Sentence examples for worker standards from inspiring English sources

Now he presents himself as a global liberal, insisting on international environmental and worker standards before trade deals are signed.

The real motto of U.S. trade unions is: We're for more worker standards in Africa, not more work.

The unions don't want to say that out loud -- so they tell you they are for free trade with countries that get their worker standards up.

Is there a need, therefore, for a coordinated enforcement of foreign worker standards between the EU and the UK's new groceries co-adjudicator?

But they can't point to a single country that has flourished, or upgraded its living or worker standards, without free trade and integration.

In most developing countries, however, political leaders are adamantly opposed to any linking of worker standards to trade agreements, arguing that imposing rules from outside threatens to undermine the competitive advantage they need to support their own economic development.

What they're doing is trying to make it sound as if G.M.'s current assembly-line workers are earning outrageous compensation for their labor, in order to demonize the U.A.W. U.A.W. workers are well-paid by industrial-worker standards.

LL Felicity, Sir Jim Paice suggested that consumer pressure is ultimately enough to enforce workers standards.

"We've shared these workers' standards and our workers' strategy with Human Rights Watch and Amnesty Internationall  and we are in open discussions with them as well," he added.

For example, tax credits were designed to 'make work pay' by providing enough incentive to work while meeting the increasing challenge of keeping low-paid workers' standards of living in sync with those of the working majority who have higher earnings.

The Arab trade union move came as international trade unions charged in advance of a crucial FIFA executive meeting that despite Qatari pledges workers on the Gulf state's first World Cup stadium were being housed in "squalid accommodation" and that Qatar had failed to adhere to workers' standards that it had adopted.