Much of the growth in GDP has gone to profits, not wages, reflecting the weak bargaining position of workers.
Pushing the economy back to full employment restores the position of workers at the bargaining table, repairing the broken link between labour productivity and wages.
American pro-labour social reformer and newspaper editor who sought to enhance the position of workers by agitating for free homesteads.
The revised standard means that companies will need to communicate to their workers that they have a right to unionize, make significant steps towards paying a living wage and overall strengthen the position of workers.
In another part of the report that seemed to go beyond the New Democrat ethos, the C.A.P. commission endorsed various steps to strengthen the bargaining position of workers and labor unions.
Second, unemployment benefits improve the bargaining position of workers.
Oftentimes, these three aspects are mutually reinforcing, perpetuating the vulnerable position of workers in relation to their employers.
In the twentieth century, when nationalist tendencies proved to be stronger (or in any case more easily mobilized) than international solidarity, and when the position of workers was strengthened to the point of making them unwilling to risk a revolution, this forced the left to reconsider this view.
And the influence of public sector unions on the bargaining position of workers in profit-making corporations is, certainly in the short run, negligible.
His lectures were usually about medical issues, but he also described the economic and social position of workers in more advanced countries.
The position of workers in the private sector was weaker than in the public sector in Ireland, in terms of payment, working conditions and qualifications [ 11, 41].
