Compensation is one thing, Bodo residents say, but what they really want is their livelihood back.
Since tourism, fisheries and agriculture are the three main industries in the affected areas, the unemployed have no alternative livelihoods to fall back on.
While cities retain enough private industry for some to make an independent living, a huge proportion of rural livelihoods are directly backed by the government.
Action Aid Vietnam, a nongovernment organization, issued a report last week warning that thousands of families in rural Vietnam would lose their livelihood and "fall back into poverty" if the Commerce Department imposed the tariffs.
In 2010, Unison General Secretary Dave Prentis was named as one of the trade union leaders paid more than David Cameron, but his union has little to offer workers fighting for their livelihoods, except for back-stabbing capitulation.
Especially aggravating is the media's ongoing insistence that it is somehow doing athletes a huge favor by covering them, as opposed to, you know, making their own livelihoods off the backs of those athletes.
How do we explain – to the living, to the survivors, to the orphans, to those who lost homes, families and livelihoods – how we stood back and did nothing?
But we should also care because undercutting their livelihoods would push farmers back into coca production, the raw material for cocaine.
All they think of is of working the whole day and night to earn livelihood for their family back home.
After missing the Masters last year because of a resurgence of the rheumatoid arthritis that already had threatened his livelihood a decade ago, he is back in the field for the major tournament that he won in 1994 and 1999.
