Word: employers
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...shot up 13.4% in 1993 and at nearly a 13% annual rate in the first quarter of 1994 -- but at least for the short term, the process of converting to a market economy has cost China many more jobs than it has created. State-run factories, which still employ more than two-thirds of China's industrial workers, find that they cannot compete with more efficient private firms unless they fire a hefty proportion of their staff. For the first time, they are being encouraged...
...government estimates that 10 million to 20 million of the 109 million workers in state enterprises are redundant. Calculations by private economists push that figure much higher. In a study of the laundry-detergent industry, McKinsey & Co. concluded that mainland producers employ 10 times as many workers as Western factories with the same capacity. Executives of Shanghai Petrochemicals, one of the most successful state enterprises, admitted last year that 40% of workers were involved in "non-core" activities -- in the company's clinic, nursery, cafeteria and other human-resource departments...
...matter what strategy his handlers employ, Kennedy cannot escape the family lagacy that many has say has helped keep him in office for six terms...
...Executive Order, Beijing must stop that to retain MFN. Harry Wu, a former Chinese political prisoner, showed Congress tapes of prisoners at forced labor that he had secretly filmed on a five-week trip this year. Says Wu: "Fifty percent of Chinese rubber products come from chemical factories that employ forced labor." Human Rights Watch/Asia says latex gloves used by doctors were exported as recently as last January only after being inspected in Beijing's Prison No. 2. One prisoner tried to slip a note into a glove but was reported by other inmates and then beaten by guards with...
...mayors see little alternative. Since 1981, two-thirds of federal support for the cities has dried up while the urban problems of crime, drug use and homelessness have burgeoned. Corporations and the middle-class families they employ have fled to the suburbs, taking their potential tax payments with them. With doors shut in Washington, mayors were forced to look at their own bottom line...