Sentence examples for labor dollars from inspiring English sources

In deciding how best to measure productivity, managers should focus not on dollars per hour but on labor dollars per product.

Those optimistic immigrants enthusiastically invested their labor, dollars and lives in the hopes of benefiting from the extraction of natural resources on the frontier.

The travel costs and lost labor dollars for the patient and family can also be significant, especially if the patient physician interaction can be performed over the phone; and the patient can remain in the surroundings that they are most comfortable in.

Unlike many tree tallies, this one compiled extensive information with an ambitious goal some tree-huggers might consider crudely capitalistic: to break down each tree, its parts and its labor, into dollars and cents.

In addition to the focus on bottom-line labor cost dollars, a further consideration for companies is any impact on benefits plans, such as eligibility for certain benefits, and changes in benefits levels, such as for retirement and life insurance.

"Depending on who's in the White House next, you get to the fifteen-dollars-an-hour labor or twenty dollars an hour?" Gahagan said.

"If the Senate really wanted to enforce the rule of law, it would have sanctioned employers, and not just immigrants, many of whom have long contributed their labor and tax dollars to this state," said Cheryl Little, the executive director of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center.

The dispute has cost organized labor millions of dollars to fight and dealt pleased employers an upper hand as union shops battle each other.

"The calls to boycott Black Friday echoed the Civil Rights movement's boycotts, making a direct connection between 'business as usual' holiday shopping and the circumstances under which black people in the U.S. live -- 'business as usual' relies on the labor and the dollars of black Americans, as it always has," Sarah Jaffe wrote for The Week.

How can the horrors of the slave trade possibly be compared to a billion-dollar labor negotiation?

To offset the reduction in spending and get more mileage out of each campaign dollar, labor leaders say, they will focus on the strategies of registering more members of union households to vote (the goal is four million more by 2000), educating the 40 million members of such households on the issues labor cares about and then mobilizing them to get to the polls.