Word: minimum
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...spokesman Paul Philip said Ibrahim "simply did not want to go to Havana. He wanted to go to the U.S." He got his wish: even though none of the 232 people aboard the plane was hurt, Ibrahim will be charged with air piracy and will probably serve a minimum of 20 years in jail. Josh Dubow
...less confrontational campaign, 25 of the Los Angeles students spent days working phone banks and trudging door to door for the local Service Employees International Union, which is trying to unionize 73,000 minimum-wage workers who care for the elderly and disabled in their homes. "We have this down to a science," claims S.E.I.U. official Steve Wilensky, explaining that students would follow computerized lists of homeworkers laid out on block-by-block grids. But the database crashed, and lists turned out to be outdated, with students searching for buildings that had tumbled down during the 1994 earthquake...
...rule was also created out of concern that many of the summer students who smoke are under 18 years old, the minimum legal age to buy cigarettes in Massachusetts...
...textile town and family in Germany, and have seen this industry decline here simply because we couldn't compete with children's wages in the Third World. In a global economy, companies will manufacture wherever wages are lowest. Now we need global unions to help establish and enforce the minimum wage and all other benefits workers should enjoy. Asian child labor and European unemployment are aspects of the same problem. It's an illusion to think otherwise. Neither difficult situation will be solved by politicians and unions who still think only of national interests or by consumers indifferent...
...responsible U.S. clothing manufacturers condone abusive labor practices or the employment of children. Unfortunately, sweatshop conditions do exist in the U.S. and around the world. However, the assertion by Labor Secretary Robert Reich that half of the 22,000 U.S. garment contractors are sweatshops paying less than the minimum wage is absolutely wrong. We are astounded by this irresponsible denunciation of our industry after the efforts we have made to combat sleazy practices. For a U.S. government official to stigmatize an industry that manufactures $50 billion worth of consumer products every year and contributes to the economic success of this...