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...career contract worker, he is under constant threat from outsourcing. He is the breadwinner in his family--his wife is a medical student, and they have a 7-year-old son--and he has twice lost his job to outsourcing. In both cases, he had been hired as a contractor, and he sees little opportunity for anything else. "It's really nasty if you're looking for stability," he says. During unemployment spells, his family accumulates debt and reverts to making minimum credit-card payments. Vague talk about retraining leaves Kirwin cold. "Tell me which other industry I should train...
...they can underbid another contractor by keeping wages low, they’re going to be favored in the bidding process,” said Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615 organizer Aaron Bartley yesterday...
...three workers were employed by the Harvard maintenance contractor McGarr Services Inc., which Harvard discovered was operating under two company names—McGarr and White Glove Inc.—in a possible effort to skirt University policies regarding parity wage...
...Officers were sent to check out a noise in the alley by Vanderbilt Hall. They reported that the noise was a snow plow contractor and they asked them to keep the noise to a minimum...
...Prime contractors can choose whomever they would like to do the real work in Iraq and have already done so. The giant U.S. construction firm Bechtel, for example, has about 150 subcontractors in Iraq, including companies from Germany and other nations that opposed the war. It's easy to understand why. Much of Iraq's ravaged infrastructure, which has been short of spare parts for more than a decade, was built by German, French or Russian firms. A prime contractor trying to repair power grids and oil-pumping stations would be doing a poor job if it didn't turn...