Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although a strike authorization does not mean a strike is imminent, it is a definite sign of the union's determination, according to Donene M. Williams, president of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, the University's largest labor organization...
...election did not always seem so tight. Late last fall, with Israel plagued by Palestinian terror attacks, polls showed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and of the center-left Labor Party running behind Netanyahu of the nationalistic Likud. When Rabin was murdered in November by a right-wing assassin trying to sabotage the peace process, the country swung behind Labor and its new leader, Peres. Since then, subsequent terror strikes have eroded that edge to a few percentage points...
...says. "You're not going to put an end to restructuring as long as companies continue to be in the mode to redeploy assets. The question is how to do it fairly. That's what this conference tried to address." Clinton avoided calls from the left, including his own Labor Secretary Robert Reich, to take a more activist approach to combating stagnating wages and job insecurity. Earlier this year, Reich advocated reforming the tax code to reward corporations that avoid layoffs by retraining workers, among other things. Clinton, eager to distance himself from the big-government label, is urging companies...
...specializes in areas of estate planning, family law and labor...
...There's a certain enjoyment in manual labor and seeing something that you've cleaned and not having to think of anything for a while," says Lauralee Summer '98, who works between 7 and 14 hours a week in two jobs: dorm crew and the Radcliffe development office's alumnae phonathon...