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Getting more people to consistently climb aboard is going to take a major commitment of both public and private dollars. Passenger trains, after all, didn't die a natural, market-driven death. In the 1930s and '40s, a consortium of General Motors, Firestone, Standard Oil and others bought up popular electric street trolleys in various U.S. cities only to shut them down, and lobbied for highways at the expense of rails...
Anti-sweatshop activitsts applauded a rare victory in union-organizing when factory workers and representatives of the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), a non-profit sweatshop watchdog group, testified to the “unprecendented” success of recent efforts to create an independent, democratic union in the Kukdong apparel plant in Mexico last Thursday...
Workers in Kukdong, a factory that manufactures university logo apparel for Nike, have complained of abusive working conditions and overbearing management but managed to organize, aided by an intense effort on the part of the WRC, founded two years ago by a consortium of non-profits, universities and non-governmental organizations...
...Getting more people to consistently climb aboard is going to take a major commitment of both public and private dollars. Passenger trains, after all, didn't die a natural, market-driven death. In the 1930s and '40s, a consortium of General Motors, Firestone, Standard Oil and others bought up popular electric street trolleys in various U.S. cities only to shut them down, and lobbied for highways at the expense of rails...
...restore confidence after its rash of bad press, Securicor last week replaced Argenbright chief executive Frank Argenbright Jr. and said it was raising the hourly wages of its screeners. Company president Bill Barbour did not return TIME's phone calls for comment. Kenneth Quinn, a lawyer hired by a consortium of private security agencies, says much of Argenbright's negative publicity is unfair. "There's a spotlight now on incidents that would otherwise garner very little attention," says Quinn...