Word: labors
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...talk of Denver is how the 2008 Democratic Convention, which would be a perfect showcase for this newly left-leaning region, may be thwarted by a local labor leader so passionate he once picketed a Bruce Springsteen concert. That concert was being held in the city's Pepsi Center, and Jim Taylor, head of Local No. 7 International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, thought that the Boss shouldn't perform in an arena that refused to sanction unionized workers. The Pepsi Center still doesn't have union labor - and it is the proposed site of the Democratic Convention...
...Taylor and Local No. 7 are the only labor holdouts to a deal. Says Willhite: "Mr. Taylor let me know from early on that he had some issues about the Pepsi Center. After Denver's labor federation voted to support the convention, we thought that took care of that, and all the unions would be supportive. But as we got down to the final parts of the package, one of them being a labor agreement signed by the unions that would be involved in the build-out and actual conduct of the convention, Jim said he couldn't sign...
...Aligning our schedules would help alleviate these problems.As the Committee on Calendar Reform found several years ago, calendar change cannot be achieved without sacrifice. Reading period may need to be shortened a bit, and we will likely have to kiss late-September starts goodbye in favor of a post-Labor Day start date. But let go we will; these were traditions that weren’t meant to last, and we should no longer justify them with an irrelevant nostalgia.In the end, the benefits of a calendar switch far outweigh the costs. With a longer and more relaxed winter vacation...
...several years economists have longed for a “Goldilocks” economy, an economy that is neither too hot nor too cold but instead just right. This nice turn of phrase was, according to William Safire, first notably used by former Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich to describe an imagined period of moderate growth and low inflation...
...That's why Edwards has spent the past two years actively courting the liberal netroots, even hiring Dean's old blogger, and wooing top union bosses. Edwards' attacks on Wal-Mart, which has discouraged its workers from forming unions, and his calls for universal health care are beloved by labor leaders, who could give Edwards a major lift in the early primaries in Iowa and Nevada, where their organizations are influential in Democratic politics...