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...that time, HUCTW was in contract negotiations,” he says. “They got a living wage for their lowest paid, and as soon as they had that, they basically dropped out. They said they didn’t have a living wage problem at HUCTW, and they dropped out. The progressive labor community at large were thunderstruck by that utter lack of solidarity with the campaign...
...economy." In that task, says Michael Mayberry, head of the P.N.G. Chamber of Commerce, "uncertainty doesn't help at all." With this government, "not everything is as good as we'd like, but we have seen improvement." The kina is up, and inflation and interest rates are the lowest in 10 years. "If there is going to be a change of government, let's get it over with," Mayberry says. "But if it means we're just going to have the same problems as before, we say don't change...
...Traffic on GasBuddy.com has increased tenfold since January as people log on looking for the lowest prices in their areas...
...companies," another Iraqi businessman says. "If you look at the awards list, you will find many of the same names." KBR has acknowledged that it uses the same vendors repeatedly but argues that it often values reliability over other factors. "We don't always give the award to the lowest bidder," says a KBR representative in Baghdad...
...cashes his paychecks. Over the years a few companies have put CEO pay caps in place, but many have either abandoned or raised them in the face of competition. Socially progressive Ben & Jerry's, which for a decade capped executive pay at seven times the salary of the lowest-paid worker, dropped the provision in 1994 when it sought a CEO to replace co-founder Ben Cohen. Whole Foods Market, the popular organic supermarket chain, has raised its cap twice--from 8 to 1 in 1997, to 14 to 1 today, though that's still considered...