The SPD preaches "solidarity", which entails strong worker protection, minimum wages and robust social welfare.
Japanese companies provide lifetime employment for their core workers (accounting for about a third of the workforce), thereby creating strong worker loyalty.
Finland, with its strong worker protections and sterling civil-rights record, would offer the Guggenheim a much-needed change of scenery.
General Motor's Opel unit, represented by the IG Metall union in Germany, has struggled for more than a decade to cut costs and stem losses in the face of strong worker resistance.
At Germany's insistence, the new merger rules say that, if a third or more employees in a newly merged firm are covered by strong worker-participation rights, those rights will apply to the entire firm.
The National Labor Committee made the copy available as part of a campaign by labor unions and their Democratic allies to pressure the Bush administration and Congress to include strong worker protections in any new trade agreements.
Employee relations … are practice such as strong worker involvement within the company, generous profit sharing across the majority of employees, good retirement benefits and/or a good safety record.
As we enter the next election cycle, therefore, what the Democratic Party needs is an unapologetically populist program built around an attack on poverty, a defense of strong worker right, and opposition to discrimination in all its forms.
In short, the Mayor's number is really returning us to a time when the economy, by all accounts, was doing well - and surely strong worker wages, spending, and productivity had something to do with that.
