Word: white-collar
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...adrenaline boost you don't get every day." In the past three years, some 1,200 lawyers, bankers, judges and other suits - mostly thirty- and fortysomething men - have joined London's The Real Fight Club, a for-profit company founded in 2001 by events promoter Alan Lacey. The white-collar amateurs squeeze in two to four 90-minute training sessions a week - plus cross-training on alternate days - with the ultimate goal of getting into the ring to beat the hell out of each other in front of crowds. The attraction? Says Lacey, "Death or glory. Boxing is a chance...
...will be anything other than an act of quixotic futility?and there lies the problem. Preoccupied with pocketbook issues, Hong Kong's working class has never wholly believed in political change through either ballot box or protest. But the possibility of effecting political change has been held out to white-collar types. It has been, they are discovering, an illusory promise all along...
...Companies are using the economic climate to squeeze dollars out of employees. American workers need to fight back while there's still time. Boycott firms that outsource work to India. Demand to have your business handled by an American employee. And organize, organize, organize. The days of white-collar interests vs. blue-collar interests are gone. If you do not own the company you work for, you need a union, and you need one now! Let's show these CEOs what American labor is really worth. ANN CRUTE New York City...
EXPORTING WHITE-COLLAR WORK...
...time. Democrats oppose the bill, which nonetheless sailed through a House committee. The other bill would let unionized companies reduce their pension obligations by billions of dollars, further imperiling a benefit that is already eroded and underfunded. New data show that blue-collar workers have shorter life spans than white-collar workers. So, both management and organized labor argue, less pension funding is required--and that would free cash for new jobs and pay raises. But actuaries say the analysis is faulty; it fails to account for the longer lives of many white-collar workers also covered by a company...