Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Labor Secretary Robert Reich has warned that legal loopholes encourage some companies "to avoid their responsibility to train U.S. workers for these important high-tech jobs." But to executives who say they cannot find enough homegrown employees to design computers and other advanced products, the Simpson bill is a dangerous threat to America's technological edge. "Instead of building a bridge, this whole effort is carving out a moat," says NAM's Eisen...
...contract says otherwise, they can be fired "for any reason or no reason"--except when the firing can be shown to be discriminatory on the basis of race, sex or religion. In addition, a few forms of "speech," such as displaying a union logo, are protected by the National Labor Relations Act, and the courts may decide this makes Caterpillar's crackdown illegal. But the general assumption is, any expansion of workers' rights would infringe on the apparently far more precious right of the employer to fire "at will." So the lesson for America's working people...
DIED. SIDNEY KORSHAK, 88, labor attorney whose connections to organized crime powered his career as a Hollywood fixer; in Beverly Hills. After defending Al Capone's cronies in Chicago, Korshak moved to L.A. in the late 1940s, where studio owners had him ensure labor peace. Korshak was never indicted, but "a message from him," a prominent mobster once testified under oath, "is a message from...
...overran the Muslim enclave of Srebenica last fall, also traveled to Sarajevo to protest what they claim is the inaction of the government in getting an accounting. "These women claim that out of 8,000 missing men, 3,000 are still alive and being held in Serb prisons or labor camps," says Stiglmayer. "While the 3,000 number seems very high, I have heard many stories that would suggest that several hundred of these men may still be held. But the women are protesting the official inaction on the issue. And they are right because no one has tried...
...Labor strife made Glimp's first semester difficult, but his final semester was the most memorable...