Word: laboral
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Saying "we need to be open minded and forward looking enough to at least examine" the nuclear question, Prime Minister John Howard last week asked a panel of experts to do just that. But the Labor Party and most environmental groups insist the only right answer on nuclear is no. "No nuclear power in Australia. That's our position," said Opposition Leader Kim Beazley, who wants more effort put into solar, wind and clean-coal technologies. With the debate set to generate a lot more heat before it's over, here's a brief look at the issues that fuel...
...Mining and enrichment. Australia has abundant uranium-one-third of the world's known reserves-but Labor policy limits the number of mines to three. Some Labor M.P.s. are urging change. Said Shadow Revenue Minister Joel Fitzgibbon: "It makes no sense to sit on those reserves and deny ourselves valuable income." Rising prices for uranium exploration stocks suggest that the market believes restrictions will end. But uranium can't be used for power generation until it's enriched. Australia has no enrichment facility. Even some opponents of nuclear power say it should build one, since enrichment could add millions...
...efforts. Late last year it presented an ambitious National Reform Program that promises, among other things, an improvement to Spain's mediocre higher-education system and a doubling of the country's expenditures for research and development. The government wants to encourage flexibility in Spain's overly segmented labor market and encourage mobility by getting more Spaniards to rent instead of buy. "We need to promote rentals, not only because of the high prices of homes and high levels of mortgage debt, but because there is so much unoccupied housing, which the government sees as 'anti-economic,'" says Salvador Arancibia...
...breakthrough in glowing terms. “In a marathon session yesterday, Local 26 Dining Hall Workers won the best contract in the history of our union at Harvard University!” he wrote. Amanda L. Shapiro ’08, a leader of Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), which collected over 1,300 signatures last month in a campaign on behalf of dining hall workers, said the group had expected more resistance from the University and had not anticipated a deal to be reached until June 19. The group’s chief demand—that workers...
...Aside from the charisma discrepency, Schwarzenegger's popularity ratings, in free fall for much of the past year, have lately rebounded a bit, thanks in part to $7 billion in unexpected tax revenue. In his favor, Angelides is running in a predominantly Democratic state, has the backing of powerful labor unions and may get some mileage out of the current backlash against GOP President George W. Bush. Still, in a Field poll of 702 likely voters last week looking ahead to the gubernatorial race, Schwarzenegger beat Angelides by 7 percentage points (with a a nearly 4-point margin of error...