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...turn-of-the-century sweatshops. Says Donald Elisburg, Assistant Labor Secretary for employment standards in the Carter Administration: "Put out of your mind the idea that the sewing machine is somehow different from a computer terminal." Union officials maintain that employers will circumvent minimum-wage and child-labor laws, curtail health benefits and force workers to buy office equipment usually paid for by firms. Last October the A.F.L.-C.I.O...
Auto companies are using a scaled-down version of the bankruptcy ploy on individual plants. When Ford Motor Co failed to extract concessions from the U.A.W. at its unprofitable Rouge steelmaking operations, it announced plans to curtail production sharply. Four days later, the union accepted concessions, and the mill was kept open. When U.A.W. workers at Ford's Sheffield, Ala., aluminum-casting plant did not accept 50% wage and benefit cuts or the company's offer to sell them the plant, it was closed last June...
Along with the fall in oil prices, the region's economy has been hit hard by the three-year-old war of attrition between Iran and Iraq. That conflict could expand and seriously curtail oil shipments. Moreover, the two combatants sharply reduced their imports of Western goods...
HARVARD'S FINANCIAL STAFF got two places of bud news from the government last month; the University was forced to repay $4.6 million in misspent research funds, and new Congressional legislation may curtail all colleges' ability to issue tax-exempt bonds in the future...
SUCH A BROAD, unrestricted directive portends an alarming era--of government intrusion into individual privacy and First Amendment rights. The censorship rule--a ban affecting nearly 113,000 workers in the highest levels of government--would effectively curtail informed criticism, permitting one Administration to censor the writings of previous Administration officials. In last week's House hearings, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard Willard, the Administration official who drafted the proposals, characterized the nondisclosure pledge as an "appropriate" counterintelligence technique...