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Last Monday, 151 people, including AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, were arrested during a 5,000-protester rally to support the workers...
Manufacturers and retailers are moving forward with RFID for backroom logistics. In June Wal-Mart CIO Linda Dillman gave the firm's 100 top suppliers--which provide half the goods on its shelves--a veiled ultimatum about the stuff flowing into its 103 U.S. distribution centers. Vendors who don't use EPC codes on pallets and cases by 2005 could risk losing business. "By 2006, we'd like to roll it out with all our suppliers," says spokesman Tom Williams. Wal-Mart, which did much the same with the bar code, has admitted there is no timeline for RFID-tagging...
...computerized RFID scanners identify packages inside passing cargo containers at the rate of 300 items per second. "This is amazing technology when you see it working, and it's all fine-tuned," says Peirce. For customers, the payoff is later posting times and earlier deliveries, says the company's CIO, Steve Bandrowczak. "RFID clearly can help customers by reducing inventory cycles, reducing lead times...
...world." In truth, none of the plausible Democrats--not even Gephardt, who has made a career of protectionism--could do much more than rant about international labor and environmental standards if elected. The economic risks of tariffs are too great. But the posturing seems to be intensifying. The AFL-CIO endorsement is up for grabs, and several of the big unions that had planned to endorse Gephardt and Kerry are having second thoughts, given the Dean surge...
Saturday’s protesters slowly marched from the New Haven green, winding past the Yale-New Haven Medical Center to the intersection of York and Elm Streets, where 151 people, including AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, were arrested...