor and labor's own point of view, and perhaps also even give encouragement to exempt a situation of this kind where the State desires to get this type of Federal help". 109 Cong.Rec.

In The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, Adam Smith explained the three factors that constitute the free market: pursuit of self-interest, division of labor and freedom of trade.

He accused Democrats of putting the special interests of federal labor unions above domestic security.

"It has to do with moving either a sociopolitical agenda, or advancing the interests of organized labor".

6 Any coercion used to discourage, retard, or defeat that access is beyond the legitimate interests of a labor organization.