Word: laboral
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...With GM and Chrysler nearly bankrupt, Harley Shaiken, a professor of labor relations at the University of California, Berkeley, says UAW President Ron Gettelfinger wants to do all he can to help the automakers, including changing the contract if necessary. But UAW leadership is also angling for a seat on GM's board of directors, according to a posting on the website of UAW Local 2404. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...director of the automotive advisory group at the consulting firm of BBK in Southfield, Mich., the UAW membership holds an effective veto over any "prepackaged" bankruptcy - which must be approved by all parties before it is filed, as opposed to a regular bankruptcy, in which the judge can change labor contracts - while the union retains the right to strike...
...Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, which represents staff at the Medical School and other University divisions, published an open letter last week arguing that labor cuts should be a last resort and that each school should trim its consulting, travel, and catering budgets first...
...unlikely to affect the outcome of Israel's election in February. Polls show conservative Likud Party candidate and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holding a solid lead over acting Prime Minister Tzipi Livni, with Defense Minister Ehud Barak - who ordered the Hebron raid on the same day his Labor Party held its primary election - running a very distant third. But their impact on other players in the West Bank may be profound: the actions of the Hilltop Youth were condemned and strongly discouraged by the long-established settler leadership of the Yesha Council, who recognized that young settlers being seen...
...recently weakened against the dollar, raising global alarm bells that China might try to devalue it as a way to revive its gasping export sector, putting pressure on other exporters to weaken their currencies and stirring up protectionist sentiment in Washington - particularly among U.S. labor unions, which heavily backed President-elect Barack Obama. For its sake, China blandly replied that the recent fluctuations in the RMB market were in line with market forces...