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...Labor Department and Forest Service officials insist they are cracking down on unscrupulous employers and contractors. But critics like Congressman Joe Baca, a California Democrat, say they have not done enough. "If we're going to expand any kind of guest-worker program," Baca says, "we've got to make sure there's not this abuse...
Nearly 1,200 students signed comment cards last week to support Harvard University Dining Services workers’ efforts to improve their working benefits. Sponsored by the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), the gathered support will be used next month to help union leaders negotiate a more favorable contract for dining hall employees. Their current contract expires in June. Dining hall workers are currently not guaranteed work over summer recess, nor are they allowed to collect unemployment benefits for those three months, said Adams House cook Bill Nicolson. They are also not paid during Christmas vacation, intercession, and spring break...
...embrace a life-changing opportunity. The end of the cold war had similar long-term consequences, since it was followed by the integration into the world economy of virtually all of those countries which, by choice or not, had been excluded from it. The global supply of manufacturing labor more than doubled virtually overnight. In the context of largely open world markets, this has meant continuing downward pressure on global production costs. With upward of a billion people set to enter the urban labor markets of China, India, Brazil and Indonesia over the next 20 years, this pressure will only...
...department store--stock boy. Then I got a job at Kroger's. And that's my whole life. Pretty simple life." It was a lot more complicated than that. But in one sense Hoffa's career indeed followed a simple line: straight up the ladder of labor-union power ... Hoffa's rise to power and the uses he has made of it are detailed and documented in the McClellan committee record, sprawling over 44,000 pages of testimony ... But for all its awesome bulk, the record has some significant gaps: committee investigators found that many Teamster documents, including all records...
...Elections, the League's Florida branch acknowledged that it had recently ceased efforts to register voters because of what it calls the law's draconian fines against organizations (other than political parties) for submitting forms late. The League of Women Voters of Florida joined several other pubic interest and labor groups, including the Florida AFL-CIO, in challenging the constitutionality of the law, which went into effect Jan. 1. They are asking the U.S. District Court to immediately suspend the fines - which the groups say could bankrupt their voter registration budgets...