The problem was tax loopholes that Congress had created in the first place, loopholes that allow corporations to minimize their support of other stakeholders with favorable tax treatment, low minimum wages, and minimal requirements for worker benefits.
The maximum of minimal numbers of workers for all takts will be considered as the necessary number of workers for the line.
When negotiations began in May, hospital officials said their deficits would make it hard to grant anything but a minimal raise to workers in 1199/S.E.I.U., New York's Health and Human Service Union.
Testing of Zonolite brand insulation, along with Grace internal documents, show that "even minimal handling by workers or residents poses a substantial health risk," the health service said in a recent memorandum.
Its role has been partly superseded by the basic silicates, which are relatively insoluble in pottery-glaze frits and are therefore of minimal hazard to workers who handle glaze materials in ceramic plants.
If we are to compete with each other in the Single Market – an achievement championed by British Conservatives in the 1980s – we do need common, minimal standards for workers' welfare.
They lack skills, and modern factories will need fewer of them; the thousands of plants reported to have shut down over the past year are mostly small outfits that operated on 1980s lines and have been hard hit by legislation laying down minimal standards for workers.
Since the 1960s American processors of steel scrap have relied on enormous shredders to tear up cars and appliances into small pieces, using magnets and a minimal number of workers to separate the steel from copper, glass, rubber, upholstery and plastic an efficient but inexact method of separation.
Theoretically, there's an amount of money that has been spent, however minimal, and that workers could be getting instead.
