Word: laborative
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...Salvamoser, founder and ceo of Solar-Fabrik AG, a Freiburg company that makes ready-to-install solar modules for home builders, says he's planning to invest in a plant that makes solar cells - but the new facility won't be built in the Black Forest. The reason: high labor costs and the lack of government financial help. "We'd like to do it in Freiburg, but we can't," Salvamoser says. "Building a new plant costs €70 million and you can get subsidies in east Germany, Taiwan and almost anywhere else." Joachim Luther, head of the Fraunhofer Solar...
...that of his extended family as they make their way from Alexandria, in Egypt, to Nazareth, where they settle down and go into business. Rice does a thorough job of re-creating the domestic realities of 1st century Judaea: the babble of languages--Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew, Latin--the labor of carpentry; the regular visits to the synagogue (he's a very Jewish Jesus); and above all the turbulent politics of the time, some of it Jews rebelling against Roman rule, some of it Jews against Jews...
...respond to the Studebaker pension abandonment by writing the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974. It established minimum standards for retirement plans in private industry and created the PBGC to guarantee them. Then President Gerald Ford summed up the measure when he signed it into law that Labor Day: "This legislation will alleviate the fears and the anxiety of people who are on the production lines or in the mines or elsewhere, in that they now know that their investment in private pension funds will be better protected...
Since the PBGC no longer publishes its Top 50 list, anyone looking for even remotely comparable information must sift through the voluminous filings of individual companies with the SEC or the Labor Department, where pension-plan finances are recorded, or turn to the reports of independent firms such as Standard & Poor's. The findings aren't reassuring. According to S&P, Sara Lee Corp. of Chicago, a global maker of food products, ended 2004 with a pension deficit of $1.5 billion. The company's pension plans held enough assets to cover 69.8% of promised retirement pay. Ford Motor...
...Labor issues and union organizing is something that a lot of Harvard students are not familiar with,” said Alyssa M. Aguilera ‘08, a SLAM member. “[There have been] so many new faces, so many new people in the meetings...