Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group of Americans is still mad as hell at the Postal Service--its workers. The number of employee grievances awaiting arbitration rose 44% last year, a sign of mounting labor tension. The premium on efficiency has, according to the Washington Post, driven a few desperate workers in West Virginia to rig the independent audits of their on-time delivery. And in another burst of ghastly work-related violence, a Milwaukee, Wis., mail handler killed himself and a co-worker last month. Union leaders are becoming bellicose over what they call management's failure to share bonuses with workers. "The labor...
Sources: New England Journal of Medicine; JAMA; Washington State Department of Labor & Industries...
WASHINGTON: The White House's week got a little worse Thursday as Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman faced allegations of taking bribes, kickbacks and graft while she served as a top Clinton aide...
Never far from the fray, Harvard's Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) joined concerned Cantabrigians protesting developers efforts to make Central Square look more like Harvard Square...
There was no question in anybody's mind when the four of us sat down that it was time to go," agrees Alexander. Richards says the sheer exhaustion involved in making the labor-intensive show was a factor: "I've been taking note of how everyone was working and the difficulties of maintaining the show each week. It was becoming work, real work, and we were losing our sense of play. After 12 episodes, Jerry was weary. To think about coming back and doing another year--he doubted he could. And he never wanted that weariness to affect the show...