Sentence examples for rican labor from inspiring English sources
Capetillo, a leading feminist in the early decades of the 20th century, was a Puerto Rican labor organizer, a writer, and a reader in the cigar factories who fought for equality for women and justice for the working class.
Many Puerto Ricans could accept labor reform, some income tax hikes and other austerity measures, particularly if that meant their salvation from more serious austerity measures and further economic turmoil.
As boarding housekeepers, as wives, as allies, as people with local networks in cities like New Orleans, New York and Detroit, Creole, African-American, and Puerto Rican women provided the knowledge and labor that gave South Asian peddler and maritime networks stability.
But others — like Gladys López and Albert Torres here in Adjuntas — accuse the company of using an oversupply of labor to sidestep a Puerto Rican law (known as Law 180) that grants full-time employees 12 paid sick days and 15 days of vacation per year.
He said a longstanding "mandatory decree" from the Puerto Rican government exempted the apparel industry from certain labor provisions.
Still, the AFL-CIO labor federation and several individual unions representing some 50,000 Puerto Rican workers oppose the bill -- including the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the Service Employees International Union, and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
One was that New York's urban Puerto Rican community did not relate to the California Latinos, whose American experience was grounded in agricultural labor.
Puerto Rican men are more than twice as likely as their Mexican peers to be out of school and out of the labor force.
Here boats arrive from Nicaragua with Nicaraguans applying for Costa Rican labor permits.
Several labor unions also lobbied against the measure, arguing that a lower minimum wage could take money out of the Puerto Rican economy.
