prolabour

(redirected from prolabor)

prolabour

(prəʊˈleɪbə) or

prolabor

adj
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) favouring an organized labour movement
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Progress in the Philippines, however, could be slower due to unique factors such as regulatory constraints, 'prolabor' policies, and the still relatively low cost of labor compared to some of its regional counterparts.
It was unabashedly anti-Fascist and pre-Pearl Harbor pro-intervention, as well as prolabor, pro-Roosevelt, and predicated on the primacy of the visual.
Craftivists often ally with antiglobalization and prolabor causes.
They ultimately reject the IV estimates because the stability of prolabor sentiment makes it so these instruments may have a direct and current effect on wages.
Lappas, "Apelin is decreased with human preterm and term labor and regulates prolabor mediators in human primary amnion cells," Reproductive Sciences, vol.
363) of government prolabor policies and relates the discussion to margin monopoly and cartels.
1109, 1219-20 (1989) (discussing prolabor anti-injunction and anticonspiracy laws passed by states in the late 1890s and early 1900s).
It's a strategy that is also playing out on a national level, as progressive unions work to elect prolabor candidates.
President Barack Obama recently appointed two prolabor NLRB members, former AFL-CIO general counsel Nancy Schiffer and Kent Hirozawa, formerly NLRB general counsel.
Stover sees nothing contradictory in the fact that Wells, who was "never prolabor despite his lower-class origin" (Sleeper 20), twice stood as a Labour Party candidate in Parliamentary elections.
1930: Democrats take control of Congress, which begins to enact prolabor legislation.