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...perhaps fitting that an immigrant from Taiwan who once ran the Peace Corps and United Way is tasked with helping improve the labor skills of the U.S. workforce. As overseer of America's retirees and 150 million workers, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, 52, spoke with TIME's Eric Roston about the impending pension crisis, the growing skills gap and life as half of a Washington power couple...
...WERE IN LITTLE ROCK, ARK., LAST MONTH ANNOUNCING A $5.9 MILLION GRANT TO TRAIN PEOPLE FOR WORK IN THE AUTO AND "ADVANCED MANUFACTURING" INDUSTRIES. WHO ELSE NEEDS HELP? The construction industry in Louisiana can only find 65% of the skilled labor they need. Health care's another one. We need about a million nurses and 3.4 million health-care workers in the next eight years. About 90% of the fastest-growing jobs these days require added training post--high school...
Each dispatcher, however, is also trained to handle situations in which help is needed while emergency personnel is en route to the scene. These situations include suicidal callers and those trying to assist women who are giving birth. If a caller is helping someone who is in labor, it is the dispatcher who leads the caller through delivering the child until the emergency responders arrive...
Risk management is the clearest benefit of doing good. Nike knows something about that. The Oregon-based sneaker giant spent the 1990s batting away criticism for its dependence on foreign sweatshop labor. It became clear that the company was in trouble when Amnesty International postcards protesting the practice began arriving at Nike headquarters in the early 1990s. The campaign evolved into boycotts. Colleges dropped the brand from their athletic wear, and Nike spokesman Michael Jordan was put in the awkward position of calling on his sponsor to "do the right thing...
...Because the green glues added value to a brand worn by environmentally conscious outdoor enthusiasts. But there's another reason: the effect Swartz believes such socially responsible initiatives have on the rank and file of his company. That also accounts, in part, for why he has installed stringent fair-labor policies at Timberland's factories and those of its vendors in Asia, Eastern Europe and North Africa. Timberland does not allow workers to put in more than 60 hours a week--a rule that has provoked much grumbling abroad, where laborers often want to work more. (Swartz says that...