In a Daily Worker article included in her MI5 file, she praised the high level of culture in Russia, describing travelling on a tube train "between one person reading Pushkin and another reading Dosteoevsky".
American unions have long argued that low wages and labour standards in the third world create "unfair" competition for American workers (see article).
The political fuss over east European workers (see article) notwithstanding, they worry less about competition for jobs than about public services.
Kay Thi Win is coordinator for the Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers This article was amended on 18 August 2015 to clarify the advantages of decriminalisation in the ninth paragraph.
Re "Downtown Is Slower to Embrace Optimism; Uneasiness and Worries Persist for Many Residents and Workers" (news article, Dec. 23): Even though life goes on, those of us uptown, too, still feel the pain.
They worry that, once the new rules are in place, they will either be stuck with costly, unproductive workers (see article) or face a flood of lawsuits.In principle, employers should be able to win such cases provided that they can justify the dismissal on grounds of competence.
This sort of change will, for good or ill, ripple on down the generations which may, if young people live longer and longer at home, become more spread out.In lieu of jobsIn some countries, particularly in southern Europe, the main focus for governments should be on opening up labour markets that lock out younger workers (see article).
"By some accounts, the unemployment rate for Chinese college graduates age 21 to 25 is 16%, nearly four times that of blue-collar workers," the article states.
Rhian Huws Williams is chief executive of the Care Council for Wales and a qualified social worker This article is published by Guardian Professional.
