Sentence examples for sinking labor from inspiring English sources
The trend emerged clearly with the onset of the recession and, demographers say, provides new evidence that illegal immigrants from Mexico, by far the biggest source of unauthorized migration to the United States, are drawn by jobs and respond to a sinking labor market by staying away.
Many unions are hoping Ms. Henry will lead her union back into the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which the service employees quit in 2005, criticizing it as hidebound and doing too little to stop labor from sinking.
With these moves, his relationship with labor sank to a new low.
He envisioned the group as a broad movement, preaching faith as the key to social and economic justice and sinking deep roots in Egypt's powerful labor unions.
The portion of private sector workers in unions fell to just 6.6 percent last year, from 6.9 percent in 2011, causing some labor specialists to question whether private sector unions were sinking toward irrelevance.
The quarterly fall was the steepest since the fourth quarter of 1981, when labor efficiency sank by 5.5percentt.
There will always be this tension between the new and striving and the old who have investment and labor already sunk into the land.
Some union leaders disagree with Mr. Levine's assessment, suggesting that the Mayor's rapport with labor has sunk to a new low -- though they say relations can still be patched up.
The deal will lift GMAC's ratings above parent GM's, which have been sinking deeper into junk territory in light of ongoing accounting issues and the possible hit from labor unrest at Delphi.
"The overall picture is one where the labor market is still kind of treading water," said Joshua Shapiro, chief United States economist at MFR Inc. "It's better than sinking, but it's certainly not surging ahead".
