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...high unemployment, some women are worried that men are muscling into the last reliable sources of jobs for females--not to mention the management posts. With men around, for women "it's like being an apprentice who never becomes a journeyman," says Tina Abbott, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO in Michigan. Certainly the job market remains bleak. Overall unemployment rose again in April to 6%, with job searches for laid-off workers averaging five months. Half of all job seekers have switched industries over the past year, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Given that the industries with...
...almost 10%), as many existing orders have been postponed or converted into purchase options. Revenue is down significantly for both companies, and it was an ominous sign when a major competitor, Germany's Fairchild Dornier, filed for bankruptcy in April 2002. Embraer's usually brash ceo, Maurício Botelho, 59, last month observed in nervous executivespeak, "The aerospace market right now is very sensitive to change." Investors feel the same way. Embraer stock has fallen from the high $30s before the 9/11 attacks to about $14 in recent days. Shares in Bombardier are stuck below $3, down from about...
...confrontation between civil society and corporate rule was going to be exciting when we went to the Ruckus Society's direct-action camp in September and learned how to scale overpasses, hang banners and get busted. We knew it was going to be big when we joined the AFL-CIO in planning sessions to mobilize workers from all over the U.S., and when local politicians participated in our critique of so-called free trade...
...addition to support from students and faculty, the strike has garnered hearty support from many New Haven residents and public figures. New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Jr., AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney, several religious leaders, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson and former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 have all shown up to speak at events. We applaud this community involvement, which is extremely important in pressuring the city’s major employer...
...CIO President John J. Sweeney is scheduled to address the protesters today, and former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 will speak tomorrow...