Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successful, companies will have to pay a higher minimum wage, provide a Government-mandated menu of health-care benefits for all workers and offer unpaid leave and guaranteed job security to employees who leave work temporarily when they become parents. Other bills would set up new rules governing unionization, plant closings and on-the-job safety...
...most hotly debated proposals is a Senate bill introduced by Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum. It would force companies to notify unions up to six months in advance of plant closings and substantial layoffs. A version that passed the House Labor Committee last week goes even further, requiring employers to consult with unions before making such decisions. "With advance notice, workers can begin to look for new jobs," says AFL-CIO Secretary- Treasurer Thomas Donahue. But critics charge that the bills would sharply limit management's flexibility. In an editorial, the Detroit News called the legislation "Metzen-bomb." Executives at Pittsburgh...
Among all the pro-labor bills, the measures that stand the best chance of passing Congress this year are the ones involving plant closings, minimum wages and high-risk notification. This week the House is expected to vote on, and is likely to approve, the double-breasting legislation. The issues of mandated health care and parental leave will probably languish until next year. Labor does not expect to win every battle and realizes that some laws may have to be passed by overriding a presidential veto. But the pro-worker lobby is pushing to get as much...
...make your life a turning point. A turning point for everybody -- for humankind." The nephew feels his uncle has single-mindedly pursued such a path and might be an appropriate guide: "I thought, Would it be possible to bring to the human world what Uncle brought to plant life?" Unfortunately, this "crucial project" is interrupted by a bit of mundane melodrama. After 15 years as a widower, Benn marries the young, beautiful Matilda Layamon, only child of a wealthy, well-connected physician...
...recover money from Uncle Harold. That's the overall game plan." From the sidelines, Kenneth comments bitterly, "Basically, he didn't even want what they wanted -- the money. As many dollar bills as it would take to fill the Grand Canyon wouldn't have been enough for them. Plant morphology satisfied him. So how were they to understand one another...