Word: employed
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...company has been found guilty of threatening union supporters. It has violated the law by refusing to employ relatives of union sympathizers. It was found guilty of widespread racial and sexual discrimination in its hiring, promotion, and pay practices in a 1975 case in Roanoke Rapids. Statistics presented in the case showed the company paid its black workers an average of $670 less than its white workers. It has also been accused of exploiting racial tensions to divide workers...
...political power and abnormal privileges." Toward that goal, Martinez de Hoz is trying to prune the mammoth state-run industrial sector, a Perón-era albatross that produces less than 10% of Argentina's G.N.P.-and much of the government's debts and deficits. State enterprises employ an estimated 300,000 unnecessary workers. But the Economy Minister's plans to cut bloated staff and sell losing businesses to private firms have run into strong union opposition. When Videla raised the work week of Buenos Aires' huge state electricity company from 35 to 42 hours...
...Create a National Youth Conservation Corps, an updated version of the CCC. It would employ jobless Americans under age 24 in cleaning up the national and state parks and forests. It would spend $350 million over the next year and a half, creating 35,000 new jobs...
...Desert Valley packaging company buys fruit from Coachella Growers, which employ 450 workers represented...
...grocery markets by a few chains is matched by the domination of cropland by a few large, diversified companies, such as Tenneco, Bank of America, Dow Chemical, and Coca Cola. In California, 77 per cent of the agricultural land is controlled by 7 per cent of the growers, who employ 79 per cent of the state's farmworkers...