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Workers learned that they would not receive the vacation pay at the April 9 meeting where Harvard labor officials told them that they would lose their positions...
Bill Murphy, the director of the Office of Labor and Employee Relations, said that the University is not attempting to take vacation pay away from employees...
...Security is no friend of the workers’ union,” he said. “We think it’s really outrageous that these agents of the capitalist state are being treated as fellow workers. Their inclusion is a knife into the heart of organized labor...
...April, but it has still gone up 72% over the past 12 months. In January and February alone, some $320 million poured into U.S.-based mutual funds invested in China. The bullish case for China seems irresistible: a stable government, millions of aggressive entrepreneurs, plenty of cheap labor and 1.2 billion consumers eager to fulfill a lifetime of pent-up demand. But don't be blinded by hype. Here are the important questions...
...pension funds calling for his head, Burd embarked on a two-week road show last month to convince investors that his performance (Safeway's share price has dropped nearly 60% from 1999) is at least on par with his peers'. He also maintains that his tough stance on labor negotiations--which resulted in a strike in Southern California that cost the region's big three chains some $350 million in earnings last quarter--won enough concessions to stay competitive, even after Wal-Mart unleashes its Supercenters in the area. The next step, experts agree, is to continue narrowing the price...