Word: labors
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...next five years. A sizable chunk is earmarked to bring African doctors to the U.S. so they can be trained to carry out research and clinical trials back in Africa. But even that has raised a red flag among activists. "A lot of the companies are using the cheaper labor costs and the lack of ethical codes in developing countries as a way to get the trials done more cheaply and quickly," says Dan Berman of Doctors Without Borders. A better solution, the activists suggest, would be for drugs known to be effective to be made available at a price...
...most educated Americans I've met, and he talks beautifully. His father was a Stalinist union organizer, and though John is no longer a communist--few miners are; they're too solitary and anarchic by temperament--he movingly speaks of the kinship he and his mates feel with the labor traditions of Australian mining, which go back to the Eureka rebellion of the Victorian gold miners in 1854. "We have solidarity because we know all our chances are equal...
...attention of the Texas state legislature and then aired them before the American Medical Association. Last week, at its annual meeting, the organization representing 290,000 doctors in the U.S. voted to try to bring Gunby and his colleagues some relief in an unprecedented way: by forming a labor union...
Then there are the potential legal hurdles. Federal labor laws designed to combat price fixing bar self-employed physicians, the vast majority of doctors in the U.S., from jointly discussing fees and contracts. Only 1 in 7 physicians--those directly employed by entities like hospitals, HMOs or state health departments--can currently unionize. In the past, doctors' groups that have tried to organize anyway have been slapped with antitrust complaints by the Justice Department...
Association officers said they have yet to present Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley with a mission statement and proposal for a labor management committee, as the ad said the association would...