Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very nature of high-tech industries also hampers organizing efforts. Many software designers or biotechnical engineers work for small start-up companies that unions find difficult and expensive to penetrate. Among larger firms like Ap ple Computer, which has no production unions, workers are often part of flex ible teams that change tasks from month to month and work closely with management. That creates a sense of empowerment that can leave unions with little role to play. "Labor's mentality is manifestly tied to the old workplace," says David Hale, chief economist for Chicago-based Kemper Securities. "The new industries...
...single organization controls its use. In the mid-1980s the National Science Foundation built the high-speed, long- distance data lines that form Internet's U.S. backbone. But the major costs of running the network are shared in a cooperative arrangement by its primary users: universities, national labs, high-tech corporations and foreign governments. Two years ago, the NSF lifted restrictions against commercial use of the Internet, and in September the White House announced a plan to make it the starting point for an even grander concept called the National Information Infrastructure...
...cost-of-living salary raise virtually automatic at Harvard. After Gavin initiated grievance procedures, the raise was finally granted. But the procedures revealed that Stager had done what we're all told as children not to do: He read other people's mail, filched files, and disassembled hi-tech machinery to get evidence against Gavin...
...specialized mobile radio, as it is known, has been rediscovered. It is now considered one of the biggest prizes in the all-out war for the public airwaves. The reason: high-tech companies have figured out how to profitably rebuild the antiquated dispatching system into an advanced cellular-telephone network that can take on the likes of AT&T and the giant Baby Bells. Upstart Nextel Communications sent shock waves through the industry last week when it agreed to buy Motorola's SMR frequencies for $1.8 billion...
...generous as Applied Materials. To keep up with fast-changing technology and workplace , requirements, some analysts say, workers can expect to change careers -- not just jobs, careers -- three or four times during their working lives. That may be extreme, but experts say a high-tech worker must be ready to go back to school and learn new skills, on his or her own if an employer will not finance it, at a minimum of every five to 10 years...