Word: laborer
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...vehicles, waving their fists and chanting their defiance in the face of an unyielding regime. This time, however, the ruling party is the African National Congress, which those same workers helped bring to power ?- and the protest signifies the end of the post-apartheid honeymoon between socialist-inclined big labor and their market-oriented allies in government. After seven months of bitter negotiations, the two sides have failed to agree on a wage increase for public-sector employees, and the unions on Tuesday mounted a one-day national strike as a warning shot of industrial action to come...
Producing the story of the first black woman to receive an Oscar nomination as Best Actress was a labor of love for Halle Berry. Maybe too much love, as the end product is a devoted but ultimately dull hagiopic. Berry is vivacious and hungry as Dandridge, and Brent Spiner is affecting as her dedicated manager; but a flat script and uninteresting narrative (rendered in flashback as Berry flips through a scrapbook) throw ice water on the heat its subject is supposed to project...
Still, it's not yet clear that every boss is ready to be such a solicitous suitor. "The labor market is tight, but we haven't got to the point where people are so valuable that they would entice companies to engage in a bidding war," argues Bob Liu of HotJobs.com Others contend that no firm would be willing to make a bet solely on the basis of a virtual resume. Networking giant Cisco, which does two-thirds of its hiring via the Net, says it isn't interested in bidding online for corporate mercenaries...
...such a bold experiment in the burgeoning field of e-cruiting. Not only is unemployment near record lows, but Silicon Valley is also facing a severe shortage of qualified techies. There are 500,000 vacancies, a number expected to grow to a few million. In such a tight labor market, the Net may be just the tool for the growing ranks of job-hopping free agents to flex their bargaining muscle...
Think again. At a labor breakfast there attended by 800 Rainbow members, Bradley extolled his own commitment to racial and economic justice, then took aim at Clinton and Gore's. "After seven years of the first two-term Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt, the number of children in poverty in America barely blipped down," he said. "One year after the Welfare Reform bill passed--which I voted against--there were 29% more children living in...deep poverty... Reducing [that number] should be the North Star for our society." The line got a big hand. But later people were curiously unmoved; they...