Unions say they want to organize workers to improve wages, benefits and workplace safety.
If a factory has 500 workers, to improve standards you might need to pay each worker another $20 a month.
Delphi is also looking to restructure its Harrison Thermal Systems division, with about 10,350 workers, to improve profitability and productivity.
"What are employers offering to workers to improve their lives?" said Daisy Chung, the executive director of ROC-NY.
Helping social workers to improve their resilience should never be seen as an excuse for expecting people to cope with unreasonable workloads.
I'd want a raise to be explicitly tied to increased productivity, and in particular to the efforts of the workers to improve operations.
Henri-Claude Müller-Poitevien, the Haiti prime minister's adviser on investment, said Haiti was working on training workers to improve their productivity.
Whatever the cause of weak productivity, it must eventually pick up.Lies and statisticsSome big firms, including Tesco, have added workers to improve customer service.
Rather than treating sex workers as victims to be rescued or rehabilitated, it demonstrates the power of collective action as a force for women's empowerment, mobilising sex workers to improve their working conditions, and claim rights and recognition.
A federal order requiring the state to hire more social workers to improve oversight of abuse cases is having an unintended consequence: the workers, lured by bigger state paychecks, are leaving private social service agencies in droves.
