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...common at that time, it paid a high union wage, and Carol's mother never worked. Today there are mainly women at the consoles, and they aren't unionized. (In fact, only 11% of private workers are, down from 28% in 1970.) Carol loves what she does, and her boss just told her she will soon be promoted...
...means he's been born again as a "left-winger." The only reason he can pass for a champion of the working class is that the Democrats have abdicated that role. Bill Clinton never seriously tried to raise the minimum wage or otherwise level the ground separating worker and boss; and anyone who thinks Clinton got into office and then "lunged to the left" must have trouble getting their shoes on the right feet in the morning. If we have a two-party system anymore, it consists of a Clinton-Dole party of Big Business and, potentially, a Perot...
...glamorous centerpiece of Viacom's $10 billion acquisition of Paramount Communications in 1994. The studio has had a string of box-office disappointments lately--including Sabrina, Jade and A Vampire in Brooklyn--and Redstone complained that too many films were put into production with subpar scripts. The Viacom boss has been spending a growing amount of time in Hollywood, attending marketing meetings and consulting on details as small as what promotional knickknacks to send to video stores overseas to help push Paramount product...
Workplace privacy has always been a sensitive issue that weighs a boss's right to know what's going on in the office against an employee's right to be left alone. But in Illinois that delicate balance has been upset by a new state law that permits bosses to eavesdrop on employees' work phones. As originally conceived by telemarketers and retailers, the law was intended solely to enable supervisors to monitor service calls for courtesy and efficiency. But on the way to Republican Governor Jim Edgar for a Dec. 13 signing, the measure was reworked to embrace any listening...
Soon afterward, Health Net's Ossorio telephoned Glaspy's boss, Dr. Dennis Slamon, the division chief of oncology at UCLA, in what the deMeurerses say was an effort to influence whether the center would perform Christy's transplant. Health Net's Lyle Swallow disputes this charge: "The idea that Health Net could somehow muscle UCLA into doing anything, given their size, given their reputation, given their budget, is really kind of laughable...