Word: labors
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...order earlier this week, Michael O. Miller, an administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), ruled the grade-strike that GESO held at the beginning of 1996 was not protected under labor law. The 'grade-strike' involved nearly 200 graduate students withholding grades of undergraduate courses, according to union leaders...
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE The demise of the Soviet Union shifted resources from defense to more productive uses and opened new export markets, labor pools and natural resources. Government's belt-tightening means Uncle Sam needs to borrow less, leading to lower interest rates. This year the deficit is expected to shrink to about $70 billion, down 75% from $290 billion in 1992. The annual red ink is now less than 1.4% of gross domestic product, the lowest of any industrialized country. Result: a productivity-driven boom...
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Close cooperation among all the links in the manufacturing chain--the cartel-like structure known as Keiretsu--turned the country into a production machine. A promise of lifetime employment and a culture of consensus created silky-smooth labor relations. For more than a decade, this unique brand of teamwork pushed Japan into an economic league of its own. No other country had such low unemployment and low inflation; the rest of the world struggled with stagflation (high unemployment and inflation). Japan racked up some $400 billion in trade surpluses in the decade. Indeed...
Cash is a member of the Board of directors of the Knight-Ridder Corporation. A Federal Court ruled on June 20 that two papers owned by both Knight-Ridder and the Gannet Company had engaged in unfair labor practices by locking out workers who had been on strike since July...
...FRANCISCO: TIME's David Jackson reports that a federal appeals court decision which forces Microsoft to allow employees improperly classified as independent contractors to participate in the company's benefits programs is likely to have a major impact on freelance hiring practices in the high-tech industry. "This labor issue is significant industry-wide for the precedent it could set. Microsoft was not doing anything other companies in the high-tech industry have not been doing for a long time. Many of them have freelancers who work right alongside full-time employees. The danger is that if these companies suddenly...