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We remain open to exploring various options to attain the needed labor costs savings but we need to resolve the issue quickly.

We're going to get some weak numbers. The ISM report is going to be weak and that we're in store for a labor report that's weaker than what we've seen over the past four or five months.

We're going to fight that vigorously. If the company were to have its way, we would be looking at losing literally thousands of jobs to overseas labour. This is something that we have not seen at any other airline. United (Airlines) in its worst days has never tried to do this.

What we're looking to do is find ways to unlock some of these economies so they get the kind of investment they need, they get the kind of trade they need and they have the flexibility within their labor markets to generate employment.

What we're looking at in Seattle is a debate over the rules of the game and how the environment and labor will be treated -- whether they will be debated elsewhere or whether they will become part of the core discussions about trade.

What this, in conjunction with the April unemployment report, shows is stabilization in the labor market and timid improvement. By no means are we talking about a roaring improvement in the labor market.

We're going to have to have labor costs that are competitive, as well.

unless the labor movement grows to increase workers' standard of living, that has got to be our fundamental purpose. We have to put the resources where the words are.

Unless the labor market gains some steam and momentum, both real income and confidence of consumers would be hurt.

Unit labor costs moving up is seen as fanning some of the Fed's concerns on inflation, but I doubt from the Fed's perspective that this changes their view very much,

Usually it's $20,000 to $30,000 because of the amount of labor to dismantle and clean everything,

With unemployment at a 30-year low and the short-term Conference Board forecast projecting favorable labor market conditions, confidence is expected to remain strong through the summer. Volatile financial markets and interest rate hikes are not expected to have a significant impact.

Working men and women and organized labor know this administration, this vice president, has been there fighting for them day-in and day-out for the last eight years,

With the lowest February unemployment rate in five years, nearly 28,500 more people working and some 5,100 fewer unemployed in Wisconsin than one-year-ago, we have strong evidence that the state's labor market is moving in a positive direction.

With the labor market tightening, particularly for people with college degrees, it makes it increasingly difficult for companies to find highly skilled and talented workers.

With the Labor Day weekend, it's been pretty good. We've had approximately 150 or so customers during the five-hour period.

We're going to continue to see this throughout 2004, this sideways movement in consumer confidence, simply because we're going to see a very choppy recovery in the labor market, and employment is the single most important influence on consumer attitudes.

We're finally getting consistently good news on the labor markets and even an occasional positive surprise like today's report.

We're in trouble and, unfortunately, we're a very labor intensive industry. We need good workers.

We're hoping that these farmworkers will become part of the labor movement. We're hoping that the newly legalized workers will join labor unions to make demands on their employers for better wages and working conditions.

We're hopeful this turns into something that becomes a standard for performance in terms of how you treat your workers and train them. For businesses making decisions, we don't want Florida farms left out because of labor practices.

With the rise in the unemployment rate, it is hard to conclude that the labor market is anywhere near out of the woods.

With the number of labor-intensive acres going up in California, their behavior does not seem to suggest that they see a labor shortage, even if that's what they tell reporters. Farmers always think there's not enough labor. It's a very unpredictable business. You can't control the weather. The one thing you can push for is a lax immigration program, or a guest-worker program.

With what happened, I think things are on hold. This is not a permanent decision. It's in abeyance right now until they can be more confident in the work force. The Japanese model is one of a higher level of visible collaboration between labor and management.

We know he isn't a transit-friendly, labor friendly governor. I hope he hears the public and passengers out there. We will continue to ask him.

Ultimately, industry adaptation is helped by higher crude, insofar as fares will continue moving higher, labor costs lower, and at some point even the most stubborn (airlines) may see the need to decelerate.

Ultimately, for the economic recovery to sustain itself, we have to see the labor market improve. As the tax-cut benefits fade, consumers will look for more fundamental reasons to spend money, and there will have to be some job growth.

Ultimately, American business and organized labor should want the same thing: a more competitive and prosperous America.

With three sub-300,000 numbers in the past four weeks, it is beginning to look as though there has been some real improvement in the labor markets this year.

With this endorsement, ... we gain the support of more than a million members of organized labor across this state.

With the world facing historically high crude oil prices, China's labor cost advantage becomes even more precious because no other country can control operating costs and keep them as low.

We're still several months away from job growth catching up with labor force growth and driving the unemployment rate back down, but that's really just a matter of time. Our economy is moving again, and once that happens it's actually quite hard to stop the forward momentum.

