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What we argue, when we criticize the PSLM, is that their tactics fall under this definition of coercion. The relationship between a worker and an employer is a contract to which both parties agree in the expectation of benefit. The employer offers wages; the worker offers labor. If workers feel their wages are inadequate, they have the right to suspend or cancel the contract and withhold labor. If employers feel workers’ labor is inadequate, they have the right to terminate employment. Employers must compete for the services that workers offer, and workers must strive to make their services...
...Only the most recalcitrant recidivists were eventually "laicized"--forced to give up their priestly vocation--long after they had done their worst. And if a victim finally sued, the strategy was to admit nothing, buy silence, settle out of court and seal the deal with a confidentiality contract. The church, said Richard Sipe, a former Benedictine monk who testified as an expert for plaintiffs in priest-abuse cases, "took a very defensive position, rather than proactive...
...litany of anxieties faced by contemporary parents, a list that already includes pedophiles, school fees and long car trips with a Raffi tape, we must now add a new specter: the nanny with the book contract...
...China. The scientists and a third alleged co-conspirator are still awaiting trial. U.S. intelligence has tipped off American businesses when it has learned their competitors have not been playing by the rules--for example, in cases in which bribery threatened to influence the award of a big aerospace contract in Saudi Arabia and a telecom contract in Brazil. But U.S. agencies are reluctant to go much beyond such warnings, out of concern about not favoring one firm over another...
...that have taken advantage of the treaty's broad provisions. The LOEWEN GROUP, a Canadian funeral conglomerate, wants the U.S. government to pay $725 million in damages because a Mississippi jury harbored what Loewen claims were "anti-Canadian, racial and class biases" when it found the company guilty of contract fraud. METALCLAD, a California firm that was prevented from opening a toxic-waste plant in Mexico, won $15.6 million from that country. UPS is seeking $160 million from Canada because its public postal service competes "unfairly" against the Atlanta-based firm...