What are the local costs of labor, telecommunications, power, and real estate?
We looked for partisan bias by studying whether and when judges vote to uphold decisions of federal agencies, in areas including environmental protection, labor, telecommunications, discrimination and occupational safety.
The study found Dubai's disadvantages fairly high labor and telecommunications costs and the tiny sales potential of its local market compared with, say, China are offset to an extent by its multinational, skilled, and stable workforce (Dubai law forbids frequent job changes); robust infrastructure; zero taxes; and five-star amenities.
The still-secret sections include the portions of the agreement dealing with labor, the telecommunications industry and textiles and apparel.
Not coincidentally, Google's main lobbying concerns this year, according to public data gathered by the Center for Responsive Politics, are copyright, patent, and trademark matters; telecommunications; and labor, antitrust, and workplace issues — all areas over which Upton has a great deal of influence.
President Enrique Peña Nieto has won international acclaim for pushing through an ambitious agenda of structural reforms in areas such as energy, telecommunications, and labor markets — all of which his Institutional Revolutionary Party PRIironicallylly opposed between losing power after 71 years in government in 2000 and regaining it in 2012.
Last year it received hundreds of thousands from pharmaceuticals, labor unions, oil companies and telecommunications giants like AT&T and Verizon.
What remains to be seen is how the agreement will be viewed elsewhere in labor circles, by other big telecommunications companies and by Wall Street.
Labor market outcomes of deregulation in telecommunications services [Electronic version].
[C1.] Uphill Battle for Telecommunications Unions As organized labor continues to struggle nationwide, few industries are slipping as quickly as telecommunications.
Layoff announcements by United States companies rose 12percentt in June, led by more job losses in the beleaguered telecommunications industry, and the labor market remains weak, a new report says.
