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...politics. As a team, they turned elegance into power. For one brief shining moment, our country was the epitome of grace and style. Patricia Dimassa-Rida West Haven, Connecticut, U.S. Au Revoir to Job Security My advice to the students demonstrating and rioting throughout France over the youth labor law [March 27] is: Get over it. Job security no longer exists. I am an American who graduated from college in the early '90s when the U.S. economy was in a serious recession. I spent the next two years working as an unpaid intern. At least Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin...
...hard for Americans to fathom a world in which corporations, instead of merely lamenting the shortage of skilled labor, volunteer to train vast numbers of the non-college-bound. Oh, yeah, and to pay them a bundle along the way. But under Germany's earn-while-you-learn system, companies are paying 1.6 million young adults to train for about 350 types of jobs, ranging from industrial mechanic to baker to fitness trainer. And the trainees' average annual salary of $19,913 helps explain why less than 9% of Germans drop out of high school: they...
...much so that in 2004, 58% of students finished high school with three-year training contracts in hand. Historically, more than two-thirds of the trainees end up with permanent job offers by the time those contracts are up. And despite increasing pressure from globalization and a shrinking labor market at home, 23% of all German companies continue to offer apprenticeships, a remarkable statistic, given that it takes into account every one-man shop as well as every megacorporation...
...Coke, as well as a full page rebuttal from the company to allegations of human rights abuses.Writing in the Princeton University-based “Business Today”—which says it reaches 150,000 readers nationwide—Coke’s Director of Global Labor Relations and Workplace Accountability Edward E. Potter said that the soft drink maker “respects the rights of workers.”The magazine bills itself as “for students, by students,” despite the fact that it received $25,000 from Coke within...
Four janitors involved in a strike at the University of Miami and several representatives of an international labor union urged the members of the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) to use their leverage as Harvard students to help the Miami workers at an event at 45 Mt. Auburn Street this Saturday. More than 100 Miami janitors have been striking for six weeks and 10 have been on a six day hunger strike to protest unfair working conditions and low wages. The janitors are employed by UNICCO Service Company, one of the nation’s largest private facilities maintenance companies...