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...rerun, it lays out already well-known principles of economic integration in the EU: severely limited powers for the directly elected European Parliament and free rein for the appointed European Commission to demolish obstacles to the competitive marketplace whatever their form. A multitude of other provisions prohibit harmonizing labor laws in the name of competition, underscoring the primacy of the unadulterated free market, while the possibility of European norms promoting social progress emerges as an afterthought, if that...
...modest office in Melbourne's western suburbs above a plant that once made Ryco oil filters for automobiles. But last month, after reducing his workforce from 600 six years ago to just 50, Campbell closed the factory. Ryco-brand products will now be made overseas. "The total cost of labor for a process worker is $A49,000 a year. In China, it's $A2,500 a year. Add the cost of shipping and other things, and we can employ 15 people in China for the cost of one Australian worker." Factoring in longer work hours and leave, the Chinese worker...
...multitude of hungry importers. "As a wholesaler I have to give my guys value," he says, surrounded by faux entombed warriors, meter-high bird cages and multi-colored plastic pots. "There's a constant pressure on me to find goods that they can sell for a 100% margin. Chinese labor is starting to become too expensive in this industry. You'll find they will soon move up the scale into more high-tech goods. It's evolution...
...unofficial network of student organizations, and includes over two dozen members, ranging from the Black Men’s Forum to the Progressive Student Labor Movement...
Unionization at Columbia and Yale is popular among non-science graduate students largely due to salary issues. However, the National Labor Review Board has decided that graduate students do not have the right to unionize because they are primarily students, not employees. Consequently, the only way graduate students feel they can secure pay raises is by pressuring the university into letting them unionize. Surprisingly, this unionization movement has not caught on at Harvard, although health benefits and overall salaries at Columbia and Yale appear to be higher...