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...sales. SAG says all unions combined now get a piddling two cents for each $1.99 download, with actors receiving about half of that, and the Writers Guild of America, which represents scriptwriters, says their residual amounts to less than half a cent. For its part, ABC states that its contract allows the network to pay unions for downloads based upon previously agreed rates covering VHS videotape sales, a position that SAG and WGA leaders naturally object to. The industry powerhouses are expected to face off in arbitration, but talks could linger into the next year or so when the unions...
Michigan, which does not have an exclusive contract with Coke, will restock its vending machines within a few days and its campus restaurants within a few weeks, according to Peterson...
...over it. Job security no longer exists. I am an American who graduated from college in the early '90s when the U.S. economy was in a serious recession. I spent the next two years working as an unpaid intern. At least Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's "first employment contract" would offer graduates the equivalent of paid internships. The global marketplace is changing rapidly, and without employment flexibility, France will not be able to compete. People of my generation in the U.S. learned that we're the only ones who can secure our future. That would be a good lesson...
Just as a student campaign to urge Harvard to cut its contract with Coke is fizzing up, a magazine whose primary sponsor is the Coca-Cola Company was door-dropped across campus on Friday with a spread on campus campaigns against Coke, as well as a full page rebuttal from the company to allegations of human rights abuses.Writing in the Princeton University-based “Business Today”—which says it reaches 150,000 readers nationwide—Coke’s Director of Global Labor Relations and Workplace Accountability Edward E. Potter said that...
...unionists, joined by some underclass opportunists looking for a good night out, have taken to the streets again. To rise up against what? In massive protest against a law that would allow employers to fire an employee less than 26 years old in the first two years of his contract...