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...merely tinkers with the problem. Rather than make the system truly mandatory or combine the three systems into one, it has raised citizens' premiums and lowered their payouts-moves that are certain only to encourage more delinquency. Yet rather than focus on the real scandal-that Japan's citizens labor under a pension system that won't come close to providing for them-newspapers continue to call for more resignations. With the departure of capable politicians like Kan and Fukuda, the likelihood that the system will ever see real change is diminished. So much for Japan...
ANNE GUST, chief compliance officer at Gap, on its candid report into labor conditions at its contract factories worldwide
...main problem for HUDS was labor,” Mishra said. “The main suggestion that came from people in the House was that we needed to employ students, possibly on a federal work-study program...
Howard's incumbency explains in part why Labor has struggled to define itself since 1998. The Opposition has only one-fifth as many ministerial staffers. In costing its programs, it does not have all the information it would like. When Opposition leader Mark Latham blundered on superannuation math, an army of bureaucrats was there to give the Treasurer the correct numbers. If Oppositions are accused of holding back on policy detail, one reason could be that federal governments can call on some 130,000 public servants to mull over those programs. As well, being out of the loop on intelligence...
...summer of 2003 while we were in the middle of contract negotiations the University informed the union that they meant to layoff all seventeen remaining union guards. I asked for the help of Progressive Student Labor Movement and an e-mail campaign was mounted along with a public demonstration in the front of Holyoke Center. Those actions caused the University to reconsider their position. The Union conducted impact bargaining concurrently with the main contract negotiations. In the end, we settled the main contract and the university presented to the union a proposal for severance packages, also we were able...