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Posted: 5/3/2013 9:48:33 AM EST
In this Thursday, April 11, 2013 photo, people wait in line before the Dr. King Career Fair at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany, N.Y. U.S. employers added 165,000 jobs in April, and hiring was much stronger in the previous two months than first thought, the Labor Department reports, Friday, May 3, 2013. The gains trimmed the unemployment rate to a four-year low of 7.5 percent. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Posted: 5/2/2013 11:48:28 AM EST
A South Korean man watches a television news program showing Korean American Kenneth Bae at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 2, 2013. Bae detained for six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for "hostile acts" against the state, the North's media said Thursday — a move that could trigger a visit by a high-profile American if history is any guide. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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Posted: 5/2/2013 10:23:35 AM EST
FILE - In this March 1, 2013 photo, containers are placed on a trailer by a crane after being removed from a ship at the Port of Baltimore's Seagirt Marine Terminal in Baltimore. The government reports on worker productivity and labor costs in the January-March quarter on Thursday, May 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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Posted: 5/2/2013 9:13:22 AM EST
In this Tuesday, April 30, 2013, photo, Donna Van Natten, with The Enterprise Center, left, and Valoria Armstrong with the Tennessee American Water Co. converse during a job fair being held at the Urban League in Chattanooga, Tenn. The Labor Department reports on the number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits last week on Thursday, May 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Chattanooga Times Free Press, Dan Henry)
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Posted: 5/1/2013 9:28:31 PM EST
Car wash workers with the Community Labor Environmental Action Network (CLEAN) Carwash Campaign march during a May Day rally in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 1, 2013. In celebration of May Day, people have gathered across the country to rally for various topics including immigration reform. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Posted: 5/1/2013 2:48:42 PM EST
Supporters of the Lebanese Communist party, hold a banner with Arabic that reads, "our salaries are diminishing as a result of soaring prices and inflation, we want an end to waste and corruption and adopting progressive taxes," during a demonstration to mark Labor Day, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Hundreds of Lebanese Communist party members marched to mark May Day, using the occasion to protest the worsening economic conditions in the country. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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Posted: 5/1/2013 2:48:42 PM EST
A Greek, right, and an immigrant worker march hand in hand in front of the Greek parliament in Athens on May 1, 2013. About 8,000 people took part in the subdued demonstrations as austerity-weary unions held a strike for May Day. The country’s main labor unions are protesting soaring unemployment, which is the highest in the 27-country European Union, and the austerity measures the conservative-led government is enacting in return for crucial bailout loans. (AP Photo/FOSPHOTOS/Alexandros Katsis)
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Posted: 5/1/2013 6:08:28 AM EST
Workers and protesters hold a huge banner march to the government office during a May Day rally in Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Hundreds of workers, local labor right groups and striking dockworkers join the annual rally to demand better wages and working conditions. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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Posted: 5/1/2013 6:08:28 AM EST
Workers and protesters holding a defaced portrait of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing and banners reading "right of collective negotiation," "low pay subsidy" and "retire security" march to the government's office during a May Day rally in Hong Kong Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Hundreds of workers, local labor rights groups and striking dockworkers joined the annual May Day rally in Hong Kong to fight for better wages and working conditions. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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Posted: 5/1/2013 6:08:28 AM EST
Riot police block protesters as they try to march towards U.S. Embassy in Manila to mark International Labor Day Wednesday May 1, 2013 in Manila, Philippines. The workers, who have demanding wage increases for years, assailed President Aquino III for his Labor Day "gift" of non-wage benefits. The protesters have been clamoring for years for a P125-Peso ($3.125) across-the-board wage hike and condemn the Government's policy of outsourcing labor which allegedly eliminates job security. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Posted: 5/1/2013 6:08:28 AM EST
Protesters, mostly workers, run to avoid blocking police officers as they try to get closer to the U.S. Embassy in Manila to mark International Labor Day Wednesday May 1, 2013 in Manila, Philippines. The workers, who have demanding wage increases for years, assailed President Aquino III for his Labor Day "gift" of non-wage benefits. The protesters have been clamoring for years for a P125-Peso ($3.125) across-the-board wage hike and condemn the Government's policy of outsourcing labor which allegedly eliminates job security. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Posted: 5/1/2013 6:08:28 AM EST
Protesters, mostly workers, burn a mural depicting U.S. President Barack Obama and Philippine President Benigno Aquino III after being blocked by police from getting closer to the U.S. Embassy in Manila to mark International Labor Day Wednesday May 1, 2013 in Manila, Philippines. The workers, who have demanding wage increases for years, assailed Aquino for his Labor Day "gift" of non-wage benefits. The protesters have been clamoring for years for a P125-Peso ($3.125) across-the-board wage hike and condemn the Government's policy of outsourcing labor which allegedly eliminates job security. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Posted: 5/1/2013 6:08:28 AM EST
