Sentence examples for profitable labor from inspiring English sources

Yet, for many union members, the U.F.W. was simply a labor organization, and its viability rested on the promise of fairer, more profitable labor arrangements — a goal of retaining benefits, not sustaining heroism.

In one essay Fred Ashe — he is an associate professor of English at Birmingham-Southern compares— profithely compares the Dude to Rip van Winkle, for both his "friendly charisma" and what Washington Irving described as Rip's "insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor".

There's very little profitable labor going on in the prisons.

For some, this has meant making temporary adjustments, like putting in less cabbage, or resisting the temptation to put in profitable, labor-intensive crops like asparagus.

But the most profitable if most labor-intensive crops are the sweet corn, melons, tomatoes, beans, berries and peppers that Mrs. Redman loads each morning onto three farm carts, fitted with little tin roofs as protection against the heat.

They note that agriculture is not profitable if transportation and labor costs are high and producers pay about 75 cents for a carton of fruit.

An investigation into highly profitable stock trades by labor leaders on the board of Ullico, a union-owned insurance company, severely criticizes the insurer's chairman and calls on union leaders to return their trading profits, a Ullico board member said yesterday.

Manpower is gradually transforming itself from a commodity supplier of temps to a profitable manager of flexible labor pools all across the globe.

Slavery created jobs for slave-catchers, a shipping industry built on the slave trade, and a plantation economy that could remain profitable only with slave labor.

The European Central Bank has criticized short-time work as interrupting the normal reallocation of labor to more profitable industries as a recovery emerges.

One of G.M.'s greatest challenges, along with the fact that it cannot sell enough vehicles at profitable prices, is that its labor force is shrinking while its retiree population swells.