MANAGEMENT LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT MARKETPLACE ANALYSIS September 2013 On the whole the employment market remains stable in Canada. Human rights and privacy issues are said to be “permeating every aspect of labour and employment law practice” with lawyers reporting a steep increase in the number of allegations of human […]
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? you’re watching “market makers,” i’m erik schatzker. Made in america, you’ll be seeing that label more and more. Politicians and big retailers are embracing what they believe is the job-creating power of u.s. made products. A story out today says a majority of manufacturing firms are manning to reshore jobs back to the united […]
CHICAGO, IL, Sep 24, 2013 (Marketwired via COMTEX) — More than half of U.S.-based manufacturing executives at companies with sales greater […]
This is a guest post from Harry Moser and Millar Kelley of the Reshoring Initiative. The mission of the Reshoring Initiative is to bring good, well-paying manufacturing jobs back to the United States by assisting companies to more accurately assess their …
The Truth About Reshoring, Productivity And Today’s Manufacturer – Manufacturing Business Technology
There’s been a lot of buzz about the reshoring of American manufacturing business that had previously been lost to other regions. The talk seems to center on three areas: Is reshoring actually happening? Are we really going to make up for all the jobs lost to countries with lower-cost labor, primarily India and China? What […]
Photo by D. Sinclair The Island is a funny place. People fall out with people, some groups fall out with one another. But if someone’s back is against the wall, they’ll all stand together. Because otherwise, they’ll pick you off one by one. – Rita Bensley, Association of Island Communities The night of 16 September […]
The night of 16 September 1993 provided an unpleasant moment of farce to punctuate a slow, grinding tragedy. As protestors from the Anti-Nazi League gathered outside the Isle of Dogs neighbourhood centre, officials from Tower Hamlets Council were sifting through ballots cast in a local by-election. At 10.30 p.m., a murmur of surprise ran through […]
Business managers must constantly adjust their strategies by adapting to what’s happened and what’s likely to happen. World economies remain difficult to gauge as governments look at changing interest rates and many other factors cloud the outlook. The difficulty of monitoring data in a global economy prompts many managers to turn to outsiders who constantly […]
Caricom governments are struggling to maintain the levels of social and other spending that electorates have come to expect. From health care to roads and education, few nations in the region now have the capital or the ability to raise new revenue to grow the social sector, finance infrastructure or create employment. Instead, […]
mboxCreate(‘Heritage_Share_Tracking’); An intense debate is raging over the proper way to repair the broken system the U.S. uses to tax its international businesses. There is widespread agreement that the current system destroys jobs and suppresses wages for U.S. workers. However, there is a sharp division about how to fix the system’s […]