Protesters, mostly workers, burn a mural depicting U.S. President Barack Obama and Philippine President Benigno Aquino III after being blocked by police from getting closer to the U.S. Embassy in Manila to mark the International labor Day Wednesday, May 1, 2013 in Manila, Philippines. The workers, who have demanding wage increases for years, assailed Aquino for his Labor Day "gift" of non-wage benefits. The protesters have been clamoring for years for a P125-Peso ($3.125) across-the-board wage hike and condemn the Government's policy of outsourcing labor which allegedly eliminates job security. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Posted: 5/1/2013 4:43:29 AM EST
Labor union members shout a slogan during the May Day rally in Tokyo Wednesday, May 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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Posted: 4/30/2013 8:32:54 AM EST
A construction worker performs labor at a residential building project in the China Basin area in San Francisco, California March 8, 2013. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith
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Posted: 4/28/2013 2:08:43 AM EST
FILE - In this April 27, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi soldiers and rescue workers walk outside the building that collapsed Wednesday, April 24, 2013, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. The owner of the building, who ignored inspectors who advised to close the structure when cracks appeared in the building a day before the collapse, sits at the nexus of party politics and the powerful $20 billion garment industry that drives the economy of this deeply impoverished nation. Experts say this intersection of politics and business, combined with a minimum wage of $9.50 a week that has made Bangladesh the go-to nation for many of the world’s largest clothing brands, has created a predictable danger for factory workers. Government officials, labor activists, manufacturers and retailers all called for improved safety standards after a November fire in the same suburb, when locked emergency exits trapped hundreds of garment workers inside amid spreading flames and 112 people died. But almost nothing has changed. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)
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Posted: 4/28/2013 2:08:43 AM EST
FILE - In this April 27, 2013 file photo, a Bangladeshi rescue worker searches alone in a building that collapsed Wednesday, April 24, 2013, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. The owner of the building, who ignored inspectors who advised to close the structure when cracks appeared in the building a day before the collapse, sits at the nexus of party politics and the powerful $20 billion garment industry that drives the economy of this deeply impoverished nation. Experts say this intersection of politics and business, combined with a minimum wage of $9.50 a week that has made Bangladesh the go-to nation for many of the world’s largest clothing brands, has created a predictable danger for factory workers. Government officials, labor activists, manufacturers and retailers all called for improved safety standards after a November fire in the same suburb, when locked emergency exits trapped hundreds of garment workers inside amid spreading flames and 112 people died. But almost nothing has changed. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)
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Posted: 4/28/2013 2:08:43 AM EST
FILE - In this April 24, 2013 file photo, a man who was trapped in an eight-story building housing several garment factories is rescued after the structure collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. The owner of the building sits at the nexus of party politics and the powerful $20 billion garment industry that drives the economy of this deeply impoverished nation. Experts say this intersection of politics and business, combined with a minimum wage of $9.50 a week that has made Bangladesh the go-to nation for many of the world’s largest clothing brands, has created a predictable danger for factory workers. Government officials, labor activists, manufacturers and retailers all called for improved safety standards after a November fire in the same suburb, when locked emergency exits trapped hundreds of garment workers inside amid spreading flames and 112 people died. But almost nothing has changed. (AP Photo/ A.M. Ahad, File)
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Posted: 4/28/2013 2:08:43 AM EST
FILE - In this April 25, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi people gather as rescuers look for survivors and victims at the site of a building that collapsed a day earlier, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. The owner of the building sits at the nexus of party politics and the powerful $20 billion garment industry that drives the economy of this deeply impoverished nation. Experts say this intersection of politics and business, combined with a minimum wage of $9.50 a week that has made Bangladesh the go-to nation for many of the world’s largest clothing brands, has created a predictable danger for factory workers. Government officials, labor activists, manufacturers and retailers all called for improved safety standards after a November fire in the same suburb, when locked emergency exits trapped hundreds of garment workers inside amid spreading flames and 112 people died. But almost nothing has changed. (AP Photo/A.M.Ahad, File)
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Posted: 4/28/2013 2:08:43 AM EST
FILE - In this April 27, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi garment workers shout slogans and block a road during a protest against the collapse of an eight-story building that housed several garment factories and poor safety standards, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The owner of the building, who ignored inspectors who advised to close the structure when cracks appeared in the building a day before the collapse, sits at the nexus of party politics and the powerful $20 billion garment industry that drives the economy of this deeply impoverished nation. Experts say this intersection of politics and business, combined with a minimum wage of $9.50 a week that has made Bangladesh the go-to nation for many of the world’s largest clothing brands, has created a predictable danger for factory workers. Government officials, labor activists, manufacturers and retailers all called for improved safety standards after a November fire in the same suburb, when locked emergency exits trapped hundreds of garment workers inside amid spreading flames and 112 people died. But almost nothing has changed. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File)
