Word: laboration
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaders had many serious issues to discuss−from oil prices to migrant labor and drug smuggling−and before one session of the talks formally began, Carter asked for ten minutes alone with LÓpez Portillo. The President candidly told his host that it was "counterproductive if we overemphasized our differences, particularly our historical differences, as opposed to our commitment to efforts to resolve them...
...labor unrest that has been bedeviling Britain continued to possess the country last week. Highways remained glazed with snow because striking maintenance men refused to sand or plow them. Soaring Everests of garbage piled up in London streets as a walkout of refuse collectors entered a sixth week, and sporadic work stoppages there and in other cities by public employees fouled up the operations of hospitals and schools. Thus even though the public workers' walkout finally seemed headed toward a settlement, there was an air of desperation about Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan when he appeared in Parliament. Waving...
...some hope that they would be able to force the Faculty either to make significant changes in the CRR or abolish it entirely. At last week's Faculty meeting, the members of the class of 1980 who broke the CRR boycott were able to see the fruits of their labor enacted in Faculty legislation. They could not fail to have been disappointed. As Dean Rosovsky observed, change at Harvard proceeds with glacial speed. The CRR proves his point. What is unclear, however, is whether the CRR's glacier is advancing or retreating...
...often, QWL is written up as the workers' co-operating with the management to do something for the management. It's quite the contrary. It's the management moving towards the workers and surrendering certain prerogatives which management has historically enjoyed. In every labor contract there is a management rights clause which ways, in effect, that the methods, means and processes of manufacture are solely and exclusively the right of management. It's not easy to get plant managers, superintendents, or foremen to agree to surrender some of those rights to the workers. They are fearful that there will...
...result of the program the scrap rate is down and the repair rate is down this reduces unit costs. If there is lower absenteeism, so that replacements aren't as necessary, it reduces costs. If labor turnover is reduced, it reduces costs. If there is less discipline taken against employees it reduces costs. If your grievance procedure is working so that your complaints are handled quickly, it reduces costs...