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...justified criticism of China is its lack of workers' rights, which contributes to its cheap labor. In the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, a hundred workers who package computer keyboards and mice that they say bear the IBM logo walked off the job last week to demand the legal minimum wage of $73 a month and the legal overtime rate of 66˘ an hour instead of the 34˘ they received. Since independent unions are banned, they took their protest directly to the government, spending a night outside city hall. The next day their employer, a Hong Kong firm called Max Infosystems...
...contrast to listening to the noisy strikers and whining demonstrators who seem to be everywhere these days. Your article showed people unafraid of a radical career change supported in part by American self-confidence as well as our sense of mobility. Seeing new jobs, even if temporary or minimum-wage work, as a challenge is an American answer to dreary job entrenchment and shows our ability to begin again. PATRICIA K. RYAN Ardmore...
...selling shares of a movie, set to star Ethan Hawke, that starts filming next spring. Financing films through public partnerships is nothing new, but with Billy Dead (the movie's working title) Inc., the ante is much lower than normal. Shares are pegged at $8.75, with a 100-share minimum. The IPO, which is set to end Feb. 10, aims to raise $7.9 million. In theory, investors will be able to trade shares over the counter, but the market is untested, to say the least. If the film is a smash--the vast majority of films are not--investors...
...forcing 22 turnovers—a dubious threshold Harvard has reached in two consecutive games—BU applied intense pressure on the ball carrier from half-court onward at a minimum and on occasion prevented the Crimson from even attempting to run the offensive sets it would have preferred...
...immigration politician Pim Fortuyn now controls the municipal council of a city in which more than half the population is of non-Dutch origin. Two weeks ago its leaders said the city would start demanding that newcomers speak decent Dutch and have a job paying 20% more than the minimum wage. The council has requested a four-year moratorium on settling more political refugees in the city, and has vowed to stop building low-rent housing to restore "long-term balance" to the Netherlands' second city. The center-right Dutch government, while keen to decrease immigration, has signaled its opposition...