We're still returning to pre-hurricane levels but in general this is a good report. This is further evidence labor markets are still healthy in the U.S.

We're looking for increases in employment, but because the labor force is growing 1 percent a year, we need 125,000 new jobs per month to stabilize the unemployment rate. We see the unemployment rate drifting slightly higher and lingering higher for the next year.

We're looking for a relatively good year in 2006, given that wages are up and the labor market is fairly tight.

We've got labor peace and it's intelligent. It makes sense. We do have the greatest league in the world.

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

When foreign investors enter Vietnam, they must follow the country's labor rules. If they don't, the Vietnamese government has the responsibility to enforce the law or expel the company. The government has to protect the worker. The unions that represent workers in factories of foreign and joint-stock companies are weak. They don't have the strength to stand up to the management.

We want shorter contracts, because the times change. And we haven't had a pay raise since 1997. That's what this whole strike is about is unfair labor practices. We're asking for a livable wage.

We were already busy before this. We don't have the labor pool, and the spec houses are not anywhere near completion, and they are going to get gobbled up.

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

We want to show we're part of the labor force as well. We have a right to speak up and say we don't support illegal immigration.

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

Labor is the handmaid of religion.

The region is declining as part of the state's overall labor market.

I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Labor, you know, is prayer.

I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.

Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.

There is a slight chance the Federal Reserve Board will raise rates when it meets later this month, but with the current labor market and slowing consumer spending, it is more likely that it will take no action until August at the earliest. As a result, short-term interest rates, such as the one-year adjustable-rate mortgage, drifted further down this week.

There are some people who say we are dividing the labor movement. I say we are rebuilding the labor movement, but this time we are building it right.

The only way to find out if an alternative road works is to set out in that direction. The only way to reverse the decline in living standards is for the labor movement to be bigger and stronger.

There are employers in this state who are more than willing to hire illegal aliens. Hiring illegal aliens distorts the labor market and reduces income for our citizens.

We're adamantly fighting any attempt to transfer pollution from North to South, from rich to poor. These ships are moving precisely because the environmental and labor costs in developing countries are much less than they are in the developed countries.

We hear much of Bolshevism, much of labor unrest; at times, we hear the word 'revolution.' But these are but contagious diseases in the body of civilization, and I believe that the antitoxins of good cheer, mutual confidence, fairness and justice will ultimately cure these ills and make the world healthy and strong again.

We hear about the labor market from employers all the time so we know it is an issue, but 51 percent is a big number.

We hope to finally re-open around Labor Day this year. We are anxious to finally open our doors after being closed for so long. Once we do, we will be a regional tourist destination and another bright spot for the town of Windsor, offering visitors a chance to learn about the history and technology behind all of our modern communications systems like radio, television, and telephone. Our collection is truly one-of-a-kind and it's high time that we finally get to dust it off and show it to the world.

We've started to see a gradual improvement in the labor market, and that will slowly feed through to consumer spending and boost services more widely.

The CPE isn't one more tool to create employment: it's a tool to destroy permanent jobs. The CPE will progressively become the only access to the labor market for young people, irrespective of their qualification, their salary or their branch of work.

We used to joke that if you go into labor we'll drag you out to the sidewalk.

The productivity and labor costs reports abated pressures (over) rising interest rates from the Fed, which is giving a kick to the market. Also, the storm in the East wasn't so bad, so oil pressure isn't bad.

The pool of available labor is diminishing and worker efficiency is growing more slowly. This adds up to a higher level of pressure on wages, and, by inference, on inflation.

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

This is the greatest wealth we possess: to know how to direct our labors rightly.

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

We're looking forward to spending the Labor Day weekend with our family, ... The first thing we're going to do is hug them real tight.

We're having to do less and less labor on our products here to compete with Chinese manufacturers. The parts and the coating of the lenses will be done here and assembled there.

We're hard pressed for labor more than for warehouse space. But we're going to be hard pressed for warehouse space.

We're good through Labor Day, but I have some concerns about the fourth quarter, especially if we get some higher corn prices.

This really is a nationwide phenomenon. We found the presence of day labor in every region of the United States.

When you put it all together you get what you have now, a tight labor market but no wage inflation. We are in a whole new territory.

We needed a game like this. We'll see the game film and see what we have to work on. We're going to be working on Labor Day.

The principal reason we didn't lose out to China as everyone had predicted is because labor in Bangladesh is cheaper than anywhere else in the world.

