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Proponents of the Cesar Chavez Workplace Fairness Act claim that employers provoke strikers so they can replace them with cheaper workers. Representative William L. Clay, D-Mo., the original sponsor of this legislation, claims that "employers provoke strikes to exploit the weakness in the law." He goes on to say that "intentional promotion of labor disputes by employers in order to bust unions undermines labor-management relations, the basic rights of workers, and the stability of our communities...
...makes sense that the employer's right to hire permanent replacements should be limited. For example, business should not be allowed to engage in "union-busting" or unfairly exploit workers. Current law prohibits both practices, and places limits on the situations in which a company can replace its strikers...
...A.N.C. goes into the April elections as the anti-apartheid champion and the party of change. But it will be handicapped by its lack of experience in government, and both the National Party and Inkatha are certain to exploit the competence factor as well as employ scare tactics that draw attention to the A.N.C.'s links with the Communist Party of South Africa. Although De Klerk says he will be out to win the election, his basic goal is to get at least 34% of the vote. That way he can block any constitution the A.N.C. tries to ram through...
...description differs from the indictment's charge that Y & A existed only as "a vehicle for Daniel Young and others to profit from the Colombian asset and other [less developed country] debt." The district attorney alleges that the creation of the company was an important method Young used to exploit the inside information he gleaned from his work at Manufacturers...
...AFRICAN ELEPHANTS SIMILAR TO MINKE whales? Neither animal is in immediate danger of extinction, but both are protected by international hunting bans because past efforts to exploit the beasts commercially have driven their populations into precipitous decline. Countries that have well- managed elephant herds, including Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana, are eager to sell ivory, just as Norway and Japan want to kill whales. But conservationists are loath to exempt specific nations from the ivory-trade ban for fear that any traffic in tusks will bring a reprise of the rampant cheating that occurred before sales became illegal...