Word: laborer
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Shattuck served as vice president for government, community and public affairs--one of Harvard's five vice presidents--from 1984 to 1993, representing the University before the U.S. Massachusetts and Cambridge governments. Since 1993, he has been assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor--one of 19 assistant secretaries working for Madeleine K. Albright...
...continued health and strength of our nation depends on our country's ability to improve the education of our young people," said Sen. Jim Jeffords (R-Vt.), who chairs the Labor Committee that sent the bill to the full Senate. "Integral to that is the strength of our nation's teaching force...
Nine congressional candidates, a candidate for lieutenant governor, a city councillor, the vice mayor, a half-dozen members of the Progressive Students Labor Movement (PSLM) and several representatives of the Painters and Allied Trades Union descended on the Yard last Thursday to protest a Harvard contractor they say is opposing its workers' efforts to unionize...
Kenney is currently under investigation by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for allegedly intimidating pro-union workers. Protesters also faulted the contractor for failing to provide an apprenticeship program or to pay its workers the prevailing local wage...
...this long because GM is determined to make a stand to defend its ability to compete. But Stodghill says there's no end in sight. "It's already gone on longer than anyone predicted," he says, and notes that even Wall Street -- generally supportive anytime management gets tough with labor -- has started to worry that the strike's duration may outweigh any benefits derived from taking a hard line. GM stock dropped more than two points Monday after weekend talks blew up, and was creeping back Tuesday only because analysts had fully expected the earnings carnage. In a desperate ploy...