Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deadlock reminiscent of Major League Baseball labor negotiations, Cambridge finally decided on a mayor February 26, after two months of stalemate between rival factions on the Council...
...LOUIS: Some 6,700 McDonnell Douglas machinists went on strike to protest the aerospace company's increased use of non-union workers. The key issue: outsourcing, the company's use of subcontractors and non-union workers at McDonnell Douglas plants for labor once performed by union machinists. The practice has recently led to costly strikes at Boeing and General Motors, and is especially threatening to workers already faced with cutbacks in the post-Cold War defense industry. "With the dramatic cutbacks in defense spending over the past few years, a company like McDonnell Douglas needs to be as supple...
...upper echelons of the federal government consist of dozens of men and women who were drafted from Harvard's faculty and administration, including Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich, Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers and even Vice President (and former overseer) Al Gore...
Democratic politicans have focused on labor issues in seeking to regain both branches of Congress this November...
Wachner was in Waterville to negotiate a labor contract, and when the talks ended, many in Hathaway's overwhelmingly female work force had bonded with her. They listened wide-eyed as the only woman to head a FORTUNE 500 industrial company told them she would save jobs if they agreed to cut costs and boost output. Marvels Debbie Perry, who has spent the past 19 years stitching collar stays at America's oldest shirtmaker: "Miss Linda said she cared about the people who work here, and we believed...