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...Fluno, 53, of Orlando, Fla., says she, like Maglione, had to train her replacement--a common practice in the domestic outsourcing industry--when her data-processing unit at Germany-based Siemens was outsourced to India's Tata last year. "It's extremely insulting," she says. "The guy's sitting there doing my old job." After 10 months of looking, she is working again, but she had to take...
...have happened. We have lost the ideals of the New Deal and the Great Society, which were put in place to help all Americans, and we have lost the respect and admiration of the world. Schwarzenegger wouldn't save California; he would terminate it. SABINO RODRIGUEZ Daytona Beach Shores, Fla...
...University belongs instead to the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a similar organization established by the Clinton administration to serve the same purpose but which consults with the corporations that own the factories—one of the reasons Harvard joined, according to University spokesperson Kevin Casey...
...added that since the University joined the FLA in 1999, the organization has improved its transparency in making public the findings of factory inspections. In May, PSLM again called on the University to join the WRC, saying membership in the FLA was not enough...
Since we reported on jetmaker Embraer in the May issue of TIME Global Business, the Brazilian up-and-comer has garnered fresh attention. Embraer recently announced that it would open a plant in Jacksonville, Fla., and start pursuing U.S. defense and homeland-security contracts. (Embraer already sells a line of surveillance aircraft to the governments of Brazil, Greece and Mexico.) Then more news: discount carrier JetBlue Airways ordered 100 Embraer regional jets for $3 billion. The deal was especially notable because JetBlue had earlier espoused the maintenance and training efficiencies of using only one type of plane--one made...