Word: labors
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Poor Ron Carey. He could be a labor hero for cleaning up the Teamsters Union since becoming its president in 1991. But that distinction has eluded him. Carey, 61, is in the middle of a bitter internal power struggle as well as a federal investigation into charges that an aide diverted more than $100,000 of union funds last year to Carey's campaign for re-election. To these headaches is added the wrath of millions of Americans who waited in vain last week for strike-bound UPS trucks to transport everything from lobsters to Lands' End T shirts...
...Carey edged Hoffa in the race for the presidency last fall, but Hoffa has jumped on the fund-raising charges to demand a new election. "If Carey loses the strike or is perceived to have lost, his position vis-a-vis Hoffa is markedly weakened," says Marvin Kosters, a labor expert at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington...
...limited their clout is? With fears of downsizing and layoffs still rampant, unions staged only 37 walkouts involving 1,000 or more workers last year, in contrast to 231 major strikes in 1976. "If the Teamsters can't deliver [a winning settlement] on this one," says Charles Craver, a labor expert at the George Washington University law school, "organized labor is in big trouble...
Bradford isn't the only one with misgivings. "The history of job training is dismal," says Mark Wilson, labor expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation. Yet the Welfare Reform Act will make training more necessary than ever: at least 1.5 million adults now receiving aid will have to find work by 2002. The vibrant economy has already scooped up the top prospects, leaving many who may be burdened by drug addiction, physical abuse, too many children or too little education. Lots of these folks would prefer to be working. But the more cynical think they never will. "The scale...
Elsewhere, machine shops in the Midwest are chronically short of skilled labor. Enter the Chicago Manufacturing Institute, a largely federally financed training center that each year graduates up to 300 machine operators and industrial inspectors, many of them former welfare recipients. More than 90% of the graduates swiftly land jobs at $8 to $11 an hour...