Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turn of the century, many mills began to move south. No longer could the benefits of deep harbors, access to capital and an abundance of energy offset the virtue of cheap labor. Cities across the northeast--Boston as much as New Bedford or Fall River--became decaying monuments to the industrial revolution and the region's past glory...
...this onslaught is causing them any tremors, employers are not letting on. Jeffrey McGuiness, president of the Labor Policy Association, a corporate lobby group in Washington, says, "College students breezing in and telling people they are better off joining a union--and then breezing back to school again--that's not likely to be very effective." The handpicked Union Summer activists, however, are far from ivory-tower stereotypes. Among the 30 Los Angeles recruits, for instance, only one is an Ivy Leaguer: Brown University's Marisela Ramos, the brainy daughter of an illiterate East Los Angeles seamstress. Three...
Most of the New Otani employees are immigrants. And the tactics used against the hotel are typical of the unorthodox new weapons of labor's "corporate campaigns." Local 11 of the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees sends delegations to Japan and Hong Kong to rally Asian unions against the hotel and urge travel agents to avoid it. It has secured endorsements from scores of the city's Asian and Latino civic and business groups, as well as 11 out of 15 city councillors, and it blocked rush-hour traffic with a sit-down protest last spring that resulted in 57 arrests...
Then there are the new "aerospike" engines. Nozzles on the current shuttle engines have limited adaptability to ambient pressure; they work well in a vacuum but labor in the earth's atmosphere. The aerospikes will match thrust to need. Like a car with fuel injection, they should get better mileage...
...that doesn't include the biggest fish in this summer's free-agent sea -- Shaquille O'Neal, who has been offered $115 million over seven years to re-sign with Orlando. The barrage of deals began after the league and its players agreed last Thursday to a new labor deal that eases player movement. Free agency in baseball has exacerbated problems between small and large market teams and fed fan resentment toward players who don't play up to their extravagant contracts. Can these problems be far behind for the image-conscious NBA now that talk is of option years...