Word: labors
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...flyer also accuses the University of hiring other unnamed contractors who fail to abide by labor laws...
Members of the union have distributed leaflets over the past week which claim that Harvard has been hiring non-union general contractors who employ illegal labor practices...
Carpenters' Local 40 will continue picketing outside the construction site at 60 Garden St. today. The union charges that Harvard's general contractor for this project is employing illegal labor practices...
...prevent an increase in unemployment. Sure enough, the jobless rate in January rose to 5.8% from 5.6% in December, returning to the top end of the range it held throughout 1995. More ominously, total payroll employment dropped by 201,000 jobs, the biggest decline in nearly five years. The Labor Department put much of the blame on the East Coast blizzard, but some economists suspect that even with normal weather employment would have been flat...
...some capital is fleeing Taiwan because of the tensions with mainland China, much more is staying put in an unlikely spot--mainland China. Taiwanese companies hurt by rising manufacturing costs on the island have found a perfect alternative, a place that offers a common language and cheap labor. China has encouraged investors from Taiwan by giving them generous tax breaks. Some 30,000 Taiwanese firms have committed $28.85 billion to various types of projects. Cross-strait trade, which was first allowed in 1990 and must be channeled through third-party locations like Hong Kong, is expected to total $20 billion...