Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...showdown strike by American Airlines pilots was avoided only by the dramatic intervention of someone who doesn't fly commercial, the President of the U.S. Bill Clinton, apparently not at all eager to see billions of dollars drained from the prospering U.S. economy, used a provision of the Railway Labor Act (which governs organized labor in the airline industry) to impose a 60-day cooling-off period...
...this is one industry, and one company, that glows white hot with anger between its labor and management. United, Northwest, USAir, TWA and Continental are lined up with labor negotiations like so many jets waiting to take off from O'Hare. Does this mean a year of strikes? Not necessarily, but the situation at American is a sort of wind sock for the industry...
...Book Tech, 50 percent of sourcebooks costs are copyright fees. Whether such stringent copyright laws are valid or not is debatable, but the laws are enforced and it is understandable to obey them. The other 50 percent is profit and expenses. "We're not making $100 sneakers with slave labor in Taiwan," Mr. Shepard reminded me. Certainly not--the production of Xeroxes of Voltaire's letters for Harvard students in Winchester, Mass. by a well-paid staff isn't really comparable to the practices of particular shoe companies. We accept Mr. Shepard's point, even if it is not entirely...
...says TIME's James Carney. "Gore is definitely running, and while Gephardt stopped short of admitting it, he is certainly Gore's leading competition." It was a tough crowd. Both Democrats tried to assuage union concerns that welfare reform will flood the job market with low-paid, non-union labor, hence further undermining organized labor. While Gephardt, a longtime friend of labor whose father was a Teamster, promised to introduce legislation to encourage former welfare recipients finding new jobs to join unions, Gore promised that President Clinton would veto any bill that forces employees to choose between overtime...
...says TIME's James Carney. "Gore is definitely running, and while Gephardt stopped short of admitting it, he is certainly Gore's leading competition." It was a tough crowd. Both Democrats tried to assuage union concerns that welfare reform will flood the job market with low-paid, non-union labor, hence further undermining organized labor. While Gephardt, a longtime friend of labor whose father was a Teamster, promised to introduce legislation to encourage former welfare recipients finding new jobs to join unions, Gore promised that President Clinton would veto any bill that forces employees to choose between overtime...