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...quoted him referring to Marco Biagi - a labor ministry adviser assassinated in March by the Red Brigades terrorist group - as a "pain in the ass." Scajola, under fire for not having provided Biagi with a security detail, suggested the victim had been interested only in extending his government consulting contract. Through a mixture of shrugs and subterfuge, the Berlusconi government usually manages to skate past these lapses in taste. But with Scajola's offensive comments, its luck ran out. "The government, as insurance companies would say, has a natural predisposition for accidents," wrote Sergio Romano, a conservative columnist...
...union is willing to agree to continue the terms of their old contract, he said. But Loews wants to cut work hours...
...Sills said, a company must maintain the rules of its old contract during negotiations for a new one, so it is illegal to declare negotiations at an impasse arbitrarily and prevent employees from working...
Brodeur said the union will press ahead with its boycott in spite of the fact that projectionist unions across the country have had little success in similar contract disputes...
...week period. Viewers voting by phone (3 million last week) will winnow them to nine, plus a "wild card" picked by the judges. The final 10 will perform (and get re-critiqued) each week, with one ejected every Wednesday until Sept. 4, when the winner will score a recording contract with...