Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joblessness is at its lowest level since 1974. The Labor Department reported last week that the unemployment rate dropped to 5.3% in June, down from 5.6% the previous month. Barry Bosworth, an economist at the Brookings Institution, thinks the jobless level is approaching the threshold at which it begins to spur wage and price increases. Says he: "I like an unemployment rate of 5.3%, but if it goes below 5%, then I would be concerned." Yet other economists think the work force can readily accommodate the scattered shortages. Says Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers...
...lowest in the U.S. The region's economy has been fueled by military contractors, who benefited from the defense buildup of the early 1980s, and by the small firms that have flourished in the high-tech corridor along Route 128, near Boston. The explosive expansion in the demand for labor has far exceeded the region's growth in supply. In Massachusetts, for example, the number of jobs grew 11.6% between 1980 and 1986, while the population increased only 1.7%. Other shorthanded states range from South Dakota (jobless rate: 2.7%) to Hawaii (2.9%) to North Carolina...
...Federal labor laws explicitly prohibit employers from questioning employees about their support for a union, or harassing them for such support...
...National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) officials said yesterday that a hearing on the University's charges against the election day campaign practices of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) will be held in the next eight weeks, but that a final decision in the case would probably come much later...
...Soviet industrial enterprises. Kabaidze offered some feline advice: "If a minister can catch mice, feed him. If he can't, don't bother." He also denounced the bloated cadre of "scientific workers" who are designated to carry out state-supported research-and- development projects but actually perform little productive labor. "I recently heard a horrible statistic," he told the conference. "There are supposed to be 900,000 scientific workers in Moscow. What is this supposed to be, a gathering place for wunderkinder?" Baiting bureaucrats is hardly a high-risk enterprise in the Gorbachev era, of course, but Kabaidze's gibes...