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...An Ifo survey in August found 43.1 per cent of German companies lack skilled workers....
...“I did it in 27 seconds,” says Kasia Sznel, a third-year apprentice structural ironworker. This nimble strength helped Sznel join Local 40, a union of ironworkers in New York City....
...“It’s not a local issue, it’s not a national issue, it’s an international issue,” he said....
...Mayor Orlando Morando insists the decision was down to the US automaker’s global strategy at the time, rather than local factors....
...Students, activists and unions are pressuring big cities, including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, to follow suit....
...Palmer, a local businessman, immediately began work rebuilding the property, financing it with $1.7m in unsecured debt — believed to be the largest ever individual loan at the time....
...It spent €1.95bn on foreign aid last year, of which €86.2m went to DRC.)...
...Scunthorpe also makes rails and wire rod for bridges, car tyres and the like....
...It’s kind of like saying . . . they want stuff like schools and bridges but they want somebody else to pay for it.”...
...So as autumn takes hold, I am making an additional £420m available immediately to local highway authorities to tackle potholes, bridge repairs, and other minor works in this financial year....
...So as Autumn takes hold, I am making an additional £420m available immediately to Local Highway Authorities to tackle potholes, bridge repairs and other minor works in this financial year....
...For the federal Government it’s a tiny structural deficit of 0.35 per cent, so a small deficit....
...But government grant funding for local services delivered by local councils will be cut by £1.3bn (36 per cent) in 2019/20, which will directly impact the less well off....
...The OBR forecast the structural deficit to be 1.3% of GDP in 2020-21, giving £14.8 billion headroom against our 2% target....
...The local family business in my constituency that’s been serving the community for more than 50 years....
...In April, Latvia held “Summer Shield” with 1,100 troops. As Kevadtorm wrapped up, Lithuania began “Iron Wolf”, with 5,000 troops....
...The European Commission believes Italy will grow at a rate of 0.6 per cent this year and 1.4 per cent in 2016....
...Monetary union does not need fiscal and political union. It needs debt restructuring. The book provides a sophisticated “liquidationist” alternative to the dominant rhetoric. Why Are We Waiting?...
...He said the IMF and Rome would discuss differentiation of salaries for public sector workers to match local conditions....
...Young workers and those with rising earnings over the life cycle pay income tax – the affluent elderly do not – but they would pay consumption taxes....
...Alexandra Rossel, head of the Manroland works council in Offenbach, says that “for workers and local people in Offenbach, it was inconceivable that a company like Manroland with so much history would be...
...Unlike some of the trades unions and many of his co-workers, Mr Pereira is not looking for a government bail-out....
...We’ve got crumbling roads and bridges. A power grid that wastes too much energy....
...“We are continuing a difficult dialogue with the European Commission and the United States in the process of WTO accession,” Mr Putin told workers at the Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works....
...Fewer than a tenth of American private sector workers now belong to a union. People in Europe and Canada are subjected to the same forces of globalisation and technology....
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