Word: labors
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Elizabeth Dole served as Secretary of Transportation for President Reagan and Secretary of Labor under President Bush, the first woman to hold Cabinet-level positions for two presidents...
...come to embrace through our participation in the struggles to combat war, racism and class oppression in the late '60s. The Lucy Parsons Center has been an anchor for the politics and culture of Cambridgeport, as well as greater Boston's new and old left, progressive, punk, labor and intellectual communities. We will not allow it to suffer the eradication that has befallen so many of our institutions in these neo-Calvinist times...
Calling for the Democratic party to return to its historically working-class agenda, former Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich articulated his vision for the party's future last night in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...
Nike says it has a staff of 1,000 labor-practices managers enforcing a program the company calls shape--an acronym for Safety, Health, Attitude of Management, People, Environment. "We are the only company that has people dedicated exclusively to labor-practice enforcement," says Brad Figel, Nike's Washington lobbyist. Outside auditors as well as nongovernmental organizations have also had a look...
...largest brokerages, sees only a nearly invisible rise in unemployment, to 4.7% at year-end, but an uptick in inflation, to a rate of 2.5%, with interest rates on 30-year Treasury bonds climbing to 6.5%, from below 6% in mid-March. In his view, the tight U.S. labor market will give inflation a nudge that the Federal Reserve will try to combat by raising interest rates. (Sinai, in contrast, predicts the Fed will cut rates slightly to prevent a too steep economic slowdown...