From 1980 until his death, he was one of the three impartial members of the New York City Office of Collective Bargaining, which is responsible for resolving statutory disputes between the city and its workers, functioning as a sort of municipal National Labor Relations Board.
Care workers function as a human loom, shuttling from one home to another, stitching the social fabric back together while many of their employers and shareholders, and government ministers, slash blindly at the cloth, downsizing, outsourcing and deregulating in the cause of profit.
Field service workers function as a company's front line, interacting face-to-face with customers.
Class inequality can be experienced as embodied 'interactive labour practices' in the service and hospitality sector, whereby the bodies of workers function as 'signs, codes and messages' of class difference (Otis 2012: 9).
Under this system, workers function as self-employed drivers with their own routes, covering the costs of their own trucks, gasoline, uniforms and so forth.
Hazem Hanyia of the Independent Commission for Human Rights studied the working conditions within the tunnels and found they do not meet minimum standards for workers – functioning in violation of most nations' labour laws.
Workers functioning with heightened and augmented creative abilities along with emotional and communicative savvy would generate real value by enhancing individual or group performance at achieving goals and key objectives.
In other environments, community health workers function as promotoras or "health promoters".
Facilitators took time to explain, were knowledgeable, well-informed and experienced, and had a lot of understanding of the context within which the health workers functioned.
This is because "in health systems, workers function as gatekeepers and navigators for the effective, or wasteful application of all other resources such as drugs, vaccines and supplies" [ 3].
