Word: hires
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...program has already drawn criticism from labor leaders. Says William McGowan, president of the New York State Civil Service Employees Association: "Rather than hiring appropriate personnel under their own civil service system, the state is employing convicted criminals at slave-labor prices." But state officials say the use of inmates to answer phones frees employees to serve the thousands of people who line up in the agency's offices each day to get driver's licenses and car registrations. Says DMV Commissioner Patricia Adduci: "The challenge in government today is to provide quality service at a minimal cost." The agency...
Meanwhile, full professors' salaries jumped from an average of $31,723 to $45,693, enabling the philosophy department to hire away professors from Harvard, Princeton and Yale--"pretty good pedigrees," observes Chairman Peter French. Calgaard claims that Trinity's excellence runs across the board, and notes that, thanks to the endowment, Trinity will charge a relatively modest $6,960 for the coming school year. As a result, he says, Trinity can strive for "elitism that is academic rather than socioeconomic...
...reversal of the University's threat not to hire union members on the weekend, Powers said that Harvard will hire union workers for weekend functions because students are not available...
...weeks ago workers threatened to demonstrate outside the club after negotiations with the University about hiring broke down. At that time, the University threatened not to hire any union members during the weekend...
Fear of a worker demonstration was not a major factor in the refusal to hire non-union workers on the weekends, Powers said. "If there had been a picket line, I don't think it would have embarrassed anyone...