Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...union what a one dollar an hour across the board pay increase free medical insurance and a set of so-called "dignity demands" specific contract language ruling out elimination of employment positions. stricter adherence to seniority-based promotion and an end to alleged harassment of workers who take sick leave. The union also wants contract clauses prohibiting sexual harassment and discrimination against gay workers...
Powers seems willing to go along with the union's anti-discrimination demands. But he insists that no one who takes sick leave is being harassed and that Harvard's current contract adequately protects workers against arbitrary dismissal Powers says he will offer the workers a "fair" pay hike, but maintains that they are already receiving the best wages and benefits of any food service workers in the Boston area...
...criminals do. Both counties have begun charging prisoners for their room and board. Since April 1, Humboldt has been billing its inmates $30 a day; Delaware followed suit on May 1 with a more modest daily rate of $20. Says Humboldt County Jail Administrator Richard Jurgens: "The taxpayers are sick and tired of paying for drunken drivers and bad-check artists...
Many people will laugh off the diary hoax as an isolated incident prompted by a few sick minds. But recent years have seen too many similar "isolated incidents" for us not to take heed. In Western Europe and the United States, books have been published attempting to prove the Holocaust is a myth. In Edmonton, Canada last week, a school teacher was dismissed for telling his young, impressionable students that the gas chambers never existed. Crazy, demented people, we think, who will never be listened to. But as time passes, and those who survived the Holocaust are no longer around...
Powers also asserted that "Food Service Workers abuse their health insurance by getting sick too often." This exemplifies a contemptible attitude which cannot be dignified with any answer...