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...something, it ends up being disastrous. Like this fantastic Middle Eastern plate that I designed--one of our first customers, Susan Sarandon, loved it. I think she almost licked her plate. But it was so expensive to produce, we basically lost $2 every time we sold one. The only labor I'm qualified for at the restaurant is busing tables...
WITH ORGANIZED LABOR withering away to what its leaders fear is near irrelevance, a conflict over its future direction has been building between AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and Andrew Stern, a onetime protégé who is threatening to bolt from the federation and take its largest union with him. Among the proposals put forward by Stern, president of the 1.8 million-member Service Employees International Union, is one that would forcibly merge dozens of unions, putting weaker ones out of existence, with the goal of consolidating the bargaining power of unions in key industries. Sweeney opposes the idea (though...
...times. Eager to make this relatively unknown episode seem relevant to book-buying audiences, she has avoided using “Mau Mau” in her work’s title. Instead, she gives the out-of-context label “gulag” to the British labor camps used to detain suspected Mau Mau rebels...
Elkins’ inclusion of the term “gulag” in her work’s title as a description of colonial Kenya’s labor camps is similarly troubling. Professor of History Niall Ferguson has already labeled Elkins’ use of the term “wildly inappropriate,” and this criticism seems on-point. “Gulag” in Elkins’ mind appears to mean any camp system where detainees are thrust into a system of forced labor. This usage of “gulag” divorces...
...Earlier in the day, the National Labor Relations Board ruled the musicians were striking illegally. The musicians had argued that since January 3rd, they had been locked out, having refused to continue playing under an expired agreement. Rather than taking the case to federal courts, both sides attended negotiations aided on Thursday by St. Louis mayor Francis Slay and Bob Soutier, President of the Greater St. Louis Labor Council. Neither side would release details of the agreement...