Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is a law protecting the workers. If it did not exist, construction companies could submit lower bids on projects by cutting their employees' wages. Construction costs, except for labor, are fixed, so the only way to cut overall costs is to pay lower wages. Repealing the law would create larger profits for contractors but cut the earnings of their employees. It is the public works equivalent to cutting the minimum wage requirement, a return to days when labor had no government protection against abuse from self-interested employers...
...vote on election day. These complaints raised a substantial doubt as to whether the methods that the union had used were in conformance with existing rules governing the conduct of union elections. In order to make sure that the election was fair, Harvard filed objections with the National Labor Relations Board...
...certify the union. Although the report does not convince me that our initial doubts were unfounded, I recognize that a decision to file exceptions would almost certainly bring about months, or even a year or more, of added delay and uncertainty pending a final decision of the National Labor Relations Board. I do not believe that we should allow this delay, with all the burdens that would accompany it unless there is a substantial likelihood that the ALJ's recommendations will be overturned by the National Labor Relations Board...
...weighing the possibility of reversal, I have consulted widely not only within my own staff but among individuals without prior connection with the election who are highly knowlegeable about labor relations and labor law. These discussions have led me to the following conclusions. Although the ALJ's opinion contains unwarranted and gratuitous comments about participants in the proceedings and can be disputed on other grounds as well, I do not believe that the odds of securing a reversal are substantial enough to outweigh the risks of imposing a long and fruitless delay that could frustrate the interests of many...
Although pledge sales, in which new fraternity members hire themselves out to do menial labor, are common, the racial character of the ZBT auction was highly unusual, students said...