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Union representatives in the U.S., however, complain the current demands go beyond those spelled out in the December loan agreement. The union has already committed to eliminating productivity bonuses due this year and next, to changes in the way overtime pay is computed, and to the elimination of the traditional cost-of-living allowances as well as to cuts in the special supplemental unemployment benefits for employees with less than 20 years seniority. Sources close to the negotiations tell TIME that the union has not yet agreed to the changes in funding Chrysler's health-care trust, which was established...
...most accounts, students spend a heck of a lot of time logged onto Facebook, a circumstance that irks educators, who complain of students messaging friends or posting snarky status updates from their laptops instead of paying attention to lectures. It was this habit that first got Karpinski interested in the topic while she was earning her master's degree in developmental psychology at West Virginia University. "When I became a teacher's assistant, I started noticing my students' using [Facebook] and becoming obsessed with it," says Karpinski - who is not on Facebook, despite her fellow classmates' badgering efforts...
...laws are only one aspect of the battle. Enforcing them is another. Activists complain that corruption within the security forces is enabling traffickers to operate with impunity. Many traffickers have "very good ties with the police," says Yanar Mohammed, who heads the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, a group at the forefront of the fight against trafficking. Young women who have attempted to escape from brothels have sometimes been returned by police officers, she says. "It turns out [the cops] were loyal customers." Saad Fath Allah, director of the National Institute of Human Rights and the head...
...commanders want to do the bare minimum," he says. "It's frustrating because this is a way for them to start working with the elders, the community. If they can't make that connection, then we won't be able to hand security over to them." Many U.S. soldiers complain that the ANA simply isn't ready for the fight, that its soldiers are careless with their ammunition, often expending it all in the initial moments of battle. More training and better equipment will help, says Jenkinson. "I don't think the ANA is lacking the ability to fight...
...female sex workers in the capital, only 46.5 percent reported using condoms. With payments in some areas of the country as low as $5 per customer, many sex workers can't afford effective protection, and free condoms distributed in government programs are often low quality. "We hear the girls complain all the time that the condoms break when they use them," says Elaine Lam, of the Hong Kong-based sex workers support organization, Zi Teng, which works with sex workers in southern China...