Word: laborities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When union firebrand Amir Peretz snatched the leadership of Israel's Labor Party last week, he sent a shock through the country's political system. Labor, the traditional bastion of the Israeli élite, has been in sharp decline since its last Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, was defeated by Ariel Sharon in 2001. Now Peretz, a Moroccan-born resident of one of Israel's poorest towns, promises to revitalize Labor by shaking things up even more...
...exhausted Peretz, 53, ran between meetings with Labor lawmakers and his predecessor as party leader, Shimon Peres, he told TIME that he plans to quit Sharon's government immediately and force elections as early as next March. He hopes to draw voters with a social agenda that includes a higher minimum wage and government-subsidized pensions. He hopes the program will attract poorer people who have dismissed Labor as a party for the rich, particularly Arab voters and Jews whose origins, like Peretz's own, lie in the Arab world. Officials in Sharon's Likud Party and others who have...
...killed or missing opponents of Franco. "But it meant that our democracy was fundamentally flawed, resting on the impunity of Franco's regime. It had to change." Commissioned by and with design input from Franco, the Valley of the Fallen was built at least in part through the forced labor of political prisoners. Soldiers from both sides of Spain's Civil War - Franco's Nationalists and the defeated Republicans - are interred there, but only Francoists treat the site as a shrine. Last November, the Catalan Green party (icv) suggested that the basilica be transformed into a "center for interpretation...
...business world have ever been so adept at seeing around corners. Drucker, who died last week at 95, foresaw inflation in the 1970s, the rise of Japan Inc. in the 1980s and the decline of unions in the 1990s. But his most far-reaching theories were on management and labor. He argued that if workers were allowed to participate in decisions, they would not only become happier and more productive but also provide valuable insights. CEOs prized his clarity. But everyone who labors in a cubicle, in the field or on a factory floor should prize Drucker...
However, the university has repeatedly cited a 2004 decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that graduate students do not have the right to unionize and private universities have no obligation to collectively bargain...