The government's plan to reform the country's pension system is being opposed by massed ranks of workers on the streets.
The Bloomberg administration shrank the department's uniformed ranks by 400 through attrition but recently hired 100 new workers and ordered the demotion of 100 foremen back into the ranks of workers, said Harry Nespoli, president of the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association.
One theory is that corporate cost-cutting, having thinned the ranks of workers on the factory floor and in routine office jobs, is now targeting supervisors, managers, and other highly educated people.
In this respect America may be following the experience of Europe.Though it will be two decades before today's lower fertility affects the ranks of workers, America can ill afford it.
She can afford to feed her children but mornings are always chaotic and some of the older ones miss breakfast.Heading to school, they join the ranks of workers walking to one of Kibera's eight exits and on to jobs in Nairobi proper where buildings rise higher than just one or two floors.
This was 20% lower than in the same period a year earlier, when Brent crude averaged $108 a barrel, compared with $54 in the first three months of 2015.It was either that or WalmartBen Bernanke, who retired as chairman of the Federal Reserve in 2014, has joined the ranks of workers with multiple part-time jobs.
Carlos is in charge of the vast ranks of workers in the magical candy factory.
Also, the ranks of workers who have been without work for more than six months — the so-called long-term unemployed — remain at historically high levels, standing at more than 3 million in June.
A primary advantage of the DCE method is that it produces not only a ranking of health worker preferences for various potential strategies, but also permits quantification of the value of one attribute compared to another.
Workers complain about the expanding ranks of contract workers who are paid a fraction of what regular employees earn and receive few benefits, and they say that there are not enough jobs to begin with.
