Word: labors
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Officials said the guards' union, the Harvard University Patrolman's Union, will meet Nov. 17 with Kim A. Roberts '78, Harvard's labor negotiator. Harvard officials characterized the meeting as a "get acquainted session," but union chief Steve McCone will likely ask Roberts about a long-discussed buyout plan for experienced guards and argue the guard's side of a three-year-old contract dispute...
Among the variables that companies take into consideration in site selection is the labor pool. They are concerned not just with wage rates but also with the availability and quality of workers. So some states and municipalities, in partnership with business, have created industrial-education programs, mainly in community colleges. The schools' curriculums are often designed to train skilled workers for the area's most prominent industries...
...Kentucky Governor Paul Patton, this is one for the win column. "We will ensure that UPS has the workers it needs," he said. To fiscal conservatives, there is something wrong with this picture. If UPS wants to assure itself an adequate supply of labor, it might try raising wages. But with well-paying jobs now plentiful in the area, the company was having difficulty attracting a sufficient number of workers for part-time work, much of which is on the night shift. College students--the traditional source of night-shift workers for UPS--were not responding...
...American Automobile Manufacturers Association, representing General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, refused to help pay for the latest anti-Kyoto TV ads produced by the Global Climate Information Project, an alliance of industry, labor and farm groups. And last week Washington's World Resources Institute brought together executives from GM, British Petroleum and Monsanto to pledge that their companies would contribute less to the greenhouse effect. "There is a rising tide of environmental awareness," says incoming Ford chairman William Clay Ford Jr. "Smart companies will get ahead of the wave. Those that don't are headed for a wipeout...
Bill Fletcher, Jr., director of education with the AFL-CIO, addressed the relationship between politics and labor...