Word: labors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...work stoppage, which officially ended at 11:59 p.m. on April Fools' Day, when the owners decided to tell their replacement players to stand down. The previous day, the Players Association had scored a major victory when U.S. District Judge Sonia Sotomayor issued an injunction sought by the National Labor Relations Board, forcing the owners to return to the work rules of the expired collective-bargaining agreement. So baseball was right back where it started last August, with the same old system in place and no sign of a new agreement. The distrust between union head Don Fehr and acting...
Hundreds of thousands of Russian workers, from teachers and hospital employees to miners and factory laborers, are on strike. Many haven't been paid in over two years. In Moscow, about 2,000 workers picketed the government headquarters, calling forBoris Yeltsin's resignation. Although the trade unions say thegovernment owes $1.14 billion in back wages, Labor Minister Gennady Melikyan blames local administrators for the crisis, saying the federal government has paid its debts to state-funded organizations.TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovichsays Melikyan has a point, saying "Up to a point, that's true, lots of places are controlled by gangsters...
...little-noticed Massachusetts state ruling may have big implications forGOP welfare reform effortsacross the country, TIME Boston bureau chief Sam Allis reports. On Monday, the state labor relations commission ruled that Lawrence, Mass. -- a city with one of the state's largest populations on welfare -- may not use its welfare recipients to do sanitation work. The city, which is appealing the verdict, claims that such work conforms with the 20 hours a week of community service incorporated in the "workfare" concept that Mass. Gov. William Weld, House SpeakerNewt Gingrich and other Republicans have embraced. But in cash-strapped Lawrence...
...have a job waiting for me at a grocery store on Northern Boulevard, Queens," he says proudly. Mar?a Rodriguez, a Cuban, says she simply could not earn enough in her native land. "Look at my hands," she says, showing fingers and palms callused from years of manual labor. "I am still young. But there is no way to survive where I come from. I left my children with relatives, and I came. There was no other choice...
Evers said the damage was substantially morethan the cost of the removed dildos. "The damagewasn't only done to the dildos, but to the systemthat was placed in the box and the labor it tookto replace them," he said...