Word: hire
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past, vacancies have been filled through the Boston office, and Cambridge workers could bid for those positions. But now, the city can hire from its own roster, said Carboneau. Until this change, Cambridge did not even have a postmaster...
Finally, the savings have been so great that the organization was able to hire fulltime several people on general relief to be drivers. They drive people without transportation to their doctor visits. They also drive mobile clinics, staffed by doctors and nurses, who run blood pressure checks, give vaccinations, mammograms and bring health care into areas where there has been none...
Since May, 1989, B.U. has assumed the role of school committee for the city, taking on the right to hire and fire, make or break, and wheel and deal as it pleases...
ALTHOUGH "UNION BUSTING" is the most common claim against businesses that hire replacement workers to stay afloat, that charge should not be used lightly. Often, as in the case of The Daily News, businesses only hire replacement workers after unions have walked off the job and refused to relax ludicrously outdated union rules regarding work practices. At The Daily News, management offered wage increases in exchange for an end to expensive practices which Hoge says "systematically killed off several New York papers." Only when the offers were refused and it was clear that The Daily News would have to either...
...this activity should be directed to creating a network of contacts that will eventually lead to a job. Unless there is a booming, hungry employment market in the place you are going, you have to be a pretty good salesperson to convince an employer why they should hire an American student. Employers offering temporary jobs, in whatever field of capacity, are often seeking to fill an immediate need and will offer an opening to the first available, qualified body on the spot. Expecting someone to hold such a position for you while your letters go back and forth...