The primary issues today's initiatives set out to resolve are still lingering -- legacy labor costs at GM and a possible supply disruption at Delphi.

When you consider the depth of our service offering, the expertise we have built during our 58-year history and the experience gained through our vast international network, Manpower companies have unparalleled insight into the labor market. We understand what's now and what's next in the changing world of work and use this knowledge to help our clients and candidates win.

When unemployment went up, unauthorized migration from Mexico went down. When unemployment went down, unauthorized migration from Mexico went up . . . What we're seeing is a labor migration that is tied to employment opportunities, both here and abroad.

When those projects started, the builders, the developers could not find the labor force. And as the word got out it traveled fast, and so people started coming. As people started coming, they said, 'Hey, there's a lot of work here,' and so that's what sort of triggered it.

The plan lacks a clear statement of how Ford is going to get its labor and design costs in line with its Japanese competitors. Lacking that, Ford will not be able to offer vehicles that are competitive in price, quality and content.

There are two kinds of people in the labor movement: women and people who like women,

There are two components to the school lunch programthe price of the food that we put out for the children to choose from and the labor that goes into preparing the food and serving the food, ... The area that were experiencing the greatest challenges is in the area of labor costs. Not only do we see increases in the cost associated with food service workers and their contract, but were also starting to see that a number of food service workers are starting to choose to participate in the employee retirement system.

We're seeing volume but no volatility in prices. And I think that just shows you that a lot of people are away and people are not making major moves. But next week, when everyone comes back from the Labor Day weekend it tends to be a big week and they really put the foot to accelerator and go, go, go.

We're seeing the fruits of our labor. We've been pushing for this for so long.

We're constrained on many levels. We subcontract our bread, but because of labor limitations at the bakery, we can't get our signature bread. So we're just taking regular French bread. We don't have enough manpower to cut our own fish, so we are subcontracting the actual filleting. It's a lot easier for us to judge the quality of a whole fish than it is to judge the quality of a fillet. But we don't have that luxury right now.

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft, and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor

Maintenance work is often outsourced, especially at the low-cost carriers. I think it weakens labor's hand generally, but I wouldn't extend this to all other types of labor negotiations. American found out a number of years ago they couldn't fly through a flight attendant strike.

Maintenance work is often outsourced, especially at the low-cost carriers, ... I think it weakens labor's hand generally, but I wouldn't extend this to all other types of labor negotiations. American found out a number of years ago they couldn't fly through a flight attendant strike.

Lynn Swann respects the historic legacy of labor in Pennsylvania. Our message is simple: roll back the Rendell tax hikes, help families place their children in better-performing schools, and focus on programs to bring higher-paying jobs to Pennsylvania and put Pennsylvania back on the right track.

Lynn Swann respects the historic legacy of labor in Pennsylvania.

Let us together closely lie and kiss, There is no labor, no shame in this: This hath pleased, doth please, and long will please, never, Can this decay, but is beginning ever

Lower labor costs and tax benefits have, for example, caused publishers like EA, UbiSoft, and others to move more production to Canada.

Laying-off permanent workers is so difficult and costly that companies have a strong preference for temp jobs, even if it is at the expense of productivity. When labor protection has become excessive and unaffordable, as it is in France, labor market institutions must be reformed.

Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal opportunity, drugs, and labor disputes. We became personality journalists, medical writers, and business reporters.

Many people labor under the impression you cannot file a homicide charge without a body. That's not true,

SEQuester(tm), the patented star product in this new generation of super filters, is intended for the genomics market of automated DNA sequencing laboratories. The product offers sizeable labor savings in the processing of DNA samples and fully enables robotic sequencers. We have discussed tentative agreements for brand alliances and manufacturing through well known distribution channels in the DNA products industry, an overall market worth an estimated U.S. $4 billion.

So long as casual labor broods in squalid lairs, in sunless streets, and ugly dwellings are its only habitation, we shall continue to turn out nervous manikins instead of enduring men.

Siemens and DaimlerChrysler's results were better than expected and on the macro side, the U.S. labor market data is positive for a cyclical recovery.

Simply because as a matter of fact China still has plenty of rural surplus laborers and people are talking about a magnitude of more than 200 million - so you know from national-wide point of view, there is plenty of labor supply there.

Since emigration to Mexico was illegal and carried out without government permission, the immigrants initially had no passports. A competent foreign office, moreover, would never have allowed its people to go to a place like the Yucatan where labor conditions were terrible.