Word: labors
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...connections between the student servers and the community, they cannot perform the actual services. Harvard may pay people to participate in public service, but in the case of Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), that is not done (people are paid to facilitate and organize public service). Without student labor, community service on Harvard's behalf would almost completely cease. Without Harvard's facilitation, public service would carry on in a less effective form, but would remain intact...
According to transcripts obtained from the plane's two "black box" recording devices, the crew in the plane's cockpit was engaged in a discussion of a "non-pertinent" nature. News reports said the crew were discussing labor issues rather than engaging in pre-landing procedures...
...transport workers, was in protest against proposed reforms to the French social-security system, and in particular a tightening of the retirement scheme of France's 5.5 million public-sector workers. Following concessions made by Prime Minister Alain Juppe on the retirement issue, many workers voted to end the labor action, which had never gained the active support of private-sector employees as hoped...
Gingrich's first legislative victory this year was passing a law that subjects the Speaker and his colleagues to the same labor and civil-rights laws that apply to private-sector employers. Clinton signed the bill in January...
...favor of big labor, but we find GESO's position untenable. Being a TA is not the same as having a job; the teaching post is one part of a larger financial aid package offered by the university to its students. GESO's members find their "salaries" insufficient for subsistence in New Haven. But these are not salaried jobs at all--they are fellowships granted to assist graduate study financially and to train future academicians as teachers...