Word: non-union
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...workers, who tend to the telephone needs of roughly 25 million Verizon customers, primarily along the eastern seaboard, are up in arms over the company's refusal to allow wireless employees to unionize. There are other labor issues at stake as well - forced overtime, job stress, outsourcing work to non-union contractors - but the spotlight remains fixed on workforce unionization...
...just so you know that human nature has not entirely altered as of this writing: what America once feared as the Soviet Union, we now fear as the Russian non-union--seething duchies with warheads underground. China, with its split personality, continues to make us nervous; we court its markets while trying to improve its government. In the Balkans, Christians spent the better part of the past nine years massacring Muslims. In Sudan, Muslims continue to massacre Christians. Over the past 100 years, we have advanced from Sarajevo to Sarajevo. If Sarajevo is again involved...
...Where non-union sources on this story exist, they are explicitly noted...
...said that other unions on campus are concerned about a "trickle" of non-union workers who work part-time when union members are sick or on vacation...
...providing its regular employees with a total compensation package, including wages and benefits, that is both competitive and fair. There are many administrative procedures to guide the University's compensation policies, including seven collective bargaining agreements now in place. All of our regular, full-time employees, both union and non-union, receive total compensation above the $10 per hour "living wage" level that the students have proposed...