Word: hires
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just added 50 bucks to his already overflowing coffers--50 bucks he would probably use to privatize the post office ("Trump Mail"), buy a midsized East African nation ("Trumpabwe") or hire out unemployed garment workers as domesticated "Trump-pets...
Executives at the Greyhound bus company felt not a moment's hesitation or doubt. The minute 9,000 of its employees around the country walked off their jobs three weeks ago, the Dallas-based company began to hire 700 drivers as permanent replacements for strikers. Within seven days Greyhound reported that ridership on its buses was back to 38% of normal levels and rising. As the company trained additional nonunion substitutes, dispirited drivers and other striking workers watched their jobs begin to evaporate. Every day they walked the picket line, it seemed, fewer would have posts to return...
...cherished tenet of the American labor movement. The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 does indeed grant them that right. But while the statute prohibits employers from firing or punishing striking union members, those same employers can cite a 1938 Supreme Court decision giving them the right to hire permanent replacements for workers who are striking for such "economic reasons" as pay hikes or benefits (as opposed to unfair labor practices). In other words, the union members cannot be fired, but while they're on strike, the company can achieve the same end by giving their jobs away...
...parents, two community residents, two teachers and an ex- officio member, the principal -- were put in charge of each of Chicago's 541 public schools. The aim was to shift authority from the city's bloated board of education to local neighborhoods. But giving parents the power to hire and fire principals, approve budgets and develop long-range plans for improving student performance has so far proved to be more of a headache than a panacea for the nation's third largest school district...
Alexander portrays Myerson as a woman who loved too much and too desperately through two failed marriages and numerous affairs. That picture is so convincing that Myerson's willingness to hire Judge Gabel's nearly unemployable daughter as a way to induce Gabel to lower Capasso's alimony payments makes an odd kind of sense. Capasso, a sewer contractor from Queens, had nothing to offer Bess but limousines, furs and financial security. But for someone as insecure as Myerson, he was an emotional...